FREE PowerPoint Twitter Tools. WARNING: From March 5th, 2013, Twitter will progressively drop support for RSS feeds, breaking the tools below (except the AutoTweet plugin, which I have updated to the new API). I will try to find a solution, but no guarantees, I’m afraid… Ever wanted to make presentations a more interactive, Web 2.0 experience? The PowerPoint Twitter Tools prototypes are now available. Created using SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius (but requiring only PowerPoint for Windows and Adobe Flash to run), the twitter tools allow presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page.
There are currently eight tools – you can easily cut and paste them into your own PowerPoint decks: Powerpoint Twitter Magic – now you can tweet from PowerPoint : S. In my post 10 tools for presenting with Twitter, I lamented that there was no easy-to-use way of posting tweets from within PowerPoint. Timo Elliott of SAPWeb2.0 has now created an add-in for PowerPoint 2004 and 2007 which does just that.
It’s called AutoTweet. Thank you Timo – you’re a star! Go to Timo’s PowerPoint Twitter page to download the add-in. Open PowerPoint, and click on the Add-in ribbon. You’ll get this Dialog box: Then type your tweet into the Notes pane of your PowerPoint slide. Twitter, para que? A Twitter Dictionary. The Ultimate Twitter Guidebook For Teachers. Nine Reasons to Twitter in Schools. The Ultimate List of Twitter Tools. Not too long ago, I started bookmarking Twitter-related stuffs as I came across them.
Then the “big Twitter wave” hit, and I’ve been adding 3-4 listings per day over the last couple of weeks. I figured it was about time to share everything I’ve come up with so far. I’ll continue adding to it as I find more. If you know of something I’ve missed, PLEASE call it out in comments so I can get it added to the list! If you’re into it, please feel free to tweet/retweet the list and gimme a follow/shout @AmongMany . Looking for the list? FeaturedUsers - “FeaturedUsers is a Twitter application ad network. Be A Magpie - Our customers sign up and create campaigns which consist of magpie-tweets (i.e. ads). Twitter Launches Official Guide To Tweeting [VIDEOS] How To Use Vine In The Classroom 3.78K Views 0 Likes Students can quickly create their very own six-second videos for free. Here's a quick look at using Vine in the classroom for active learning. 10 Ways To Become A Better Online Learner. Meeting Students Where They Are:Why Teach.
Top 10 Twitter Tutorials on YouTube #edtech. Twiducate.com - Social Networking For Schools. Ten Terrific Twitter Lists for IT Pros to Follow. Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles. How to use Twitter for Social Learning. Twitter in Higher Education: Usage Habits and Trends of Today’s. It happened seemingly overnight, but suddenly the education community is all a-Twitter.
Or is it? That’s what Faculty Focus set out to learn when it launched in July 2009 a survey on the role of Twitter in higher education. The survey asked college and university faculty about their familiarity and use of the micro-blogging service, if any, as well as whether they expect their Twitter use to increase or decrease in the future.
In higher education, many of the first adopters were professionals involved in marketing, admissions and alumni relations. Today a growing number of professors use Twitter to connect with like-minded colleagues around the country (or world) as well as in the classroom to keep students engaged, communicate important deadlines, and encourage succinct dialogue. Difícil de juglar. eLearning Technology. 10 Twitter Tips for Higher Education. MY FAVORITE QUOTE about Twitter is from Newsweek: “Suddenly, all the world is a-Twitter.” It’s true. Seemingly every time I turn on CNN or NPR there is a story about Twitter. Twitter en el campus. Sciencefeed, el twitter para el progreso de la ciencia.
Feedback tool for creating online polls and surveys. 140 Characters » Book. The Broadband Revolution. Four Ways of Looking at Twitter - Research - Harvard Business Re. Docentes en Twitter. Over 100 ideas for using Twitter in the Classroom. This handful of resources provide about 100 different ideas for, and examples of, using Twitter in the classroom.
It’s been almost 8 months since I published the post, “6 Examples of Using Twitter in the Classroom”, about uses of the popular micro-blogging tool in the instructional setting. This post generated a lot of traffic, and continues to attract hundreds of viewers every week. Since that brief posting, I’ve come across a lot of articles containing examples and suggestions for using Twitter in instructional applications. I’ve combed through many of these and tried to boil down the redundancies to create a rich set of idea-laden resources. While there’s still going to be some overlap in the concepts presented in these articles, they clearly meet the goal of providing a thorough set of ideas and examples for leveraging Twitter in the educational process.
Meeting Students Where They Are:Why Teach. William M.
Ferriter I've got an embarrassing confession to make: Until recently, I wasn't convinced that differentiating learning opportunities for students really mattered. Like many teachers, I would deliver one lesson each day, keeping my fingers crossed that I met everyone's needs. And even though I've always had a sense for the strengths and weaknesses of my individual students, I rarely drew on that knowledge to make specific changes in instruction or assignments.
The primary reason for my inability to embrace differentiation as a teacher was that, until recently, I'd never experienced differentiation as a learner. Differentiation has grown on me in the past 18 months, though, thanks to my experiences using the online networking tool Twitter. 10 Twitter Tools for Your Classroom « Literacy is Priceless.
Why Twitter Will Endure. Why Twitter Will Endure. Presenting with Twitter and other backchannels. Presenting with Twitter can be challenging.
Just about every week a new story of a speaker getting roasted on Twitter makes waves in the blogosphere. I’ve written a free eBook “How to present with Twitter (and other backchannels)” to help you avoid that fate. There’s no sign up required. Just click and read. I asked my trusted and expert community to review the book and say what they thought of it: “Fantastic eBook! “Wow! “Don’t get caught without Olivia Mitchell’s just-in-time guide to the technology, tips and tactics speakers need to navigate the Twitter backchannel when they’re presenting. Download the eBook Note: There are a lot of clickable hyperlinks in the eBook.
#movemeon book now available! ¿Quién se ha llevado mi tweet? Twitter = Instant Memories. Now you can send your tweets directly into Evernote.
Why is this cool? Because Twitter is chock-full of great stuff. Your ideas, thoughts, and experiences mixed together with all of the content from the people you follow: journalism, storytelling, commentary, activism, even comedy –to quote Rob Corddry, “It’s the perfect joke-writing medium. Why Twitter matters for qualitative researchers During 2008, from Singapore to London, i would end up trying to explain Twitter to people who had never heard of it before.
Usan twitter para detectar terremotos - Infobae.com. US Geological Survey (USGS) de los Estados Unidos, organización científica dedicada al estudio de recursos y peligros de la naturaleza, investiga las tecnologías sociales como fuente de información casi inmediata sobre terremotos recién producidos.
Según publica el Departamento de Interior norteamericano en un comunicado, el proyecto fue bautizado como Twitter Earthquake Detection (TED).El esfuerzo se centra en desarrollar un sistema que registre aquellos mensajes que aparezcan en twitter relacionados con terremotos que acaban de suceder. Esta información permitirá conocer la magnitud de los seísmos y de sus efectos en la población y en su entorno.Lo que USGS pretende, a través de la red de microblogging, es conocer las reacciones públicas instantáneas de la gente que acaba de ser testigo de un terremoto.
Según publica la BBC, esta organización rastreará los mensajes para determinar lo que éstos describen. Twitter for Educators. Cómo crear una encuesta en Twitter. What Do You Do When Your Students Follow You on Twitter? I got my first student (8th grade) following me on Twitter yesterday.
I have heard lots of educators discussing students friending them on Facebook, but I do not have a Facebook account so I never thought about it too much. The Tao of Tweeting. Soren Gordhamer works with individuals and groups on how to effectively use new technologies.
He is the author of the book Wisdom 2.0 and the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference. He is @SorenG on Twitter. It doesn't take much skill to tweet — you simply type what you want to say in under 140 characters. But while the barrier to entry is extremely low, tweeting well is something else entirely. I’m sure we all follow people who consistently offer enriching and insightful posts, and about whom we think, “Wow.
Six Things Libraries Should Tweet. 101 Ways to Use Twitter on Campus. Twittering > The Student Experience. Twittering > The Student Experience Association For Learning Technology / Issue 17 / October 2009 Alan Cann (Department of Biology) / Jo Badge (School of Biological Sciences) / Stuart Johnson (Student Development) / Alex Moseley (Course Design and Development Unit) University of Leicester, UK Introduction.
More Scientists on Twitter. I’ve already published some useful lists that feature medical professionals and scientists who use Twitter actively. A few examples: Best Science TwitterersBest Medical Student Twitterers from around the globeBest Medical Twitterers fom different medical specialtiesConstantly updated list of biomedical journals on TwitterScience Pond And now here is David Bradley’s list on SciScoop: 32 scientwists with 2000+ Twitter followers If you know other users who focus on medicine or science but have never been covered in any of these lists, please let us know.
Like this: Like Loading... Clay Shirky on Twitter and the social media revolution. Here’s a great interview with Clay Shirky by GRITtv’s Laura Flanders. Clay Shirky talks about the power of digital networking, and how social media can do everything from cause revolutions to create whole new political parties when done right.