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Joel Bennett

Hua - Learn languages for free - 13 views

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    Chat with native speakers in 12 languages; it's the most fun, natural way to learn a new language.
Joel Bennett

English to Spanish (and back) Translation - 6 views

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    good page for testing out your Spanish phrases
Joel Bennett

Interested in Trading Up for a New Kindle Touch or Kindle Fire Tablet? Pull Your Clunke... - 1 views

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    Amazon has extended its (relatively unknown) buyback program, previously associated mostly with textbooks, movies, and video games, to include a wide range of electronics products including the iPad, the iPhone, the Samsung Galaxy, the Motorola Xoom, and all kinds of other devices that might prepare the way for you to buy a Kindle tablet...
Joel Bennett

Microsoft Language Portal - 1 views

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    Search and download internationally localized terminology in over 100 languages.
Joel Bennett

Sho Documentation - Microsoft Research - 2 views

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    "Stats, Signal processing and Optimization packages."
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VoxOx - VOIP + IM - 6 views

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    VoxOx challenges Skype, Google Voice, and Gizmo Project with low prices ($2.45/mo unlimited calling) and bucketloads of features including a free phone number, call screening, "follow me", 20 party conferencing, video calling, plus things you haven't seen elsewhere like multi-protocol IM and social networking, built-in dropbox-style file sharing, and fax support.
Joel Bennett

Microsoft Education Labs - 0 views

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    Microsoft's first education labs project is a plugin for the Open Source Moodle that provides LiveID signings, and thus, integration with Live Services (Hotmail, Messenger, Calendar, etc).
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Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What? - 0 views

  • Social media is driven by another buzzword: "user-generated content" or content that is contributed by participants rather than editors.
  • I'm going to share my research in three acts: 1) How did social media - and social network sites in particular - gain traction in the US? And how should we think about network effects? 2) What are some core differences between how teens leverage social media and how adults engage with these same tools? 3) How is social media reconfiguring social infrastructure and where is all of this going?
  • many adults have jumped in, but what they are doing there is often very different than what young people are doing.
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  • over 35% of American adults have a profile on a social network site
  • Facebook was narrated as the "safe" alternative and, in the 2006-2007 school year, a split amongst American teens occurred. Those college-bound kids from wealthier or upwardly mobile backgrounds flocked to Facebook while teens from urban or less economically privileged backgrounds rejected the transition and opted to stay with MySpace while simultaneously rejecting the fears brought on by American media. Many kids were caught in the middle and opted to use both, but the division that occurred resembles the same "jocks and burnouts" narrative that shaped American schools in the 1980s.
  • Teens are much more motivated to talk only with their friends and they learned a harsh lesson with social network sites. Even if they are just trying to talk to their friends, those who hold power over them are going to access everything they wrote if it's in public
  • while you can replicate a conversation, it's much easier to alter what's been said than to confirm that it's an accurate portrayal of the original conversation.
  • 1. Invisible Audiences. We are used to being able to assess the people around us when we're speaking. We adjust what we're saying to account for the audience. Social media introduces all sorts of invisible audiences.
  • Social media brings all of these contexts crashing into one another and it's often difficult to figure out what's appropriate
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    1) How did social media - and social network sites in particular - gain traction in the US? And how should we think about network effects? 2) What are some core differences between how teens leverage social media and how adults engage with these same tools? 3) How is social media reconfiguring social infrastructure and where is all of this going?
Joel Bennett

Notifu - Send Group Messages (Free) and get responses! - 0 views

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    I just tried this (without creating an account or anything) ... it let me put a phone number in, and type out a message for it to send by a VOICE message, along with choices. It called instantly, and the moment my wife made her choice (by pressing 3 on her phone), the answer showed up on the website.
Joel Bennett

Fonts - CoolText - 0 views

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    Cool Text has over 1,200 fonts available for download and browsable by categories and author. Most have credit links and a read_me.txt to show who made it and what the license restrictions might be...(they also have a gimp-powered auto-logo maker)
Joel Bennett

Diigo Educator Accounts - 0 views

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    Allows teachers to create student accounts (even without email addresses) which are private, but shared to the rest of their class. Allowing students to communicate and share and markup web pages, without exposing their accounts to other Diigo users.
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