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mandabee9

7 Ways to Be Worth Following on Twitter - 0 views

www.twitip.com/-be-worth-following-on-twitter

Twitter tips microblogging social media improvement advice

shared by mandabee9 on 25 Feb 11 - Cached
  • mandabee9 on 25 Feb 11
     
    If you're already a proficient "Twitterer", or even if you haven't really dove into the realm completely yet, you should check out these 7 tips about working on Twitter. Very helpful
anonymous

News: Google's Gadfly - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...en_over_knowledge_and_learning

google information literacy education

shared by anonymous on 18 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Google does not reward our impulse to know, Vaidhyanathan argues; it exploits it by making it appear as though knowing is easy.
  • “The ways that Google structures, judges, and delivers knowledge to us exacerbate our worst tendencies to jump to erroneous conclusions and act on them in ways that cause harm,” the professor writes.
  • negligence by public stewards to preempt the privatization of knowledge and learning in the switch from analog to digital.
Elise Beall

SXSW 2011: The internet is over | Technology | The Guardian - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...sxsw-2011-internet-online

digital sxsw technology gamification social future

shared by Elise Beall on 16 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • We've been hearing about this moment in digital history since at least 1988, when the Xerox technologist Mark Weiser coined the term "ubiquitous computing", referring to the point at which devices and systems would become so numerous and pervasive that "technology recedes into the background of our lives".
  • sensor-driven collective intelligence
  • When the GPS system in your phone or iPad can relay your location to any site or device you like, when Facebook uses facial recognition on photographs posted there, when your financial transactions are tracked, and when the location of your car can influence a constantly changing, sensor-driven congestion-charging scheme, all in real time, something has qualitatively changed
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  • You're still creating the web, but without the conscious need to do so.
    • Elise Beall
      Elise Beall on 16 Mar 11
       
      I have great optimism for actually being alive to see all of this happen.  My fear is that it falls into the wrong hands.  Or we begin to rely on it so heavily, that when the system hiccups, the world crumbles.  Recently, in my "Computational World" class, we talked about how the fear is all relative.  My teacher (late 40s maybe?), said he wanted nothing to do with facebook, and has a hard time understanding why people feel the need to share in that way.  He also despises his cell phone, and only carries one because his family insists.  My generation has embraced all of these technologies, and I am positive that my son will grow up with few reservations about this incredible growth in tech.
  • credit card companies can predict with 98% accuracy, two years in advance, when a couple is going to divorce, based on spending patterns alone
  • Videogame designers, the logic goes, have become the modern world's leading experts on how to keep users excited, engaged and committed
  • So why not apply that expertise to all those areas of life where we could use more engagement, commitment and fun: in education, say, or in civic life, or in hospitals?
  • Seth Priebatsch
  • SCVNGR
  • His take on the education system, for example, is that it is a badly designed game: students compete for good grades, but lose motivation when they fail
  • why not start all pupils with zero points and have them strive for the high score
  • Clay Shirky
  • The end state of connectivity," he argues, "is that it provides citizens with increased power."
  • AskNature
  • Nissan, right now, is developing swarming cars based on the movements of schooling fish
  • the internet is distracting if it stops you from doing what you really want to be doing; if it doesn't, it isn't
  • we were not meant to operate as computers do
  • A related danger of the merging of online and offline life, says business thinker Tony Schwartz, is that we come to treat ourselves, in subtle ways, like computers. We drive ourselves to cope with ever-increasing workloads by working longer hours, sucking down coffee and spurning recuperation. But "
anonymous

Wordle - Create a Word Cloud - 0 views

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digital tools word cloud

shared by anonymous on 27 Feb 11 - Cached
  • anonymous on 27 Feb 11
     
    Nifty way to make a simple image you can use on your blog or elsewhere.
Claire Matthews

Check out Dropbox. - 1 views

www.dropbox.com

shared by Claire Matthews on 03 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Claire Matthews on 03 Mar 11
     
    I found this an easy and efficient way of sharing class documents -- a little more organized than google docs maybe. It's worth a check out!
Alex Bayer

Skype - 0 views

www.skype.com/...welcomeback

shared by Alex Bayer on 04 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Alex Bayer on 04 Mar 11
     
    Skype is a great way to stay connected
Taylor Meyers

5 new links - 3 views

http://www.dumblittleman.com/: I found this site very useful for getting yourself organized and each week they have new tips. http://lifehacker.com/#!5780575/limit-visits-to-time+wasting-web-site...

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