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http://www.edudemic.com/instagrok-an-education-search-engine-for-students
instaGrok is a next-generation research engine intended for academic settings to allow students to research any subject and see results in an interactive concept map, or “grok.” The grok features key facts, concepts and their relationships, images, videos, quizzes, and a glossary. Students can pin the information that they want to use to their grok and keep a bibliography or research notes in an integrated journal.
What makes instaGrok indispensable to teachers is its ability to facilitate self-directed learning of several critical skills, including researching and integrating discrete concepts.
My note: App for Android and iOS tablets is NOT available for smartphones and iTouch
http://kiddle.co/
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/facebook-media-publishing-tools-news
Facebook Introduces New Tools for Media Publishers: These new Facebook media publishing tools allow you “to target posts, remove posts that are no longer relevant and identify popular links that you haven’t shared.”
Facebook Makes Improvements to Insights: These include improvements “to Domain Insights to show how pages and social plugins drive traffic to websites.”
Facebook Updates Search: Now it’s “easier to find the posts that have been shared with you.”
Facebook Brings Trending to Mobile: Now “making it easy for people to explore stories from different sources.”
Twitter Introduces Tailored Audiences From Mobile Apps: “A new way for advertisers to create targetable audience segments based on mobile app actions such as an install, purchase or sign-up.”
SlideShare Releases Analytics to all Users: As a SlideShare user, you can get “deeper insight into the effectiveness of your content through the release of SlideShare Analytics.”
Google Updates Hangouts App for Android: To “make it easier to express yourself, and have more fun along the way.”
YouTube Adds New Feature to Help When Choosing a Track: “You can search the YouTube Audio Library to determine how using a particular track in your video will affect it on YouTube; specifically if it will stay live on YouTube or if any restrictions apply.”
Tumblr Introduces New Explore Button: “It’s kind of like search, but for when you can’t think of anything.”
Google+ Supports a Number of Ways to Express Gender Identity: “Now, the gender field on your profile will contain four entries, ‘Male,’ ‘Female,’ ‘Decline to state’ and ‘Custom.’”
Facebook Revamps Slingshot: “A simpler, cleaner, more fun Slingshot.”
Foursquare Unveils the All-New Foursquare for Windows Desktop/Tablet: “It’s got an all-new look and feel to help lead you to places you’ll love.”
Here are some interesting studies to note:
The Top 14 Social Media Metrics Tracked by Marketers
40% of Facebook Accounts That Represent Fortune 100 Brands Are Unauthorized
PlayBuzz Tops Publishers on Facebook in Shares for November
Here’s a cool social media tool worth checking out:
Workflow: “Your personal automation tool, enabling you to drag and drop any combination of actions to create powerful workflows.”
Smartphones, tablets, e-readers — today’s students have a variety of mobile technologies at their fingertips. Here’s a look at some mobile-learning resources from Edutopia and around the web.
I just received the glass yesterday. After fully charge the glass and turn it on, it displays the “Glass” logo then keeps on “main stopped unexpectedly” -> “voice stopped unexpectedly” -> “camera stopped unexpectedly”. What’s wrong with it? The seller told me it is a common problem. (boot looop?) After a hard-reset, it still does not function.
call 1-800-Glass-XE for support
https://code.google.com/p/google-glass-api/issues/detail?id=533&can=1&sort=-id&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Owner%20Component%20Summary
https://glass.google.com/myglass
Device 2
Last Activity: May 1, 2014, 7:11:43 AM
Registered: Apr 30, 2014, 9:11:17 AM
Software Version: XE16.11
Serial: LGCCC140574672
Wi-Fi MAC Address: f8:8f:ca:26:16:83
Talked to 1-800-Glass-XE. The issue is because the OS (XE16.11) is not updated. In order to to push the updates, GG needs to be reconnected to Wi-Fi. Easiest way is if GG “remembers” previous settings. In this case, any phone or tablet that GG has been connected before will do. Battery must be charged at least 50% (at least an hour).
GG can take the updated also directly from Wifi, but the SCSU WiFi does NOT take devices like Google Glass yet.
If updates cannot be pushed to Google Glass, then the “owner” of the device has to talk to Google for replacement.
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.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140923140336-2484700-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.
Google buys polling startup Polar to bolster Google+
http://www.cnet.com/news/google-buys-polling-startup-polar-to-bolster-google/
Polar, founded last year, polls users on smartphones and tablets by letting them choose between two things — for example: Coke versus Pepsi, or Warriors versus Lakers. The startup has served more than half a billion polls in the past eight months and had 1.1 million active voters in September, according to a blog post by founder Luke Wroblewski.
Wearable Technology: How Teachers Could Use it with Students – See more at: http://www.tabletsforschools.org.uk/wearable-technology-how-teachers-could-use-it-with-students/#sthash.d7njCEYD.dpuf
3 ways mobile can grow your business
https://garage.godaddy.com/smallbusiness/market/3-ways-mobile-can-grow-business/?linkId=8783664
1. Go mobile or bust
to grow your business, it’s important that you create a mobile-optimized website.It’s not hard. It’s not expensive. Get it done.
2. Focus on mobile advertising
you’ll need to consider advertising on those popular sites that people are visiting.
3. Accept there will be an app for that, and embrace it
In order to grow, you’re going to equip them [service employees] with tablets that run all sorts of applications they’ll need to use to get their jobs done.
Good afternoon,
Tom Hergert, Chris Stanley, Plamen Miltenoff and Marian Rengel discussed various aspects on mobile devices.
It was a great conversation, since we barely touched on technological aspects, but rather brainstormed on how to structure these meetings so most can benefit.
Questions/Issues/Ideas addressed:
how to choose a devices and what to use it for
do/can tablets help you work from home. Similarly to taking a laptop to work at home: how does this reflect on the social stigma of co-workers (“you are not at your office”)
can we expand the conversation beyond LRS and attract more participants by moving the monthly meeting from LRS to any of the coffee shops on campus (iSelf, LRS, Atwood)?
is there a “timer/timing” app, which can help me easily calculate the time was really “busy” with work-related tasks?
the structure of this group: who the we cater to and how
clickers were mentioned
Please feel most welcome to enter your responses to the billeted list above and any other ideas under the following IMS blog entry:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2014/05/29/lrs-and-mobile-devices-meeting-of-may-27/
Here are the links to the blog entries from the previous meetings:
LRS and mobile devices: Please join us in exploring…
LRS and mobile devices: Please join us in exploring…
Mobile Devices for Teaching and Learning: A Discussion
SMUG (smart mobile users’ group)
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