Immediate_Communications

The VOIP, Instant Messaging and Chat, and Web Conferencing divisions overlap significantly in concepts and features. There are not clean and clear divisions as to what belongs where.

Edmodo, [|http://www.edmodo.com] - Johnson, p. 102; Solomon, p.251 (Definitely available in China) Plurk, [|http://www.plurk.com] - Solomon, p.251 (Not available in China)
 * __Microblogs and Microblog Readers__ **

// __The Twitter Group__ // - Several sources have indicated that Twitter is not available in China (although there may be a similar service provided by QQ, Baidu, or someone else). The first line below is Twitter itself, the others in this group are ways of working with Twitter. So, if Twitter is not available in China, the others will not be useful in China either - even if one can reach the links. However, for students who are not in China, these could be very interesting and helpful. Twitter, [|http://twitter.com] - Johnson, p. 86-87; Solomon, p.251 TweetDeck, [|http://www.tweetdeck.com] - Solomon, p.251 TweetGrid, [|http://www.tweetgrid.com] - Johnson, p. 87 TweetStats, [|http://www.tweetstats.com] - Johnson, p. 86 TwitterCounter, [|http://www.twittercounter.com] - Johnson, p. 86 Twitterholic, [|http://www.twitterholic.com] - Johnson, p. 86

Google Vtok, [|http://vtokapp.com] - Unlikely to be available in China Scribblar, [|http://scribblar.com] - Johnson, p. 44-45; Solomon, p. 248 Scriblink, [|http://scriblink.com] - Solomon, p. 250 Skype, [|http://www.skype.com] - Solomon, p. 248 (DOES work in China.) SnapYap, [|http://www.snapyap.com] - Solomon, p. 248
 * __VOIP__ ** (Voice Over Internet Protocol - some also have interactive whiteboard features.)

TinyChat, [|http://tinychat.com] - Solomon, p. 248 (Be careful of this site. Some of the channels open when I visited appeared as though they might be unsavory.) - Not available in China.

Voxli - Solomon, p. 249 - Not currently available - they say they are "hibernating" during a development curve. Not available in China.

Chatzy, [|http://www.chatzy.com] - Johnson, p. 85; Solomon, p. 247 (Yes, Available in China) CoSketch, [|http://cosketch.com] - Solomon, p. 249 (Yes, Available in China) Dabbleboard, [|http://www.dabbleboard.com] - Johnson, p. 44-45; Solomon, p. 250 (Yes, Available in China) FlashMeeting, [|http://flashmeeting.e2bn.net] - Solomon, p. 248 (Yes, Available in China) FlockDraw, [|http://www.flockdraw.com] - Johnson, p. 44-45 (Yes, Available in China) Mikogo - Solomon, p. 248 - No longer offers a free option. (Yes, Available in China - in Chinese!) scrbl, [|http://www.skrbl.com] - Solomon, p. 209-211, 250 (Yes, Available in China) TodaysMeet, [|http://todaysmeet.com] - Johnson, p. 84-85; Solomon, p. 218-220, 248
 * __Instant Messaging and Chat__ ** (Some also have interactive whiteboard features.)

Twiddla, [|http://www.twiddla.com] - Solomon, p. 250 - Free as a Guest. Note, though, that there are free educational accounts as noted at the very bottom of this page: [], for the Professional level.

YackAll, [|http://yackall.com] - Solomon, p. 249 - While the bold type says to "login with your Twitter account," one also can register with YackAll independently of a Twitter account by clicking the Register button.

AOL Instant Messenger, [] - Johnson, p. 88-89 Google Talk, [] - Johnson, p. 88-89 MSN Messenger, [] - Johnson, p. 88-89 (Yes, Available in China) Skype, [|http://www.skype.com] - Johnson, p. 88-89; Solomon, p. 212-214, 261 (Yes, Available in China) UStream, [|http://www.ustream.tv] - Johnson, p. 60-61; Solomon, p. 261 (Not available in China last spring - now?) Wallwisher, [|http://www.wallwisher.com] - Johnson, p. 105 Yahoo! Messenger, [] - Johnson, p. 88-89
 * __Web Conferencing__ **