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Lee-Anne Patterson

Diigo is a research tool that rocks - 1 views

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diigo web2.0 blog bookmarking techcrunch socialbookmarking tools

shared by Lee-Anne Patterson on 17 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Lee-Anne Patterson on 17 Sep 09
     
    TechCrunch blog post on Diigo - taught me some things about using Diigo
Elizabeth Resnick

iOS 7 Leaves Older iPhones And iPads Out Of The Fun | TechCrunch - 82 views

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iOS 7 iOS 7 compatibility ipads iphones techcrunch

shared by Elizabeth Resnick on 03 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Elizabeth Resnick on 03 Jul 13
     
    Includes chart with iOS 7 compatibility with current apple devices
Martha Hickson

Pinterest Targets Casual Visitors With New "Pinterest For Teachers" Site, May Add More ... - 71 views

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pinterest

shared by Martha Hickson on 21 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Martha Hickson on 21 Aug 13
     
    Pinterest has launched what may be the first of several official "hubs" featuring content targeting a particular segment of its user base, with today's debut of a new "Pinterest for Teachers" site at pinterest.com/teachers. Obviously timed to coincide with the back-to-school rush and news cycle, the company tells us that the new hub will also serve as something of a test to see if it makes more sense to continue down this path in the future, with more hubs devoted to other interests or groups.
iam ntp

Digital Activist Aaron Swartz Dead At 26 | TechCrunch - 13 views

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      iam ntp on 13 Jan 13
       
      Swartz, not Schwartz...!
  • iam ntp on 13 Jan 13
     
    "Schwartz "
Kate Pok

A Personal Appeal TO Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales | TechCrunch - 101 views

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comedy

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  • Kate Pok on 24 Nov 11
     
    made me laugh so I wanted to share...
Ronald Buelow

Dear Facebook, Please Return Our Social Networking Space - 80 views

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facebook

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      Ronald Buelow on 20 Dec 10
       
      here is my first "public" diigo comment.
Ed Webb

It's Time To Hide The Noise - 35 views

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noise signal twitter filtering apps tweetdeck seesmic twhirl techcrunch opinion

shared by Ed Webb on 04 Oct 09 - Cached
  • the noise is worse than ever. Indeed, it is being magnified every day as more people pile onto Twitter and Facebook and new apps yet to crest like Google Wave. The data stream is growing stronger, but so too is the danger of drowning in all that information.
  • the fact that Seesmic or TweetDeck or any of these apps can display 1,200 Tweets at once is not a feature, it’s a bug
  • if you think Twitter is noisy, wait until you see Google Wave, which doesn’t hide anything at all.  Imagine that Twhirl image below with a million dialog boxes on your screen, except you see as other people type in their messages and add new files and images to the conversation, all at once as it is happening.  It’s enough to make your brain explode.
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  • all I need is two columns: the most recent Tweets from everyone I follow (the standard) and the the most interesting tweets I need to pay attention to.  Recent and Interesting.  This second column is the tricky one.  It needs to be automatically generated and personalized to my interests at that moment.
  • search is broken on Twitter.  Unless you know the exact word you are looking for, Tweets with related terms won’t show up.  And there is no way to sort searches by relevance, it is just sorted by chronology.
carmelladoty

New Gmail Feature Allows Anyone On Google+ To Email You & Vice Versa, But Opt Out Is Pr... - 114 views

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Google gmail

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  • carmelladoty on 11 Jan 14
     
    Gmail is now connected to Google+ but there is an opt out. Is Google+ turned on in you school.
Paul Hieronymus

10 Reasons Facebook Fails Education | EdReach - 1 views

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facebook

shared by Paul Hieronymus on 25 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Discourse is dead.
  • When was the last time you had a really good in-depth conversation about politics, education, the environment- or anything on Facebook?
  • People don’t expect to learn anything on Facebook
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  • The problem with discourse on Facebook is about expectations.
  • TechCrunch recently stopped using Facebook Comments (EdReach has also followed suit)
  • creating all of these micro-communities is becoming overwhelming to the users. I
  • Groups fail again and again.
  • Over-notified.
  • Facebook Page presence becomes no more than a Like Button.
  • Facebook fails Personal Learning Networks (PLNs)
  • Now- we’re stuck with a thousand friends, and not a lot of education sharing.
  • Facebook ads worsen the experience.
  • Facebook is a commercial environment focused on advertising and gathering personal information
Ed Webb

Please Sir, how do you re-tweet? - Twitter to be taught in UK primary schools - 2 views

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twitter technology literacy education UK socialmedia

shared by Ed Webb on 25 Mar 09 - Cached
  • The British government is proposing that Twitter is to be taught in primary (elementary) schools as part of a wider push to make online communication and social media a permanent part of the UK’s education system. And that’s not all. Kids will be taught blogging, podcasting and how to use Wikipedia alongside Maths, English and Science.
  • Traditional education in areas like phonics, the chronology of history and mental arithmetic remain but modern media and web-based skills and environmental education now feature.
  • The skills that let kids use Internet technologies effectively also work in the real world: being able to evaluate resources critically, communicating well, being careful with strangers and your personal information, conducting yourself in a manner appropriate to your environment. Those things are, and should be, taught in schools. It’s also a good idea to teach kids how to use computers, including web browsers etc, and how those real-world skills translate online.
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  • I think teaching kids HOW TO use Wikipedia is a step forward from ordering them NOT TO use it, as they presently do in many North American classrooms.
  • Open Source software is the future and therefore we need to concentrate on the wheels and not the vehicle!
  • Core skills is very important. Anyone and everyone can learn Photoshop & Word Processing at any stage of their life, but if core skills are missed from an early age, then evidence has shown that there has always been less chance that the missing knowledge could be learnt at a later stage in life.
  • Schools shouldn’t be about teaching content, but about learning to learn, getting the kind of critical skills that can be used in all kinds of contexts, and generating motivation for lifelong learning. Finnish schools are rated the best in the world according to the OECD/PISA ratings, and they have totally de-emphasised the role of content in the curriculum. Twitter could indeed help in the process as it helps children to learn to write in a precise, concise style - absolutely nothing wrong with that from a pedagogical point of view. Encouraging children to write is never a bad thing, no matter what the platform.
  • Front end stuff shouldn’t be taught. If anything it should be the back end gubbins that should be taught, databases and coding.
  • So what’s more important, to me at least, is not to know all kinds of useless facts, but to know the general info and to know how to think and how to search for information. In other words, I think children should get lessons in thinking and in information retrieval. Yes, they should still be taught about history, etc. Yes, it’s important they learn stuff that they could need ‘on the spot’ - like calculating skills. However, we can go a little bit easier on drilling the information in - by the time they’re 25, augmented reality will be a fact and not even a luxury.
  • Schools should focus more on teaching kids on how to think creatively so they can create innovative products like twitter rather then teaching on how to use it….
  • Schools should focus more on teaching kids on how to think creatively so they can create innovative products like twitter rather then teaching on how to use it….
  • Ed Webb on 25 Mar 09
     
    The British government is proposing that Twitter is to be taught in primary (elementary) schools as part of a wider push to make online communication and social media a permanent part of the UK's education system. And that's not all. Kids will be taught blogging, podcasting and how to use Wikipedia alongside Maths, English and Science.
Sheri Edwards

And Now For Some Unexpectedly Good News - 35 views

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Africa technology economy social studies

shared by Sheri Edwards on 24 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Sheri Edwards on 24 Jun 11
     
    Is this really good for the African people? or is it good for the foreigners moving in? Is this history repeating itself again and again? 
Dana Grupenhoff

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