December 2013 archive
SCSU has a custom bit.ly link shortener for shortening SCSU website links
SCSU has a custom bit.ly link shortener for shortening SCSU website links. Enter the URL at this page: http://www.stcloudstate.edu/news/links.aspx to get your new link
Teacher’s Guide to Socrative 2.o
Teacher’s Guide to Socrative 2.o
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/12/teachers-guide-to-socrative-2o.html
Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets. Socrative is designed in such a way to help teachers make classes more engaging and interactive.It also helps teachers initiate activities and prompt students with questions to which students can respond using their laptops or smartphones. The good thing about ScSocratives that it can run on any kind of device with internet connection: iPads, iPods, laptops, smartphones so students will never miss out on any learning acidity.
FaceBook is the giant in social networking but WhatsApp has taken the lead in social messaging on mobile
#techworkshop important shifts in #SocialMedia : #WhatsApp ahead of #Facebook in #SocialMessaging @SCSULIB 290 http://ow.ly/ryL7P
Messenger Wars: How Facebook lost its lead
FaceBook is the giant in social networking but WhatsApp has taken the lead in social messaging on mobile
bibliographic tools: fast and easy
Besides the SCSU deafault
Refworks
https://www.refworks.com/refworks2/default.aspx?r=authentication::init&groupcode=RWStCloudSU
and the much more discussed
Zotero http://www.zotero.org/
and
Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/
There are about dozen more tools, which you might find your students prefer to use:
http://www.harvardgenerator.com/
http://www.neilstoolbox.com/bibliography-creator/
http://citationmachine.net/index2.php
citations for mobile devices
3 Good iPad Apps for Creating Citations and Bibliographies
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/06/3-good-ipad-apps-for-creating-citations.html?m=1
twitter resources for its use in education
A Quick Guide To Twitter Hashtags For Professional Development
http://www.edudemic.com/twitter-hashtags-for-professional-developement/
Why It’s Time For Teachers To Embrace Twitter
http://www.edudemic.com/teachers-on-twitter/
How (And Why) Teachers Should Have Multiple Twitter Accounts
http://www.edudemic.com/teachers-multiple-twitter-accounts/
Twitter Aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy for Your Students ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/12/twitter-aligned-with-blooms-taxonomy.html
10 Web Resources For Teaching About Controversy
10 Web Resources For Teaching About Controversy
http://www.edudemic.com/teaching-about-controversy/
The last example:
Driving Men Crazy in Saudi Arabia: Women’s Rights
was part of my “debate” class assignment in my HONS 221 class
4 Pinterest Tools to Grow and Measure Your Pinterest Presence
4 Pinterest Tools to Grow and Measure Your Pinterest Presence
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/pinterest-tools/
#1: Monitor Your Analytics With Tailwind
#2: Monitor Your Competitors With PinAlerts
#3: Sync With Facebook Using Pinvolve
#4: Improve the Images You Share With Pinstamatic
Social Media explained
Hacking the Future: Privacy, Identity, and Anonymity On the Web
for the entire list of books, EBooks, and DVDs acquired in November 2013, please use this Google Doc list:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArIvS0UYhpxFdDZ0QUhhSzJLWmd5QTNSWDlhaHBNTEE&usp=sharing
Stryker, Cole. Hacking the Future: Privacy, Identity, and Anonymity On the Web. New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2012.
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