About PeopleBrowsr JODEE RICH CEO, PeopleBrowsr Jodee Rich believes social media is creating a global collective consciousness that is rapidly shifting the power base from big business, religion and government to the global consumer. Throughout his career, Jodee has stood at the forefront of disruptive change. He first wrote code on punch cards in 1972. In 2007 Jodee started PeopleBrowsr, a provider of social media data, campaigns and analytics. Jodee is also a pilot, mad scientist, skier, blader, kite surfer, husband (of a banker) and father (of three). Andrew is an experienced business developer and general manager. Andrew moved to London in 2006 as the leader for the international launch of Seeker Wireless, an Australian location technology company. Andrew is the editor and founder of www.LondonCalling.co.uk, one of the world's leading blogs on social media and mobile technology. Andrew’s background is in development of highly detailed transactional telecommunications systems. Marketers Engineers
10 Worst Practices in ICT for Education Michael Trucano, a recognized expert on deploying ICT in education, recently blogged about Worst practice in ICT use in education: Here’s a list of some of what I consider to be the preeminent ‘worst practices’ related to the large scale use of ICTs in education in developing countries, based on first hand observation over the past dozen or so years. I have omitted names (please feel free to fill them in yourself). As one of his humble understudies in ICT4E, I found myself in agreement – these are worst practices that are repeated again, and again, and again, when technology and schools are mixed. Worst practice in ICT use in education 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. [I thought I would leave #10 blank as an acknowledgement that there are many additional worst practices that merit mention, but I have run out of space.
From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning A Framework for Teaching with Twitter Faculty are increasingly experimenting with social media, and it’s exciting to find more and more courses incorporating Twitter, a ProfHacker favorite. Just last week on ProfHacker Ryan provided an excellent introduction to Twitter, while earlier in the summer Brian reflected on his use of Twitter in the classroom during Spring 2010. As we gear up for the Fall 2010 semester, I wanted to revisit the idea of teaching with Twitter. I’ll address my own pedagogical use of Twitter in a future ProfHacker post, but for today I want to share a general framework for Twitter adoption in the classroom, originally sketched out in late August 2009 by Rick Reo. In the process, I adapted Rick’s original matrix, re-imagining the vertical axis as a spectrum of conversation, ranging from monologic to dialogic, and redefining the horizontal axis as a measurement of student activity, ranging from passive to active. How about you?
140 Character Conference Managing Twitter Favorites [This is a guest post by Matt Thomas, a PhD Candidate in American Studies at the University of Iowa. You can follow him on Twitter: @mattthomas.] If you spend time browsing the Web, you undoubtedly come across stuff you don’t want to or simply can’t deal with right away. Twitter offers a built-in solution to this problem: Twitter favorites. One of the nice things about Twitter favorites is they allow you mark tweets you’d like to follow-up on without having to leave Twitter. Here’s a tweet I recently starred: Twitter makes it so easy to favorite tweets that I’m surprised more people don’t use them. Another part of me understands why some people might not use favorites: Twitter’s implementation of them leaves a lot to be desired. Or is it? Here are two better ways to manage your Twitter favorites: RSS feeds and using Pinboard RSS Feeds for Favorites Subscribe to this feed in the RSS reader of your choice to see your twenty most-recent favorites. Pinboard
Top 5 Most Indispensable Twitter Tools for Marketers What’s more important? The quantity of your Twitter following or the depth of your relationships with your followers? The answer is BOTH! Having hundreds of thousands of followers must be nice. But we all know that the depth of the relationships you maintain with your tweeple is paramount. This article will reveal five great Twitter tools that will help you find and engage with quality Twitter followers. Notice I mentioned “depth.” This article will focus on getting you those numbers. Specifically, I want to explore how to generate new followers, how to manage your newly found follower surplus and how to turn those shallow relationships into deeper ones using the top 5 most indispensable Twitter tools. #1: Blast Follow Editors note: BlastFollow is no longer operational due to changes in Twitter authentication requirements. Editors note: This tool, if abused, will get you temporarily banned from Twitter. How does this help YOU gain more followers? Twitter is a Law of Reciprocity platform.
Tablet PCs for Classroom Use The Tablet PC is an intriguing new development in portable computing technology. This article describes the Tablet PC, gives some technical details, compares the Tablet PC to other forms of computer, provides an example of actual classroom use at the University of Illinois, and suggests further research on, and potential applications of, this technology in classroom instruction. Description of the Tablet PC A Tablet PC is a portable computing device which looks much like a detached screen from a conventional notebook computer, or perhaps a hand-held computer that's been scaled up. As a quasi-hybrid of laptop and palmtop computers, the Tablet PC owes much to those earlier technologies. Unlike a notebook (but like a palmtop) the normal way of entering data in a Tablet PC is with a stylus rather than a keyboard. Unlike a palmtop (but like a notebook), the Tablet PC features a full-sized color screen, an internal hard drive, and other features associated with a standard computer. Conclusion