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Hashtags on Twitter: How do you follow them? » contentious.com - Amy Gahran's... - 1 views

  • Tweetdeck allows you to configure up to 10 columns where you follow tweets according to criteria you specify. These can be all the people you follow on Twitter (your “friends”), or a subset of friends, or the ongoing results of a Twitter search. So if you search for #bisphenol via Tweetdeck, a column will appear showing all the latest tweets using that hashtag — and it will automatically update for you. You can add, delete, or reconfigure columns anytime you like
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    Nice site to push out to faculty, etc. about Twitter hastags
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Creek Squad Google Apps Training - 0 views

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    WHAT'S NEW???- New Look for Sites, Docs & Calendar-color coding Calendar-appointment slots in Calendar-Sites have page level permissions-share Google Search stuff-labs going away :(-YouTube-Google+
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News: Calibrating Students' B.S. Meters - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    Showing students how to read critically and formulate research queries is part of the teaching function of college libraries. But how do you teach students to read critically that which has no text? She divided the students into groups and instructed them to write "problem statements" relating to important information that was not provided by the video. Then, with May's guidance, they translated those questions into keyword searches that might help them locate where in the library they might find answers.
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Universal Subtitles - Make subtitles, translations, and captions for almost any video. - 1 views

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    Easily caption and translate your videos, with help from your viewers.
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    Universal Subtitles gives individuals, communities, and larger organizations the power to overcome accessibility and language barriers for online video. The tools are free and open source and make the work of subtitling and translating video simpler, more appealing, and, most of all, more collaborative.The benefits of captioning and subtitling are immense:Captions make videos accessible for viewers who are deaf or hard of hearingTranslations make it possible for all of us to watch video in languages that we don't speakVideo creators get: better SEO, more views, access to a far bigger (potentially multilingual and global) audience, accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing viewers, and moreUniversal Subtitles is composed of three main parts:A subtitle creation and viewing tool (aka the widget)A collaborative subtitling websiteAn open protocol for subtitle search/delivery
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Many Eyes : Word Tree - 0 views

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    A word tree is a visual search tool for unstructured text, such as a book, article, speech or poem. It lets you pick a word or phrase and shows you all the different contexts in which the word or phrase appears. The contexts are arranged in a tree-like branching structure to reveal recurrent themes and phrases.
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Mind Mapping: A Graphic Organizer for the Pedagogical Toolbox - 0 views

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    Recently, the authors engaged in a collaborative inquiry with a sixth grade science class to explore mind mapping, a graphic organizer that can be used to generate ideas, take notes, develop concepts and ideas, and improve memory (Buzan 1979). With a very limited body of research available on how to best use mind maps in the classroom, the authors decided to explore ways mind mapping could be used for the teaching and learning of middle school science. This article reviews research about graphic organizers, describes the ways the authors incorporated mind mapping into a sixth grade science curriculum, and discusses what they learned by using mind mapping as both a teaching and learning strateg
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Serendip-o-matic: Let Your Sources Surprise You - 1 views

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    this tool is a product of one week- one tool. 8/2013
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Trendistic - see trends in twitter - 0 views

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    Trending tool for Twitter
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Credible Research Sources for Students - 1 views

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    SweetSearch came about as the byproduct of making findingDulcinea, an aggregator that terms itself the "Librarian of the Internet." It's a database of about 35,000 web sites vetted by researchers, librarians, and teachers, with priority given to spots like the Library of Congress, Smithsonian, and other public and academic sources. It sweeps away the pseudo-science, forums, and sites that read like paraphrased summaries.
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LinkedIn Recommendations: Five Ways to Make The Most of Them - job-search, LinkedIn - CIO - 0 views

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    Recommendations give employers a fuller view of you as a direct report, boss, colleague, or client. They make your LinkedIn profile more dynamic and personal than the fairly static information (where you worked, what you did) that appears in your general resume.
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Literature Review in Mobile Technologies and Learning - 0 views

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    Literature Review in Mobile Technologies and Learning
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Evoca | Easily create, organize, share and search voice recordings - 0 views

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    Record new video clips and voice-overs on the spot. Include existing photos, media clips,  special effects and text. No software or training required. Add videos to any YouTube channels, website or blog.
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Culturomics - 0 views

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    ype in a word or phrase in one of seven languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Hebrew, Russian, Chinese) and see how its usage frequency has been changing throughout the past few centuries. Addictive. 
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The Quiet Revolution in Open Learning - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • Community colleges that compete for federal money to serve students
  • online will be obliged to make those materials—videos, text, assessments, curricula, diagnostic tools, and more—available to everyone in the world, free, under a Creative Commons license.
  • 2-billion Labor-Education project could transport the open-resource movement to a new level of prominence.
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  • educators can search and shape them into rational sequences of learning.
  • departments also plan to organize the materials so tha
  • Proposals for the first $500-million of the $2-billion arrived at the Labor Department only a few weeks ago, so the exact nature of the programs remains to be seen.
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Behold | Search High Quality Flickr Images - 1 views

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    imagefinder with CC option
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    This is great tool - nice find
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Search First - 0 views

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    finding resources in geography and science. What to do if it's close but not perfect?
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Using Twitter as an Education Tool - Search Engine Watch (#SEW) - 0 views

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    using twitter as an education tool
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