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Kartini Ishak

8 Cool Marketing Campaigns Using Facebook Places - 1 views

  • Promoting Events Electronic Arts U.K. hosted a “Play4Xmas” tour at six different shopping malls across the UK in November and December. Those who checked in at each event had a chance to win up to 10 games per day.
  • Ambush Marketing Instead of paying an arm and a leg for an exhibition table at the ITB Berlin (the world’s largest travel tradeshow), Germanwings used Facebook Places to create check-ins at each one of its competitors at the fair. When someone checked in at an airline’s booth, their status update would read something like “Air France: France for a bargain price is only available from Germanwings” thanks to their hidden messages.
  • Facebook Places provides viral marketing for a company since every check-in shows up in the news feed of the user’s friends. It allows businesses to create incentives for those who come to their physical location or events.
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    a great marketing campaign idea. using check-ins to promote upcoming events or event-specific places or even hardcore ambush marketing. 
Ashley Tan

Moodle Goes Mobile on iPhone -- THE Journal - 1 views

  • The open source learning management system Moodle has a new mobile companion. Developers at Moodle HQ have released a free app for iOS designed to work with Moodle 2.1 or later.
  • My Moodle isn't a replacement for the Moodle interface; rather, it just provides some additional tools tailored specifically for mobile users. These include the ability to: Capture video, still images, and audio and upload those to Moodle; Upload images and video from users' existing libraries; E-mail and message participants in users' courses; Add notes about users; Add course participants to users' iPhone contact lists; Get help through MoodleDocs; and Access the full Moodle site. (A separate login for the Web version is required with the version of the mobile app.)
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    For Fareed and anyone else interested in this mobile development.
Kartini Ishak

Teachers told not to friend students on Facebook - 1 views

  • Facebook is not banned from the classroom. Facebook pages or groups established for classroom use are allowed — as is most other social media. However, teachers are strictly forbidden to communicate with students through any personal means, such as private instant messages or through personal Facebook profiles. According to the advisory, teachers must decline student-initiated friend requests, and never initiate a friend request with a student. The college asserts that when a teacher and a student become friends in an online environment, the dynamic between them is forever changed. An invisible line between professional and personal is crossed, which can lead to strictly forbidden informal conversations.
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    The Ontario College of Teachers report accompanied by a 6-min YouTube video on the approach to social media in the classroom.
Eveleen Er

Google+: What is it, and how do I get it? - Cell Phones & Mobile Device Technology News... - 2 views

  • Google announced a new social networking layer that may compete with Facebook but, at the same time, is utterly different. The Google+ project will do some of the same general things as Facebook, such as sending messages to friends, sharing links, chatting, and sharing pictures, but the big difference is that with Google+, you can choose who you want to share these things with
youfang cao

3D Virtual Worlds, build your own virtual 3d avatar world in minutes. - 0 views

shared by youfang cao on 31 Oct 11 - Cached
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    Active Worlds (AW) is a 3D virtual reality platform and it's free.The Active Worlds client runs on Windows. Users assign themselves a name, log into the Active Worlds universe, and explore 3D virtual worlds and environments that other users have built. Users can chat with one another or build structures and areas from a selection of objects. AW allows users to own worlds and universes, and develop 3D content. The browser has web browsing capabilities, voice chat, and basic instant messaging. This integrated software can allow users to connect, explore, and gain a more in depth understanding of AW. Educational clients of Active Worlds can make use of the interaction, communication, and media to provide functional environments suited for their objectives.
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