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.
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:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=twitter
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.
but seriously, what are your thoughts about Common Core
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:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=gamification
Virtual Reality’s Next Hurdle: Overcoming ‘Sim Sickness’
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/08/05/338015854/virtual-realitys-next-hurdle-overcoming-sim-sickness
One problem is the resulting “postural sway,” or postural instability and hand-eye coordination challenges.
Additional reading: http://www.augmentedrealitytrends.com/virtual-reality/sim-sickness.html
my note: similar issues with Google Glass. Here is some more info on the issue:
Rethinking Motion Sickness
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/rethinking-motion-sickness/
Pls have other IMS blog entries on Google Glass
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=google+glass
10 Twitter Tactics to Increase Your Engagement
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/twitter-tactics-to-increase-engagement/
#1: Keep Tweets Under 110 Characters
#2: Tweet During Daytime Hours
#3: Tweet on Saturday and Sunday
#4: Share Images
#5: Ask for Retweets
#6: Use Hashtags
#7: Include Links
#8: Stay Away From Lifestyle Tweets
#9: Use Strong Calls to Action
#10: Send One to Four Tweets a Day
What do you think? What Twitter techniques do you use to create engagement? Do you have additional advice for others? Please leave your comments below.
