Dy/dan » Author’s Choice. Fur.ly | shorten multiple urls into one. 8 Excellent Tools to Extract Insights from Twitter Streams. Twitter is now the third most popular social network, behind Facebook and MySpace (Compete, 2009). A year ago, it has over a million users and 200,000 active monthly users sending over 3 million updates per day (TechCrunch, 2008). Those figures have almost certainly increased since then. With the torrential streams of Twitter updates (or tweets), there's an emerging demand to sieve signals from noises and harvest useful information.
Enter Twitter Analytics, Twitter Analysis, or simply just Analytwits (in the tradition of Twitter slang). These analytics tools are growing in numbers; even Twitter is developing them. Besides Twitter Search, the following 8 Analytwits are some of the more useful web applications to analyze Twitter streams. 8 Great Tools for Social (Twit)telligence TWITALYZER provides activities analysis of any Twitter user, based on social media success yardsticks. MICROPLAZA offers an interesting way to make sense of your Twitter streams. Krillion's twitter Bookmarks on Delicious. Add Multimedia to Your Website with One Click – Apture.com. 50 Must-Read Up and Coming Blogs by Teachers | Teaching Tips.
Whether you’re new to the teaching field yourself or a seasoned veteran, you can find inspiration, advice and shared experiences by reading the blogs of other teachers. Both established bloggers and those new to the game like the bloggers listed here can offer some interesting and sometimes entertaining reading material for anyone involved in the education field. Check these new bloggers out the next time you’re looking for something educational to read. General These blogs cover a wide range of subjects from current events to ideas for lessons and instruction.
Subject Specific Secondary school teachers and others who are focused on one subject can find some interesting reading related to their work in these blogs. International If you are teaching abroad, or have ever dreamed of doing it, these blogs can give you some fun and informative reading material. Technology Top-notch teachers from some of the best online colleges can help you stay cutting edge in the classroom.
Tips and Tools. Pages tagged "twitter" Twitter Tools, Tweaks and Theories: TypePad Hacks. I have to preface this post with a confession: The first time I heard about blogging, my response was "That's the dumbest @$%#&%$ thing I've ever heard of. Why the hell would I want to do that? " I said the exact same thing about Twitter when I first heard about it. The exact same words. Of course, both times I was totally wrong… blogging and Twitter have become the two most important tools I use to make a living, socialize, and get things done.
I bring this up at the beginning because I know there's a lot of people who still respond to Twitter in the way I first did and I want to put it the proper context. The thing about Twitter that makes it really powerful is it's simplicity… although it's often explained as a way of constantly updating people with what you're doing right this minute (having breakfast, yelling at the dog, stuck in traffic — yes, that's boring) it can be repurposed into so many other contexts.
Some of my favorite uses for Twitter: My favorite Twitter Apps: Twitterific5. Electronic Portfolios: Students, Teachers, and Life Long Learners. What's a digital or electronic portfolio? How can I develop a student or teacher portfolio? How can text, photos, diagrams, audio, video and other multimedia elements be integrated into a portfolio? Electronic Portfolios are a creative means of organizing, summarizing, and sharing artifacts, information, and ideas about teaching and/or learning, along with personal and professional growth.
The reflective process of portfolio development can be as important as the final product. In many cases, they are used as part of faculty and student evaluation along with other assessment tools such as standardized tests. A portfolio is a sampling of the breadth and depth of a person's work conveying the range of abilities, attitudes, experiences, and achievements. Read and watch Dr. Explore a couple examples: Teaching Portfolios - Carnegie Foundation - teaching examples Student Portfolios - Mt. Technology and Electronic Portfolios Electronic Portfolio Articles and Websites Professional Portfolios. Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… » The Best Ways For Students (And Anyone Else!) To Create Online Content Easily, Quickly & Painlessly. I sometimes get a little annoyed by education bloggers who gripe about teachers who won’t embrace technology .
For people who are that concerned about it, they might want to consider the old community organizing adage of leading with ears instead of mouths — identify teacher self-interests through listening and relationship-building, and afterwards help them see how using technology can help them get what they want — if it can. In my nineteen year community organizing career prior to becoming a public school teacher, one tool we used to encourage people to do something they had never done before — participate in public life — was develop what we called “fixed-fights.” These were small-scale actions where new volunteer leaders had an almost guaranteed chance of success. These victories would help them develop self-confidence and a belief that it was worth continuing on the road to greater risks.
It’s really not that big of a deal to me if my colleagues use a lot of technology. Cdmilligan's bookmarks tagged with "eportfolio" on del.icio.us. Cdmilligan's bookmarks tagged with "assessment" on del.icio.us. Mike_Malloch's bookmarks tagged with "eportfolios" on del.icio.us.