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This article is published by a former student of mine whom I introduced to Twitter about 2 years ago. Take a look at his post on his very successful geek blog: http://www.justusleeg.com/2009/11/18/essay-social-media-in-the-classroom
Thoughts? Comments?
Online Storage done right:
50GB Storage: ADrive – http://www.adrive.com
25GB Storage: Windows Skydrive – http://skydrive.live.com
One desktop tool to manage it all: Gladinet Cloud Desktop – http://www.gladinet.com
I have had a ADrive and a Windows Skydrive for over a year. I didn’t care for the web interface. It was cumbersome and counter-intuitive. Glidinet Cloud Desktop makes managing these online storage accounts as simple as drag-and-drop to a shared folder.
The free version has numerous features. I like setting up ThinkFree as default reading tools for managing documents, presentations and spreadsheets. You can set up gmail, google calendar, picasa, and others as applications for Gladinet Cloud Desktop to use. Great stuff.
Look it up. Try it out. Give it a week. I think you’ll find online storage useful or more useful that you ever used it for before.
Twitter Tips: Three Ways To Deal With Twitter Spam | ITworld
As the amount of followers you have on Twitter increases, you might find yourself dealing with an increase in Twitter spam. Twitter spam derives from people who take advantage of you following them by sending you unwanted direct messages or merely by following you with the express intent of upping their follower count (meaning, they have no sincere interest in your tweets).
Fliggo – Create Your Own Video Site
We created Fliggo to let anybody create their own video sharing websites. Whether you want to create a place to collect niche videos of your favorite hobby or you need to privately share training videos with your company, we have strived to make Fliggo an easy solution for any of your video needs.
With DoppelMe you can create a cool graphical likeness of yourself, your friends, family or any group of people for use as an avatar in forums, instant messenger, blogs and almost anywhere else on the web.
A twibe is a group of Twitter users interested in a common topic who would like to be able to communicate with each other. On each twibe’s page, there is a list of twibe members. There is also a tweet stream that lists tweets from twibe members which contain key word tags. Tags are set by the twibe founder and are listed just above the tweet stream. You can browse through twibes that have already been created by going to http://www.twibes.com/twitter-groups.
And why should I care…
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Sue Waters, of Edublogs fame, shared with me some of the reasons why students may not “get it” when it comes to web 2.0 in the classroom. Check out her articles on the subject “This is CRAP” and “Reasons why IT may be crap“. She wrote these post in 2007 and they are still on the mark. Very insightful and very helpful. Very much like Sue Waters herself. Follow her on twitter http://twitter.com/suewaters
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A Collection of PLE diagrams
As preparation for a workshop I am giving this fall I thought it would be interesting to collect together all the diagrams of PLEs I could find, as a compare and contrast sort of exercise. If you have others, I’d love to know about them. You can log in with the guest account (edtechpost_guest, same password) or email them to me at edtechpost@gmail.com.
Nine great reasons why teachers should use Twitter | Laura Walker
What’s the point of Twitter? Why should educators get involved? What difference does using Twitter make?
Here are some answers that you might like to share
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Business Card Scanning and Contact Manager – CloudContacts
CloudContacts takes your business cards and puts them to work for you. Instead of storing your business cards in a pile on your desk or in one physical location, CloudContacts provides transcription and allows you to access your contacts at any time. You can import your business cards into email and CRM applications along with connecting on most business social networks. Connect your contacts today with CloudContacts!
Send Messages to Twitter with Voice
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Bookmark & Share – The Power of the Button™ | OnlyWire
Bookmark & Share
Increase traffic to your website and
auto-submit all your bookmarks with One Button
To help kids reach their full potential, parents today must know about Facebook. That’s the purpose of this website.
3 Challenges to Wiki Use in Instruction — Campus Technology
The reality is, however, that just as with any actual use of technology in instruction, there are always challenges, not only in practical terms with familiarity with the technology itself but, more importantly, in a pedagogical sense as the benefits to teaching and learning are examined more thoroughly. How can the instructional uses of a wiki be maximized to ensure this higher level of engagement with students?
8hands is a service for the social networks users that want to always stay in the know but don’t want to waste too much time on checking their blogs and profiles. The 8hands Desktop application will organize all your social networks into one place and notify you upon new events.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
tiltshiftmaker.com – Transform your photos into tilt-shift style miniatures
Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs.
Now you can easily transform your existing digital camera photos into tilt-shift style miniatures using tiltshiftmaker.com.
Yonkly – Create your own network
Create Your Own Microblog Network for Anything
A Google notebook of Diigo how-to and tutorials
TweetStats :: Graphin’ Your Stats
Graph your Twitter Stats including
* Tweets per hour
* Tweets per month
* Tweet timeline
* Reply statistics
In use by over 50,000 Twitter-folk!
Retweetrank: Find any twitterer’s retweet rank
Retweet rank is a representative of the number of times a user have been retweeted by others recently
Twitemperature: How hot are you?
What is your Twitemperature?
SlideShare » Nnorris’s Slidespace
Web 2.0 tools and information literacy for learning
Using microblogging in education. Case study: Cirip.ro – SlideShare
Presentation at Conference eLearning Applications, UAC, Cairo, 10-12 January 2009
Wuala – The social online storage
Wuala, the social online storage
Voilà, here comes Wuala! Securely store and back up files online, access them from anywhere, and share your photos, videos, and music with friends and family.
Join Wuala today and experience a new dimension of storing and sharing files – free, simple, and secure.
Gspace is the FON friendly site that provides FREE Online Storage to access your files everywhere.
Gspace turns the 2GB of your Gmail account into free online storage. With Gspace you can manage unlimited Gmail accounts to store all type of files within its simple, user friendly interface.
Listen your favourite stored music directly from your Gspace, view your collections of pictures and manage your Gdrive files as well.
Download Gspace now and transfer files between your computer and Gspace at anytime, from everywhere!
Putfile – free videos and photos sharing!
Putfile is a FREE digital media hosting service. Upload, organize and share your media with your friends, family, or even the world.
Our easy to use tools gives you control of your media, you even get your own personal web page
DivShare – Professional Media and Document Sharing
5GB of free online storage for Documents, Music, Photos and Videos
Your Videos
Upload your videos and we’ll convert them to high-quality, streaming Flash that you can embed anywhere. With our advanced features, add your own logo to your players!
Your Photos
Store and share thousands of photos and link directly to individual images or thumbnails. We’ll automatically create beautiful Flash slideshows to embed on your own site.
Your Music
Share all your original music and audio, stream MP3s and create embeddable playlists in seconds. Great for blogs, social networks and streaming right from DivShare!
Your Documents
Upload your Word, PowerPoint and PDF documents and view them right in your browser before you download. Perfect for sharing docs with classmates and co-workers!
MyBloop.com – Upload and Share Your Files for Free
MyBloop is an unlimited free file storage website. We give anyone the ability to upload all their files and share them with anyone else for free. You can upload files directly from the website or you can install the BloopLoader application to upload files by dragging and drop from your desktop. The BloopLoader is available for Windows and Mac (Intel-based PC.)
1TB of Online Media Storage
Support for all your media file types
Syndicate or podcast your media
Social Networks that Matter: Twitter under the Microscope
Scholars, advertisers and political activists see massive online social networks as a representation of social interactions that can be used to study the propagation of ideas, social bond dynamics and viral marketing, among others. But the linked structures of social networks do not reveal actual interactions among people. Scarcity of attention and the daily rhythms of life and work makes people default to interacting with those few that matter and that reciprocate their attention. A study of social interactions within Twitter reveals that the driver of usage is a sparse and hidden network of connections underlying the “declared” set of friends and followers.
Power Up Your Professional Learning Network – SlideShare
“Immerse yourself into networks. Create any and all networks you can find where there are people and ideas to connect to. Collaboration and connections take off.”
Jing Pro | Add visuals to your online conversations – Annotated
Sometimes you want your videos to get a little more exposure. With Jing Pro, they can join the party on popular video-sharing sites like YouTube and Vimeo
Jing Pro uses a premium video format (MPEG-4 AVC) that’s better at recording rich content from your screen. So go ahead—re-capture an online video and add your own commentary. Or record that Skype video chat for posterity.
Social Networking Software Platform & Social Media Community Building Applications – KickApps
Social & Media Applications on demand
Use KickApps to power audience growth & engagement on your website. Build your own community with social networking and photo & video sharing; create your own widgets, custom video players and much more.
iOJ – As Easy As Uploading Can Get
IOJ is a full featured client to automate most aspects of file uploading / sharing. It has right click upload, Automatic Screenshots + video and more. What other program will let you share a screenshot in 3 seconds and 3 clicks?
resizeimage.org – Resize images with ease
A simple web 2.0 tool for quick image resizing and cropping
A place to upload, manage, and share high-quality videos, presentations, documents and images
YAKABOD :: Do Stuff That Matters
Yakabod builds Knowledge Networks. Best of four applications on one secure appliance. Search. Content management. Social networking. Collaboration. The Yakabox is robust enterprise software with none of the big-iron or pieces-and-parts headaches. Capture all that stuff buried in shared drives, in-boxes and peoples’ heads. Why spend a third of your career chasing information? Let it find you. It’s easy. The Yakabox is so intuitive you’re productive the first time you log on.
Here for you today I have selected a set of interesting new tools that bring all those features together into one easy to use interface as well as a new innovative independent platform for teaching and learning.
Raptr is the social platform for people who like to play and discover games
* Know when your friends are playing
* Share your achievements automatically
* Discover new games you might like
* Update your games automatically
* Display your gaming identities in one place
Twittermania: 140+ More Twitter Tools!
Various Twitter-related tools and plugins have been multiplying fast over since we did our big Twitter Toolbox and 8 awesome Firefox plugins for Twitter earlier. When we say fast, we “mean 140+ new tools” fast, and we probably missed some, too. You know what this means: now you have to arm yourself with dozens of shiny widgets you probably don’t need, but you can’t resist them anyway.
How Facebook Could Kill Twitter Overnight
Facebook can keep the statuses private, and all comment replies as well and they’ll continue their phenomenal growth rate. They clearly don’t have the development resources though to build tools around their status updates internally. If Facebook opened up statuses tomorrow, Twitter would essentially become a ghost town.
10 Creative Tips to Improve Yourself on Twitter
“Now professionals, personal friend seekers, students and almost every one is attached to twitter for their own reasons. The immense benefit that twitter encompasses has a lot of sides that is not known to every body. Our quest is to give such 10 opportunities to you which you may have never heard of, but actually others have experimented with them and got success.”
A Twitter Search Experiment from Dare Obasanjo
A beta twitter search from Microsoft Labs Dare Obasanjo
Taatu is a virtual multimedia community build from 3D isometric technology with integration of 2.0 webfunctionalities.
This social platform is accesible for all internet surfers without the necessity of downloading special software.
It’s a safe and secured online environment for youngsters that revolves around nightlife, games, movies and music.
The members can personalize their avatar and appartment by use of virtual money (TATs).
Taatu offers his members the possibility to expand and reinforce their social network based on interactive online communication.
The Taatu world consists of 3 language communities that are in direct connection with each other. There’s a French, Dutch and English speaking community.
A new google lively?
OpenDrive – Free Online Drive and Syncing
OpenDrive is a remote drive for your computer, that allows you
to store, share or back up files from your computer on the Internet. You can store anything and share it with anyone, right from your desktop. Start storing and sharing today.
Web 2.0 and Your Own Learning and Development
Video by Steven Downes on the importance of creating a Personal Learning Environment and howto with Web 2.0 tools. “How Web 2.0 supports interaction, usability and relevance in online learning. “
Dabbleboard – Online whiteboard for drawing & team collaboration
Dabbleboard is a collaboration application that’s centered around the whiteboard. With a new type of drawing interface that’s actually easy and fun to use, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw.
Draw with flexible tools. Reuse previously-made drawings. Collaborate in real-time with chat and document sharing. All as naturally as using a marker or a pencil.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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