Manage all your email and social networking messages from one inbox - read and reply to Facebook and MySpace messages - Keep up with your Twitter friends
"Providing the latest tools in technology, and a social interactive networking environment, has enabled teens to explore, create, and share with others. A result of pulling these two key online arenas together into one solution has enabled FreshBrain to attract teens comfortable with technology and communicating online. Creations from FreshBrain users range from music videos to logo designs."
"FreshBrain is a public charity - a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit. As a result, the use of the website is FREE. We are not talking about a free trial or free for the basic version."
"Link TV is launching ViewChange.org - a digital media hub that highlights progress in reducing hunger, poverty, and disease in developing nations. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ViewChange.org combines powerful video stories with the latest Web technology to make videos, articles, blogs, and actions readily available to key audiences working in global development. "
This talk explores the latest findings of the Pew Internet & American Life Project about broadband adoption and wireless connectivity and looks at why government agencies, associations, activists, and businesses should use varied digital strategies to serve the needs of different tribes of technology users.
Twiddla is a free collaboration tool where you set up meetings using an online whiteboard interface. Twiddla meetings allow users to interact in real time
Presenter: Matt Monjan from Discovery Education (http://www.discoveryedspeakersbureau.com/node/121) – same gentleman who did yesterday’s presentation at lunch for the ITRTs
This is the general session opening keynote
-Every embedded article contains a link back to the article source
-Earn revenue displaying your ads within article embeds
-All embedded articles are invisible to search engines
-Reporting and control over which sites are embedding your articles"
Producteev is a new generation Task Management web application that drastically simplifies the way you work with your team.
Connect with your colleagues, Follow their activity status and news feed in real time, Manage your Projects in a fully customizable drag-and-drop dashboard, Collaborate with your team thanks to intuitive social features, Share and Comment on files.
Key points:
-There is a generation gap in how youth and adults view the value of online activity.
-Youth are navigating complex social and technical worlds by participating online.
-Young people are motivated to learn from their peers online. (this is a key finding in the study and very relevant to educators)
-Most youth are not taking full advantage of the learning opportunities of the Internet. (another finding that could impact the way teachers engage students in online learning)
"The research demonstrates that, although many young people are developing a broad range of sophisticated new literacy and technical skills, they are also facing new challenges in how to manage their visibility and social relationships online."
Almost ten years into the 21st century, schools try to promote new ways of teaching and learning and then evaluate how well their efforts have led to results. New insights emerge from research and observation all the time.
This eBook is designed to detail some of the aspects needed for students to learn new things in new ways so they can live and work in a changing world. We hope you will find it valuable as you work towards improving education in the 21st century.