aacrao tech 09 presentation on things i found via twitter

Things I found via twitter … and some other interesting technology

Jeff von Munkwitz-SmithUniversity of Connecticut

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“Beauty of Twitter is that each of us has freedom to follow who we want.

I don't care about Oprah/Ashton. I seek

quality info.” Tweet by Howard Rheingold,

6:55 PM, April 19, 2009

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twitter & me

My first exposure to twitter

Educause October 23, 2007

I talked with people who were:

Tracking the fires in Southern California

Microblogging during a session on social networking

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my first tweet

I’m at work.7:56 AM Oct 31st, 2007 from Facebook

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Why do I pay attention to twitter?

I’m interested in ways we can employ technology in student services and in teaching

and learning.

If you follow the right people and filter out the mundane, you can learn a lot in 140 character

snippets.

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So, what are some of the interesting things I’ve found?

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tweets from the Registrar’s Office

Scott Dittman, the Registrar at Washington & Lee University, uses twitter to keep the campus informed about Registrar’s Office activities and deadlines.

Now I do too!

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Howard Rheingold

Howard describes himself as “online instigator, educator, offline gardener”. He’s the author of Smart Mobs and teaches Digital Journalism at Stanford and Community/Social Media at UC Berkeley.Recently someone asked me who was the one person they should follow on twitter. My response:

http://twitter.com/hrheingold

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Howard on attention in the classroom

http://blip.tv/file/691678?filename=HowardRheingold-Attention110.mov

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Howard Rheingold’s twitter and educational technology bookmarks

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twitter in the classroom

Kim Smith, a graduate student at UT Dallas, made this video describing how Dr. Monica Rankin uses twitter in her US History 2 class.

http://twitter.com/kesmit3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPVWDkF7U8&feature=player_embedded

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Dave Parry (aka “Academic Dave”)

Dave Parry teaches Emerging Media at UT Dallas. He tweets about social media, technology, education, politics, and other topics. His reading recommendations are often quite interesting.

http://twitter.com/academicdave

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Some other interesting stuff…

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In Bb 2.0

In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users.

http://www.inbflat.net/

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Fluther

“Fluther” is the collective term for a group of jellyfish. It’s also a site that combines social networking with Q&A.I used Fluther to get some ideas for this talk.

http://www.fluther.com

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Prezi

Prezi is a new – currently in beta – Flash-based presentation software that uses a zooming user interface, rather than the slide-by-slide model. I like the mind-mapping approach to creating presentations that it encourages.

http://www.prezi.com

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A short video on Prezi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae-H8Z0MNu0

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SlideShare

When I tweeted about doing this presentation, I got a direct message from someone asking if I was going to put the presentation on SlideShare.

http://www.slideshare.net/

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Locaccino

Locaccino is a Facebook app developed at Carnegie Mellon University that allows users to share their location with others in their social network.

http://locaccino.org/

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A short video on Locaccino from The Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com/media/video/v55/i25/tracking/

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backchan.nl

backchan.nl is a product of the MIT Media Lab that facilitates the interaction between audience members and presenters. I’m interested in seeing how it progresses.

http://backchan.nl/

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PicoCool

“PicoCool is a global community dedicated to uncovering the cool, whether in art, design, environment, culture, architecture, fashion, travel or technology.”

http://picocool.com/

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Found on PicoCool

IdeaPaint can turn a regular wall into a dry-erase whiteboard.

I’ve suggested that we use it in a couple classroom buildings we’re currently planning.

http://ideapaint.com

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One final thought…

“Sometimes the things that make the biggest splash are the first things that sink to the

bottom.” Jim Infante

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Questions or Comments?

Jeff von Munkwitz-SmithUniversity Registrar

University of Connecticutjvon@uconn.edu

http://twitter.com/j_vonhttp://twitter.com/Uconn_Registrar