CI593B:Social Media in Education

Try out some of the Web 3.0 applications they recommend. Web 3.0 is the semantic web. Check it out-

The tagline for this talk was - Much of the world has gone digital, so must learning at school. Creativity is vital, and good leadership matters. I listened to the first half this morning (the two parts are approximately 2 hours total) but appreciated what Wes Fryer had to say about introducing, using and sustaining technology in schools (including Social Media).

iPad annotation. Digital document annotation: iPad, iPod Touch, laptop. Principals, superintendents, administrators, & other school technology leadership folks.

Google Docs is changing how we share and control privacy for our documents, presentations and other stored files.

Twitter warned us that more downtime was likely in light of record usage surrounding the World Cup; this afternoon, more downtime has arrived, with fail whales being the only thing available at Twitter.com as of around 6:20pm ET.

Amazon.com: The Exceptional Presenter: A Proven Formula to Open Up and Own the Room (9781929774449): Timothy J. Koegel: Books

Blog post around the idea that you don't have to know everything about technology to use or teach technology.

The number of Internet users who visited a social network or a blog increased by 24 percent from April 2009 to April 2010, while the average person spent 66 percent more time on those sites during that period, according to new numbers from the Nielsen Co. research firm.

Nielsen is the best of the best- this is truly remarkable- good find!

More usable, more granular control. A must see!

Looks like word cup is to blame for the twitter outages, at least in part.

This had some good information on grade-appropriate levels for tools

Youtube has just released a new video editor that lets you create video mashups and edit down clips from your library of existing video uploads.

Where was this 2 days ago for my presentation? :P This is exactly what Dr. Correia was asking about.

Social media is going to rule the Web until at least 2012

Some key stats: 75% of Internet users visit a social networking site when they go online. People are spending 66% more time on social networking sites than they did a year ago. There's more interesting stuff in there. Check it out.

Social networking with built-in GPS was meant to be the next big thing.

Looks like business is embracing web 2.0 as well. Should be interesting, I think it will help develop more private cloud type products, which may be useful for university and k-12 settings as well.

Today in History to your iphone

Check out some of the ways that Mobile applications have been uniquely adapted for different usage scenarios. How does this apply to educators who publish content in a global context?

Videos and playlists by topic. Some great material here, especially for k-12.