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One stop shop for Google + info

Google Swirl is a new Google Labs experiment that lets a user search through images in a "visual and semantic" way, allowing users to search through radiating treeviews of conceptually related images.

Interesting article on Google Sidewiki

Mashable has produced an extensive guide on all of Google+'s key features, as well as an introduction to the service and the important things you need to know about it.

" This is an online learning environment dedicated for educators and students to learn how to effectively use Google Apps in an educational context."

Could be another option for students.  Wish we had time to pilot this in one class.  This is the kind of thing we should be flexible enough to explore at BU.

Good, concise thoughts about a professional portfolio

A calendar of educational technology events from around the discipline

Personal profile pages and rich media are coming to Twitter!

Gallaudet University did a review of web conferencing tools - good reference document

Great explanation of how Creative Commons licensing works

Good post on effective writing

I am reminded that we are preparing our students for jobs that do not yet exist - being a social media expert is one such job

What do you mean?

Teaching our students how to learn is part of the liberal arts educaiton, this prepares them for jobs that don't exist yet. Gives them the ability to adapt.

See especially items 6-10

you know what hits me about this is that we need to consider lowering our sights on the technology that we promote campus wide to faculty and use the peer tutoring method to engage more faculty in the common easy to use technologies. Still work on the emerging tech with the tech savy and work more one-on-one with the biggest chunk of faculty using/exploring other technology. Did I just define 3 levels of engagment with faculty? hhmmmm