Welcome to a new academic year!
categories: announcement
welcome to the new academic year
Author Archive
This Week in Social Media: Vine Introduces New Camera. Twitter add features,
This Week in Social Media:
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/new-vine-camera-week-social-media/
Vine becomes more complex/potent and gets in closer competition with YouTube, Twitter gets in a closer closer competition with Facebook, YouTube becomes more complex, Facebook is further pushing adds in our lives, LinkedIn gets closer with SlideShare
Vine Introduces New Camera: “The new camera offers powerful ways to edit your videos, as well as the ability to import existing videos on your phone and turn them into Vines.”
Twitter Updates Timeline Feed: “Additionally, when we identify a tweet, an account to follow or other content that’s popular or relevant, we may add it to your timeline. This means you will sometimes see tweets from accounts you don’t follow.”
YouTube Updates App: “This YouTube app on TV will make it easier to find what you want through the Guide, and it brings you all the playlists, shelves and branding from channels.”
Facebook Updates Ad Policy: The change increases “the number of times people can see ads from a page in their news feed per day.”
LinkedIn Announces Rollout of Premium Features to All SlideShare Users: “Now, all users will have access to our most popular premium features that include detailed analytics, profile customization and additional upload options, like video and private uploads.”
the right social media for your business
How to Choose the Right Social Network for Your Business
https://blog.bufferapp.com/how-to-choose-a-social-network
Important questions to ask when choosing a social network:
- Does it make sense for my content? (See the seven types of networks listed above.)
- Do potential fans spend time there? (See the demographic information above.)
- Does it make sense for me?
Single Dashboard for All of Your Cloud Storage Accounts
Single Dashboard for All of Your Cloud Storage Accounts
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/07/multcloud-provides-single-dashboard-for.html
Still storing those pictures and documents on your hard drive? Being cramped in your Huskynet file space (1GB)? Using the 10GB space, which Dropbox gives you for free? Using Google Docs and storing them in your Google Drive account?
MultCloud offers you a single interface to navigate through all these and more cloud-based storage accounts.
ThingLink: take a note of a tool, which will make a ripple…
categories: social media
How to create infographic
categories: Digital literacy
59 Free Twitter Tools and Apps
categories: social media, Twitter
59 Free Twitter Tools and Apps
https://blog.bufferapp.com/free-twitter-tools
For LRS, it is not about using these apps. It is about learning what they do (mostly statistics) and using the knowledge as a benchmark against employing the services of Hootsuite.
Please have the rest of our posts on Twitter:
Teaching Is Not a Business
categories: teaching, technology
Teaching Is Not a Business
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/opinion/sunday/teaching-is-not-a-business.html
Business does have something to teach educators, but it’s neither the saving power of competition nor flashy ideas like disruptive innovation.
While technology can be put to good use by talented teachers, they, and not the futurists, must take the lead. The process of teaching and learning is an intimate act that neither computers nor markets can hope to replicate. Small wonder, then, that the business model hasn’t worked in reforming the schools — there is simply no substitute for the personal element.
Steven Colbert on Common Core
categories: learning
but seriously, what are your thoughts about Common Core
Can ‘World of Warcraft’ Game Skills Help Land a Job?
categories: gamification, gaming
Can ‘World of Warcraft’ Game Skills Help Land a Job?
http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/can-warcraft-game-skills-help-land-a-job-1407885660?mobile=y
the article lists “for-” and “against-,” but does not take a stand.
What is your opinion? Do games on resume represents better skills? Do you think listing your gaming skills on a resume will increase your change of being hired?
Please consider our other blog entries on games and gamification in education: