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Using Twitter at social media conferences has become a great way to do just that. But Twitter isn't appropriate for every situation. Your audience isn't on Twitter.You don't want the discussion to be public.You need to see only relevent updates.That's where TodaysMeet comes in. TodaysMeet gives you an isolated room where you can see only what you need to see, and your audience doesn't need to learn any new tools like hash tags to keep everything together.

weak ties beat close ties for many purposes.

Something similar is happening today in academia. Just like Augustine marveled, in the year 400, at the sight of Ambrose reading in silence, many members of academia marvel (or react with rejection) at the rapid changes in the production and dissemination of scholarly work and interaction between academics and those "outside" academic institutions. Thousands of scholars and higher education institutions are participating in social media (such as Twitter), as an important aspect of their research and teaching work.

The longtime Fb fans used their visits for 'social and educational purposes'. 'Facebook is both entertaining and a useful learning tool'. Three acknowledged experiencing distractions on their academic visits: 'Friends finding you online want to interact, whereas you are there for academic reasons.' Others who joined to become part of the Group were distracted by 'family and friends who want to be your friend!'. Two decided to use Fb for academic purposes only......

There is something in the air, and it is nothing less than the digital artifacts of over one billion people and computers networked together collectively producing over 2,000 gigabytes of new information per second. While most of our classrooms were built under the assumption that information is scarce and hard to find, nearly the entire body of human knowledge now flows through and around these rooms in one form or another, ready to be accessed by laptops, cellphones, and iPods. Classrooms built to re-enforce the top-down authoritative knowledge of the teacher are now enveloped by a cloud of ubiquitous digital information where knowledge is made, not found, and authority is continuously negotiated through discussion and participation.

n a lot of ways, millions of users have found Twitter as a useful tool. Take journalists, for example. According to a recent survey, 37 percent of journalists said they are on Twitter. It's no longer a small tech company that is troubled by servers being down (keeping fingers crossed). Now your non-techie friends are using it. It's referenced in commercials. It's mainstream.

Some people call it Journalism 2.0 when hundreds of citizen journalists give us the latest on the state of the neighborhood. 

"For several reasons I have deliberately avoided talking too much about technology in this book. Firstly, it is too easy to dismiss what is happening as technological - to label it "digital" - and to miss the real point - the changes we are seeing are cultural"

Social gaming to learn about issues. Many are based on phone apps and traveling around NYC to find things. One is a basketball game that teaches about the deficit. recommended at edcamp

This blog is a student project. Students taking Civics at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School are writing blog posts as part of a requirement for the course.

good, concrete examples

Divided into Consume Collaborate and Produce. Looks useful.

FACEBOOK GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS A tool for teaching and learning

Find links to audio files on the Web. Huffduff the links-add them to your podcast. Subscribe to podcasts of other found sounds.

National Lab Day is a nationwide initiative to build local communities of support that will foster ongoing collaborations among volunteers, students and educators.

Wiffiti publishes real time messages to screens in thousands of locations from jumbotrons to jukeboxes, bars to bowling alleys and cafes to colleges. You can interact with Wiffiti from your mobile phone or the web.

Another free wiki blog

student created space about internet safetly