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"A l'heure de l'infobésité, de la primauté des images sur l'écrit, du développement de la data visualisation et des orientations axées « service au public », il est urgent de présenter l'information sous une forme plus esthétique et interactive ! Mais comment rendre nos contenus plus « sexy » afin de « sortir du lot » et susciter l'intérêt des usagers de l'information ? "

"A l'heure de l'infobésité, de la primauté des images sur l'écrit, du développement de la data visualisation et des orientations axées « service au public », il est urgent de présenter l'information sous une forme plus esthétique et interactive ! Mais comment rendre nos contenus plus « sexy » afin de « sortir du lot » et susciter l'intérêt des usagers de l'information ? "

very good look at classroom technologies (with detailed data for the US at least)

"Google Docs, in addition to being a stellar way to write, store and manage your documents and slideshows, is also a fantastically useful way to collect survey data. Basically, you send out a form, people fill it in, and Google reports the documents back to you in an incredibly simple and easy-to-understand fashion."

Danah Boyd Twitter-a microblogging service that enables users to post messages ("tweets") of up to 140 characters-supports a variety of communicative practices; participants use Twitter to converse with individuals, groups, and the public at large, so when conversations emerge, they are often experienced by broader audiences than just the interlocutors. This paper examines the practice of retweeting as a way by which participants can be "in a conversation." While retweeting has become a convention inside Twitter, participants retweet using different styles and for diverse reasons. We highlight how authorship, attribution, and communicative fidelity are negotiated in diverse ways. Using a series of case studies and empirical data, this paper maps out retweeting as a conversational practice. 1.

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