Paste large amounts of text and a link is generated for you to share in plurk. The text comes up in Plurk as a pop up box. Nice! Shared by @gingerTPLC.
Secure VoiceThread network for students and teachers to collaborate and share ideas with classrooms anywhere in the world.
Group conversations around images, documents, and videos
Messages can be text-based (computer keyboard, phone text), audio (computer mic, telephone call, upload), or video (computer webcam, upload)
Can be used to put "instruction" online.
It's well known that people say and do things in cyberspace that they wouldn't ordinarily say or do in the face-to-face world. They loosen up, feel more uninhibited, express themselves more openly. Researchers call this the "disinhibition effect." It's a double-edged sword. Sometimes people share very personal things about themselves. They reveal secret emotions, fears, wishes. Or they show unusual acts of kindness and generosity. We may call this benign disinhibition.
As educators speed up in the Plurk adoption curve, conversations start to unfold.
Drawback: Plurk still does not provide a favourite button to save and share fast.
Solution:
Tag +RSS to wiki
chat service that does not require chat participants to register or create their own user name or password. To use Stinto one person establishes the chat and then invites others to join the chat by sharing the unique url for the chat.
Are you interested in learning about current news or historical events...participate in the Story Chasers blog/wiki. Students and teachers can research such items in their local communities and share them in a collabortive way via connections on this site.