Total Recall and Your Digital Memory

Photo Courtesy of Flickr / Ian-S Believe it nor, I actually started using Twitter on May 29, 2008. My first tweet? "celler: This is a test message from my cell phone.” One of those great moments in history, similar to your child’s first words, right? Total Recall What is significant is that … Continue reading Total Recall and Your Digital Memory →

How to Backup Your Twitter Stream

Our twitter stream provides a unique insight into what’s happening in life. For some, their twitter stream is filled with minute details like the fact that you are having your first cup of coffee for the day (Breakfast Blend) and that the temperature outside is 22 degrees. For others, it proves to be a log … Continue reading How to Backup Your Twitter Stream →

Finding Alternatives to Delicious

Delicious, an excellent bookmarking service currently owned by Yahoo!, is an important part of my research process. While in the collecting phase, I use Delicious to tag interesting websites and documents that I need to go back and review at a later date. This allows me to use either Google or Google Scholar to rapidly … Continue reading Finding Alternatives to Delicious →

Introducing Scrapplet: Creating Your Own Site from Scraps

Don Reisinger over at CNET.com’s Webware provides a nice review of Scrapplet, a new web service that allows users to create their own mashable dashboard using “scraps” from other sites. Here’s a brief description from the article: Want to grab your Twitter stream and put that on the same page as your Friendfeed? With Scrapplet, … Continue reading Introducing Scrapplet: Creating Your Own Site from Scraps →

TweetDeck is a Cool New Twitter App

Twitter users have a new application to try. It's called TweetDeck, and it looks very promising. Allows you to group your tweets into categories to help filter out "active" tweeters who tend to fill your screen with a lot of conversation. It's built on Adobe Air, so install is fast and easy, and the … Continue reading TweetDeck is a Cool New Twitter App →

The Digital Frontier Podcast – Episode #1

A Review of NECC 2008 Dr. Leigh Zeitz is our first guest on "The Digital Frontier Podcast," a new podcast focusing on emerging instructional technologies. Our topic in this episode is a review of the National Educational Computing Conference held June 29-July 2 in San Antonio, TX. This Episode's Delicious Links Podcast Highlights: Introduction … Continue reading The Digital Frontier Podcast – Episode #1 →

OoVoo is Ooooh Sooo Cool

I just came across a new tool for video conferencing. It's called ooVoo. I've experienced MeBeam during a classroom chat, and besides its ugly interface, it works OK. (How's that for a raving review?) On the surface, ooVoo looks better than MeBeam. Moreover, in the podcast video I watched where ooVoo was used, it has … Continue reading OoVoo is Ooooh Sooo Cool →

Updated EIT Links

Emerging Instructional Technology Links To give you a flavor of the technologies introduced during our Emerging Instructional Technologies class, here's my del.icio.us links tagged EmergingIT. Welcome to Shelfari! Read, Share, Explore! - Shelfari Dangerously Irrelevant Amazon.com: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms: Will Richardson Amazon.com: Classroom Blogging: 2nd Edition: David Warlick … Continue reading Updated EIT Links →

EmergingIT: Final Project

Today we presented our final project, which is an introduction to Ning as a social networking tool for teachers. Our goal for this project is for the faculty to gain an understanding of the concept of social networking and how to implement it in their classrooms as an educational tool for students to interact with … Continue reading EmergingIT: Final Project →

Give Me Web 2.0 and Keep the T-Shirt

I love going to conferences. Regardless of the topic or location, a conference is a great place to network and meet new people plus get a preview of all the latest greatest ways to do something. It's not uncommon at a conference to hear experts in a given field. Most of the conferences I go … Continue reading Give Me Web 2.0 and Keep the T-Shirt →