Socrative. Corkboard. Wikis. Surveys/Polls - Web 2.0 in Education (UK) Social Networking 101: A Beginner's Guide to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, & LinkedIn. You've grown up hearing about tweets, status updates, likes, and friends (the online kind, that is).
You may have even dabbled in social networking yourself. And there's that now-infamous movie, of course. Whatever your experience or inexperience, we're here to advise you about what you should and shouldn't be doing on today's most-popular social networks. Just in time to go back to school, PCMag is here to give you a complete rundown on how to become a member of the major social networks, how to use them to your best advantage, mistakes to avoid, and what using these networks means for your future. First, let's be clear: You should join every major social network. Now, let's grab our syllabus and let the lesson begin... Facebook It's home to 750 million active users (as of July 2011) who create status updates about what they're doing or thinking, share pictures, videos, messages, and links, play games, and run apps.
WEB 2.0 FOR SECONDARY TEACHERS. General Web2.0. Voicethread. If this, then that. Here’s a web application that’s potentially very useful.
IFTTT lets you create your own automated actions using a range of social networking tools. I’ve been messing around with it only for about an hour, so I haven’t thoroughly explored all it has to offer, but already I can see it will prove to have been an excellent investment in time. The logic of the way it works is as follows: If [trigger in application 1], then [action in application 2]. For example, If new item appears in my public Flickr photostream, then tweet about it to Flickr.
Creating a new task, as it’s called, is pretty easy, like painting by numbers, because IFTTT takes you through the process step by step. I can see that web app this is going to save a bit of time in a number of ways, which I can best explain I think by describing the four tasks I’ve created so far. 4 tasks so far, which should save me a lot of time Task 1: Twitter to Evernote Task 2: Google Reader to Twitter Task 3: Delicious to Diigo See also.
Facebook. Higher Ed’s Ultimate Guide To Cloud Computing. Higher education is jumping into the cloud with both feet. According to a new report by the Campus Computing Project , 89% of higher ed currently uses or is actively consider cloud services. I found that figure quite startling as I hadn’t thought that many schools were moving into the cloud just yet. Apparently I was mistaken. Drilling down a bit more, Google has revealed that more than half of those schools involved with cloud computing are either using or considering Google Apps. Currently, 62 of the US News and World Report ’s top 100 Universities are using Google Apps for Education . In addition to these new schools, Google is also bringing some new integrations to Apps: OpenClass : Pearson has developed a free cloud-based Learning Management System that is tightly integrated with Google Apps and provides a new kind of learning environment that stimulates social learning. All this discussion about the future of cloud computing left me with more than a few questions.
What is it?
Twitter. Tools. Wallwisher.