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Hope you get some nice ideas to head for a TEACHER 2.0 future!

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Some food for thought:

The machine is Us/ing us

Cheers

ThiEdu

more about RSS:

How I Use RSS To Make My Life Easier

Conversations in the “world live web” reflect how interesting a candidate is to bloggers; a candidate may get a lot of mentions for both positive or negative reasons. (Full disclosure: TechPresident editor Micah Sifry is the older brother of Technorati founder David Sifry. Display of these charts is part of their secret plan for world domination.)

Over the last 30 days:

DEMOCRATS:

REPUBLICANS:

WILD CARDS:

Over the last 90 days:

DEMOCRATS:

REPUBLICANS:

WILD CARDS:

Get your own chart!

source: techpresident

Tracking Comments

1. Create an account with coComment.
2. Install simple extension capture tool.

1. The coComment extension automatically sends comments you write to your coComment account (plus you can tag your comments).
   

Checking For New Comments

There are several few options for viewing new comments:

1. Login into Your coComment account

While reading the new comments remember to share your comments with your groups.

2. Subscribing to the RSS feed from your coComment account

This means all new comments are fed into your feed reader (e.g. Google Reader, bloglines) and you can check them while reading your blog subscriptions.

3. Using the coComment sidebar

You can access the coComment Sidebar on any web page using the shortcut keys Shift+Ctrl+Q (these keys can also be used for turning off).

Watch this video to see how to use the coComment sidebar.

Final Thoughts

Hopefully this has helped get you started using coComment. While we encourage all Comment Challenge participants to use coComment because of it’s community features — it’s not a requirement of the challenge that you do.

Also don’t forget to document your learning while completing the Comment Challenge — as Silva says

If you don’t have a blog (yet), take a paper and a pencil and jot down bullets. Remember this challenge is mainly about your own personal learning. The community effect is, of course, an added bonus

If you want to start a blog, or are new to blogging, check out our Getting Started with Edublogs page because we have lots of “How to” manuals and videos to get you going. Go here to create your blog for free!

SOURCE: theedublogger

I think that Del.icio.us is one of the most useful Web 2.0 tools. It facilitates:

- saving and accesing your bookmarks online

- promoting your own sites (you bookmark in Del.icio.us your best pages, don’t you?)

- finding bookmarks from other users on your network (they are searching for relevant sites for you)

- networking with other users who are inyour network.

- reading your network’s bookmarks, since Del.icio.us provides convenient RSS feeds.

- use a “profile” tag, such as emapey’s bookmarks tagged with
“profile” on del.icio.us to feature your sites, best posts and articles

and important sites linking to you.

List of useful links to resources for using Del.icio.us:

- Del.icio.us help

- Del.icio.us Networking Features

- My Favorite Feed Reader is My Del.icio.us Network

- Networking with Del.icio.us in Education

- Use Del.icio.us to Create your Eportfolio

- Using Del.icio.us for Blogging

- Del.icio.us Is The Recommendation Service For The Internet

- How to Analyze your Site with Del.icio.us

- Who Says Librarians (and Teachers) Don’t Like Tags

- Top 100 Tools: Delicious

- Del.icio.us Toolbox: 180+ Del.icio.us Tools and Resources

- “Interview With Experts: What’s so cool about del.icio.us?”

- Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us

- del.icio.us as a PR measurement tool

- Tips for Using Delicious In (Doctoral) Research

- del.icio.us libraries

- A discussion of strategies for managing social bookmarking teaching and learning activities (using del.icio.us)

- How Delicious is Changing Academic Research

- Know When People Bookmark You on Del.icio.us

- Visualizing Del.icio.us Networks

- del.icio.us Tips, Part-2: day-to-day use

- A reputation economy via “via:”?

- Del.icio.us Network Explorer

You can start building your del.icio.us network. Join the EdTechTalk Del.icio.us network. You can also continue networking by joining some fans in the del.icio.us/network/edtechtalk

These are my emapey’s bookmarks on del.icio.us

These are my emapey’s del.icio.us network bookmarks

Note how via “My Network”, I now have a stream of bookmarks from some Del.icio.us users I have selected. These users are searching the internet and bookmarking useful sites and pages for me !!!!!

I want to credit my friend FCEBLOG for some of the ideas included in this post.

SOURCE: http://onlinesapiens.com/blog/2007/05/10/using-delicious-for-education

source: training zone

Young employees are digital natives, so what better way to develop their skills and share information with them than with a podcast, says Duncan Gotobed. Podcasts are easier to develop than you might think, he says. Read his practical guide to creating and using them.

Organisations are increasingly using new media such as podcasts to help them develop their employee’s skills and share knowledge between them.Podcasts in particular – which are a series of online audio or video files that can be downloaded onto a computer, MP3 player or an iPod – are being used as one of these key learning tools.

They are easy to produce, at a fraction of the cost of typical elearning, and can be far more engaging. Podcasts are also easy to deploy, as employees can download the audio or video files from a page on the intranet. It doesn’t require any additional investment in IT infrastructure or ‘consulting time’ to make it happen.

“Podcasting allows employees to use their downtime to learn – whether it is on the daily commute, on the treadmill, or walking the dog.”

People are also leading increasingly busy lives and the thought of squeezing a day’s training into an already overcrowded schedule is often just too much to think about. Podcasting allows employees to use their downtime to learn – whether it is on the daily commute, on the treadmill, or walking the dog. However, to get people to listen to podcasts in their own time they have to be interesting.

If you have young employees, they can be particularly effective. School leavers are digital ‘natives’ – they have grown up alongside computers, video games and the internet. They are used to searching for information, multitasking, processing images, sounds and video before text. They function best when they are connected to other people and they want to learn things that are relevant, useful and fun.

Who is doing it?

There are numerous examples of companies using podcasting to share knowledge.

Microsoft’s Academy Mobile initiative is designed to enable its worldwide sales and marketing functions to share best practices with each other. Users can watch, listen, and share podcasts or videocasts with peers. They can also download their content onto their mobile devices. To encourage sales people to add to the Academy Mobile content, Microsoft has created a reward programme to incentivise the top contributors. It provides training sessions on how to create podcasts and audio and video recording facilities for people to use.

Capital One also uses audio content to prime employees before attending a training course by getting them to listen to a relevant audio book or article. Similarly, audio content is also used to reinforce what employees have learnt after the course. For example, after attending a workshop on difficult conversations a set of scenarios are uploaded to participants’ iPods. This enables learners to listen to a vignette each week that reinforces their learning, by asking them to think about how they are applying the principles they have learnt.

So how do I create a podcast?

First of all subscribe to a podcast yourself. Go to www.podcastnation.co.uk and listen to a range of UK podcasts that are currently being produced.

Consider what you want to achieve with your podcast. Do you want to support the rollout of a new product? Record a message from the chief executive that could be used as part of an induction programme? Or do you want to interview experts in the company to get them to share their tips and tricks, etc?

Think about your audience. Who are they? How will they access the podcast? How will you market it to them? If you are aiming your podcast at the sales team, then you could launch your podcast at their next sales conference and issue each of them with a memory stick containing a range of audio and/or video content, together with instructions on how to access the podcast.

Choose your format. Interviews are the most widely used format in podcasting for a reason – they are simple to do and can be enjoyable to listen to. Avoid putting a microphone in front of the interviewee and getting them to talk for 20 minutes as it will quickly bore listeners. You’ll also need to consider how frequently you produce your podcast and how long it will be. As a general rule a podcast should be between 15–20 minutes in length.

Get your equipment together. If you are going to interview people over the phone, then all you need is your laptop, with Pamela for Skype installed – to record your Skype telephone calls – a headset with built in microphone and free audio editing and recording software such as Audacity. As with everything, you get what you pay for and the more you invest in your podcasting kit the better your podcasts will sound.

Brief the interviewee – tell them the purpose of the podcast. Explain why you want to interview them and the main points you will cover. But as a general rule don’t give them the specific questions you want to ask in advance, as it can lead to stilted answers.

Always do a sound check at the beginning of the interview to ensure everything is working properly and that background noise is minimal, as it can be difficult to get rid of it during the editing stage.

Edit the audio and save it as a mono MP3 file to make it quicker for employees to download.

Upload it to your podcast intranet page, with a short description of what the podcast is about, inviting feedback from listeners.

Tell people in your organisation about your podcast.
Duncan Gotobed is the producer and host of Top Briefings’ passionate people podcast, which features interviews, tips and anything else that will help you to develop your human capital. Go to www.topbriefings.com to listen to an interview with Anders Gronstedt, president of the Gronstedt Group on using new technologies in learning.

An official update to the original “Shift Happens” video from Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, this June 2007 update includes new and updated statistics, thought-provoking questions and a fresh design. For more information, or to join the conversation, please visit http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com — Content by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, design and development by XPLANE.

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There’s the easy way or the hard way. RSS makes your life easy but for people new to RSS it’s easy to overlook it’s importance. And educating, those new to the concept of RSS, how to use it effectively should be a priority.

What is RSS

Spend any time on the Internet, and you will see the word RSS or the orange icon normally used to indicate a site has RSS feed. RSS is an acronym which stands for Really Simple Syndication.

In simple terms RSS is a simple and effective way of keeping in touch when new information is added to a website without having to visit the site.

Check out RSS in Plain English for an excellent explanation of how RSS saves you time.

Forget about bookmarking sites in your web browser…

email updates or visiting your favourite sites — these all take time and time is precious. Read What is RSS and why you should use it? An introduction for newbies for a more detail explanation of why these practices are more time consuming. Using RSS is way more time effective; simply subscribe to the RSS feed from a web site using a Feed Reader.

Subscribing to RSS Using A Feed Reader

A feed reader or RSS reader is able to take the RSS feed from a site and present in a readable form for the user. Google Reader, Bloglines and NetVibes are all examples of feed readers. Instead of visiting numerous sites the RSS feeds from these sites comes to one location — your feed reader, where you read the information.

I, like many, prefer to use Google Reader. Check out this 5 min video or download this “How To” guide to learn how to set up and use Google Reader.

Final Thought

I always find explaining why it’s important to use RSS hard, probably because it really is something you need to experience first hand. If you’re not currently using a feed reader now’s the time to learn. You could use this list of top Edubloggers to find some blogs you would like to subscribe to.

Please let me know how you go or if you an experienced RSS user is there more information you think I should add?

And off course don’t forget to subscribe to the FED UP2.o RSS feed

Subscribing For Free!

More on GOOGLE READER:

We know the enterprise has come to change the way we search for information on the web. But is Google just about that?

Watch the following video and get to know google’s master plan. Afterwards, comment on the final question:

“Does Google worry about our privacy?”
and
“Will we have some problems concerning privacy in the near future, due to being too much exposed on the web?”