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September 2014 archive
Code and Program
categories: Digital literacy, technology literacy
Ten Resources for Helping Students Learn to Coding and Programming
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/07/ten-resources-for-helping-students.html
Please consider previous IMS blog posts on the topic:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=coding
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=programming
Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/
The MIT App Inventor
App Inventor 2
support documentation and curriculum
Click here to read about a great app developed by students using the MIT App Inventor.
Kid-Friendly Programming Languages
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/CompSci_Kid_Programming.shtml
http://gamestarmechanic.com/ ?cid=scibud (use online)
http://www.alice.org/kelleher/ storytelling/index.html
http://fuse.microsoft.com/kodu/
http://education.mit.edu/ drupal/starlogo-tng
http://pygame.org/ download.shtml
Integrate Google Glass Into Classroom
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Integrate Google Glass Into Classroom
http://www.wpr.org/uw-madison-professors-integrate-google-glass-classroom
Please consider our previous postings about Google Glass:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=google+glass
What you don’t want it to end up being is what a lot of experts call, you know, the ‘thousand-dollar pencil,’” said Eric Carbaugh, a faculty member with the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. “Maybe we give kids tablets or Google Glass, or whatever it might be. There’s this tech tool that you integrate into the classroom, and what you end up seeing is that those tech tools are essentially used to take notes.”
Files and Folders on Google Sites
categories: Google +
How to Share Materials By Using Files and Folders on Google Sites
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/09/how-to-share-materials-by-using-files.html
free multimedia sources
Sources of Free Sound Effects and Music for Multimedia Projects
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/09/sources-of-free-sound-effects-and-music.html
Royalty Free Music
Musopen’s collection
The Internet Archive
The Free Music Archive
FMA
Create and Manage Facebook page
How to Create and Manage Facebook page
http://blog.bufferapp.com/how-to-create-manage-facebook-business-page
Step 1: Fill out your basic business info
https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php
Step 2: Create an awesome cover image in a snap (no designer required!)
The dimensions for your cover image should be a minimum of 851 pixels wide by 315 pixels tall.
Step 3: Fill out your profile completely
Step 4: Add collaborators to your page
Step 5: Publish your first post
hyperlapse video
8 Ways to Use Hyperlapse Video from Instagram
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/hyperlapse-video/
As a medium for condensing long experiences into brief episodes, time-lapse video is a perfect way to deliver your message to social media users with fleeting attention spans.
#1: Show Visitors What to Expect
#2: Create Buzz for New Products
#3: Sell the Experience, Not the Product
#4: Pull Back the Curtain
#5: Give a Tour
#6: Build Excitement Around Events
#7: Highlight Product or Service Features
#8: Tell a Story
online dating
categories: digital citizenship, digital identity
This Photographer’s Pictures Of Her Tinder Dates Say A Lot About Modern Dating
http://www.businessinsider.com/tinder-date-portraits-2014-9?op=1#ixzz3ELVpR5XP "It is my hope that people will look beyond the initial voyeuristic appeal and see the piece as a social commentary about how we connect with each other in a digital world," Cheers says, adding that personally, she thinks it's a little unhealthy to "shop" for a mate.
how to post on social media (and process big information flow)
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Behind the Scenes: How I Post on Social Media
Following me on social media means that you are drinking from a fire hose. I subscribe to the “more is more” philosophy of social-media—meaning that I share approximately ten to fifty posts everyday to provide a constant flow of information, analysis, education, and assistance to my followers.
Method 1: I use a service called MyAlltop, which is a personalized subset of Alltop.com, a collection of over 1,500 topics containing more than 30,000 RSS feeds. My MyAlltop web page contains the last five stories from websites and blogs of organizations
I read MyAlltop and other Alltop pages with my Moto X phone, Nexus 7 tablet, or Nexus 10 tablet. Most of the time I’m accessing it while reading in bed or on a stationary bike because I find selecting material to share an enjoyable and easy task.
When I see a headline that interests me, I click through and scan the full story. If I like the story, I launch the Share menu item in Chrome and share it to a Tumblr blog called Help a Socialist Out (HASO) with only three clicks and no typing. I also use a utility called Andmade to further enhance Android’s sharing ability. Sorry iOS users, but I cannot tell you how to do this. I’ve tried to make this happen with iOS 8, and I just can’t do it.
Pinterest and Instagram
Not Lost in Translation: Brands on Pinterest and Instagram
the ability of anyone, with internet access, to communicate instantaneously to a global network
n the world of Instagram and Pinterest, brands are equal opportunity participants with consumers. Brands create stories that entice and capture consumers’ attention to leverage their influence. Users interact with the brand by commenting, liking, or ignoring. In an instant, you know if you have a hit or a dud. When something is a hit, it is popular, but more importantly, it becomes influential. The relationship between brands and consumers has become peer based.
Both platforms are B2C driven, but does Instagram win as the more effective of the two?
Instagram can be shared vertically across Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other platforms. Pinterest is about curating and discovering information. Instagram gives you the opportunity to reveal a personal side to your brand and to interact with your audience.
Instagram creates narratives and that may be the characteristic that trumps Pinterest. Instagram defines and shapes brands while Pinterest sells brands.