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Carol Furchner

Free Live Web Events! | The Edublogger - 0 views

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    Edublogger - tips, tricks, ideas and help with using web2.0 technologies and edublogs
Carol Furchner

Changing Education with Web 2.0 Tools - 0 views

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    Good overview of motivation for using web2.0 tools, building a personal learning network, examples of using tools in the classroom
Carol Furchner

Video Tutorials - Web2.0 applications - 0 views

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    links to several tutorials
Carol Furchner

A Vision of 21st Century Teachers - 0 views

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    Video about uses of technology in teaching - motivational
Carol Furchner

Using New Technologies To Enhance Learning Experiences - 0 views

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    Edmodo (like Twitter), Animoto, Audacity, VoiceThread
Carol Furchner

Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers @ SmashingApps - 0 views

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    List of 69 FREE Web Apps - some real gems here.
Carol Furchner

Empowering_Students_withGoogle_Apps_Education_ - 0 views

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    Slideshow showing use of Google Apps for Education and how to set up, administer and use an educational Google Apps account. Apps include word processor, spreadsheet, forms, web site creation, calendar, gmail, chat, contacts list, private video, and groups.
Carol Furchner

Google Search Options - 0 views

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    GREAT collection of tools supplied by Google to enhance search strategies. Move cursor around image to select each one. Also see "other search tools" for a link to a wiki with information about more search tools.
Carol Furchner

CutePDF - Create PDF for free, Free PDF Utilities, Edit PDF easily;. - 0 views

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    Free tool for creating PDF files from documents. Very easy to use, creates very small .pdf files. Not strictly web2.0, but allows creation of files to share online
Carol Furchner

How Privacy Vanishes Online, a Bit at a Time - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • In 2008, a pair of researchers at the University of Texas showed that the customer data released for that first contest, despite being stripped of names and other direct identifying information, could often be “de-anonymized” by statistically analyzing an individual’s distinctive pattern of movie ratings and recommendations.
  • By examining correlations between various online accounts, the scientists showed that they could identify more than 30 percent of the users of both Twitter, the microblogging service, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing service, even though the accounts had been stripped of identifying information like account names and e-mail addresses.
  • Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross reported that they could accurately predict the full, nine-digit Social Security numbers for 8.5 percent of the people born in the United States between 1989 and 2003 — nearly five million individuals.
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    Scary how much information can be gleaned about you by mining the data in your profiles and what your "friends" and "networks" say about you. This is a real consideration for using social networking tools in education.
Carol Furchner

Top 50 Education Technology Blogs - 0 views

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    List of blogs with thumbnail descriptions
Carol Furchner

Doodle: easy scheduling, quick polling - 0 views

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    Free tool that allows you to schedule an event by creating a set of possible times and then asking recipients to click on the ones when they are available. ("Schedule an Event") Also allows creation of a one-question poll ("Make a Choice"). See "Help" for instructions. Extremely easy to use. You need to create a free account.
Carol Furchner

How to build a Personal Learning Network - Classroom2.0 - 0 views

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    Video about building a personal learning network - simple steps
Carol Furchner

Using Social Media in Schools - watch video clip - 0 views

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    This video clip is a panel discussion by three educators about how they use social media to form personal learning networks and to excite students in their schools. These guys are passionate about it!
Carol Furchner

The New Student Excuse? Corrupted files! - Inside Higher Ed - 2 views

  • encourages them to do their own work and not to procrastinate
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      Encourages them not to procrastinate? I think not! It rewards procrastination!
Carol Furchner

New Features in Diigo 4 - Classroom 2.0 LIVE! - 0 views

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    Overview and demo (skip about 1st 10 minutes - it's setup for the webconference session that was recorded; just drag the slider at the bottom of the video). Ends after an hour, but then questions follow. Also a lot of links related to diigo underneath the video on the page.
Lynne Williams

What do you think about "The New Student Excuse?" - 3 views

No matter what you specify and no matter how clearly you specify it, there's going to be a small but confused group that'll manage to pull out the most obscure file format known to humankind...

web2.0 cheating teaching

Carol Furchner

Google Tools 2 - Wonder Wheel and Timeline | Making Teachers Nerdy - 0 views

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    Shows use of 2 google tools - looks intriguing. Wonder Wheel gives you a visual picture of relationships or subsets of the term you searched; you can then search on the subsets of interest. Timeline arranges links in order, from oldest to newest, and shows a frequency distribution of the links, over time. This includes ancient (pre-internet) information, if it's coded with a publication date.
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