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Barbara Lindsey

#movemeon 2009 by Doug Belshaw in Education & Language - 3 views

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    Valuable professional development from seasoned educattors via Twitter and published for FREE with LULU!  
LUCIAN DUMA

BLOGGING USING WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN XXI CENTURY EDUCATION: gr8 #edtech20 stiky n... - 0 views

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    gr8 #edtech20 stiky note /websites who can be used free on-line in your projects or in your classroom part 1 https://twitter.com/#!/web20education
Maggie Verster

Twitter in Higher Education: Usage Habits and Trends of Today's College Faculty - 0 views

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    Free report from the Faculty Focus July 2009 Twitter survey.
LUCIAN DUMA

BLOG USING GR8 WEB 2.0 TOOLS AND APPS IN XXI CENTURY EDUCATION by Lucian http://xeeme.c... - 0 views

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    #curation is #socialmedia king . Top 10 #edtech20 tools who will change research in #education20 this year . I invite you to subscribe free to our monthly newstelller http://bitly.com/edtech20newsteller . This post was made after 1 year research in #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project . If you are agree that #curation is #socialmedia king leave a comment and share with #PLN . Also I invite to read every week on this blog about  gr8 tools . Also all my blog post are now on scoopit http://bitly.com/edtech20projectresearch
Maggie Verster

140 University from C4LPT - 1 views

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    "Twitter, Facebook and Google Buzz are great places to discover and share new things - and therefore to build and extend your education. Discover new classes in the form of knowledge nuggets and related links to supporting FREE resources (web pages, videos, podcasts, etc) - in less than 140 characters. Explore the classes that you are interested in! Share your comments. Classes are delivered daily - 7 days a week. Saturday is quiz day"
Dana Huff

Free Technology for Teachers: How To Do 11 Techy Things In the New School Year - 1 views

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    A quick-start guide for teachers who want to try something new in the 2010-2011 school year.
Maggie Verster

tweetworks - 0 views

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    This twitter application allows you to create a group and ahve threaded discussion there that you can switch off for your public timeline. This will be very useful when you have class discussions or workshops meetings. You can, in the free version only creatre 1 group though.
Ed Webb

Views: How Tweet It Is - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

  • Part of my interest in this turn to Twitter comes from disappointment with most university press blogs, which often seem more like PR vehicles than genuine blogs with discussion, disagreement, expressions of real enthusiasm or curiosity or whatever. Reading very many of them at one sitting feels like attending a banquet where you are served salt-free soda crackers and caffeine-free Mountain Dew that's gone flat.By contrast, university-press publicists seem more inclined to experiment and to follow tangents with Twitter than they do on their own official websites. They link to material they have posted at the press’s blog, of course – but also to news and commentary that may be only obliquely related to the books in their catalog. It’s as if they escape from beneath the institutional superego long enough to get into the spirit of blogging, proper.
  • The range and the interest of Duke's tweets make its presence exemplary, in my opinion. Between drafting and rewriting this column, for example, I followed Duke's tweets to a newspaper article about whether or not English was approaching one million words, a blog post about rock songs cued to Joyce's Ulysses, and the Twitter feed of Duke author Negar Mottahedeh, who has been posting about events in Iran.
  • She then makes a point that bears stressing given how often university-press blogs tend to be coated in institutional gray: “I think that any kind of social networking needs to have a personality tied to it in order for it to be successful. Also, I think you really need to participate in the media in order for it to be successful. We ask people for questions and opinions, offer giveaways sometimes. My main goal is to try to get people talking -- either with me or with each other about our books and authors.... You can't just provide information or news feeds to reviews and articles about your books. Involving the Press in what is going, contributing to the various discussions, and asking (and answering) questions is really the way to grow your following.”
Ed Webb

Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitter - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 1 views

  • In my own classes I've been deliberately vague about what students should tweet about. I didn’t want overly prescriptive guidelines to constrain what might be possible. Instead, I wanted our integration of Twitter to evolve organically. Given this open-ended invitation, I’ve found students tend to use Twitter for class in three ways: to post news and share resources relevant to the class; to ask questions and respond with clarifications about the readings; and to write sarcastic, irreverent comments about the readings or my teaching. The first two behaviors add to the community spirit of the class and help to sustain student interest across the days and weeks of the semester. The third behavior, when I first noticed it, was an utterly unexpected finding. (And as I've argued elsewhere, it was a good, powerful surprise that legitimated my use of Twitter in and outside of the classroom. I saw students take an oppositional stance in their writing—a welcome reprieve from the majority of student writing, which avoids taking any stance at all.)
  • I strongly recommend creating a permanent Twitter archive. A free service such as TwapperKeeper will track a specified hashtag, collecting the tweets 24/7, and you simply return to TwapperKeeper any time to download the archive. It's so easy to use that I've begun creating TwapperKeeper archives for any hashtag there's even the slightest chance I'll be interested in revisiting later. Another useful archiving tool is called, appropriately enough, The Archivist.
Ed Webb

Why Twitter Will Endure - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • nearly a year later, has Twitter turned my brain to mush? No, I’m in narrative on more things in a given moment than I ever thought possible, and instead of spending a half-hour surfing in search of illumination, I get a sense of the day’s news and how people are reacting to it in the time that it takes to wait for coffee at Starbucks. Yes, I worry about my ability to think long thoughts — where was I, anyway? — but the tradeoff has been worth it.
  • open standards that become plumbing
  • The act of publishing on Twitter is so friction-free — a few keystrokes and hit send — that you can forget that others are out there listening. I was on a Virgin America cross-country flight, and used its wireless connection to tweet about the fact that the guy next to me seemed to be the leader of a cult involving Axe body spray. A half-hour later, a steward approached me and said he wondered if I would be more comfortable with a seat in the bulkhead. (He turned out to be a great guy, but I was doing a story involving another part of the company, so I had to decline the offer. @VirginAmerica, its corporate Twitter account, sent me a message afterward saying perhaps it should develop a screening process for Axe. It was creepy and comforting all at once.)
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  • people on Twitter who serve as my Web-crawling proxies
  • The best people on Twitter communicate with economy and precision, with each element — links, hash tags and comments — freighted with meaning.
Ed Webb

Margaret Atwood | How I learned to love Twitter | Comment is free | The Guardian - 5 views

  • It's like having fairies in your garden
  • nnocent as an egg unboiled
  • It was like having 33,000 precocious grandchildren!
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  • So what's it all about, this Twitter? Is it signalling, like telegraphs? Is it Zen poetry? Is it jokes scribbled on the washroom wall? Is it John Hearts Mary carved on a tree? Let's just say it's communication, and communication is something human beings like to do.
Ed Webb

Global Neighbourhoods: Why you should lose some Twitter Followers - 0 views

  • almost no one knows what to do when they first get to Twitter, a problem that is starting to be fixed by the Twitter guys. Second, almost everyone in business comes to Twitter to say something and nearly always they figure out that it is at least equally valuable as a listening tool. The end result is that people use Twitter to have interesting conversations.
  • one of the common threads between the millions of people using Twitter is that we are all there for interesting conversations. Not every conversation is interesting--just like in real life. But enough are
  • Someone I know with lots more followers than I have, shared with me this week that she is afraid to offend anyone for fear of losing followers. My response was, "screw them." Twitter is a place where you should be free to say what you want in the style that you want.
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  • Don't be afraid to change subjects if your interests change. You may end up with smaller numbers, but you will end up talking with people who share your passions and focus.
Ed Webb

The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age - The MIT Press - 0 views

  • Davidson and Goldberg call on us to examine potential new models of digital learning and rethink our virtually enabled and enhanced learning institutions.
  • available in a free digital edition
Ed Webb

10 High Fliers on Twitter - Chronicle.com - 0 views

  • Twitter is quickly becoming a global faculty lounge. Sure, it's easy to waste a lot of time on the Internet-based microblogging service reading mundane details about people's days. But you can also pick up some great higher-education gossip, track down colleagues to collaborate with, or get advice on how to improve your teaching or research.
  • a rich soup of thought
  • editing the Web in real time
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  • "A killer application of Twitter is conferences and conference reporting."
  • Academic discussions online often take place on closed e-mail lists, he says, when they should be happening in public forums like Twitter, so that a diverse group of outsiders can join in. "I think academics are actually missing a lot by not being involved in more of these social tools," he told me. "There are a lot of academics who think, 'If it's not coming from some other academic it's not worth a damn,' and that's not right."
  • "This is great for studying or following events as they unfold, but it is also useful for more traditional research if you can form or tap into a good network."
  • he joined Twitter hoping that it would help him demystify the job of college president by sharing details from his daily life. "It shows that you're not just living in a big house and begging" for money, he quipped. "You do get out and work."
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