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Really incredibly useful!

Apart from organising people whom you are following into easy manageable twitter lists, you can also use list for "content curation"

The power of creating and using hashtags is  now spilling over into the publishing industry

One teacher using twitter a a backchannel in his classroom

Gone are the days where students sit neatly in rows all prepared with the same back to school supplies ready to consume instruction. As the 2012/13 school year approaches, one thing is clear. One-size-fits-all is out and personalization is in. This doesn't only apply to the classroom instruction, it also applies to the mobile devices your students choose to use for learning. Today student choice = personalization. The teacher sets the learning goals, but students choose their own tools or learning. 

Gone are the days when  teachers would rely only on traditional gradebooks to record both their teaching progress and their students achievements. Now, technology has made it easier for teachers to create and access their gradebooks online and from anywhere with internet connection. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has compiled a set of awesome tools that you can use for grading, managing your courses and student information, taking attendance, and even sharing with parents their kids grades. Check out the list below and share it with your colleagues.

Google Search is the most widely used search engine on the Web and processes several hundred million search queries every day. However, there is a level of sophistication to Google Search that most people don't know about and therefore don't use. Using the advanced search features on Google Search would greatly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the search process for all users. This free online course will demonstrate both the advanced features now available on Google Search and give practical examples of how to use them. This course will give you a clearer understanding of how Google Search works, why word order matters, how to read the Search Engine Results page, how to remove invasive results, and how to use WHOIS and look for other site information. You will also get a clear knowledge and understanding of how to use features such as conversions, the calculator, search-by-image, and translation services. You will see examples of how combining these techniques together will give you much more effective search results in a faster time. This course will be of great interest to all users who use Google Search in a professional capacity as they will learn how to input more specific search queries and obtain more relevant search results in a faster time, and to individuals who want to learn tips and techniques about improving their search process.

We love this document that Mark Anderson has produced for a training day at his school in North Somerset, UK. It succinctly provides the name of Web2.0 tools and gives you examples of how to use them. From our experience teachers did need quick, easy and fast ways to connect to new technology ideas. We think Mark achieves this very well!

Apple iPhones are one of the most popular smart phones on the market today. Thousands of iPhone apps are available for download and every day millions of people across the world download these apps. This free online course is a series of video lectures that bring you through the process of iPhone app development. The course introduces you to the Objective-C programming language and how it is used to program iPhone apps. You will learn about the features of the Mac OS X such as the Core OS level, Core Services level, Media level and Cocoa Touch level. You will also learn about programming for single touch and multi-touch functionality and how to develop iPhone apps that use the built-in accelerometer. This course will be of great interest to professionals who develop applications for mobile phones and the iPhone in particular, and to students who want greater knowledge and understanding about iPhone app development. Many people make a lot of money from developing high quality apps for the iPhone. Study this course and you could perhaps join this elite group!

"If you can't measure it, you can't manage it" said Peter Drucker a long time ago. With TweetStats, you have a powerful tool to measure all your Twitter behavior in one place. It shows you your Tweet timeline to understand how much you are Tweeting each day and each month. It also dives deep into analyzing your best times to Tweet via a Tweet Density report and follower comparisons. Pro Tip: What I like best is the @reply and Retweet analysis. It gives you a clear picture if you hit the right balance of engagement and content Tweets."  http://blog.kissmetrics.com/transform-your-tweeting-experience/

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are online learning events that can take place synchronously and asynchronously for months. Participants assemble to hear, see, and participate in backchannel communication during live lectures. They read the same texts at the same time, according to a calendar. Learning takes place through self-organized networks of participants, and is almost completely decentralized: individuals and groups create blogs or wikis around their own interpretations of the texts and lectures, and comment on each other's work; each individual and group publicises their RSS feed, which are automatically aggregated by a special (freely available) tool, gRSShopper. Every day, an email goes out to all participants, aggregating activity streams from all the blogs and wikis that engage that week's material. MOOCs are a practical application of a learning theory known as "connectivism" that situates learning in the networks of connections made between individuals and between texts.

Today's activity and topic is about who you should follow on twitter

Such a good idea to join this if you want to learn about how to use twitter for teaching and learning

Have you ever found that you are on a website and you want to quickly print the page or a portion of the page? When it prints it is lopsided because it was meant to be on landscape, it is 16 pages long which you didn't realise plus you have wasted ink with a whole lot if unnecessary pictures and words (not to mention unwanted ads!)?

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