Daily Edventures ProfHacker Many of us have favorite tools that suit our workflows well, helping us accomplish our tasks and keep track of needed bits of information. Below you’ll find a list of applications, services, and utilities that I use almost daily. Workflow. I’m a big fan of ToDoist, my preferred task manager. I know I know. Let’s backtrack a minute. A few weeks ago, coincidentally during Day of DH 2016, it was brought to my attention that Voyant, a web-based text analysis tool, had upgraded to Version 2.0. This has been a popular tool with ProfHackers (I’ve written about using it as has Brian), and the new version is a great improvement. a cleaner, crisper appearance better cross-platform and mobile device support (all tools in HTML5, no Flash or Java Applets) advanced search capabilities, including wil… My assignments are often inspired by things I learn about from my Personal Learning Network (PLN), and this particular assignment is inspired by several people. I was involved in multiple ways.
Mike Bohlmann | Thoughts on technology, leadership, and media (LWC means “Last Week: Curated”. In these posts, I pull together the highlights of tweets I shared and articles I saved in Evernote.) Last week’s highlights are dominated by classroom and educational technology readings, but let’s start first with an interesting article arguing against a definition of journalism that determines who is or is not a journalist by their profession. Let’s Stop Defining Who Is a Journalist, and Protect All Acts of Journalism Josh Stearns at NPR was driven to write on this topic as journalism works to find its footing for the future. Metta: Combine videos and add your own annotation Sometimes other people say it better than you can, but they sometimes say it with more words than you want or need. Students will watch 6 minutes of video at a time If you are moving your lecture content out of the classroom into pre-class activities, you will want to make sure your videos are no more than 6 minutes long. Web Literacy Standard 1.0 from Mozilla
EdTech Digest Some guy named Rae... | Musings of a female CIO Eric Stoller 8 Speaking/Consulting Engagements in February This month has been jam-packed with speaking and consulting engagements. One of my favorite moments on this month-long set of trips was when the Chancellor of Indiana University Southeast took a picture of one of my slides during my social media / digital identity presentation. 9 Years on Facebook According to Facebook, I joined “The Facebook” on December 4th, 2004. Always Going To Be Running When I reach the third mile of a run, that’s when it happens. Three years ago, after I quit my job at Oregon State University, I decided to go for a run. Growing up in Iowa and doing a lot of manual labor instilled a work ethic inside of me that still prevails to this day. When I moved to Boston in 2011, I got into a regular groove of running. Read the rest of this entry » Renewed Interest in Pinterest When Pinterest first became popular, I wasn’t very interested. Digital Identity Keynote at Curry College Read the rest of this entry » Not always about work