Lucian teach web 2.0 eSafety

http://www.luciandumateachweb20.eu/
http://about.me/web20education

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Father, teacher, social media curator and researcher http://xeeme.com/eCurator/
Education Management | Caras-Severin County, Romania, RO

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Lucian was graduated Eftimie Murgu University from Resita in 2004 . Now he is a teacher and researcher in Caransebes, Romania . http://www.luciandumateachweb20.eu/ This year 2011 he teach students with special needs ict ( Web 2.0 and Social Media ) , History and Religion . He is now Glogster Edu Ambassador and he was Mentor in Teacher Challenge organized by Edublog .
Last year he was involved in Teaching Internet Safety Project organized by European Schoolnet and Teach Today and he coordinate his own module : ,, How teachers and students can use free web 2.0 and Social Media in a eSafety mode in education 2.0 " and for this module he made a european team with : Aureo Torres (SPAIN) ,Maria Sourgiadaki (GREECE) ,Catalina Nicolin ( MECTS Romania ) and Inge de Cleyn ( Belgium ) and their team work was presented at Safer Internet Forum in Louxemborg 21-22 octomber 2010 . In the same time Lucian launch #edtech20 project - free project in the clouds for teachers worldwide . His #edtech20 project ,, , Teach, learn and play using in a eSafety mode new tools and applications web 2.0 and social media in education 2.0 " http://unhub.com/web20education was finalist project in Elearning Awards 2010 ; runner up in the cathegory ENISA award for teaching online safety and citizenship sponsorized by Enisa and European Schoolnet . for this project he made many websites and groups using web 2.0 and Social Media in XXI Century Education. This year is the 3 -rd year when Lucian is the coordinator of the project ,, Different, but equal " - He present this project in European Parliament from Bruxelles because whas selected from 44 participants in the 8 finalists in 4 november 2009 http://teacherluciandumaweb20.blogspot.com/2010/01/remember-2009-i-was-finalist-in.html
He was a presenter in Global Education Conference 2010 and in Connecting Online 2011 Free Anual Conference on wiziq . Now he live in Caransebes with Simona his wife and Amina , his 1 year od daughter.
Specialties: Teacher and researcher in Caransebes, Romania . www.luciandumateachweb20.eu/ . In 2011 he was judge in ThinkQuest projects . He is now Glogster Edu and Symbaloo Edu Ambassador and he was Mentor in Teacher Challenge organized by Edublog and he is the founder for ,, #edtech20 curation and semantic global project " gateway to knowledge in #education20 free for teachers worldwide . https://twitter.com/#!/web20education ; http://unhub.com/web20education/ More about me http://www.visualcv.com/fz14j0p

Experience

  • Sept 2007 - Present
    Social Media Curator , Researcher and Teacher / Special School Caransebes Romania
    I teach students with special needs how to use eSafety new technologies web 2.0 and social media in XXI century education . I obtain 8 European Quality Label in eTwinning projects . Today I am father, teacher, social media curator researcher in Caransebes, Romania . www.luciandumateachweb20.eu/ . In 2011 he was judge in ThinkQuest projects . He is now Glogster Edu and Symbaloo Edu Ambassador and he was Mentor in Teacher Challenge organized by Edublog and he is the founder for ,, #edtech20 curation and semantic global project " gateway to knowledge in #education20 free for teachers worldwide . https://twitter.com/#!/web20education ; http://unhub.com/web20education/ https://plus.google.com/117863563779519083553/about
  • Sept 2007 - Present
    Profesor si consilier educativ / School
    Proiecte educaţionale derulate împreună cu elevii: In calitate de coordonator pe programe si proiecte educative sunt coordonatorul proiectului international ,,Diferiti, dar egali " - derulat in parteneriat cu profesori care lucreaza cu elevi cu CES din 10 tari europene si cu 100 de cadre didactice din Romania . Blogul proiectului http://proiectinternationaldiferitidaregali.blogspot.com/ in cadrul caruia am organizat mai multe activitati in anul 2010 : expozitie internationala , concurs international si simpozionul international ,, Rolul creativitatii si inovarii didactice in combaterea excluziunii sociale " . Acest proiect s-a derulat sub egida 2010 Anul European pentru combaterea saraciei si excluziunii sociale . Deasemenea anul trecut in data de 7 aprilie 2009 am organizat simpozionul international ,,Creativitate si inovatie in invatamantul special " si concursul international ,,Invierea Domnului si renasterea spirituala a intregii umanitati . Am in derulare mai multe proiecte judetene in cadrul carora sunt coordonator . Anul acesta am organizat in cadrul proiectului ,,Diferiti, dar egali „ o expozitie internationala , un concurs international si simpozionul international ,, Rolul creativitatii si inovarii didactice in combaterea excluziunii sociale ” . Sunt coordonatorul in cadrul mai multor proiecte eTwinning , Am în derulare 5 proiecte judeţene aprobate de I.S.J. Caraş-Severin în cadrul cărora sunt coordonator :,, Proiectul Copiii , colindele si Biserica” derulat in parteneriat cu Episcopia Caransebeşului şi Biserica Sfântul Dimitrie ; ,, Proiectul Un gând bun pentru un suflet nevinovat ’’derulat în parteneriat cu Grupul Şcolar Forestier Caransebeş , Centrul de Plasament Zăgujeni şi Asociaţia Femeilor Ortodoxe Alte două proiecte sunt ,, Micii artişti “şi proiectul ,, Prietenii pompierilor
  • Sept 2008 - Present
    Teacher and coordinator for projects and programes / School
    I obtain 8 European Quality Labels in eTwinning projects . I was judge in ThinkQuest Projects and Mentor in Teacher Challenge .

Education

  • 2000 - 2004
    UNIVERSITATEA EFTIMIE MURGU RESITA
    FACULTATEA DE STIINTE ECONOMICE SI ADMINISTRATIVE in SECTIA TODI

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Honors:
I was finalist in AtmosphEuropa Contest in 4 november 2009 at the European Parliament , Bruxelles . I was in 2011 judge and coach in ThinkQuest Projects . I was very excited when I saw that my #edtech20 project was selected finalist in ELEARNING AWARDS 2010 , runner up in the category ENISA silver award for teaching online safety and citizenship organized by European Schoolnet and Enisa .
Interests:
curation , social media , applications, computers, education, elearning, eTwinning, Facebook, google wave, learning, Linkedin, Ning, project, second life, Social Networking, teaching, tehnology, tools, Twitter, web 20, YouTube

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April 04, 12:13 PM
LucianDuma @web20education posted a blog post

CREDeti ca acest proiect ,, CURATION RESTARTEAZA EDUCATIA " are sorti de izbanda in Invatamantul Romanesc ?

Dragii mei daca si dumneavoastra CREDeti in acest proiect ca poate fi implementat in educatia romaneasca din secolul XXI si stiti cine ne-ar putea ajuta pentru realizarea platformei si implementarea proiectului ma puteti contacta pe pagina de facebook http://on.fb.me/credfacebook . Din pacate am fost doar pe locul 27 din cele 82 proiecte depuse in competitia Restart in Educatie mai multe informatii aici .Rezumatul ideiiPlatforma Curation restartează educatia in secolul XXI folosind social media si noile instrumente si aplicatii web 2.0 in InvatamantDescrierea proiectuluiAm lansat proiectul CRED deoarece sunt sigur că noile tehnologii online ( instrumentele şi aplicaţiile Social Media Curation şi web 2.0 ) pot restarta învăţământul românesc deschizînd poarta spre cunoaştere pentru dascăli şi elevi , acestea pregătind venirea în online a semantic web 3.0 care va trebui integrat în educaţia secolului XXI . După ce proiectul meu născut din pasiune pentru utilizarea TIC şi a noilor tehnologii a fost finalist (locul 2) în Elearning Awards 2010 http://luciandumaesteprofesorulsecolulxxi. blogspot.com/2010/11/cei-mai-buni-profesori-si-teacher.html am continuat să cercetez . Anul trecut am descoperit că există un nou rege în social media după cum descrie Steve Rosembaun in cartea sa ,, Curation Nation “ sau Robin Good pe siteul său şi acesta este Curation . Folosind twitter timp de doi ani de zile, petrecînd mii de ore în online am reuşit să am peste 5100 de urmăritori şi să cunosc profesori deosebiţi din întreaga lume cu care am colaborat pe diferite canale social media https://twitter.com/#!/web20education . Am avut deosebita plăcere să fiu mai multe luni în topul celor mai prolifici curatori din lume http://www.scoop.it/u/web20education având peste 60000 vizite ale topicurilor mele în mai puţin de 6 luni ( descoperind peste 2000 de instrumente şi aplicaţii web 2.0 şi social media ) şi astfel am avut privilegiul să folosesc încă în beta una dintre cele mai tari social media curation platforme care oferă poarta spre cunoaştere pentru profesorii şi elevii din lumea întreagă . Curation este un cuvînt relativ nou care este considerat Următorul Mare Lucru care apare în secolul XXI şi se referă la arta realizată de oameni în lumea on-line a social media deoarece în timp ce computerele pot agrega conţinutul, informaţiile sau orice forme de date, fără curation acestea reprezintă un teanc mare de lucruri care pare a fi legate, dar care nu dispun de o organizare de calitate . Doar omul poate fi curator deoarece el poate realiza lucruri pe care computerele nu le pot, curation este arta de a : selecta, organiza, prezenta şi evolua . Rolul curatorului pe internet este să caute informația pe web referitoare la un domeniu specific, să o filtreze, selecteze, organizeze și împărtășească altora într-un mod original și unic . În societatea secolului XXI în care știința și informatica cunosc o dezvoltare spectaculoasă și utilizarea noilor instrumente și aplicații web 2.0 , social media curation nu mai sunt privite ca o mișcare avangardistă profesorii trebuie să fie capabili să se descurce în utilizarea creativă a calculatorului și instrumentelor on-line gratuite . Web 2.0 si social media pot aduce o noua dimensiune si pot reforma educatia globala deoarece comunicare on-line îi ajută pe profesori și elevi să învețe unii de la alții . Aceste tehnologii noi pot stimula discutii, deschid poarta spre cunoaștere , promovează creativitatea si inovarea pentru invatarea efectiva pe tot parcursul vieții.Atât profesorii cât și elevii trebuie să aibă concepția utilizării sigure a internetului tot timpul . Parafrazându-l pe Piaget și Papert , utilizarea de instrumente participative social media în educație este de obicei orientata spre crearea unui elev centrat pe competențe într-un mediu în care cei care învațăcei pot contribui la materialele de curs, ei pot să-și formuleze şi exprime propriile concepte, prin conectarea la experienţa personală sau a evenimentelor curente,şi de a învăţa unii de la alţii în medii colaborative. Web 2.0, social media curation şi alte tehnologii digitale sunt instrumente puternice si interesante,care pot deschide noi oportunităţi pentru toată lumea şi pentru acest motiv, profesorii trebuie să învețe cum să le folosească și acest lucru se va întâmpla pe platforma / siteul care va fi creat în cadrul proiectului CRED .Daca X, atunci YDacă eu am reuşit să fac atîtea singur http://re.vu/SocialMediaCuratorLucian sunt sigur că împreună vom pune piatra care va restarta educaţia românească Acest site se doreşte a deveni o platformă curation open source în cadrul căreia vor fi descrise pe scurt noile instrumente gratuite web 2.0 şi social media şi facilităţile pe care acestea le oferă profesorilor constituind poarta spre cunoaştere pentru toţi dascălii romani care sunt interesaţi să utilizeze împreună cu elevii în clasă noile tehnologii on-line . Pe această platformă se pot organiza de asemenea cursuri on-line referitoare la utilizarea noilor tehnologii în educaţia românească a secolului XXI cu prezentări şi tutoriale . Deoarece am participat la mai multe cursuri online pe platforma moodle fiind şi un prezentator în conferinţa internaţională MoodleMoot am ca exemlu platforma realizată de Dr. Nellie Deutsch din America http://moodlemoot.integrating-technology.org/ . În cadrul platformei va exista un blog unde voi descrie săptămînal top 10 instrumente şi aplicaţii dintr-un anumit domeniu după exemplul http://bit.ly/CurationKing , dar în acelaşi timp orice cadru didactic poate posta pe blog descriind minim 5 instrumente sau aplicaţii după ce postarea sa a fost revizuită în prealabil . Dascălii să se poată înscrie pe platfromă după ce aceştia respectă condiţiile de utilizare a siteului prezentîndu-şi la înscriere scurtă bibliografie şi dau linkuri personale dacă au conturi pe principalele canale social media : twitter, facebook, linkedin şi siteul sau blogul propriu şi şi apoi ei pot încărca imagini, video sau prezentări folosind codul embeded pe care le pot face publice sau vizibile doar pentru membrii . În cadrul platformei vor fi create grupuri prestabilite, dar profesorii de pe platformă pot propune şi altele . Siteul va avea un forum de discuţii şi un chat . Doresc ca în cadrul platformei să fie realizată şi o pagină wiki în cadrul căreia membrii să realizeze o bază de date cu instrumente şi aplicaţii social media şi web 2.0 utile pentru dascăli, dar şi pentru elevi . Mi-aş dori ca această platformă să arate ca http://www.edutopia.org/ sau http://iteach.ro/profesor/lucian.duma ( am fost foarte încîntat cînd a apărut, dar am fost dezamăgit cînd am văzut slaba colaborare a cadrelor didactice de pe această platformă ) . Pentru acest proiect a fost lansat un newsletter http://bitly.com/curationnewsletter la care se poate încrie oricine doreşte pentru a primi lunar ultimile noutăţi în domeniul tehnologiei . Pe lîngă această platformă va mai fi organizat în fiecare săptămînă un #credchat pe twitter unde se vor discuta diferite subiecte sau probleme legate de educaţia românească din secolul XXI . România are nevoie de proiectul CRED, un proiect inedit pentru că din ceea ce ştiu eu nu există încă o asemenea platformă la noi în momentul de faţă cu toate că sunt mai multe proiecte pe fonduri structurale care se derulează pentru profesorii din România, dar după ce aceste proiecte se finalizează profesorii își iau diplomele și nu mai continuă colaborarea. Dacă proiectul va fi implementat dascălii români nu vor mai avea nici o scuză că nu integrează noile tehnologii online în clasă pentru că vor avea o platformă social media curation disponibilă oricând, oriunde și oricui .Commentsdumacornellucian: 23-03-2012Vă rog să adăugaţi feedback-ul dumneavoastră dragii meiComentariile dumneavoastră sunt bine venite fie ele pozitive sau negative :) Va multumesc anticipat si astept parerile dumneavoastra referitoare la Proiectul CRED și pe pagina de facebook http://on.fb.me/credfacebookreplyAnonymous: 22-03-2012spune da !Un proiect pe care multi dintre noi ar dori sa il vada realizat....ceva nou ce ar revaloriza pregatirea educatiei si ne-ar fi de un real folos.replymoise: 23-03-2012Un proiect interesant CREDNavigand printre proiectele postate pe siteul competitiei mi-a atras atentia acest proiect CRED in virtutea faptului ca eu ma gandeam ca este un proiect referitor la credinta, cand de fapt este un proiect care doreste sa introduca conceptul Curation si in educatia romaneasca . Imi place cum este structurat proiectul si doresc daca se poate sa fiu si eu invitat in momentul in care se va lansa platforma .replymadalina: 23-03-2012felicitariMa bucur cand vad ca mai sunt cdre didactice care CRED in implementarea noii tehnologii pentru a resterta invatamantul romanesc.replyNicoleta: 23-03-2012Cred! Este ceea ce poateCred! Este ceea ce poate schimba lumea. Nimeni nu poate fi bun in ceea ce nu crede. Eu cred in noile tehnologii, cred in capacitatea oamenilor de a le folosi constructiv si eficient. Fiti alaturi de acest proiect initiat de un om care crede in schimbare, fiti o mica parte a acestei schimbari. Educatia este calea cea mai sigura spre schimbari in bine!!!replydumacornellucian: 23-03-2012Va multumesc tuturor pentru cuvintele referitoare la ProiectAm citit cu interes feedback-ul dumneavoastra si cuvintele frumoase pe care le-ati adaugat in comentarii si va multumesc tuturor celor care credeti ca si mine ca acest Curation poate restarta educatia romaneasca in secolul XXI facand ca noile instrumente si aplicatii sa fie explicate dascalilor romani care sunt liberi sa le integreze in procesul instructiv-educativ alaturi de elevi . Dupa cum am spus CRED este rezultatul a mii de ore care au fost petrecute in online si zeci de mii care vor fi petrecute pe platforma care sper ca se va crea in viitor deoarece la ora actuala regele social media este curation si din acest motiv am lansat #credchat chat care se va desfasura in aceeasi zi timp de 1 ora pe twitter si vom discuta diferite subiecte si probleme legate de integrarea noilor tehnologii in educatie si nu numai . https://twitter.com/#!/web20education/status/183192506387804162 . Dragii mei daca va este mai usor acum puteti adauga feedback-ul dumneavoastra inregistarand un mesaj pe noua pagina a proiectului de pe facebook https://www.facebook.com/CurationRestartEducationProject/app_22053832137... . Sa nu uitam cuvinetele lui Nelson Mandela "Educaţia este cea mai puternică armă pe care voi o puteţi folosi pentru a schimba lumea."replyCorina Ciobanu: 23-03-2012Si eu...CredSa stii, Lucian ca mi se pare destul de interesant proiectul tau incat nu ma pot abtine sa nu-ti ofer un raspuns pozitiv: ma atrage destul de mult ideea de tehnologie si mai ales ca mai pot invata lucruri noi, asa ca o sa ma alatur acestui proiect nu numai ca sustinator, ci si ca participant, daca se poate; sunt sigura ca voi avea multe de invatat;replyd.botgros: 23-03-2012Imi plac provocarile in ceeaImi plac provocarile in ceea ce priveste tehnologia in educatie. CRED si eu asa ca si dumneavoastra ca noi, dascalii de la catedra putem aduce schimbari majore in educatia si formarea elevilor nostri prin TIC.replyIleana Neamtiu: 23-03-2012Un proiect care promite !Ma bucur ,ca am avut ocazia sa votez un proiect foarte bun realizat de profesorul Duma Lucian ,un profesor de nota zece ,am participat la multe din proiectele sale ,am invatat multe lucruri frumoase de la el ,chiar daca nu-l cunosc personal ,jos palaria unui asemenea Dascal .Putini ca el in invatamantul nostru. Referitor la proiectul CRED ,e un proiect care promite multe ,un proiect de mare anvergura care Cred cu ajutorul Domnului si a fiecaruia din noi se va realiza.Traim in epoca vitezei trebuie sa ne adaptam noilor tehnologii ,sa invatam pe elevii nostrii tot ce e mai bun si mai ,sa fim mereu in pas cu viitorul.replyVasi Popescu: 24-03-2012Baftă!Felicitări Luci pentru acest proiect,îţi doresc mult succes în implementarea acestuia!Desigur,propunerea ta de restartare - "reabilitare" în educaţie este benefică,doar că toţi trebuie să înţelegem şi să conştientizăm faptul că transmiterea civilizaţiei în acest domeniu prioritar este foarte importantă!Astfel,să ne fie bine împreună!replyLili Szabo: 24-03-2012Felicitari pentru acestFelicitari pentru acest proiect si pentru toata munca depusa si mult succes in continuare !replybcrina: 24-03-2012Sigur, CRED = proiect de succes!Argumente ar fi multe… Enumar cateva: amprenta cursurilor, seminariilor, proiectelor, activitatilor absolvite sau coordonate de propunator, munca de autodidact, toate imbinate cu calitatile membrilor echipei cu care coopereaza. Mult succes! Crina B.replysanziana: 24-03-2012VotSustin acest proiect!replyAnonymous: 24-03-2012tehnologii onlineSunt convinsa ca tehnologii online pot restarta învăţământul românesc. Mult succes! Aspazia.replyaspazia: 24-03-2012tehnologii onlineSunt convinsa ca tehnologii online pot restarta învăţământul românesc. Mult succes! Aspazia.replyCatalina Nicolin: 24-03-2012AprecieriNotiunea de curation, careia trebuie sa ii gasim un echivalent in romana, este doar umbrella ccompetentelor necesare unui conducator de CDI, unui documentarist sau unui profesor care preda realmente cu Internetul. cautare, alegere, evaluare si transformare si publicare e un lucru uzual, ce se realizeaza si in cadrul instruirii IntelTeach si in cadrul instruirii EOS, si in cadrul lucrului cu proiectele. Sunt unele elemente ce trebuie subliniate si anume: - e skills necesare - didactica - arii de aplicare si modalitati Rolul curation in elaborarea portofoliilor finale electronice, si sistemul de abilitati noi ce urmeaza a fi achizitionate de profesori si elevi, abilitati si cunostinte ce ii vor ajuta in dezvoltare pe paliere paralele si diferentiate in evolutia profesionala de-a lungul vietii.replydumacornellucian: 24-03-2012Va multumesc tuturor pentru ca sustineti proiectul si CREDetiIn primul rand doresc sa va multumesc tuturor celor care sustineti proiectul CRED si implicit sunteti de parere ca si mine ca noile tehnologii deschid poarta spre cunoastere pentru profesori si elevi in invatamantul romanesc al secolului XXI integrand noile instrumente si aplicatii social media in educatia din zilele noastre . Din pacate cea mai mare parte din #edtech20 twitter PLN ( Personal Learning Network ) nu se afla in Romania, dar totusi multi au dat like cu toate ca nu au votat https://twitter.com/#!/web20education/status/183192506387804162 . Dupa cum am precizat si pe pagina Restart in Educatie https://www.facebook.com/restartineducatie/posts/258404837581349 sunt sigur ca votantii nu s-au votat singuri doar pentru a castiga :)replyAlexandra Dragomirescu: 25-03-2012Prezentarea este amplă şiPrezentarea este amplă şi plină de mici digresiuni biografice care, deşi îţi ating scopul,acela de a descrie un împătimit al tehnologiei şi un om care a citit cărţi la viaţa lui, devin obositoare pentru cel interesat de idee în sine. Există deja un loc în care profesorii comunica între ei, fac schimb de cursuri etc.,şi anume didactic.ro.Lăsând la o parte laudele, premiile, orele petrecute pe net, platformele pe care aţi vrea să le copiaţi şi pe Piaget şi toţi prietenii .. concret, ce aduceţi nou?replydumacornellucian: 25-03-2012De ce au dascălii români nevoie de proiectul CREDAm citit majoritatea proiectelor care au fost propuse in competitia Restart in Educatie şi am mai vazut şi la alte proiecte argumentul că există didactic.ro şi sunt de acord că acesta este o sursă foarte folositoare tuturor . Proiectul CRED nu se aseamănă cu didactic deoarece nu isi propune ca profesorii sa isi incarce lectiile sau prezentările cu activitatile pe platformă ci îşi propune ca dascălii să descopere poarta spre cunoaştere discutînd care este cel mai bun mod să integreze noile tehnologii online în educaţie şi care sunt facilităţile pe care le oferă utilizarea noilor instrumente şi aplicaţii social media şi web 2.0 în clasă . Dragă Alexandra dacă ai citit tot ai văzut că proiectul CRED este rezultatul a mii de ore petrecute în online după ce proiectul meu gratuit născut din pasiune pentru utilizarea noilor tehnologii referitor la integrarea web 2.0 în educaţie a fost selectat pe locul 2 la categoria sponsorizată de European Schoolnet şi Enisa în cadrul Elearning Awards 2010, depăşind proiecte cu fonduri eduropene ( transfer de inovaţie sau comenius ) şi cred că asta nu e o laudă ci o mândrie pentru România . Din aceste considerente îmi doresc ca acest proiect să poată fi implementat deoarece sunt sigur că va deschide poarta spre cunoaştere pentru cadrele didactice din România cu atât mai mult cu cît ele pot colabora pe pagina de facebook cu profesori din lumea întreagă http://on.fb.me/credfacebook şi în plus vom organiza şi #credchat pe twitter https://twitter.com/#!/web20education/status/183192506387804162 unde vom discuta săptămînal despre diferite subiecte sau probleme legate de educaţie ( subiecte pe care profesorii le vor alege ) . Sigur că mai întâi va trebui să avem o scurtă discuţie despre twitter ( instrumentul inovativ care în 140 de caractere a adus o nouă dimensiune pentru global sharing and worldwide collaboration . PS : Alexandra proiectul CRED îşi propune să facă profesorii social media curatori .replyAlis: 25-03-2012ApreciezUn proiect care ar ajuta o reală reformă în învăţământul românesc.replyAnonymous: 25-03-2012Dacă proiectul va fiDacă proiectul va fi implementat, cu siguranţă,mă voi înscrie să văd cum funcţionează. Cine ştie, poate mă convinge.Vă apreciez devotamentul şi faptul că vă apăraţi proiectul de critici, deci, chiar credeţi în idee.Un lucru mai rar,azi. Baftă!replyAnonymous: 25-03-2012Comentariul de mai sus a fostComentariul de mai sus a fost al meu.Alexandra Dragomirescureplylaura carp: 25-03-2012proiect CREDSustin proiectul CRED si mult succes!replydumacornellucian: 25-03-2012Va multumesc tuturor celor care CREDetiDragii mei chiar daca nu avem 400 sau 500 de voturi ma bucur pentru ca mă susţineti să incercăm impreună să restartăm educaţia integrînd social media în procesul instructiv educativ . Dragă Alexandra în primul rînd doresc să îţi spun că eşti bine venită pe platformă şi nu doar ca şi membru ci şi ca administrator deoarece nu te cunosc, dar am văzut că îţi pasă de educaţia românească prin comentariile pertinente adăugate pentru că astăzi am petrecut cîteva ore pentru a citi proiectele şi feedback-ul şi am observat că în România încă nu s-a descoperit pe deplin puterea şi necesitatea utilizării social media în educaţie . Spre exemplu unul dintre cele mai votate proiecte Educatie altfel - Voluntarcenter 2.0 http://www.restartedu.ro/project/educatie-altfel-voluntarcenter-20 are la ora actuală 456 de voturi , 45 de likeuri şi nici un tweet sau postare pe google plus , deci în România nu s-a descoperit pe deplin puterea social media reprezentată prin ,, pasărea zburătoare " Twitter şi Google Plus, o platformă care sunt sigur că va depăşi facebook la numărul de utilizatori şi la utilitatea platformei . După cum am precizat şi în comentariul anterior proiectul ,, CURATION Restartează Educaţia " îşi propune tocmai acest lucru să descopere noile instrumente şi aplicaţii web 2.0 şi social media şi nu doar atît ci cadrele didactice de pe platformă să discute modul în care acestea pot fi integrate în învăţământ şi facilităţile pe care le oferă . PS : sunt mai mult ca sigur că jumătate dintre like-urile proiectului nostru vin din afara ţării deoarece am rugat pe twitter mai mulţi profesori să voteze şi aceştia au dat like sau tweet :) neştiind româneşte nu au avut de unde să afle paşii ce trebuie parcurşi pentru a vota cu toate că pentru cei din România i-am explicat http://luciandumaesteprofesorulsecolulxxi.blogspot.com/2012/03/de-ce-sa-...replyAlexandra Dragomirescu: 25-03-2012VotareE adevarat ca imi pasa de educatie si m-as bucura sa colaboram pentru o educatie de calitate. Am impresia ca restartedu s-a "romanizat", a inceput bine, cu termene clare, cu niste criterii de jurizare corecte... pe parcurs s-au modificat regulile (tipic romanesc!)...si la final, am aflat ca se pune accent pe NUMAR! Sunt proiecte foarte bune care au un numar mai mic de voturi, likeuri etc. si proiecte mai slabe care au un numar foarte mare. Mie mi-a placut ideea celor de la profesorvoluntar de a ajuta copiii defavorizaţi şi o consider mult mai utila pentru comunitatea noastra decat o idee de tipul sociopath sau jurnal?!pe net. Cei de la Vountarcenter au in spate un ONG, fapt care conteaza mult la nivelul numarului de voturi. Ar fi fost mai corect din acest punct de vedere ca ONG-urile sa candideze separat. Stiu ca maine se termina cu votarea si cu tot, si mi-e teama sa nu raman cu un gust amar de pe urma acestei experiente, acela ca in final, ideile bune se pierd pe drum. BAFTA!replyEcaterina Grecu: 25-03-2012VOTATFELICITARIreplyAna Tudor: 25-03-2012SUCCES!Cand ai in spate o experienta eTwinning, laboratoare eTwinning si cursuri de formare, CRED ca drumul spre succes este presarat cu petalele florii numite "MAIESTRIE DIDACTICA".replyAdrian Olaru: 25-03-2012Nu CRED, ci sunt convins!Da, sunt convins ca este un proiect de valoare. ll cunosc pe Lucian, i-am urmarit alte proiecte sau pur si simplu activitatea pe web (2.0) si consider ca acest proiect este o initiativa deosebita, cu impact in educatia contemporana. Asa cum a subliniat si el, "curation" este de fapt baza pe care ne cladim demersul didactic sau proiectele pe care le dezvoltam. Ca si personajul lui Moliere, majoritatea cadrelor didactice fac "curation" fara sa stie... bineinteles, la un nivel mai scazut decat cel propus de acest proiect si nu neaparat utilizand instrumentele web 2.0. Proiectul CRED e foarte ambitios, isi propune sa instruiasca, sa ofere tehnici, instrumente si informatie, sa formeze o comunitate de curatori. Eu as merge ceva mai departe: as propune infintarea postului didactic de curator, astfel incat in fiecare unitate scolara sa existe o persoana abilitata care sa ofere informatiile necesare celorlalti... Asa-i ca visez frumos?replyApatean Floriana: 25-03-2012SustinEste un proiect de valoare. Il sustin in totalitate. Mult succes!replydumacornellucian: 26-03-2012Chiar daca nu am fost masina de votare CREDemAcesta este linkul catre proiectele selectate . https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtxRFNt1hrkAdE4ycVFxaDdVdmZ... . Cu toate ca nu am reusit sa obtinem / fabricam peste 200 de voturi va invit pe pagina de facebook http://on.fb.me/proiectulCREDpaginafacebook si sa folositi hastagul #credchat - sper ca in curand vom organiza un chat saptamana :) Puteti vedea aici si situatia votarii tururor proiectelor la ora 20 http://pinterest.com/lucianecurator/restart-in-educatie/ . A fost o Competitie care va restarta educatia romaneasca ? Adaugati comentarii aici http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/restartineducatiereplydumacornellucian: 26-03-2012Chiar daca nu am fost masina de votare CREDemAcesta este linkul catre proiectele selectate . https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtxRFNt1hrkAdE4ycVFxaDdVdmZ... . Cu toate ca nu am reusit sa obtinem / fabricam peste 200 de voturi va invit pe pagina de facebook http://on.fb.me/proiectulCREDpaginafacebook si sa folositi hastagul #credchat - sper ca in curand vom organiza un chat saptamana :) Puteti vedea aici si situatia votarii tururor proiectelor la ora 20 http://pinterest.com/lucianecurator/restart-in-educatie/ . A fost o Competitie care va restarta educatia romaneasca ? Adaugati comentarii aici http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/restartineducatieSee More
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#edtech20 #pln Registration is now open for #2012evo - TESOL's Electronic Village Online (EVO) 2012 ( 5 weeks of Free Professional development )

First Lucian wish you all Happy and Successful New Year 2012 including a gift for you online book ,, Curation is socialmedia King using gr8 tools "http://teacherluciandumaweb20.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-year-in-review-in-edtech20-project.html .For five weeks in January-February, participants and ESOL experts can engage in collaborative, online discussion or hands-on virtual workshops of professional and scholarly benefit. These sessions will bring together participants for a longer period of time than is permitted by the land-based convention and will allow a fuller development of ideas than is otherwise possible. Sessions are free and open to anyone around the globe. Bring your colleagues!Sessions Sessions Moderators Brief Description Becoming a Webhead 2012  Teresa Almeida d'Eça,Fernanda Rodrígues Larissa OlesovaWebheads in Action is a long-standing community of practice of language teachers worldwide, coordinated by Vance Stevens. In the Becoming a Webhead workshop, which is an introduction to Webheads in Action, we explore Web communication tools and share the best ways of using them in our teaching practices, engage with students in virtual classes, collaborate in projects, and participate in conferences as audience and presenters. This collaboration takes place online, as we are all geographically apart. Would you like to join us?TESOL-Drama Workshop: Implementing and Evaluating the Facilitation of English Language learning through Drama Gary CarkinNigel CaplanShin-Mei KaoSusan HillyardLeslie SappFernanda MollaHolly Dilatush  TESOL-Drama is an eight-year-old community of language/drama practitioners world-wide, coordinated by Gary Carkin and co-moderated by Nigel Caplan, Shin-Mei Kao, Susan Hillyard, Leslie Sapp, Fernanda Molla, Jessica Davis, Holly Dilatush and others. In the TESOL-Drama Workshop, we will explore best practices for integrating the teaching of language through drama, effective uses of drama-based techniques, and methods of assessing the language learned as a result. We collaborate online, ask and answer questions related to teaching and assessing English through drama, and encourage the use of drama-based activities in language teaching.Digital Storytelling for Young Learners Shelly Terrell   Özge Karaoglu Barbara Sakamoto  Esra Girgin  Jennifer VerschoorDavid Dodgson  Michelle Worgan Sabrina de Vita  How do we encourage young learners to use the English they learn in a meaningful context? Children can have access to various online creation and publication tools to share stories. Participants will explore various applications that motivate learners to share stories through comic creation tools, free Web 2.0 tools, mobile devices, and more.  Digital Tools with Purpose in the Classroom  Ana Maria MenezesCarla ArenaCheryl OakesErika CruvinelJane PetringKathy EppsMary HillisNina LyiulkunSaša Sirk Interested in learning about new web tools for your classroom? Come and learn about digital tools with purpose.Be part of an international group of educators who are always looking to share best practices from their classrooms.  How can you help learners develop 21st century multiliteracy skills through active learning enhanced by the right tools for your specific pedagogical needs?  In this five-week online workshop offered through the Electronic Village Online, participants will be introduced to various online tools and will learn how to effectively incorporate these resources into their teaching practices. By the end of the workshop, participants will have had an overview of simple ways to spice up their lesson plans to promote students' creativity, engagement and learning. We promise it will be madly fun! PLEs and PLNs for Lifelong Learning   Susan BurgDaniela CuccurulloLetizia Cinganotto In recent years, there has been a new array of learning management systems (LMS). Tools such as blogs, wikis, screencasting, and social bookmarking have created a significant shift in the educational experience. Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) enable learners to have greater control over their own learning experience. This session will take a look at the current situation by clarifying the concepts of personal learning environments and networks (PLNs). Participants will create their own PLE or PLN and select which Web 2.0 tools they want to support it, as the 5-week session evolves.  We will use a wiki and a Moodle for sharing information and facilitating interactions.  Teaching and Language Learning Through Gamification      Paul Braddock  Graham StanleyJeff KuhnTeaching and Language Learning through Gamification (TLLG) aims to give educators the opportunity to investigate the potential of gamification of language learning and teacher development. Gamification is the application of gaming concepts to non-game experiences. We will be covering:- looking at specific examples and contexts where gamification has been or can be used;- using games inside and outside of the language classroom;- engaging in professional development through play. We also hope the session will lead to the forming of a community of educators interested in language learning and gaming to share experiences and ideas for continued development. Multiliteracies for Social Networking and Collaborative Learning Environments    Vance StevensKalyan Chattopadhyay    A multiliterate teacher constantly strives to understand the many ways that technology interacts and intertwines with academic and interpersonal life, and actively learns how to gain control over those aspects impacting teaching, social, and professional development. Multiliterate individuals are aware of the pitfalls inherent in technology while striving for empowerment through effective strategies for first discerning and then taking advantage of those aspects of changing technologies most appropriate to their situations. These strategies include identifying, accessing, aggregating, processing, and analyzing a constant influx of information, filtering what is useful, and then enhancing the learning environment with the most appropriate applications. The multiliteracies session achieves these objectives through heuristics for learning and ‘knowing knowledge’ inherent in the paradigm of massive or miniscule open online courses (MOOCs) with documentation of learning demonstrated through development of Me-Portfolios.MachinEVO Video Productions of Language Learning Conversations  Randall SadlerDoris Molero Heike PhilpEdith PaillatMarius MadrigalDennis NewsonCarol RainbowMarisa ConstantinidesMachinEVO is all about producing films of language learning conversations undertaken in Second Life. A film of Second Life (SL) is called a machinima and it is derived from a combination of machine and cinema. Essentially it means recording the screen of the application Second Life. A major advantage of creating films in Second Life is that they are lean productions and these recordings of real live conversations go way beyond creating podcasts, because the avatarians may be located in culturally rich environments such as Berlin of the 20s or 1900 Paris, and they may be able to personify actors who live a life in SL. In this EVO session we will learn how to create machinimas and the technical skills of film productions as well as post-production until the video has been uploaded onto youtube or other video hosting sites.Teaching English to Young Learners and Teens      Dennis NewsonHelen Daviesffinlo KilnerThe  IATEFL Young Learners and Teenagers Special Interest group (YLTSIG)  is really pleased to invite you to join its EVO session for 2012. Over the five-week session, we invite you to join us in one of the best virtual staffrooms online. YLTSIG members, all well-known dynamic members of the English Language Learning Community, will be joining us to share their particular expertise on a wide variety of subjects. Participants will be able to discuss and share experiences, ideas, thoughts through the regular online meetings: special needs, difficult pupils, games and language aims, very young learners, technology for teens... ... all just part of the programme. Developing our Mentoring Skills  Valerie JakarLaura StountenburgMarina GonzalezMentoring is a 6 year-old community of practice of teacher educators worldwide. We have been offering workshops consistently on different issues related to Mentoring and this year we want to delve into a more personal aspect of it: developing one’s own mentoring skills. We will share, show and discuss the skills in webinars with our expert members.   Would you like to join us?MOODLE for Teachers   Nellie DeutschLudmila SmirnovaMoodle for Teachers (M4T) online workshop will take place on a Moodle website called Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning (IT4ALL). The aim of the M4T workshop is to provide participants, who have never used Moodle or who would like to enrich their previous Moodle experiences, with the knowledge and skills to navigate a Moodle course, access resources and activities from a student perspective, and practice the same resources and activities in the team and class sandboxes as teachers. The participants will collaborate as they develop a lesson on the Moodle.  Podcasting for the EFL/ESL Classroom   Evelyn Izquierdo  Miguel MendozaJosé RodríguezTeadira Pérez In recent years, podcasting has become one of the most powerful asynchronous Web 2.0 tools in our classrooms.  It’s enormous educational potential allows teachers to use it as a simple resource to support activities within the classroom and to create audio recordings of happenings in their schools.  This workshop aims at providing basic proficiency related to the production and publishing of digital media files (podcasts) and its implementation in the language classroom to enhance communication in speaking and listening skills.  Social Networking: Making it Work for You and Your Students!      Alyssa Ruesch   Marlene Johnshoy In this session, participants will increase their knowledge of social networking and Web 2.0 applications for both professional development and to encourage student participation and collaboration. Participants will actively collaborate with their course colleagues on a daily basis as we explore, discuss, reflect, and then create activities with different sets of social networking tools each week.This session intends to foster a reflection process on the integration of virtual and physical classrooms through the use of different technological tools and strategies that will give participants some ideas on how to deal with such integration. Tutoring with Web 2.0 Tools - Designing for Social Presence Mirjam Hauck  Sylvia Warnecke  This 5-week programme trains for effective learner-centred online moderation focusing on the role/impact of social presence. The programme is open to practitioners from all subject areas. During each week, you work on 3 activities, which should take no more than 2.5 hours altogether. In each activity you are encouraged to engage with theoretical input, draw on your own experiences and make connections to your current or future teaching practice. See More

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May 17, 12:25 PM





In XXI Century Education the use of new online technologies web 2.0 and social media aren't regarded like a avantgarde movement, but we must learn how to use them even more as every day appear new free html5 tools and apps who can open gateway through knowledge for teachers and also for students . GlogsterEDU, my favorite tool where I am proud to be the 1-st Romanian GlogsterEdu Ambassador made a team with Intel Education and they organize in partenership Intel Teach Essentials Course in Prague, Czech Republic . They invite Glogster Edu Ambassadors all over the Europe to take part at this exciting opportunity and fortunatelly I will be in Prague between 22 - 25 and will take part to this Intel training who will provide us with the skills to integrate technology into our existing curriculum with the ultimate goal of improving student learning . If you read this blog post and you will participate also leave feed-back and comment . 
 I invite you to see my reflection after this training on this blog :) .
GlogsterEDU, SymbalooEDU , Edublogs , Edutopia, Computer-Using Educators and VolunteerSpot will organize in 40 days http://isteparty2012.com/ to help teachers worldwide to meet and share knowledge .
 For this reason 3 years ago I begin to use social media  with students in free educational projects in the online world . This year and last year I was also not only participant, but also judge in ThinkQuest Projects . Now I am eTwinning mentor .Because my web 2.0 project was finalist in Elearning Awards 2010, I launch ,, CURATION RESTART EDUCATION " PROJECT http://credproject.visibli.com/share/SkZjmz , but I need help to make a platform / website for this project where teachers worldwide can collaborate and share knowledge like http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/profiles/blogs/proiectul-cred-in-competitia-nationala-restart-in-educatie? . 
After I return home from Prague I will add a blog post here ,, Top 10 tools to brand your name " because I live acroos all networks 
http://xeeme.com/LucianeCurator  .




May 02, 04:55 PM




Last year I read many articles about many free Mit elearning courses, but today Harvard and Mit launched edX see here 

What you think about this initiative ? Leave a comment :)
An organization established by MIT and Harvard that will develop an open-source technology platform to deliver online courses. EdX will support Harvard and MIT faculty in conducting research on teaching and learning on campus through tools that enrich classroom and laboratory experiences. At the same time, edX also will reach learners around the world through online course materials. The edX website will begin by hosting MITx and Harvardx content, with the goal of adding content from other universities interested in joining the platform. edX will also support the Harvard and MIT faculty in conducting research on teaching and learning.

Who will lead edX?
EdX is a priority for the leadership of both Harvard and MIT, and it will be governed by a board made up of key leaders from both institutions, appointed by each university’s president. MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Anant Agarwal will be the initial President of edX and will report to the board.

What technology will edX use?
An open-source online learning platform that will feature teaching designed specifically for the web. Features will include: self-paced learning, online discussion groups, wiki-based collaborative learning, assessment of learning as a student progresses through a course, and online laboratories. The platform will also serve as a laboratory from which data will be gathered to better understand how students learn. Because it is open source, the platform will be continuously improved here http://www.edxonline.org/index.html


CURATION RESTART EDUCATION PROJECT http://bit.ly/credproject . Welcome in the new Age of #Curation http://bit.ly/CurationKing & http://bit.ly/curationglog by @ https://twitter.com/#!/web20education - wish you all Lucian http://xeeme.com/ecurator/ . I invite to subscribe for NEW #edtech20 #socialmedia #Curation newsletter http://bitly.com/edtech20newsteller register to join free http://bitly.com/docedtech20 #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project http://web20education.bo.lt/g6538 and Install free our #mlearning app http://bitly.com/edtech20mLearningapp .Like and collaborate on facebook http://on.fb.me/likeedtech20facebookpage and Circle on Google Plus http://bitly.com/circleedtech20googlepluspage and Subscribe free to gr8 #edtech20 blogs : top 10 blog http://bitly.com/egr8blog :http://bitly.com/feededtech20blogs related to new web 2.0, social media startups http://bitly.com/web20eblog , curation http://bitly.com/curationblog ; mLearning apps http://bitly.com/mLearningblog , google plus http://bitly.com/googleplusblog , and my romanian blog http://bitly.com/eblogulmeu . Like and collaborate on facebook http://on.fb.me/likeedtech20facebookpage , linkedin http://linkd.in/edtech20linkedin , diigo http://bitly.com/edtech20diigo
May 07, 01:56 PM




My friends Christ is Risen and for this reason I organized International Contest ,, Resurrection of Son of God and the Renaissance of whole humanity like you can see in the glog . The Son of God take our sins and crucified on the Calvary, but through his resurrection he offer the salvation of our souls . I don't know if I told you still now that I am a am a orthodox christian, a father, teacher and free researcher and a social media curator who launch CRED project translated in romanian  ,, Believe " because I think that new online techologies offer to teachers and students gateway to knowledge and for this reason I launch ,, Curation Restart Education " Free project http://web20education.bo.lt/credproject and if you like I invite to join #edtech20 #pln on Ning to collaborate http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/profiles/blogs/proiectul-cred-in-competitia-nationala-restart-in-educatie? and I decided to describe weekly in this blog top 10 tools and apps and their fatures related to a subject and your comments and feed-back is welcome .
If you think that we can collaborate to make a big project from CRED project contact me https://www.facebook.com/DUMACORNELLUCIAN

Today I will describe 10 startup tools to make awesome presentations for Easter / Passover and also you can use this apps to make killer presenations for your conference or webinar : GlogsterEdu, Prezi , Vuvox,  Ahead ,  thepitch , Prezage , present.me , zohoshow , reel , bringpad   . What presentation  tool is your favorite leave a comment after you read this article :)
 I discover still now more than 50 tools to make presenations, but my top 10 are next 
http://web20socialmediasafetyineducation.blogspot.com/search/label/presentations . Like our facebook page to collaborate https://www.facebook.com/CurationRestartEducationProject/
Proud to be GlogsterEDU and SymbalooEDU Ambassador because they organize ISTE PARTY 2012 read more here 

1 . Glogster Edu is my favorite tool and I am proud to be a Ambassador because this edu tool open gateway through knowledge for students because develop children's creativity and innovation . Glogster EDU is the leading global education platform for the creative expression of knowledge and skills in the classroom and beyond. GlogsterEdu empower educators and students with the technology to create GLOGS - online multimedia posters - with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more.

Features

Glog Creation Interface A Glog is created using a very easy to understand, drag and drop interface that is relevant, enjoyable, and scalable for students of all ages and learning styles. A Glog is an interactive visual platform in which users create a “poster or web page” containing multimedia elements including: text, audio, video, images, graphics, drawings, and data.

Create Curriculum Based Projects for Classes, Groups, Teams, or Individuals The teacher can work with students in a classroom or through remote instruction using this multimedia platform – a community system for sharing is prepared where student‘s work is stored and available at any time. The teacher creates projects with templates and instructional guidelines, assigns them to the students, provides feedback throughout the assignment, and assesses their finished work.

Glog Presentations! Share student or teacher projects in Class, School, District or Beyond Once projects are complete, the teacher can share students’ work in a variety of educational settings. Glogs can be embedded in a blog, wiki, or web page or shared with others using Glogster EDU’s innovative presentation capabilities. Choose exemplar student projects and demonstrate students’ achievements with parents, administrators, students, and other educators.

Private and Safe Learning Environment for Teachers and Students The teacher easily creates a private virtual classroom with students by registering for a teacher administered account, generating student accounts with safe logins and passwords, and monitoring all activities within the account throughout the learning process. Student accounts can be created without providing email addresses or other contact information. The Teacher’s Dashboard provides direct access to all students, projects, and other activities.

Single Multi-Subject and Class Dashboards for Teachers and Students with One Login and Password All educators utilizing Glogster EDU’s inventive platform have direct access to individual students through a single portal – the Teacher Dashboard. Not only can teachers see all student activity within their own Teacher Dashboard, each student can also easily view and manage all of their classes and projects within their Student Dashboard. A single login and password will provide each teacher and student with complete access to multiple classroom activities. In the near future, Administrators will have a unique, secure login access for monitoring entire district or state-level Glogster EDU activities.





SymbalooEdu a great resource for teachers. With Symbaloo you can: Gather the best content on the web about 1 topic, and present it on a webmix Share a webmix with other teachers, and students Discover useful webmixes in the Symbaloo Gallery to use in the classroom Share a webmix with parents to provide some insight of the used materials A worthy mention: Symbaloo is free of charge and doesn’t include any annoying ads.





2. Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them.
 The result: visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery.
Features
Pan and Zoom
Zoom around the prezi canvas to visualize your ideas.
Import Media
Insert images, videos, YouTube videos, PDFs, or other media.
Full Toolset
Choose a template and/or theme to customize your prezi.
Present Online and Offline
Present online or download and show your prezi offline.
Work Together
Collaborate in real-time, across the room or across time zones.
Add Storyline
Use frames and a path to create a cinematic journey.


3. VUVOX allows you to create interactive slideshows and presentations from photos, video and music from Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, YouTube, Facebook or your PC. You can share them with friends, and embed them on your Myspace page, blog or website. VUVOX gives you the power to create one of a kind stories in an instant. All you need to do is provide whatever cool content that you have. Take pictures, video, audio and text. Mix it up. Choose backgrounds, colors, textures that create your vibe and then you are ready to share your piece with the world.
VUVOX reflects your life see next features . It gives you the ability to:
- Share your personal media with your network of friends.

- Personalize and customize your media to your heart's content.
- Locate and establish always-on feeds to your personal media.
- Take visual blogging and personal expression to the next level.






4.Ahead is a web application empowering creative people to playfully easy layout, share, and present high resolution rich media content inside public or private zooming web spaces.



5.thepitch is a html5 startup tool to Discover a new way to present and share content .Thepit.ch building an HTML5 tool for creating presentations, presenting, and sharing them with people, all in one seamless experience.They are re-imagining creating, giving and sharing presentations for the web enabled world. Our app starts where Slideshare and others stopped by giving viewer access anywhere the web is available - desktops, tablets, phones etc.People tell stories and share information with one another countless times a day. A common example of that is at conferences and events, where speakers share valuable knowledge and insight with an audience, typically aided by a deck of slides . Online slides can convey a confusing, conflicting or simply incomplete message. They may show an example without explaining what’s good or bad about it, or a clean visual that supports a point but doesn’t make it.The better the talk or presentation, the cleaner and simpler the slides — and the more the slides depend on the narrative around them to be of value.
Slides alone are rarely the full product; they serve a complementary purpose to the talk being given by the speaker. When slides are shared online, the speaker is absent, and the story is missing.
Without that narrative, we lose context and value. Audio and video help, but are costly to produce in a way that provides great value, and the experience often ends up feeling disjointed.
Between Powerpoint, Keynote and OpenOffice, there are at least 75 million desktop users of presentation software, although that is a conservative estimate. In addition to desktop software users, there are upwards of 20 million people using cloud-based software of some sort to present or share their presentations Of all users combined, more than half are paying customers. A large share of that is Enterprise customers, from small businesses to the very largest corporations in the world. The presentation software market is huge, and a number of companies compete for a share of it. But none have a great end-to-end experience, and most don’t even offer a great experience on any level. There is a huge opportunity for a great end-to-end experience to reshape this market. From the moment you start putting a deck together to the point where you share it with others, however you do so, the experience can be significantly improved.
Presentation software, like every other productivity software, suffers from a “binary proposition” problem: feature bloat makes the interface overwhelming, but simplification often reduces value to experienced users. We have a solution.
Whether we want to share our slides with the public or a limited, private audience, the only way we can do so without the slides losing value is through an expensive, time-consuming, carefully edited video. Our sharing platform solves that problem.
PDFs can be accessible, but rarely are so. By creating slides in a semantic, highly accessible structure right in the browser, we can offer content in ways that can be read on all devices, everywhere
Early-stage business models shouldn’t be set in stone, but we have solid ideas about ours. We also believe that the ability to “try before you buy” is critical on the Web.
Thanks to being a fully web-based product, the only things needed to give our product a try are a modern browser and an Internet connection.
Being able to create a deck for free, without even signing up, gives us a chance to showcase our innovative UI and workflow. Free accounts let you save that work and present it to an audience, but you’ll have limited storage ability.
Paid accounts will come in one, two or three flavors, depending on research we will conduct during private alpha and beta periods. Features, control over ads and more will be offered accordingly.





Present.me startup to record, share presentations like never before.
According to Microsoft, 500 million PowerPoint users give 30 million presentations every working day. That’s either scary or great – depending on your perspective. But either way, there’s a problem out there. Whatever your content, whether its slides, images, graphs or photos, If you’ve got something to say about it, and we can’t be in the same place as you, at the same time, you’ve got a problem. So what are your choices?
You can email your slides, but without being able to see and hear you, I’m not going to get anything like the full story. How about a webinar, or a teleconference? Better, but I still can't see you. OK, a videoconference then? Getting there, but cost is going up now, and crucially, all the above require all the participants to be there at the same time, often a diary nightmare.
What if you could video the presentation and edit the recording together with your slides or images, so that I can watch you talking to your slides, in one place at my own convenience? Well, you can. There are a number of desktop applications, and a few online tools, but they tend to be relatively complex, difficult to use, and they don't come cheap. Result - most people don't have the time, energy or inclination.
The gap is all too clear - a simple, easy to use, low cost application that allows you to record your presentation and then, by splitting the screen, show you and your slides at the same time, in the same place, enabling you to share the results online with whomever you want. That's Present.Me – and that’s exactly what it does!
Simply upload your slides, images, graphs, photos – whatever your content, in either powerpoint or pdf format. Once the content has been converted, which takes no time, and you’re ready to go, you head to the record queue, click ‘record’ and off you go! Present into your webcam clicking the slides as you would if you were presenting to an audience. Don’t worry about having to remember everything in one go or making a mistake. There’s a really simple self editing function.
Once you’re finished click ‘publish’! And presentme does the rest, editing everything together in real time. Once you’re happy with your performance, you can share it, either publicly or privately, embed it or just keep it for yourself as a reminder of what you’re supposed to say.
Alongside the ability to record and share your presentations, we have posted a number of presentme’s setting out our experience & knowledge around creating inspirational presentations, which we hope will put another nail in the coffin of ‘death by PowerPoint’.
Great presentations take a lot of hard work – why restrict their impact simply to those who “made it on the day”. But don’t think present.me is just about formal presentations. There are loads of situations where you’ve got something to say about a graph, an image, a diagram, a photo, a sentence in a document – and it will be more effective for someone to see and hear you, than to read a longemail. Present.Me is a fantastic new communication tool - So what are you waiting for? Have a go - it's FREE!


6. Zohoshow Online Presentation Service to create, edit and share presentations easily.

Introducing Zoho Show 2.0: The online tool for making powerful presentations.Whether you are a professional, a teacher, a student, a businessman, a salesman or anyone looking to put together a cool presentation, you have come to the right place. Zoho Show's pre-built themes, clipart and shapes coupled with features like drag-and-drop makes it an easy application to use.
How is Zoho Show different from a desktop presentation maker?
Features
Access from anywhere, anytime
Access, import, edit and share presentations from anywhere and anytime
Sharing and Collaboration
No more emailing around of presentation files. Share your presentations with your friends/colleagues and the shared presentations can be viewed/edited with just a browser.
Present from Remote
Give a presentation to a client who is half a globe away. Do your demos while at your seat.
Embedding
Make your presentations public. Embed them in your blog or website for easy viewing of your readers.More
And now for the best part - Zoho Show is completely FREE for personal use.




http://www.scoop.it/t/elearningwith-web20education/p/776615581/prezage-suite-of-web-based-elearning-software-tools-to-create-and-deliver-online-lectures-talks-training-and-presentations-edtech20
Prezage is a suite of web-based e-learning software tools for the creation and delivery of online lectures, talks, training, and presentations.
A producer account on prezage.com is aimed at content creators wanting to deliver open and free content of general educational interest. To learn more about a dedicated prezage system for a restricted audience (with multiple producer accounts, and extra features for your college, company, or training department) then see prezage Enterprise.
A prezage.com producer account provides:
 Free access to the powerful prezage Producer area to publish on prezage.com  Your presentations available to a global audience  Access to viewer statistics and trends for your presentations  Dedicated producer landing page

SlideDog lets you present files seamlessly and professionally at Meetings, Events, Sales Presentations, Conferences, Lectures


Create playlists of presentations

With SlideDog you can use playlists to play multiple slide shows one after the other. You can also add other files and media such as videos, web pages, Prezi presentations, spreadsheets and documents. A playlist can be saved to disk for easy playback at a later time. Each playlist may have a background image associated with it. This image will be shown in between presentations and may act as a pause-image for your meeting or other event.

Mix web pages, different files and media in the playlist
SlideDog supports a lot of different file formats. You can add PowerPoints, PDFs, Videos, Prezi presentations, web pages, excel spreadsheets, word documents, flash animations and all kinds of images. These files will be played using the best tools available. Some of the files can be played directly, while others will be launched by an external application E.g. Office PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer is used for showing PowerPoint files, but it will seem like they are directly played by SlideDog.

Switch between files seamlessly

SlideDog will launch the files in the playlist in fullscreen without displaying the computer desktop or application specific loading screens to the viewers. This enables a smooth transition between speakers (if used at an event with several speakers) and files (if used by one presenter alone).

Use a presenter screen with notes, timers and playlists
SlideDog uses a PowerPoint like multi-monitor output to provide meta information to the speaker during the presentation. It is able to show a normal presentation window on one screen, while showing a more sophisticated overview on the other one providing information like thumbnails of the next slides, slide notes and timers. The two timers show time spent on the current file and total time since the playlist started.






Reel helps you quickly create and share presentations. Each preso is stored online behind a unique URL, making it easy to poll your audience for their impressions.
But I already have Powerpoint; why would I need another presentation tool?

You have Powerpoint, but that doesn’t mean everyone else does too! With tablets, smartphones and internet access everywhere, you can’t rely on everyone being able to view a PPT. Reel solves this by posting your preso behind a unique URL. Your audience only needs a web browser to view your preso where and when they are ready. Best of all, your audience won't have to wait for a file download or open any other software.

That’s neat! You said something about feedback too?


Yes, we did! Once you’ve got your audience on the hook, they’ll be able to give you their impression of your ideas. Thumbs up for the ones they love; thumbs down, they’re not feelin’ it. You’ll get a summary page showing the total number of responses to each slide.
What should I share?

That depends on you! Whether you're sharing mockups with clients, product ideas with team members, or fiscal numbers with colleagues, Reel is a great way to make sure your team is on the same page, fast. 





BrinkPad is a web application that brings a desktop experience to the web. The application allows you to create presentations / slide shows / drawings with easy to use web delivered software.





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March 13, 12:56 PM



Like I told you before nowadays most of the students like to make movies with photos and movies from different activities . For this reason youtube, the biggest video platform made a partenership with others to allow you and your students to unleash the power of your creativity . Some of this apps allows you to make awesome animations directly on youtube . In next post I will describe gr8 tools to make killer presentations on-line .

If you like apps and if you know others like this leave a comment .




Vibop
The fastest way to make amazing videos
Choose ready-made themes with intros, effects, and soundtracks
- or creat your own.Vibop makes your videos shine with just a few clicks. Add an animated intro, a vintage filter, a cartoon look, a silent movie theme, and dozens of other effects.




Vlix - video effects and text
Vlix is the fun and easy way to shoot, share and communicate with mobile video. With vlix, you can enhance clips with video effects and text, share to a personal video feed, share links in email and post to Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.Create great videos by applying video effects and adding text. Select from a variety of effects - fix effects, time altering effects, artistic effects and fun video borders.



WeVideo
WeVideo is a cloud-based video editing platform. Edit movies in your browser, with media files from any device. Combine clips with music, effects, titles, transitions, animations .


GoAnimate
GoAnimate is a fun app that lets you make animated videos, for free, in just 10 minutes, without having to draw. You can even create your own cast of characters.


Magisto - Video Editing In a Click!
Magisto will analyze and understand your video, select the best parts and make it look amazing on YouTube!


One True Media video creation and editing
One True Media, simply powerful video creation. Robust, fast and easy video editing with real-time preview. Clip video and combine it with photos, transitions, effects, texts .


Stupeflix Video Maker
Tell a story with your digital content. Mix pictures, videos, maps, text, music and watch Stupeflix produce a stunning video in a few seconds. It's fast, easy, and free stupeflix
Xtranormal Movie Maker Xtranormal lets you to turn anything you type into a fully-animated CG movie. Set up your scene, type in your script, and animate it instantly. Easily share something funny .

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March 07, 03:53 PM




Forumul Inovatorilor in Educatie Organizatde Microsoft,Eos ,Mects Slideshow: Duma’s trip from Resita, Romania to 2 cities New York City and Brasov was created by TripAdvisor. See another United States slideshow. Create a free slideshow with music from your travel photos.


As I mentioned in my previous post I hope that my curation blog will provide gateway to knowledge for many teachers and students from Romania and worldwide because I will try to describe weekly gr8 new and useful resources(applications and tools web 2.0 and social media) that make educational process to be impressive and enjoyable for students. Take this opportunity to launch a chat on twitter # roedchat for Romanian teachers interested in integrating new online technologies in education in XXI century.

Your feedback and comments are welcome for my blog posts .
I was pleased to see that my project, eSafety4eTwinners - Web 2.0 and social media use eTwinners to prevent school dropout "was accepted in the exhibition Innovators Forum in Education organized by Microsoft, Romanian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and EOS Foundation .So I was participated in Brasov, Aro Palace Hotel on 1 - 2 March 2012 Innovators Forum in Education which was held in conjunction with the Meeting of National Education MECTS and so our projects have been visited in the Exhibition, and appreciated by general inspectors and other inspectors who were present at the event. In this special event experts have shared us the latest news in the Microsoft field. Thus I learned that Microsoft has released a new platform for Microsoft Partners in Learning http://www.pil-network.com/ Network with many facilities for teachers worldwide, and Microsoft experts showed us the new Microsoft tablets of 12 and 10 inches and showed us some features offered by Windows 8 touch version that was released a few days ago. We also had a video conference at the event with Adina Popa from a Patfinder American school who organized # globaled11 . Also during this session and headteachers of Mentor and Patfinder schools from Romania have explained us the benefits obtained as innovative schools.

The two projects who will represent Romania in Lisbon on 25 March at the European Forum are: ,, Natural Resources "- Secondary School Nr. Galati 29 selected by the jury on the 1st place and ,, The story of a sheet of paper" - School grades I-VIII Panticeu, Cluj selected by public vote. I am also proud that the project in our county,, traditional houses Severin "coordinated by Mr. Tudor Deaconu and Remus got a deserved 3 place .




February 27, 04:22 PM


Welcome
I am Lucian Lucian, father, teacher,researcher,Social Media Curator from  Caransebeş, România http://re.vu/SocialMediaCuratorLucian 
and I belive that new technologies web 2.0 and social media open gateway thtough knowledge for teachers and students worldwide .
I want to post next words today when it is my birthday  and also I am verry happy to go at Forumul Inovatorilor în Educaţie organized by Microsoft şi EOS Fundation where I will present my  eSafety4eTwinners project . Still you read my blog post I invite you to eat a stawberry cake and drink a glass a champagne  , after add your comments and feedback to my post, in weekend I will add here my thoughts about Innovation Forum in Education .


Because eSafety4eTwinners project was accepted in the exhibition organized by Eos and Microsoft at Innovation Forum in Education and also was selected in 10 best social media practice in Europe and it is included in the brochure realised by ElearninngEuropaInfo , we, founders, Lucian Duma from Romania and Miguela Fernandes from Portugal want to launch again ,, ,, eSafety4eTwinners - web 2.0 and social media use eTwinners 4 preventing school dropout " . If you want to join this project contact me http://scr.im/lucicurator or leave a comment .



Description
In nowadays society where science and information known a spectacular development and use of new web 2.0 and social media applications is no longer regarded as an avant-garde movement our students should be able to handle in the creative use of computer and online free tools represents a necessity in XXI Century Education . Today more than ever is observed a conversion worldwide of educational content in a digital form and this products are available to anyone, anywhere and anytime through eLearning technology. Interactive presentations like glogster edu and digital school lessons make a centered student who live in a learning envirolment and virtual education has become a phenomenon in education in last years. Training and professional development must be guided and monitored also for disadvantaged childrens because for this students classic access to information is not avaible . In the era of Internet and development of new technologies although my students and other students who have problems are children with special educational needs, at risk of school droppout XXI Century Skills can help them integrate into society .. Web 2.0andsocial mediacan bring a new dimension and can reform education around the word because electronic communication helps teachers and students to learn from each other. These technologies can stimulate discussion, open gateway to knowledge, promoting creativity and innovation for effective lifelong learning . Teacher and also students should have an entitlement to safe internet access at all times.
Pulling Piaget and Papert , the use of participatory media tools in education is typically geared towards, creating a more student centered, adaptive environnement where learners can contribute to the course material, formulate and express their own insights and opinion, construct their own understanding of material by connecting concepts, to personal experience or current events, and learn from one another in collaborative environments .Web 2.0 , social media and other digital and information technologies are powerful and interesting tools, which open up new opportunities for everyone and for this reason teachers and students must know how to use it nowadays in a safe mode

In the same time students are happy to came at schools where they learn about new tools and apps web 2.0 and social media and also they learn how to integrate in a safe mode new digital technologies in their classroom ,and this may prevent early school dropout . Although there are students with special needs , if they develop digital skills easier to integrate into the labor market today as most employers require computer literacy skills when hiring. 

AIMS
Through this project we want to develop XXI century skills for students using in a eSafe mode new tehnologies in education 2.0 . If we use with our students new tools and applications web 2.0 and social media we open for them gateway through knowledge .
- Known and share each other culture;
- Explore Web 2.0 tools for education;
- Acquire skills for the XXI century http://www.p21.org/ );
- Learn to communicate and work collaboratively;
- Improve skill language


February 15, 10:17 AM


Here is a surprise for you . Click here to see full screen http://dumacornellucian.edu.glogster.com/edtech20curationandsemanticprojectbyunhubweb20education because today my project -  twitter account  @web20education has 5000 followers . If you like what you see and also if you want to collaborate in #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project join our PLN http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/ contact me @LucianeCurator http://re.vu/SocialMediaCuratorLucian
If you want to support this project and toghether to make a curation portal contact me .If you like my glog made specially for you share and rt this post but most important please add comments to this blog post . I tried  to link from my glog top 10 social media curation platforms , my favorite tools to build a pln and much more .Glogster Edu is the best tool in XXI Century Education 
Last year I discover that Curation is the King of Knowledge in Social Media read more here  and the Art of : searching, selecting, sharing/bookmarking , organizing, interaction, communication,
The Internet Curator's role is to seek on the web information related to a specific domain, filter them, select them, organise, share and present them in a unique way. Now you can subscribe to our monthly newsteller http://bitly.com/edtech20newsteller and install free our mobile or browser  app http://bitly.com/edtech20mLearningapp
Now I will present top 10 curation tools who will open gateway to knowledge for teachers worldwide . If you are agree with me leave a comment, also add like comments new curation tools .
Also I invite you to visit weekly this blog because I will present every week gr8 tools and apps who will offer gateway to knowledge in XXI Century Education . You can read more down about my research and if you want to collaborate to make a curation platform ( website ) for teachers contact me




I launch this project because Curation is the Social Media King and Next Big Thing still 2011 around the social web and social media curation tools are the gateway through semantic web 3.0 in #education20 and for this reason I invite teachers and researchers worldwide to join free this global project .
Curation is King of Knowledge in Social Media and the Art of : searching, selecting, sharing/bookmarking , tagging, organizing, interaction, communication . Steve Rosenbaum describe in his book Curation : (p 3-4) Curation is about adding value from humans … Curation is very much the core shift in commerce, editorial, and communities that require highly qualified humans. Humans aren’t extra, or special, or enhancements; humans arecurators. They do what no computer can possibly achieve.
(p 12-13) No longer is the algorithm in charge. Human curators have become essential software. What emerges is new human and computer collaboration … The important news of the emergence of a Curation Nation is that humans are very much back in charge.The Internet Curator's role is to seek on the web information related to a specific domain, filter them, select them, organise, share and present them in a unique way.
Now, if you have done any of that work before, you should know that doing so has many benefits, but is also very time consuming. I mean, you can always scour your friends blogs, do a search, visit news sites or other trusted sources available to you. But then, there is the matter of putting them all together, by copying and pasting, editing, among other things.
In essence, you choose a topic, research for the best articles out there, combine them into a post, publish, and share it to the world. That’s curating content!



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February 07, 11:55 AM


Safer Internet Day is a global event celebrated every year in 7 february . Teachers and students worldwide should celebrate this event and learn about eSafety and for this reason I ask you ,, what is mean #esafety 4 you repply here http://www.webdoc.com/
documents/C51BDFFD-3210-0001-3CA7-AFC71F008940 

Safer Internet Day is organised by Insafe each year in February to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world. This year, Safer Internet Day (SID) will take place on Tuesday 7 February 2012 and will be centred around the theme Connecting generations and educating each other, with the slogan: "Discover the digital world together... safely!" About Connecting Generations This topic looks at the reach of the online world across all generations and cultures and encourages families to work together to stay safe online. Whether you are 5, 40 or 75 years old, whether you use the internet once a month or several times a day - each person has something different to bring to the table that can help shape our online experiences and our understanding of online competences and safety. We all have a role to play in ensuring that every child is safe online. Today our offline and online worlds are strongly connected, from families communicating via webcam with relatives and friends abroad to children doing their homework online. The online world is a unique arena where people of all ages can learn together and from each other, especially regarding online safety. Tech savvy youngsters can teach their elders how to use new technologies, while grandparents can draw on their life experiences to advise younger generations on how to stay safe online, as they discover the digital world together. How to take part? Visit saferinternetday.org for more information and to download SID promotional materials and resources




I develop the project ,, eSafety4eTwinners - web 2.0 and social media use eTwinners 4 preventing school dropout " http://e-safety4etwinners.wikispaces.com/. Through this project we want to develop XXI century skills for students using in a eSafe mode new tehnologies in education 2.0 and in this way we can prevent school dropout because our students love to be on-line in a technology world . This project was selected from 80 projects in Ten Best Practices in teachers’ competition for Social Media use in Formal Language Learning Contexts " and obtain 2 European Quality Label . If you are a eTwinner and you are a hardworker partener and your students are passionate to use new technologies you are welcome to join and contact me luciane_twining@yahoo.com .
Brochure Teaching with #socialmedia in classroom settings ls6 2012 #edtech20



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May 09, 05:11 PM


Nowadays appear daily many startups who offer gateway to knowledge for teachers and students worldwide and for this reason I launch CRED ( Curation Restart Education ) Project http://credproject.visibli.com/share/SkZjmz , just like   . I chose to write now about gr8 tools and apps to unleash the power of your documents  . If you like these tools and apps share,  leave a comment and also you can repply here with other tools like this .
Thank you in addvance Lucian, http://xeeme.com/ecurator/


1 . Docstoc is the premier online business for the best quality and widest selection of documents used to start, grow, and manage your professional life and small business. Docstoc provides the platform to upload and share documents with the world, and serves as a vast repository of free and for purchase legal, business, financial, technical, and educational documents that can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded.
also provides technology through various APIs and Widgets to help facilitate the sharing and promotion of documents across the web. The site has popularized the use of embedding documents throughout the blogosphere and mainstream media 

Calaméo is a tool that instantly creates interactive web publications and offer you a new publishing method that has an incredibly wide variety of options and is simple to use. From a PDF file, you create magazines, brochures, sales catalogs, annual reports, presentation brochures...

What is an interactive publication?

It's an interactive electronic document, accessible from a computer and capable of reproducing the feeling of reading a paper document: turn the pages, mark the pages, zoom ... magazines, brochures, sales catalogs, annual reports, presentation brochures

Who is Calaméo for?

For any person, business, association, agency, etc. who is seeking to offer a dynamic and innovative medium that meets the new communication standards

The advantages of an interactive publication

Savings on cost and time for production, printing, sending print copies and logistics. Innovative, original and entertaining communication that immediately catches the readership's interest.

Audience report, readership stats... and other e-marketing features to determine the effectiveness of your publications.

Ease of access and file storage accessible on the Internet at any time

Possibility to create an online press agency

Example 





Doocuments VIP management inteligent documents

Doocuments is about people exchanging VIP documents. Doocuments technology is perfect for sending VIP files through the Internet without being afraid of the final destination or usage of the VIP information. Designed both for individual use or company-wide deployments, #Doocuments is a Cloud Computing tool that integrates seamlessly into user and corporations workflows with a suite of plug-ins for the main office software suites.This software is an office tool such as Microsoft Office, Acrobat Reader or Apple's iWork. However, Doocuments is not an authoring tool to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Currently available authoring tools are excellent and widespread.In particular, Doocuments is an office tool that takes documents already created by different office tools, transforms them and provides new added features that provide special value to those documents. This special "layer" ads to the original document some new features like:
Do not allow to print certain pages.

Prevent different recipients from viewing those pages.

Set expiration.

Access certification.

Watermarks.

Alarms on documents use (like printing or forwarding).

Analytics.


Why Doocuments?
Context of use: concerns about outbound contents (attachments, documents, etc.) compliance and content security.
Complying with internal email policies
Complying with healthcare privacy regulations and guidelines
Complying with financial privacy regulations and guidelines
Complying with financial disclosure and corporate governance regulations
Guarding against leaks of valuable IP and trade secrets
Guarding against leaks of confidential memos
Guarding against inappropriate content and attachments






MyDocumenta is the new online Platform to create, publish and share multimedia projects: presentations, learning content, magazines and web pages, sharing and reuse of multimedia content. 

Documenta is intuitive, fast and easy to use.

Reinvent yourself on the web

Another form of online creation is possible. 

From a simple grid, the significant design concepts at the heart of the Documenta interface, together with its powerful multimedia functions, allow you to create new audiovisual languages and narratives in a versatile digital environment, and to adapt them to your needs or those of your target audience.
With Documenta you can reinvent yourself on the Net, and reinvent the Net the way you want it to be.
Share your libraries and projects
Documenta offers an open, secure space so that the entire community of users can experiment, create and innovate in their projects, share audiovisual resources and collaborate in network mode with others from their own group, city or country or anywhere in the world.


Substance is a fully web-based document authoring and publishing platform.With Substance, writers, journalists, scientists and everyone else who's interested in publishing can use an open platform for writing and sharing articles.Document authoring used to take place in word processors on the Desktop like MS Word or Open Office. We believe that today this can all be be done in the browser, in a simpler, more collaborative way. 
Semantic Editing

Features : 


Unlike traditional word-processors, Substance focuses on content, by leaving the layout part to the system, not the user. Because of the absence of formatting utilities, it suggests structured, content-oriented writing.

Collaboration


Substance targets open collaboration. Readers can participate and comment on certain text passages. In future they'll even be able to submit patches, that can be applied by the owner.

Integration

Substance exposes documents as data, ready to be compiled into arbitrary output formats (HTMLPDFePub, ...) or integrated with other applications (like websites).

WRITE

Write and annotate documents right in the browser.
Collaborative Editing NEW!
Invite co-authors to your document
Export NEW!
Export to PDF, ODT, ePub, etc.
Publish
Publish and instantly share your articles
Images
Embed images in your document
User Comments
Comment on content fragments
BROWSE
Find and read relevant documents by using novel navigation techniques.
Use the Browser Tab to search for a keyword or show recent documents.
Search by Keyword
Find relevant documents based on keywords
Faceted Browsing
Filter matched documents using faceted navigation



wepapers is a place where students (and everybody) can expand their knowledge and share their wisdom, for free. Wepapers help people learn from one-another. The idea is simple: we think everyone has something to teach, and anyone can become a teacher, a guru or a mentor.More important, we believe everybody deserves the right to learn for free.wePapers is where you find the kind of quality information you wouldn’t find anywhere else on the web, the kind of papers you’d have to dig for in dusty library basements and still not find what you’re looking for.wePapers is also where you share what you’ve learned, with people who are learning the same thing. You can discuss your work with them and get useful feedback.

Whether to help you graduate with honors or just win an argument, we created WePapers to help make you smarter, much smarter.

The founders of wePapers realized through their studies for their B.A. degrees that acing school doesn’t have to involve agony. We started wePapers as two university students, with the ambition to share what we’ve learned and learn what we haven’t yet.

We want to make an impact on the way people learn acquire knowledge, and help make the world a little bit cleverer.



myebook.com aims to revolutionise the way we create, publish and share ebook content online. Built on a feature-rich social platform, complete with powerful, browser-based, builder software, and a slick reader environment, there's never been an easier way for anyone and everyone to 'get it out there'.

With myebook.com, we've made it possible for anyone to upload, or create from scratch, beautifully simple or adventurously complex page designs and covers online, in no time. What's more, you can publish your book with a single button and release it to the world before the (virtual) ink's dry! You can create as many publications as you want. And it's all free.

myebook, currently available as full-featured beta release, is a culmination of over 2 years research and development. The result is a slick, polished product that harnesses key internet technologies in a way never seen before.
Add to this myebook's powerful yet simple user interface and you have the ultimate ebook platform for any personal or corporate publication, whether it's for novels, childrens books, magazines, comics, photo albums, leaflets, brochures, instruction manuals. You can even embed or link to videos, audio, documents, images and flash files to make your books fully interactive. And what's more, since the whole myebook system is community-based, getting your word out to your audience is easy.
The team behind the project are all seasoned developers, designers, writers, marketeers and are continuously adding features and enhancing the myebook experience as they approach their next milestone release




edocr 

DOCUMENT PUBLISHING, INTELLIGENCE AND SALES LEAD GENERATION









Document Publishing

You can upload any document less than 10 Mbytes in size and in .txt, .pdf, .doc, .docx, .ppt, .pptx, .xls, .xlsx and .odt formats (maximum 25 files at a time). Typical documents include: brochures, leaflets, white papers, case studies, press releases, data sheets, specifications, operating manuals, annual reports, certificates, and the list goes on. Ensure document titles reflect the content of the document to increase rankings on Google, Bing and Yahoo

Applicable Pricing Plans: All



Document Distribution and Interactivity
Anyone can distribute documents to a large email list (Email this) or Bookmark to nearly over 300 popular web applications including Facebook and Linkedin. For auto-tweeting, set Twitter details prior to publishing. Click Full Screen to read online or Download for offline. Anyone can embed relevant document thumbnails (or the flash documents) on their websites, blogs and newsletters to increase click rates. Two clicks (Write to Publisher) allows the Reader to communicate directly with the Publisher of the document. 
Rate documents you like. Leave comments for others to see. Tag to increase overall visibility. Publishers, EDIT your documents to add a link to your website


Channels

Company Profiles give you control over how your documents are presented to the world. It provides a highly interactive environment for anyone to engage with you, especially potential customers.
Documents uploaded by employees are presented fully categorised with their positions determined by the level of engagement.
Key documents can be displayed in promotional area at the top of the page. Quick statistics show how much interactivity there has been. Anyone can Bookmark the Company Profile to nearly over 300 most popular web applications including Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook thereby increasing engagement.Company news area can be used to embed your latest video. RSS feeds can display your twitter stream or feed from your own website.
Built in private messaging allows anyone to contact employees direct without third party intervention. 


Privacy and Document Control
You can now control who you share your documents with. You can decide to keep your documents private, share with colleagues from the same organisation, share with buddies or with one or more of your groups. You can also decide what information you need when others view your documents, from anyone to those who have given us consent to release their email addresses to you.


Document Intelligence
TRACK: You can now view online and download details of every hit your documents had from date and time to where the traffic came from, what activity they performed from downloading to embedding, and more.
LEADS: You are then presented with a downloadable list of identities of individuals who viewed your documents.
ANALYTICS: Analytics show traffic distribution.
Track, Leads and Analytics are available for each document, each employee or user account and company profile.



Linking with Salesforce.com
Those who have subscribed to Salesforce.com, can now export sales leads by simply entering your access details
Leads can be exported at document level, employee or user account level or company profile level.
Applicable Pricing Plans: Business Essential and 



9.Issuu is the leading digital publishing platform delivering exceptional reading experiences of magazines, catalogs, and newspapers. Millions of people have uploaded their best publications to create beautiful digital editions. 

Explore a world of publications by people and publishers alike. Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best.




10 . YUDUfree is one of the world’s top free online publishing sites. It is popular with both publishers and readers who can find interesting publications to read for free or purchase items from the YUDU Store. 

Features

Documents, podcasts and pictures can be uploaded, kept in libraries, shared with friends or family (either publicly, shared with password access or kept private). Users can set up groups to share content. Groups can be open, moderated or private.

Publications can be easily embedded in a blog or website using the YUDU tools.

Content is hosted indefinitely, although items that have not been read or opened in over a year will be taken down after the user has been notified and had the chance to keep it.

YUDU is family and school friendly with up to 1,000 publications posted each day from over 75 countries worldwide that have to comply with YUDU’s strict rules on copyright violation and material that could incitement violence or contains explicit sexual content.

The YUDUfree service is used by charities, schools, small and large publishers experimenting with digital editions but principally by private users who want to publish to the world.

Professional publishers using the YUDU Publishing Platform can easily add publications to the YUDUfree site to increase circulation and reach new readers.




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CURATION RESTART EDUCATION PROJECT http://bit.ly/credproject   . Welcome in the new Age of #Curation http://bit.ly/CurationKing &  http://bit.ly/curationglog by   @ https://twitter.com/#!/web20education  - wish you all Lucian http://xeeme.com/ecurator/ . I invite to subscribe for NEW #edtech20 #socialmedia #Curation  newsletter http://bitly.com/edtech20newsteller  register to join free http://bitly.com/docedtech20  #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project http://web20education.bo.lt/g6538   and Install free our #mlearning app http://bitly.com/edtech20mLearningapp  .Like and collaborate on facebook http://on.fb.me/likeedtech20facebookpage  and Circle on Google Plus http://bitly.com/circleedtech20googlepluspage and Subscribe free to gr8 #edtech20 blogs :  top 10 blog http://bitly.com/egr8blog  :http://bitly.com/feededtech20blogs  related to new web 2.0, social media startups http://bitly.com/web20eblog  , curation http://bitly.com/curationblog  ; mLearning apps http://bitly.com/mLearningblog  , google plus http://bitly.com/googleplusblog  , and my romanian blog http://bitly.com/eblogulmeu . Like and collaborate on facebook http://on.fb.me/likeedtech20facebookpage , linkedin http://linkd.in/edtech20linkedin   , diigo http://bitly.com/edtech20diigo


January 29, 10:16 AM



LS6 team who organized ,, Teachers’ competition for Social Media use in Formal Language Learning Contexts " where my eSafety4eTwinners project was seleted in top 10 practice  launch again a new competition . "Social media in informal language learning and use: Video project - Interviewing adult learners”
This particular competition aims to highlight how a language learner in the Web 2.0 era uses social media for language learning in daily life outside formal learning contexts.Several researchers from various institutions will conduct interviews with adult learners who learn or use foreign language via social media. After sharing interview videos on LS6 vimeo channel, LS6 TEAM will reward  the individual( interviewee) who share his or her best practice of language learning in informal contexts.The winner will receive a prize worth 1000 euros, for which he or she can choose technical equipment of his/her choice and invited to attend the LS6 final Award Ceremony in late September 2012 in Warsaw.
Brochure Teaching with #socialmedia in classroom settings ls6 2012 #edtech20

Here is description of my project


Web 2.0 and social media can bring a new dimension and can reform education around the word because electronic communication helps teachers and students to learn from each other. These new technologies can stimulate discussion, open gateway through knowledge, promote creativity and innovation for effective learning. Teacher and also students should have an entitlement to safe internet access at all times.
Pulling Piaget and Papert, the use of participatory media tools in education is typically geared towards, creating a more student centered, adaptive environnement where learners can contribute to the course material, formulate and express their own insights and opinion, construct their own understanding of material by connecting concepts, to personal experience or current events, and learn from one another in collaborative environments. Web 2.0, social media and other digital and information technologies are powerful and interesting tools, which open up new opportunities for everyone and for this reason teachers and students must know how to use it nowadays in a safety mode.




Welcome in the new Age of Curation http://bitly.com/gr8eblog@https://twitter.com/#!/web20education - wish you all Lucian http://xeeme.com/ecurator/. I invite to register to join free http://bitly.com/docedtech20 #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation projecthttp://bitly.com/edtech20socialmediacurationprojectsubscribe subscribe free to our new newstellerhttp://bitly.com/edtech20newsteller and Install free our #mlearning apphttp://bitly.com/edtech20mLearningapp .Like and collaborate on facebookhttp://on.fb.me/likeedtech20facebookpage and Circle on Google Plushttp://bitly.com/circleedtech20googlepluspageand Subscribe free to gr8 #edtech20 blogshttp://bitly.com/feededtech20blogs related to new web 2.0, social media startupshttp://bitly.com/web20blog , curation http://bitly.com/curationblog ; mLearning





April 26, 03:26 AM


I launch CRED ,, CURATION RESTART EDUCATION " project because last year I discover that Curation is the King of Knowledge in Social Media read more here  and the Art of : searching, selecting, sharing/bookmarking , organizing, interaction, communication,
The Internet Curator's role is to seek on the web information related to a specific domain, filter them, select them, organise, share and present them in a unique way. Now you can subscribe to our monthly newsteller http://bitly.com/edtech20newsteller and install free our mobile app http://bitly.com/edtech20mLearningapp
Still tomorrow you can vote for my project to make a curation platform for romanian teachers and for this reason like our facebook page to keep in touch with the project https://www.facebook.com/
CurationRestartEducationProject/app_112493455447504
Now I will present top 10 curation tools who will open gateway to knowledge for teachers worldwide . If you are agree with me leave a comment, also add like comments new curation tools .
Also I invite you to visit weekly this blog because I will present every week gr8 tools and apps who will offer gateway to knowledge in XXI Century Education . You can read more down about my research and if you want to collaborate to make a curation platform ( website ) for teachers contact me bit.ly/Lucian20 .
The Power of Curation in a presentation download free Zinepal
Curation is Social Media King


I launch this project because Curation is the Social Media King and Next Big Thing still 2011 around the social web and social media curation tools are the gateway through semantic web 3.0 in #education20 and for this reason I invite teachers and researchers worldwide to join free this global project .
Curation is King of Knowledge in Social Media and the Art of : searching, selecting, sharing/bookmarking , tagging, organizing, interaction, communication . Steve Rosenbaum describe in his book Curation : (p 3-4) Curation is about adding value from humans … Curation is very much the core shift in commerce, editorial, and communities that require highly qualified humans. Humans aren’t extra, or special, or enhancements; humans arecurators. They do what no computer can possibly achieve.
(p 12-13) No longer is the algorithm in charge. Human curators have become essential software. What emerges is new human and computer collaboration … The important news of the emergence of a Curation Nation is that humans are very much back in charge.The Internet Curator's role is to seek on the web information related to a specific domain, filter them, select them, organise, share and present them in a unique way.
Now, if you have done any of that work before, you should know that doing so has many benefits, but is also very time consuming. I mean, you can always scour your friends blogs, do a search, visit news sites or other trusted sources available to you. But then, there is the matter of putting them all together, by copying and pasting, editing, among other things.
In essence, you choose a topic, research for the best articles out there, combine them into a post, publish, and share it to the world. That’s curating content!

My favorite tool for presentation and curation is GlogsterEDU


1.Scoop.it is topic-centric, but we can’t forget that it’s first of all a social media The main difference with the others social media is essential: Scoop.it lets users follow topics, not people. Scoop.it brings you content on topics you’ve decided to follow, shared by other people on these topics. People we meet are users who are willing to discuss about the same subjects. What gather people together are their passions! We don’t always share our passions with our friends: especially if they are unusual.
In short, with Scoop.it you share content with people who are likely to find it relevant. Scoop.it enables to share things you would not normally share on other social Medias. Sometimes you find that it’s too risky to share links with your family, your colleagues or old classmates. They will also not necessarily be very interested in your passions. And above all, the information that you will find relevant, will not be lost in the middle of thousand other posts. And if you are a little bit curious (we are all), you will read the content on topics curated by other users who share the same interest, and you will comment their links.


2.Themeefy ia a cool new way to discover, curate, compile and publish knowledge to create your personal Theme magazine or online book . PS if you want a invitation leave a comment with your email and I will invite you to join the MAG . You must follow next steps to make a Themeefy mag . Research web sites and add interesting links directly from the Web. Upload photos, jot down notes and add a personal touch to your magazine. Pull in interesting social content from Twitter and Facebook. Customize the Theme magazine, publish it and share it . My first Online book is Curation Social Media King You can read more here about this new startup curation tool .


3.Chirpstory is an application to help manage your Twitter account and share Tweets in a fun and information fashion. A complete curation experience you won't find anywhere else.Chirpstory automatically loads the latest Tweets from your Twitter stream. You can also load Tweets from a specific user, keyword, or list and Organize favorite Tweets, conversations, and themed hashtags together to create fun and easy-to-read narratives out of the Twitter experience. Simply drag and drop Tweets into a timeline, edit, and then share your "Story" with the world. . Here I made my Chirpstory and in this story I will write my favorite curation edtools in #education20 . http://chirpstory.com/li/1603


4.SymbalooEdu a great resource for teachers. With Symbaloo you can: Gather the best content on the web about 1 topic, and present it on a webmix Share a webmix with other teachers, and students Discover useful webmixes in the Symbaloo Gallery to use in the classroom Share a webmix with parents to provide some insight of the used materials A worthy mention: Symbaloo is free of charge and doesn’t include any annoying ads.


5. Bootlenose Is a smarter way to surf the Stream. It's a new personalization tool that helps the important information find you in social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Use Bottlenose to track your interests, visualize trends, and curate knowledge with your friends. The Sharepocalypse is here to stay. Social networks are popping up left and right, and they're getting noisier. How do you cut through all this chaos? How do you make sense of your streams?
At Bottlenose they we're building a new social assistance application that helps you do just that. It helps navigate the depths of your networks and keep up with your social streams so you can engage more intelligently. But that's just the beginning: Bottlenose helps you hunt for what interests you, alerts you when something deserves your attention, and even helps you share and communicate more productively.


6. Scrible does for research what gmail did for email  and I want to present you new scrible's changing how the world works online by transforming Web-based research but I hope will be free for education Even though the world uses the Internet to research nearly everything for work, school and home (job postings, press releases, Wikipedia articles, medical info, etc.), most folks still use old-school ways of annotating, organizing and sharing online info (printing to mark by hand, copying/pasting into Word, etc.). It's archaic, laborious and a waste of time. We're changing that. We're bringing Web-based research into the Internet Era by empowering people to mark up web pages in the browser and manage and collaborate on them online. And that's just the start...
7. Pearltrees is one of my favorite social media curation tools . Why use Pearltrees ?To cultivate your interests. Pearltrees is a place to organize discover and share everything you like on the web. You can keep at hand the web pages you like and enrich your account with Pearltrees from other members of the community. Who is Pearltrees made for ? Anybody who has ever wanted to keep a webpage (about a favorite movie, for researching travel, for conducting research or just because there are things you've found that you don't want to lose...) to retrieve it one day or to share it with someone. This means a lot of people!


8. BagTheWeb helps users curate Web content. For any topic, you can create a "bag" to collect, publish, and share any content from the Web. Beyond most curation tools' capability, BagTheWeb enables users to build networks of bags. Via bags, users can collect, publish, and share curated Web content in a simple and exciting way. Web content forms content networks, users form social networks, and content and social networks further connect. This way bags can be linked together to provide rich and complete information about any topic. For this reason Bag the Web an evolving Web. For Teachers Collect teaching materials. Create bags for students to study and assign homework.

9. Storify is a curation social media tool to make awesome story and t urn what people post on social media into compelling stories. Collect the best photos, video, tweets and you can also add text and embed the resulting collages of content on your own site or blog

10.Capturetocloud new curation tool in the cloud . Free account include Upload up to 200MB/month Upload unlimited bookmarks Up to 500 web pages, images, PDFs, etc. Unlimited sharing Free Google Docs integration Free Dropbox integration and item linking Features Marketing intelligence gathering, organizing, and sharing Investment Professionals target entity's background, principals' profiles, sector and comparables data, references Real Estate documents, images, web pages and text messages organized

Welcome wish you all Lucian http://xeeme.com/ecurator/ . I invite to register to join free http://bitly.com/docedtech20 #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project http://bitly.com/edtech20socialmediacurationprojectsubscribe free to our new newsteller http://bitly.com/edtech20newsteller and Install free our #mlearning apphttp://bitly.com/edtech20mLearningapp . Just followhttps://twitter.com/#!/web20education ; like and collaborate on facebookhttp://on.fb.me/likeedtech20facebookpage and Circle on Google Plushttp://bitly.com/circleedtech20googlepluspageand Subscribe free to gr8 #edtech20 blogs http://bitly.com/feededtech20blogs related to new web 2.0, social media startupshttp://bitly.com/web20blog , curation http://bitly.com/curationblog ; mLearning appshttp://bitly.com/mLearningblog , google plus http://bitly.com/googleplusblog and gr8 blog https://bitly.com/mygr8blog
Here is a curation mindmap
January 16, 01:28 PM




I am still last year aPLaNet associate partener and also I will be a mentor in this project and I made a group Curation Social Media King for Mentors http://aplanet-project.org/group/curation-social-media-king?xg_source=activity . Now I am verry happy because finally was released aPLaNet teacher guide . After I read the guide I am sure that this project will open gateway to knowledge for teachers worldwide and if you are agree with me leave a comment .


Also still this year I invite to visit weekly this blog because I will explain every week gr8 tools and apps useful for XXI Century Education . 

The aPLaNet Project http://aplanet-project.org/  

Do you use social networks like Facebook, Twitter & Nings?
Do you use them for personal reasons, to keep in touch with friends and family or for professional reasons?
Do you think social networks such as these can contribute to your own professional development?

These are some of the questions we will be asking hundreds of foreign language educators - and we hope you will be one of them - to find out their attitudes to using Social Networking sites to create and build their PLN, in other words, their Personal Learning Network

During the two years of the aPLaNet project, we will be collaborating with our partner institutions to create support and resources which will help foreign
language teachers in Europe to understand and use social network in order to:
Build and expand their PLN by connecting with educators on Facebook, Twitter & Nings
Continue with their professional development in an autonomous way
Acquire the skills and digital literacies required in order to use these mediums successfully and productively
Here is 
aPLaNet Teacher Guide
Here is a video


I
January 01, 07:53 AM


Dear friends ( teachers, researchers and social media curators ) I , Lucian http://xeeme.com/ecurator/ wish you all HAPPY AND SUCCESFULL NEW YEAR 2012 .
Still the begining I want to thank you all because we share and discover toghether new way to teach and learn using online tools and apps web 2.0 and social media in #edtech20 #pln and I invite to join free http://goo.gl/WOqiQ  to have  good collaboration in  http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/  , wiki http://web20andsocialmediaineducation2010.wikispaces.com/
Just follow https://twitter.com/#!/web20education .  , subscribe free to #edtech20 blogs http://linkbun.ch/0y50 collaborate on facebook http://goo.gl/yns7N and Google Plus http://goo.gl/fCdmh and Install free our #mlearning app http://goo.gl/rjeVs . 



I invite you all to celebrate new year 2012 with a glass of champagne
imikimi - sharing creativity



Here I write for all of you a online  book ,, Curation Social Media King " with gr8 ( the best )social media curation tools used in #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project 

http://www.themeefy.com/Lucian_26369/curation-socialmedia-king-edtech20-advent  . If you like my online book You can share and embeded in your blog or website http://tinyurl.com/crvrvwg and stay tune because next year I will write a book ,, Curation Social Media King in XXI Century Education . I invite you to visit weekly this blog to discover every week gr8 tools and apps .  Please add comments and sugestions  to my blog posts and what you think about #EDTECH20  project and visit daily this blog to discover new social media curation tools who can bring a new dimenssion in XXI Century Education.I consider curation online fishing in the social web :) 
And subscribe free to my gr8 blogs on next topics : 
CURATION
http://feeds.feedburner.com/edtech20CurationSemanticProjectInEducation
WEB 2.0, SOCIAL MEDIA,ELEARNING TOOLS AND APPS http://feeds.feedburner.com/Web20SocialMediaInSafetyModeInEducation
I blog related to gr8 tools and apps http://feeds.feedburner.com/MyPln-PersonalLearningNetwork
Google Plus, Chrome tools and apps in #education20
http://feeds.feedburner.com/GooglePlusChromeToolsAppsAndMoreInEducation20
Teaching and mLearning using gr8 apps 4 ipad, ipod, iphone
http://feeds.feedburner.com/MlearningEdtoolsAndAppsIneducation20
Profesor in secolul XXI http://feeds.feedburner.com/LucianDumaProfesorInSecolulXxi


Description :
I launch this project because Curation is the Social Media King and Next Big Thing still 2011 around the social web and social media curation tools are the gateway through semantic web 3.0 in #education20 and for this reason I invite teachers and researchers worldwide to join free this global project .
Curation is King of Knowledge in Social Media and the Art of : searching, selecting, sharing/bookmarking , tagging, organizing, interaction, communication . Steve Rosenbaum describe in his book Curation : (p 3-4) Curation is about adding value from humans … Curation is very much the core shift in commerce, editorial, and communities that require highly qualified humans. Humans aren’t extra, or special, or enhancements; humans arecurators. They do what no computer can possibly achieve.
(p 12-13) No longer is the algorithm in charge. Human curators have become essential software. What emerges is new human and computer collaboration … The important news of the emergence of a Curation Nation is that humans are very much back in charge.The Internet Curator's role is to seek on the web information related to a specific domain, filter them, select them, organise, share and present them in a unique way.
Now, if you have done any of that work before, you should know that doing so has many benefits, but is also very time consuming. I mean, you can always scour your friends blogs, do a search, visit news sites or other trusted sources available to you. But then, there is the matter of putting them all together, by copying and pasting, editing, among other things.
In essence, you choose a topic, research for the best articles out there, combine them into a post, publish, and share it to the world. That’s curating content!

I am verry happy because #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project has now a free browser app and also you can use it on ipad, ipod and iphone you you can download free from here


 Description of the mobile app 
Curation is the online King who open gateway to knowledge and for semantic web 3.0 . For this reason I launch #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project gateway to knowledge  in #education20 http://www.justabout.co/edtech20socialmediacurationproject . Curation is King of Knowledge in Social Media and the Art of : searching, selecting, sharing/bookmarking , tagging, organizing, interaction, communication http://xeeme.com/eCurator/  . I curate the best social media , web 2.0 and eLearning tools and apps who open gateway to knowledge in #education20 http://unhub.com/web20education/ http://bit.ly/Lucian20 . If you download this app you will discover many web 2.0, social media and eLearning tools and apps who bring gateway to knowledge for teachers and students worldwide . In the same time you will learn what is Curation and why is the Social Media King .  Just follow me for more http://www.socialfollow.com/profiles/lucianecurator/ . In 2 words curation is ,, human knowledge “ .

About
#edtech20 free project http://central.ly/web20education/ is extended of the project ,, Teach, learn, play in 21st Century using web 2.0, social media used in an e-Safe way in education 2.0 " who was selected finalist project in ELEARNING AWARDS 2010 , runner up in the cathegory ENISA silver award for teaching online safety and citizenship .

I start this project because I was selected in june 2010 by European Schoolnet to work in the TIS – Insafe ; Teaching Internet Safety Project under European Schoolnet and TeachToday . I made a team from next european teachers : Coordinator Lucian Cornel Duma (ROMANIA) - me , Aureo Torres (SPAIN) ,Maria Sourgiadaki (GREECE) ,Catalina Nicolin ( MECTS Romania ) and Inge de Cleyn ( Belgium ) . We work all at this module proposed by me is called ,, How teachers and students can use free web 2.0 and social media in education 2.0 “ and all the resource where presented on Teachtoday website between 21- 22 octomber 2010 at Safer Internet Forum in Louxembourg . We made next teaching units :
1. Free microblogging safely in education : Twitter apps http://www.slideshare.net/DUMACORNELLUCIAN/teaching-unit-free-blogging-safety-in-education-5326694
2. Free blogging safely in education http://www.slideshare.net/DUMACORNELLUCIAN/teaching-unit-free-blogging-safety-in-education-53343973.
3.Free animation 2.0 safely in education http://www.slideshare.net/DUMACORNELLUCIAN/free-animation-20-safety-in-education
4. How to introduce Internet safety issue via the discovery of free virtual worlds , Second Life.
I belive that new technologies web 2.0 and social media can open gateway to knowledge for teachers worldwide and for this reason curation tools will prepare the appearance of semantic web 3.0 in XXI Century Education and I http://gplus.to/LucianDumaTeacherCurator made on #edtech20 circle on google plus ( the new tool who prepaire the introduction of new web in #education20 ) . I wish in the future to make a big platform where teachers worldwide can discuss how they can integrate efficiently new technologies in #education20 , but for this we need help and founds and I hope toghether to bring edreform . 


Curation has always been an underrated form of creation and it is generally the selection of, care for and presentation of the objects entered into a collection, whether that collection is physical (such as items in a museum) , digital (such as entries in Wikipedia) . Today I use gr8 curation tools many in beta for curating social media ( tools, apps, articles , blog posts , tweets , videos , photos and much more ) like scoop.it , perltrees , postano , shareist , storify , chirpstory , curated.by and bagtheweb .
 My favorite are 4 scoop.it , pearltrees , postano , shareist, but every day appear new curation tools who prepair the aparition of Semantic Web who is driving the evolution of the current Web by enabling users to find, share, and combine information more easily . For example delicious tool is a kind of curation, but this new curation tools allows your readers to add comments and suggestion for evry post .
The emphasis of curation may vary among:
The selection process - such as the use of expertise or expert advice to decide what items or content should be added to a collection or archive.
The caretaking process - controlling the decay of historical object (such as census records) .
Presentation - determining how objects or records are displayed, including what metadata will be displayed along with them.
2011 is the begining of New Era of Curation and every day appear new awesome social media curation tools like write Mashable in the article 4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the web . When I read Mashable's article I allready used Pearltrees http://pearltrees.com/#/web20education and after I made #edtech20 team on pearltrees . When Tim Berners Lee originally conceived of the Internet, he envisioned three principal functions and I think that is curation
Allow anyone to access any type of document
Allow everyone to disseminate his or her own documents
Allow everyone to organize the entire collection of documents

Brian Solis write also in his website about curation and curators who play an important role in the evolution of new media, the reach of material information, and the social nicheworks that unite as a result. Curators promote interaction, collaboration, as well as education around the topics that are important to them. As such, services that empower curators will fill the void between creation and consumption. Forrester’s estimation of consumers of social content will erode from 70% to much lower numbers as many ease into social networking through curation – sharing with others the content that captivates their attention. The ease of doing so forever converts the static consumer into a productive curator or perhaps one day, a full fledged creator.
With creation and curation increasing the exchange of information commerce, we are moving new media toward the mainstream creating bridges between social and traditional media and the people who connect around related information. As such, what you discover and equally what you share creates an information economy rich with contextual and topical relevance linked through shared experiences.

Work process 
I want to collaborate in #edtech20 project with teachers worldwide and to discuss about new tools and apps web 2.0 , social media , and semantic web 3.0 . We will discover toghether how to use many edtools , apps and widgets related to mlearning, wikis , blogs , microblogs , social networking , news readers and news agregators , animation , cloud words , online communities , on-line web conferencing , chats and webinars , bookmarking , sharing using videos , photos , interactive presentations , documents , podcast and audio . I am in the top scoop.it curators ( 50 000 visitors on my topics )and for this reason I made a scoopit curation topic and also a blog for my favorite topics . 
This project AIMS to bring free semantic web in XXI Century Education . Here you can see curation in action and join , share and follow  this curation topics :
1.#curation http://edtech20curationprojectineducation.blogspot.com/
http://pinterest.com/web20education/curation-web20education-by-http-xeeme-com-ecurator/

  
6. Second Life http://teacherluciandumasecondlife.blogspot.com/

In conclusion let's make a big curation #edtech20 PLN and toghether we will discover semantic web 3.0 . I invite you to join FREE this project and complete this google doc with your informations http://tinyurl.com/doc-edtech20project and after I will invite you to became a member in our ning network http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/ and in our wiki
I will make a page on #edtech20 wiki with all collaborators http://web20andsocialmediaineducation2010.wikispaces.com/1.1.+edtech20+project+collaborators+ . All the members who will be involved in this project will use #edtech20 hastag and are invited to curate with me if they use scoopit and if not to add their comments and feedback about what I and other members share in this curation topics and also we will collaborate in our facebook page http://tinyurl.com/edtech20facebook .
I write this words about #edtech20 project, but your advices , comments and feed-back is welcome .

I invite you also to see my #edtech20 glog








Here is a useful presentation about curation 
December 11, 08:37 AM



Still the begining I want to thank you all who nomited #edtech20 wiki for Edublog Awards 2011 .

Thank you all who nominated us for #eddies Click on the photo Vote for us
Web 2.0 and Social Media education 2010 ,subscribe free to #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation blogThis wiki is made by Duma Cornel Lucian, Romania ( social media curator http://xeeme.com/eCurator/ teacher and researcher http://bit.ly/Lucian20 ) for #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project gateway to knowledge in #education20 . This free global project is extended of the project ,, Teach, learn, play in XXI Century using free tools and applications Web 2.0 , social media in a eSafety way in education 2.0” - finalist project in Elearning Awards 2010 .http://unhub.com/web20education/http://www.justabout.co/edtech20socialmediacurationproject. Everyoane can join free this global project 
http://goo.gl/WOqiQ 

December 03, 03:01 AM



My nomination for 2011 Edublog Awards

Now into the 8th year teachers worldwide are nominalized . For me is very hard to chose only 1 teacher or resercher per cathegory because in my google reader I have more than 3000 educational websites and blogs .
Here are my nominations :)

1. Best individual blog http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ - Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…For Teaching ELL, ESL & EFL .

2. Best individual tweeter http://twitter.com/#!/web20education : Twitter account for #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation and semantic global project gateway to knowledge in #education20 continuation of the eSafety free project in the clouds for teachers worldwide ,, Teach, learn, play in 21st Century using free tools and applications web 2.0 and social media in an eSafety way in education 2.0 ” . This project was finalist in ELEARNING AWARDS 2010 in the cathegory ENISA award for teaching online safety and citizenship .

3.Best group blog : DEN stars blog here http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/

4. Best new blog : Blog for #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation and semantic global project gateway to knowledge in #education20
http://edtech20curationprojectineducation.blogspot.com/

5
.Best resource sharing blog :Blog about Web 2.0, Social Media, eLearning tools and apps http://web20socialmediasafetyineducation.blogspot.com/ 

6. Best ed tech / resource sharing blog : Free Technology for Teachers http://www.freetech4teachers.com/


7. Most influential blog postTeacher Reboot Camp #30goals
http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/category/30-goals/

8.Best twitter hashtag #edchat 

9. Best teacher blog http://www.cybraryman.com/


10.Best librarian / library blog The VanMeter Voice http://vanmeterlibraryvoice.blogspot.com/


11 . Best school administrator blog A Principal's Reflections http://esheninger.blogspot.com


13.Best open PD / unConference / webinar series http://reformsymposium.com/ 

14.Best educational use of a social network http://www.integrating-technology.org/

15.Best web tool  Scoopit 


16.Best open PD / unconference / webinar series: Wes Fryer- K12 Online Conference http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=874

17.Lifetime achievement EDUTOPIA http://www.edutopia.org/




November 29, 01:11 PM




In a social media Curation world it is very hard to use all the tools to integrate new technologies in XXI Century Education and for this reason I launch #edtech20 #socialmedia  #curation global  project gateway to knowledge in #education20 
http://www.justabout.co/edtech20socialmediacurationproject
to collaborate with teachers worldwide . Read more here . Some tools are older , but also social media curation tools are new still this year 2011 and I will try to find the best as you can see here      
I invite you also to comment and add your favorite tools in 2011 on our page : on facebook http://goo.gl/eTpsz and google plus http://goo.gl/VGoQO . I invite you to join and collaborate in this  global#edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project goo.gl/n8snMYour comments and sugestions are welcome after you read this related to my favorite tools and 
1. Twitter is the best, most powerful tool to build a PLN . In only 140 characters Twitter bring a new dimmension for global sharing and worldwide collaboration . Instantly connect to what's most important to you. Follow your friends, experts, favorite celebrities, and breaking news

Follow me http://twitter.com/#!/web20education and use #edtech20 hastag . http://twubs.com/edtech20
Now I will write about my favorite social media curation tools . I also invite you still 1 december to visit the blog made for #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project where I will describe many social media curation tools like this http://edtech20curationprojectineducation.blogspot.com/ .
2. Scoopit is my favorite and the best social media curation tool in 6 mounths I reached 50 visits on my topics .Easily Publish Gorgeous Magazines. Leverage Curation to increase your visibility. Give persistence to your social media presence.
Here are my 5 favorite topics
Curation
Web 2.0 and Social Media
Elearning

mLearning

Google Plus 

3. Pearltrees it is also a awesome social media curation tool
Pearltrees is the best way to organize, discover and share the stuff you like on the web. How does it work? Pearl the stuff you like on the Web .
#edtech20 and curation / #edtools / #elearning in Lucian Duma bit.ly/Lucian20 (web20education)

4. Pinterest is also a new social media curation tool describe as The Best Broccoli of Your Life. LOVE this recipe. No one who has tried this has disliked it. 1 comment 1 repin







Source: chime.in via Lucian on Pinterest


5. Google Plus is also  a new tool to build a #PLN  . 
 Google+: real life sharing, rethought for the web.
Google+ aims to make sharing on the web more like sharing in real life. Check out Circles, Messenger and Hangouts, just a few of the things we've been working on.
I made a page for #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project to keep in touch with PLN http://goo.gl/wyidi 


on Google+

6. Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. I must told you this is a tool I use daily to keep in touch with friends and PLN .
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TIS4ETWINNERS/
I made a group for #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project 
and a page here




7. Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community . Diigo Groups provides a ground-breaking collaborative research and learning tool that allows any group of people to pool their findings through group bookmarks .






8. LinkedIn is a tool to build your own PLN ( Professsional Learning Network ) . Over 135 million professionals use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas and opportunities. Stay informed about your contacts and industry and join #edtech20 LinkedIn group

 

9. SymbalooEDU is a Social Media Curation Tool ,  Personal Learning Environment (PLE) for teachers to visually organize and share the best of the web with students. I am proud to be a symbaloo edu certificated teacher 


10 . eegoes | What matters to you?
eegoes is a social network and online community for easy, userfriendly geolocated content sharing. Meet people, share links, photos, videos and events . Join free our group and discover this new tool in beta and collabrate here http://www.eegoes.com/group/edtech20


I am happy  to be also Glogster Edu Ambassador
Glogster.com - Poster yourself - Make your interactive poster easily and share it with friends. Mix Images, Text, Music and Video. It is fantastic!



Here is the final presentation top 100 tools for learning by @c4lpt


This blog is curated by Lucian http://bit.ly/Lucian20 ; http://xeeme.com/eCurator/ founder of #edtech20#socialmedia #curation project http://tiny.cc/edtech20 and if you like this post share and comment and also kindly I invite you to join free this project herehttp://tiny.cc/docedtech20 and follow https://twitter.com/#!/web20education Also join our facebook page here http://tinyurl.com/edtech20facebook and our PLNhttp://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/ . Also I write when I don't tweet and curate in gr8 blogs here http://weblist.me/curation. I invite you to subscribe free to #socialmedia#curation blog
http://feeds.feedburner.com/edtech20CurationSemanticProjectInEducation ; web 2.0 blog
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Web20SocialMediaInSafetyModeInEducation ; Google Plus Blog
http://feeds.feedburner.com/GooglePlusChromeToolsAppsAndMoreInEducation20
mLearning blog 
http://feeds.feedburner.com/MlearningEdtoolsAndAppsIneducation20
and my first blog with gr8 tools and apps
http://feeds.feedburner.com/MyPln-PersonalLearningNetwork
I want also to invite you to see a mindmeister map made by Robin Good with best tools in 2011
August 29, 10:57 AM




This is my 100 post in this blog dear visitors and friends members of my #PLN and I am verry happy because my presentation ,,Building a powerful PLN in edtech20 project in the New Age of Curation"   
 was scheduled Friday 8 PM Bucharest time in  MoodleMoot Virtual Conferences in English and Spanish on WizIQ by Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning    and I invite you all to see free my session / class and all the sessions scheduled in this awesome conference organized by Dr . Nellie Deutsch Muller

Click on the phtoto to register and join free my class 


The MoodleMoot will take place from August 17-21 online via WiZiQ Virtual Classroom. The presentations will be conducted in both English and Spanish. You are invited to join the presentations now to ensure that you get the video recordings.

The topic tracks for MMVC11 are: 

  • Moodle for instruction and learning for blended and fully online courses
  • Teaching with Moodle in unique ways 
  • Online facilitation using Moodle 
  • Moodle tips 
  • Moodle communities of learning 
  • Research studies and case studies on teaching with Moodle
  • Moodle innovations and developments 
  • Best practices with Moodle 
  • Case studies
  • Innovations with Moodle, Mahara, Blended & Blended Online Learning 
  • Mobile Learning 
  • Action Research Projects 
  • Reflective Practice & E-portfolios 
  • New and Innovative Software 
  • Integration of technology into the curriculum 
Each presentation will be 40 - 60 minutes long with 15 min for questions and answers.

You are invited to join each of the events (public google docs) and/or website by clicking on the link provided for each session so you can get email notification reminders a few hours before they start as well as the recordings. Please make sure you set your time zone according to your location.  
 If you like my presentation I invite to join free  and collaborate in #edtech20 project http://unhub.com/web20education  here  http://tinyurl.com/doc-edtech20project  
and here you can subscribe for #edtech20 newsteller http://tinyletter.com/edtech20 . 
Instead of this photo I will post after the conference  presentation

I am very happy also because #edtech20 project has now a mobile app  and you can read what is new in our project here .
http://edtech20socialmediacurationproject.mobapp.at/
About
#edtech20 free project http://central.ly/web20education/ is extended of the project ,, Teach, learn, play in 21st Century using web 2.0, social media used in an e-Safe way in education 2.0 " who was selected finalist project in ELEARNING AWARDS 2010 , runner up in the cathegory ENISA silver award for teaching online safety and citizenship .

I start this project because I was selected in june 2010 by European Schoolnet to work in the TIS – Insafe ; Teaching Internet Safety Project under European Schoolnet and TeachToday . I made a team from next european teachers : Coordinator Lucian Cornel Duma (ROMANIA) - me , Aureo Torres (SPAIN) ,Maria Sourgiadaki (GREECE) ,Catalina Nicolin ( MECTS Romania ) and Inge de Cleyn ( Belgium ) . We work all at this module proposed by me is called ,, How teachers and students can use free web 2.0 and social media in education 2.0 “ and all the resource where presented on Teachtoday website between 21- 22 octomber 2010 at Safer Internet Forum in Louxembourg . We made next teaching units :
1. Free microblogging safely in education : Twitter apps http://www.slideshare.net/DUMACORNELLUCIAN/teaching-unit-free-blogging-safety-in-education-5326694
2. Free blogging safely in education http://www.slideshare.net/DUMACORNELLUCIAN/teaching-unit-free-blogging-safety-in-education-53343973.
3.Free animation 2.0 safely in education http://www.slideshare.net/DUMACORNELLUCIAN/free-animation-20-safety-in-education
4. How to introduce Internet safety issue via the discovery of free virtual worlds , Second Life.
I belive that new technologies web 2.0 and social media can open gateway to knowledge for teachers worldwide and for this reason curation tools will prepare the appearance of semantic web 3.0 in XXI Century Education and I http://gplus.to/LucianDumaTeacherCurator made on #edtech20 circle on google plus ( the new tool who prepaire the introduction of new web in #education20 ) . I wish in the future to make a big platform where teachers worldwide can discuss how they can integrate efficiently new technologies in #education20 , but for this we need help and founds and I hope toghether to bring edreform . 


Curation has always been an underrated form of creation and it is generally the selection of, care for and presentation of the objects entered into a collection, whether that collection is physical (such as items in a museum) , digital (such as entries in Wikipedia) . Today I use gr8 curation tools many in beta for curating social media ( tools, apps, articles , blog posts , tweets , videos , photos and much more ) like scoop.it , perltrees , postano , shareist , storify , chirpstory , curated.by and bagtheweb .
 My favorite are 4 scoop.it , pearltrees , postano , shareist, but every day appear new curation tools who prepair the aparition of Semantic Web who is driving the evolution of the current Web by enabling users to find, share, and combine information more easily . For example delicious tool is a kind of curation, but this new curation tools allows your readers to add comments and suggestion for evry post .
The emphasis of curation may vary among:
The selection process - such as the use of expertise or expert advice to decide what items or content should be added to a collection or archive.
The caretaking process - controlling the decay of historical object (such as census records) .
Presentation - determining how objects or records are displayed, including what metadata will be displayed along with them.
2011 is the begining of New Era of Curation and every day appear new awesome social media curation tools like write Mashable in the article 4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the web . When I read Mashable's article I allready used Pearltrees http://pearltrees.com/#/web20education and after I made #edtech20 team on pearltrees . When Tim Berners Lee originally conceived of the Internet, he envisioned three principal functions and I think that is curation
Allow anyone to access any type of document
Allow everyone to disseminate his or her own documents
Allow everyone to organize the entire collection of documents

Brian Solis write also in his website about curation and curators who play an important role in the evolution of new media, the reach of material information, and the social nicheworks that unite as a result. Curators promote interaction, collaboration, as well as education around the topics that are important to them. As such, services that empower curators will fill the void between creation and consumption. Forrester’s estimation of consumers of social content will erode from 70% to much lower numbers as many ease into social networking through curation – sharing with others the content that captivates their attention. The ease of doing so forever converts the static consumer into a productive curator or perhaps one day, a full fledged creator.
With creation and curation increasing the exchange of information commerce, we are moving new media toward the mainstream creating bridges between social and traditional media and the people who connect around related information. As such, what you discover and equally what you share creates an information economy rich with contextual and topical relevance linked through shared experiences.

I want to collaborate in #edtech20 project with teachers worldwide and to discuss about new tools and apps web 2.0 , social media , and semantic web 3.0 . We will discover toghether how to use many edtools , apps and widgets related to mlearning, wikis , blogs , microblogs , social networking , news readers and news agregators , animation , cloud words , online communities , on-line web conferencing , chats and webinars , bookmarking , sharing using videos , photos , interactive presentations , documents , podcast and audio . I am in the top scoop.it curators ( 30 000 visitors on my topics )and for this reason I made a scoopit curation topic and also a blog for my favorite topics
1.#curation http://edtech20curationprojectineducation.blogspot.com/


google chrome , tools , apps and more in education 2.0 


4.#mlearning http://mlearningedtoolsandappsineducation20.blogspot.com/



5.#elearning http://elearningappsandtoolsineducation20.blogspot.com/
  
6. Second Life http://teacherluciandumasecondlife.blogspot.com/

In conclusion let's make a big curation #edtech20 PLN and toghether we will discover semantic web 3.0 . I invite you to join FREE this project and complete this google doc with your informations http://tinyurl.com/doc-edtech20project and after I will invite you to became a member in our ning network http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/ and in our wiki
I will make a page on #edtech20 wiki with all collaborators http://web20andsocialmediaineducation2010.wikispaces.com/1.1.+edtech20+project+collaborators+ . All the members who will be involved in this project will use #edtech20 hastag and are invited to curate with me if they use scoopit and if not to add their comments and feedback about what I and other members share in this curation topics and also we will collaborate in our facebook page http://tinyurl.com/edtech20facebook .
I write this words about #edtech20 project, but your advices , comments and feed-back is welcome .

I invite you also to see my #edtech20 glog







Leadership Day 2011 Google COLLABORATION DOCUMENT 



Scott McLeod, a highly regarded education leader who is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Kentucky, is calling today for educators who blog to participate in Leadership Day 2011. Dr. McLeod issued the following assignment for those who would like to lend their voice to the conversation in his fifth annual Leadership Day:

"
On Friday, August 5, 2011, blog about whatever you like related to effective school technology leadership: successes, challenges, reflections, needs, wants, resources, ideas, etc. Write a letter to the administrators in your area. Post a top ten list. Make a podcast or a video. Highlight a local success or challenge. Recommend some readings. Do an interview of a successful technology leader. Respond to some of the questions below or make up your own. If you participated in years past, post a follow-up reflection. Whatever strikes you."
June 14, 09:11 AM



About 
Primary Technology is dedicated to ICT in Education. Established in 2004 with a focus on providing high quality primary school ICT support, quickly became a Naace accredited company and won awards for work in schools throughout Bradford. They ensure teaching and learning never suffers from technical issues , a variety of learning resources and communication tools.

Open Source

We actively support the open source community by releasing projects online and collaborating with non-profit organisations and schools. We are helping to enable a more transparent system that does not profiteer from education. All of our online learning resources for children run no advertisements; teachers have confidence to trust the content that we provide and this helps to bring new users to the sites.

Globally Free

We provide tens of thousands of web pages every day generating no direct revenue but providing important, otherwise unavailable services to ensure education can take place. Free doesn't pay the bills but it can make a big difference to a child's life.

Putting Education first, second and third.

Being ahead of the curve is important in today's market place. We constantly deliver services months before competitors. We do not provide ICT services to consumers or business, allowing us to focus all energies on providing new and improved services to education.
Primary Wall is a web-based sticky note tool designed for schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time . I like very much because the wal can be protected with a password .

School Email is a hosted email service for secondary schools and colleges. It is designed for staff and students with a number of desirable features including child protection, calendar sharing and large mailbox storage.

Primary Email is a hosted email service for primary schools. It is designed for staff and pupils with spam filtering, child protection, calendar sharing and large mailbox storage.
Primary Pad is a web-based word processor which promotes collaborative learning. It is designed for schools allowing teachers and pupils to work on a pad at the same time. Pads can be public or shared only within schools and can be accessed from any computer with an internet connection. This allows for collaborative learning to continue outside of school

Primary Paint allows children to paint, draw, write and colour. Not only can one child get creative with this, Primary Paint allows multiple users allowing for a collaborative creative masterpiece! 

Primary Blogger is a free blog service with over 1,000 active blogs. It is free from advertising making it ideal for schools. It is easy to use and has some great customising features making it suitable for staff and children. You can also integrate this with your school’s VLE. 

School backups allows you to minimise downtime, by providing quick access to your data and the quickest possible way of restoring your server state. Our Service provides daily backups of teacher and pupil work and server state backups every 5 days, 24-hour restoration of files, confirmation emails, alerts and unlimited storage (fair use policy applies).

Primary School Teaching is a free service for teachers to share their lesson plans and resources. Not only can you access resources easily but you can edit other people’s resources to improve them and keep them up to date.

May 25, 05:06 PM


Dear friends teachers and researchers members of my #edtech20 PLN I want to announce you that I launch the #edtech20 #curation and #semantic project and in this project I want to collaborate with teachers worldwide to bring toghether semantic web 3.0 in the classrom http://unhub.com/web20education/ . If you want to join free this project please repply here , send me a email webmaster@luciandumateachweb20.eu or fill up this document with your information  and after I will invite you to collaborate in this blog and  #edtech20 PLN                                                                  and wiki 
Today I want to write about gr8 stiky note /websites who can be used free on-line in your projects or in your classroom part 1 .Please add comments , feedback and suggestions . 



1. Wallwisher is the first edtool used for stiky note . You can post photos , videos , links and more in a wall .
When was your big bang?
Wallwisher was born out of the offices of SharedCopy in January 2008 (and you thought only living beings conceived). For over a year, the project was in a perpetual zombified state thanks to the academic commitments of the project's sole active janitor (pronounced 'yan - eetor'), Nitesh (@xiphar). In April 2009, the project was brought back from the dead. Where did the idea come from?
Wallwisher's janitor has a post-it overuse problem. He uses post-its as reminders, coasters, bookmarks, wrappers for used gum, to-do list managers, memos. So he decided to have some post-its for the web. SharedCopy, a startup that dealt with adding notes to web pages, therefore, came as a natural choice for the janitor's December internship. It was there that the janitor came up with the idea for using a sticky-note/noticeboard interface for communicating on the web. How is Wallwisher built?
Wallwisher is coded in PHP which is, as the name suggests, a language full of Pretty Horrible Practices. To find coding nirvana, therefore, Wallwisher uses the CodeIgniter PHP framework which has to be the next messiah many religions are waiting for.
On the front end, the coolness is possible thanks to the jQuery javascript library. Anyone out there who uses any other javascript library is, in the janitor's opinion, a web hater.

Here you can see a wall made by me for Lisa because today was her BIRTHDAY and teachers woldwide wish her HAPPY BIRTHDAY @teachingwthsoul

2.PrimaryWall is a web-based sticky note tool designed for schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time. http://edtech20project.primarywall.com/2
What is Primary Wall useful for?
Getting ideas, collaborating, sharing and quickly posting pieces of information when working in a group or collaborative environment.
Why is PrimaryWall better than any other web based sticky note platform
PrimaryWall was concieved by a teacher and is built for schools so we kept things simple, fast and user friendly.
3.Stixy is  your online bulletin board. Create as many Stixyboards as you like, one for each project. Use Stixy to easily organize and share:
  • Your family’s schedule
  • Projects at work
  • An upcoming holiday with your friends
  • Your photos from your last bike trip
  • Or share a file or two with a friend
Only you set the limitations for how you want to use Stixy.
Be creative! We have no fixed grid that you need to follow. Can you see the widgets in the widget tray below? Just drag a widget out on the board and place it anywhere you want. Resize it, move it around, and select from a number of options to design your reminders, photos, notes, and files.
Share
To share a Stixyboard with friends, family, or your colleagues at work, is as easy as it gets. Sometimes it’s nice or in fact necessary to have an online space for common photos, reminders, files, and so forth. Each Stixyboard has a unique set of members. No one else can see or use your board unless you choose to open your board for public view.

4.Corkboard.me for presentations, demos, online classes and more. 

Features

Ever wanted to show someone your cork board but didn’t want them to edit it? Well now you can. Whether you’re giving a presentation, teaching a remote class, showing off your talent or simply sending others your task list, use the view-only URL to ensure your cork stays yours. Find it in the bottom left corner of your board.
Have a website? Add your cork to it! Like your favorite video sharing site, adding your cork board to your own website is as easy as clicking a few buttons and clicking paste. Find the embed tag right next to the view-only URL. Check out the awesome one we made above.
See changes in real time.
This feature got us really excited. If your coworker adds a new note, you see it. If your boss makes an edit, you get it. If your hubby adds a picture, you see that picture too — no need to be in the same room, no need to continuously refresh the page.
Chat with other viewers.
Sometimes there are things that just don’t fit well on a cork board, and when working with others, conversation can be one of those things. That’s why we implemented a chat feature so you can communicate with others contributing to your board.
Find what you’re looking for.
This feature’s actually been there awhile, but we didn’t give it much press. If you’re working with others and have many notes, finding them can be trouble. Not to worry. Now you can use the built-in mini-map to easily find what you’re looking for.
cork on your own website! to Your Cork Board
Did you know you can post images on your corkboard? This feature has been available since day one, but the truth is most people didn’t. It’s real easy .


5.Edistorm takes the metaphor of sticky notes on a boardroom wall and brings it online allowing anyone - anywhere to brainstorm with only a web browser.
Each user picks their favorite ideas and Edistorm brings the best ones forward.
Features : 
Always Available
At the end of a traditional brainstorming session, someone takes a picture of the boardroom wall and then either tasks someone to transcribe the chaos or more likely, email the photo out to everyone. Next time you goto revisit the issue, you end up starting from scratch wasting time, money and ideas.
Edistorm allows you to work on your ideas during a structured brainstorming session but the storm is available 24/7 and can be referred to, added to and revised on an ongoing basis.
Idea Database
We have calendars to store events, address books to store contacts, yet we don't have a place to store ideas. We've all stored ideas in emails to ourself, on scraps of paper or notebooks we can never find, or worse yet forgot them.
Edistorm is an always available idea database to store, retrieve, share and get feedback to build on your ideas.
Visual Idea Organization
Edistorm allows you to organize your ideas in a real time interactive wall. Each sticky note can have its own color and the users decide what the arrangement means to them.
This freeform method of collaboration will feel familiar to anyone that has thrown stickies on their walls.
Make Better Decisions
Research has proven that groups of users can make better decisions than a single user.
Because you're not limited by the size of your boardroom or the ability to facilitate brainstorming with a group larger than a dozen, you can collaborate with your entire organization in coming up with better ideas.
Each employee can add ideas, vote on the ones they like and make comments on specific ideas to help refine or improve them.
Freedom to Brainstorm
Edistorm is always free for anyone adding ideas to a brainstorming. Feel free to invite anyone you'd like.
Creating public or solo brainstorms is always free, while creating private invite only storms requires a subscription.
All accounts have a no credit card required 30 day free trial.
Idea Bots
Even if you're brainstorming by yourself, you're never on your own. Edistorm created Idea Bots that brainstorm with you providing you suggested ideas.
Edistorm has a variety of bots including, thesaurus, rhyming, related words and a social media bot. We're open to suggestions for future bots.



6.Linoit.com  is a web application that provides you with an online canvas and allows you to post online stickies, pictures, videos, and attachments. You can also share your online canvas with others by sharing its URL. Sharing the URL would allow others to post stickies as well. You can probably see how Lino it could be used to conduct an online gallery walk. To give you an idea of what it could look like, I inserted an screenshot of an online canvas with pictures of four multiplication solutions and stickies with questions and comments posted around them. Now you can collaborate in groups using this interesting edtool .

7. Nota is casual collaboration.                                                                                                              Nota is a unique, cutting-edge collaborative web platform that allows users to create, share and collaborate on presentations and virtually any other form of online material. Using Nota’s proprietary toolset, users can instantly integrate text, video, maps, clip art, photos from web album or on the local computer, or license-free images from Flickr, and material from an ever-expanding array of sources. Users can then instantly embed their work in Facebook or blogs, and can share and collaborate with friends.


  • It's easy to use, even for someone with no computer experience.
  • Fast load times mean near instant co-creation


8.PinDax offers a fun real-time alternative to the traditional online message board.
Features include:
  • Post text, images, files and polls in real-time
  • No download needed, runs in your browser
  • Customizable widgets integrate into your site
  • E-mail notification when there are new posts and replies
  • Search your posts
  • Send posts via e-mail
  • Chat with other members viewing your board
  • Add categories and feeds
  • Approve messages before they are seen
  • Keep your board private or share it with the world

May 09, 11:54 AM


Dear teachers still the begining I wish you all a  Happy Europe Day 2011 .

  Because I write in my blog about new edtools and apps today I want to show you a presentation made by me related to European Union , EU educational projects and  programes and Roamania in European Union and I appreciate your comments and feedback .
April 23, 08:10 AM


Dear Teachers,  Ressurection of Son of God is the biggest holiday of Christianity because  our Savior Jesus Christ was sacrified for our sins   on  Cross of Golgota ( Calvary  ) . 
 For this reason I develop with my students many religious projects and I want to present you a glogsteredu after International Contest ,, Ressurection of Son of God and the Renaissance of whole making " organized in International Project ,, Different, but Equal " and please add your feedback and comments here .


 





Also we collaborate with Dr Teresa Fernandes from Lisbon, Portugal  in  eTwinning   project ,,    Jesus Christ  our Passover Lamb was sacrified for us . " 
What is Passover What is Easter? For some of our students the season is often above all associated with eating chocolate eggs/ bunnies or sugared almonds . At family gatherings, when relatives or friends refer to the First Passover in Egypt, to The Last Supper, to The Gethsemane Conflicts, or even to Jesus’ Trials, Death, Resurrection or Ascension, these youngsters have sometimes difficulty in following the reasoning .Well known films like The Prince of Egypt or The Passion act sometimes as mediators of meaning, so that young people may fit into the context of such conversations … This central information is clarified by bringing together several episodes in the Old and New Testament: for example Isaac saved from death by the lamb graciously provided by God; the firstborns of the Israelites saved in Egypt by the blood of the perfect lamb put as mark in the doors of their houses to keep death away; Jesus announced by John the Baptist as the unique, perfect, innocent Lamb approved by God; the vicarious Death and Resurrection of Christ to draw every sin and everyman unto Himself; Jesus, the Lamb of God, ascending and glorified in heaven, sitting on the throne as Ruler over rulers. All these point to the central importance of the Lamb both for the Jews ( Passover ) and for the Christians ( Easter ) as substitute and deliverer, both taking the place of people and rescuing them from physical / spiritual death, and conquering eternal life for the redeemed and becoming advocate and judge Himself. How many of our students know that the fact that a Lamb/young sheep is still preferred course in the Easter menu in many European countries had its origin in the first Passover in Egypt, about three thousand years ago? Also the instruction in the Old Testament that the High Priest was allowed to present himself only once in a year before God in the Holy of Holies contrasts with the fact that in the New Testament we read the curtain of the temple was suddenly torn as Jesus died, meaning with that that the communication with God was now open to personal relationship for everyone interested in having it . How many of them know that in the Old Testament the High Priest had to confess his sins and the people’s sins over the scapegoat as prerequisite to enter the Holy of Holies, and only after that could he send the substitution scapegoat to the desert to die in the place of the people - a type of Jesus in the New Testament, who took over Himself all the people’s sins and because of them was severely punished and put to death. 



April 17, 03:30 PM


Dear teachers and researchers if you like #edtech20 curation and semantic  project in XXI Century Education I invite you to join free #edtech20  PLN http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/ ; to collaborate and post in #edtech20 blog http://edtech20curationprojectineducation.blogspot.com/ and our  wiki http://web20andsocialmediaineducation2010.wikispaces.com/
please fill this document http://tinyurl.com/doc-edtech20project
 and write your name, your email ,  your country , your twitter username , your blog and I will invite you to join . This is a free project for teachers who aims to bring semantic web , social media and web 2.0  in XXI Century Education and discover new #edtech20  #edtools .


You can read more about this project on facebook page http://unhub.com/web20education/82504 and see a interactive presentation using 21st century multimedia tool for educators GlogsterEdu 

 Still today I work alone for this project, but I invite all of you to collaborate to make a big #edtech20 community   . http://unhub.com/web20education/82503 



This year 2011  I want  to begin  a new dimmension in #edtech20  curator and  semantic web  project in XXI Century Education and for this reason I invite all of you to collaborate on our wiki .
 For more informations please   read my post ,, Building a powerfull PLN " in #edtech20 blog  http://teacherluciandumaweb20.blogspot.com/2011/03/building-powerful-pln-edchat-iste-using.html      and for this reason I invite educators worldwide to join our PLN  http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/ http://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.59/t.gif  to share new edtools in #edtech20 wiki . http://web20andsocialmediaineducation2010.wikispaces.com/               I want also to invite all of you to join and follow #edtech20 curation topic  http://www.scoop.it/t/web20andsocialmediaesafetyinxxicenturyeducation/http://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.59/t.gif
and follow on twitter https://twitter.com/#!/web20education
If you like blogging  I invite you to join free #edtech20  blog where  you can share resouces and new edtools in XXI Century Education .In the same time I want to  collaborate and to discuss  with all of  you related  to  social media ,  web 2.0 and semantic  web 3.0 .  Dear teachers I also know  we are involved in many educational activities, and projects  but this project aims to discover new edtools who can be succesfully integrated in XXI Century Education and for this reason I made also a facebook page to keep in touch :) https://www.facebook.com/pages/Web-20-and-new-tehnologies-in-education-still-2010/103495893021586?sk=app_112493455447504 . We will  discover toghether  how to use eSafety  many edtools  , apps and widgets related to semantic web and Social Media in XXI Century Education . We will discuss about  Social Media Curation Tools ,  wikis , blogs , microblogs , social networking , news readers and news agregators ,  animation ,   cloud words  , online communities ,  on-line web conferencing , chats and  webinars ,  bookmarking  , sharing using videos , photos , interactive presentations , documents , podcast and audio and much more .
I launch this  Free project in the clouds for teachers around the world http://unhub.com/web20education/http://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.59/t.gif ,, Teach, learn ,play in XXI Century using free tools and applications Web 2.0 , social media in a eSafety way in education 2.0 “ .My project was selected in the finalists projects in  ELearning Awards 2010http://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.59/t.gif http://tinyurl.com/pfinalistineLearningAwards2010http://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.59/t.gif I made a #edtech20  PLN - Public Learning Networks for my #edtech20http://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.59/t.gif project free for teachers : http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/http://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.59/t.gif ; Everyoane is welcome to join our groups for this PLN based on new tehnologies esafety in education : on facebookhttp://tinyurl.com/edtech20facebookhttp://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.59/t.gif http://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.59/t.gifon Linkedinhttp://tinyurl.com/edtech20linkedinhttp://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.59/t.gif on Diigo.http://tinyurl.com/edtech20diigohttp://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.59/t.gif On wiggiohttp://tinyurl.com/edtech20wiggiohttp://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.59/t.gif Cloudworkshttp://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/4246http://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.59/t.gif . I launch this project because in 2010 I was selected by European Schoolnet to work in the TIS – Insafe ; Teaching Internet Safety Project . I made a team from 5 european teachers . We work all at this module proposed by me is called ,, How teachers and students can use free web 2.0 and social media in education “ and all the resource where presented on Teachtoday website between 21- 22 octomber 2010 at Safer Internet Forum in Louxembourg . Follow me on Twitter @web20educationhttp://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.59/t.gif , Use hastag#edtech20http://i.ixnp.com/images/v6.59/t.gif
Here you can read about   #edtech20 project - Gateway through knowledge in XXI Century Education 
,, Web 2.0 and social media can bring a new dimension and can reform education worldwide  because electronic communication helps teachers and students to learn from each other. These new tehnologies can stimulate discussion, open gateway through knowledge, promote creativity and innovation for effective learning. Teacher and also students should have an entitlement to safe internet access at all times. Pulling Piaget and Papert , the use of participatory media tools in education is typically geared towards, creating a more student centered, adaptive environnement where learners can contribute to the course material, formulate and express their own insights and opinion, construct their own understanding of material by connecting concepts, to personal experience or current events, and learn from one another in collaborative environments . Web 2.0 , social media and other digital and information tehnologies are powerful and interesting tools, which open up new opportunities for everyone and for this reason teachers and students must know how to use it nowadays in a safety mode
. "
April 12, 05:07 AM


If you want to join this project please read this and complete this  doc http://tinyurl.com/doc-edtech20project
and  join the group creted for this project
http://www.enterthegroup.com/pg/groups/32810/esafety-edtech20-project-in-the-clouds-for-teachers-worldwide-in-xxi-century-education/
Read more about #edtech20  project #socialmedia and #semanticweb Curator  on #Skype in XXI Century Education here http://education.skype.com/projects/282 and if you like join
This year 2011  I want  to begin  a new dimmension in #edtech20 project  Social Media , web 2.0 and semantic web  Curator in XXI Century Education . For more informations please   read my post ,, Building a powerfull PLN " in #edtech20 blog http://teacherluciandumaweb20.blogspot.com/2011/03/building-powerful-pln-edchat-iste-using.html  and for this reason I invite educators worldwide to join our PLN  http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/  to share new edtools in #edtech20 wiki .

I want also to invite all of you to join and follow this topic  http://www.scoop.it/t/web20andsocialmediaesafetyinxxicenturyeducation/

and follow on twitter https://twitter.com/#!/web20education
If you like blogging  I invite you to join free #edtech20 blog where you can share resouces and new edtools in XXI Century Education . http://web20socialmediasafetyineducation.blogspot.com/

In the same time I want to  collaborate and to discuss  with all of  you related  to  social media ,  web 2.0 and semantic  web 3.0 .  Dear teachers I also know  we are involved in many educational activities, and projects  but this project aims to discover new edtools who can be succesfully integrated in XXI Century Education and for this reason I made also a facebook page to keep in touch :) https://www.facebook.com/pages/Web-20-and-new-tehnologies-in-education-still-2010/103495893021586?sk=app_112493455447504 





 We will  discover toghether  how to use eSafety  many edtools  , apps and widgets related to Social Media Curation Tools ,  wikis , blogs , microblogs , social networking , news readers and news agregators ,  animation ,   cloud words  , online communities ,  on-line web conferencing , chats and  webinars ,  bookmarking  , sharing using videos , photos , interactive presentations , documents , podcast and audio 
  In conclusion let's make toghether a free eSafety #edtech20 PLN .

I launch this  Free project in the clouds for teachers around the world http://unhub.com/web20education/ ,, Teach, learn ,play in XXI Century using free tools and applications Web 2.0 , social media in a eSafety way in education 2.0 “ .My project was selected in the finalists projects in  ELearning Awards 2010 http://tinyurl.com/pfinalistineLearningAwards2010 I made a #edtech20  PLN - Public Learning Networks for my #edtech20 project free for teachers : http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/ ; Everyoane is welcome to join our groups for this PLN based on new tehnologies esafety in education : on facebookhttp://tinyurl.com/edtech20facebook on Linkedinhttp://tinyurl.com/edtech20linkedin on Diigo.http://tinyurl.com/edtech20diigo On wiggiohttp://tinyurl.com/edtech20wiggio Cloudworkshttp://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/4246 . I launch this project because in 2010 I was selected by European Schoolnet to work in the TIS – Insafe ; Teaching Internet Safety Project . I made a team from 5 european teachers . We work all at this module proposed by me is called ,, How teachers and students can use free web 2.0 and social media in education “ and all the resource where presented on Teachtoday website between 21- 22 octomber 2010 at Safer Internet Forum in Louxembourg . Follow me on Twitter @web20education , Use hastag#edtech20 
Here you can see  #edtech20 project - Gateway through knowledge in XXI Century Education 
,, Web 2.0 and social media can bring a new dimension and can reform education around the Europe because electronic communication helps teachers and students to learn from each other. These new tehnologies can stimulate discussion, open gateway through knowledge, promote creativity and innovation for effective learning. Teacher and also students should have an entitlement to safe internet access at all times. Pulling Piaget and Papert , the use of participatory media tools in education is typically geared towards, creating a more student centered, adaptive environnement where learners can contribute to the course material, formulate and express their own insights and opinion, construct their own understanding of material by connecting concepts, to personal experience or current events, and learn from one another in collaborative environments . Web 2.0 , social media and other digital and information tehnologies are powerful and interesting tools, which open up new opportunities for everyone and for this reason teachers and students must know how to use it nowadays in a safety mode. "







#edtech20 project Teaching #web20 and #SocialMedia #eSafety


If you have propose how to develop and collaborate and what you think about the #edtech20 project please add here like comments . Thank you .
April 05, 06:35 AM



Dear friends, teachers and researchers  thank you very much because you nominalized #edtech20 blog in 2 cathegories for Education Blog Awards 2011 http://educationblogawards.org/ . If you think I post in my blog  useful informations for XXI Century Education please follow next steps click on the images  and vote for  my blog (1 minute to add your vote ) for 


TEACHER BLOG OF THE YEAR 



Please vote for #edtech20 blog 


MOST INFLUENTIAL BLOG OF THE YEAR

April 17, 02:14 AM





Twitter is the best web 2.0 microblogging tool for sharing using social media In only 140 character twitter bring a new dimenssion for global  collaboration using new technologies . Click on the photos to follow #5yrs#twitter stream

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages and it is also an online tool that lets you write brief text updates – tweets  .
 Twitter is the best microblogging tool for sharing using social media in nowadays education . In only 140 characters twitter revolutionize the concept of global sharing  and worldwide collaboration . Twitter  has  thousounds of tools and applications who make from twitter numer 1 web 2.0 tool for sharing around the world and for this reason teachers and students must learn how to use it in a safety way 
I include twitter in the best #edtools to build a PLN read more here 
 I give a strawberry cake for my twitter followers :)





Now let's see more informations about twitter 
Amazingly, it's five years ago today that the first tweet was sent and twitter have a Tiny team .  Over these years, Twitter has matured and made an impact in the areas of social responsibility, politics, sports, media, and more. The people who use Twitter have made it what it is today, and on our fifth birthday, it's the people that make Twitter special who we are celebrating.


There are now more than 400 full time employees working at Twitter. In the last year alone we have made huge progress towards stability and performance. This work sets us up to continue innovating but it also allows us to build a profitable business on a strong foundation. We are in a position now which allows us to continue serving and delighting everyone who relies on Twitter to connect them to that which is meaningful for another five years and beyond.

Twitter users now send more than 140 million Tweets a day which adds up to a billion Tweets every 8 days—by comparison, it took 3 years, 2 months, and 1 day to reach the first billion Tweets. While it took about 18 months to sign up the first 500,000 accounts, we now see close to 500,000 accounts created every day. All of this momentum and growth often pales in comparison to a single compassionate Tweet by a caring person who wants to help someone in need.
Now let's see some twitter statistics Today, on every measure of growth and engagement, Twitter is growing at a record pace. Here are some numbers:


#tweets
  • 3 years, 2 months and 1 day. The time it took from the first Tweet to the billionth Tweet.
  • 1 week. The time it now takes for users to send a billion Tweets.
  • 50 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, one year ago.
  • 140 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, in the last month.
  • 177 million. Tweets sent on March 11, 2011.
  • 456. Tweets per second (TPS) when Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 (a record at that time).
  • 6,939. Current TPS record, set 4 seconds after midnight in Japan on New Year’s Day.

#accounts

  • 572,000. Number of new accounts created on March 12, 2011.
  • 460,000. Average number of new accounts per day over the last month.
  • 182%. Increase in number of mobile users over the past year.

#employees

  • 8. 29. 130. 350. 400. Number of Twitter employees in Jan 2008, Jan 2009, Jan 2010, Jan 2011 and today.
The people who use Twitter make it special because for any interest we might have, somebody is tweeting about it. We're lucky to have so many people using Twitter in so many interesting and important ways. 
Happy Birthday, Twitter—and thank you.

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May 16, 02:58 AM




Vizaroo understands the need for simple and useful teaching tools. We will be starting with a suite of collaborative graphic organizers. We can’t wait to share them with you, and we look forward to hearing your feedback and suggestions.CURATION RESTART EDUCATION PROJECT http://bit.ly/credproject . Welcome in the new Age of #Curation http://bit.ly/CurationKing & http://bit.ly/curationglog by @ https://twitter.com/#!/web20education - wish you all Lucian http://xeeme.com/Lucianecurator/ . I invite to subscribe for NEW #edtech20 #socialmedia #Curation newsletter http://bitly.com/edtech20newsteller register to join free http://bitly.com/docedtech20 #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project http://web20education.bo.lt/g6538 and Install free our #mlearning app http://bitly.com/edtech20mLearningapp .Like and collaborate on facebook http://on.fb.me/likeedtech20facebookpage and Circle on Google Plus http://bitly.com/circleedtech20googlepluspage and Subscribe free to gr8 #edtech20 blogs : top 10 blog http://bitly.com/egr8blog :http://bitly.com/feededtech20blogs related to new web 2.0, social media startups http://bitly.com/web20eblog , curation http://bitly.com/curationblog ; mLearning apps http://bitly.com/mLearningblog , google plus http://bitly.com/googleplusblog , and my romanian blog http://bitly.com/eblogulmeu . Like and collaborate on facebook http://on.fb.me/likeedtech20facebookpage , linkedin http://linkd.in/edtech20linkedin , diigo http://bitly.com/edtech20diigo
May 16, 02:07 AM






QWIKI CHANNELS
Easily combine your voice, pictures, videos and more into a beautiful, interactive experience describing anything.
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QWIKI IS THE FUTURE
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Posting a Qwiki is easy and fun. Add media; speak your mind! With the bookmarklet and web cam support you can create rich media in minutes.
Get an interactive channel of your own.
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Qwikis include pics and videos uploaded or embedded from anywhere, plus interactive maps. Info graphics coming soon!
Create once, play anywhere
Soon, Qwikis will be effortlessly optimized for the iPhone and iPad. Create and consume on the go!

CURATION RESTART EDUCATION PROJECT http://bit.ly/credproject . Welcome in the new Age of #Curation http://bit.ly/CurationKing & http://bit.ly/curationglog by @ https://twitter.com/#!/web20education - wish you all Lucian http://xeeme.com/Lucianecurator/ . I invite to subscribe for NEW #edtech20 #socialmedia #Curation newsletter http://bitly.com/edtech20newsteller register to join free http://bitly.com/docedtech20 #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project http://web20education.bo.lt/g6538 and Install free our #mlearning app http://bitly.com/edtech20mLearningapp .Like and collaborate on facebook http://on.fb.me/likeedtech20facebookpage and Circle on Google Plus http://bitly.com/circleedtech20googlepluspage and Subscribe free to gr8 #edtech20 blogs : top 10 blog http://bitly.com/egr8blog :http://bitly.com/feededtech20blogs related to new web 2.0, social media startups http://bitly.com/web20eblog , curation http://bitly.com/curationblog ; mLearning apps http://bitly.com/mLearningblog , google plus http://bitly.com/googleplusblog , and my romanian blog http://bitly.com/eblogulmeu . Like and collaborate on facebook http://on.fb.me/likeedtech20facebookpage , linkedin http://linkd.in/edtech20linkedin , diigo http://bitly.com/edtech20diigo
May 15, 01:48 AM



StudyShuffle moves your students' homework from the bottoms of their backpacks to the internet, just a click away from Facebook!

Features
Intuitive Card Editor
Use StudyShuffle's simple WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) card editor to design cards which clearly and succinctly display the material your students need to succeed in class. It's as easy as writing an email! Teachers can use various formatting features and even add images to their cards.

Multiple Assessment Methods

Choose from three different methods of assessment. You can allow students to self-assess, use a timed multiple choice option, or quiz students wth a timed prompt which asks them to type in the response to each card themselves. If a particular assessment method isn't working well, change it at any time!

Track Students' Progress
See how often your students are using StudyShuffle and whether they're up-to-date with their cards. Decide the best time to quiz material in class and discover which topics your students need help with.

Spaced Repetition Algorithm
Academic research on memory has found that information is best learned when students are quizzed on material right before they would have forgotten it. StudyShuffle implements a spaced repetition algorithm to determine when best to present material to students. Material is never completely done being studied; it's only presented less frequently. Come finals, all of the students will be familiar with all of the course material.

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May 11, 04:16 AM



Planboard is a simple tool made specifically for teachers and educators to simplify their lesson planning. Features include being able to share calendars, print off schedules, and being able to re-use your lesson plans for next year. Best of all, there is no software installation necessary. It's simple to get organized with Planboard who eliminates the need for bulky physical books by centralizing everything onto a computer. Ranging from broad yearly scopes, to weekly overviews, down to detailed reminders, you can gain access to personal plans anytime, anywhere. Not only will you be saving time, you'll be helping save trees too.
Features

Plan your classes.
Planboard's convenient calendar helps you easily plan and view your academic year. It's quick and effortless to add items in for each class. Need a synopsis on weekly schedules? Navigate to see an overview of that week. Have a lot on your plate? Use the day planner to view all tasks and reminders specific to that day.

Access from anywhere.
You'll be able to access Planboard securely from practically anywhere. All you need is a computer, internet connection, and a compatible web browser. Whether in the classroom or at home, you can comfortably edit your plans on-the-go.


Share your schedules.

Share your plans by printing or generating a PDF of your daily or weekly schedule. Have a student that missed your class? Or a new substitute teacher? Share your Planboard with them to enable them to see what they've missed and what they need to do.


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May 09, 02:37 AM



Pegby is a startup tool Peg it up, Move it Around, Get it Done.
Come to the board with friends, family and/or coworkers and get stuff done. Make your plans by pegging up cards to your board or boards. It's simple and fun.

Features
The Board.
It became a catch phrase across Skype as they built Pegby: let's go to the Board. Using an unlimited number of Boards, you can collaborate with friends, family, co-workers and even strangers...if you like that sort of thing.

The Column.
We've seen boards with twentyColumns, which is no big deal for Pegby. With sweet minimization and drag and drop capability, create as many Columns as you'd like but focus on the ones that matter to you in the moment.

The Card.
Pegby began with the Card. Pegby's core strength and flexibility comes from the simple, good-naturedCard. Double-click to add a title. Double-click to add a description. Assign it to yourself or your friend. Drag it around. Push it off. Heck, throw a little color on it.

The Stack.
Ah, the Stack, the must have and most often used feature. Simply drag and drop a Card onto anotherCard and a Stack you have made. It doesn't stop there. You can minimize Stacks and drag them too! A personal favorite, dropping aStack on a minimized Column.

The Invite.
Pegby is useful to one, but it becomes even more integral to daily life when it is shared with others. It's true with Pegby: the more you share, the easier it is to get stuff done. Don't take our word for it, Invite someone to yourBoard.

The Filter.
Your Board is a bit too full? Too many friends? Too many Stacks? No matter how hard we try, we are human, and we like to make lots and lots of Cards. So, Filter yourBoard. Filter to focus. Tag something and take it for a spin.

Pegby in Two Minutes from Pegby on Vimeo.



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May 07, 12:06 PM


Themultilife is a Social Network for all languages. Themultilife's mission is to bring all people including illiterates and the blind, regardless of their nationalities together.You just write in your language and it gets translated to your friend's chosen language automatically.Internet is for everyone, even for people the blind. Themultilife.com believes that those, who are deprived from the gift of sight, should be able to share thoughts with other people from all around the world. Themultilife speaks every translated sentence out, so everybody, and with everybody we mean everybody in the true sense of the word, will be able to use it.



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May 05, 01:29 PM







With new website googlesearcheducation Now you can get the latest search features, tips and tricks in education after google launch google drive . Help your students become better searchers . Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners.With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.With more and more of the world's content online, it is critical that students understand how to effectively use web search to find quality sources appropriate to their task. We've created a series of lessons to help you guide your students to use search meaningfully in their schoolwork and beyond.
On this page, you'll find Search Literacy lessons and A Google A Day classroom challenges. Our search literacy lessons help you meet the new Common Core State Standards and are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced.


A Google A Day challenges help your students put their search skills to the test, and to get your classroom engaged and excited about using technology to discover the world around them.

Live Trainings
With these webinars, you can improve your own search skills and learn how to bring search literacy to your school. Browse the archive of past trainings, and make sure to follow us on Google+ to stay up to speed on the latest tips and trainings from Google.


Google makes it simple to find the information you need, but there are strategies for finding higher quality sources even more easily. Learn the basics of predictive search, a method for drawing on what you know about what you need to find it faster, including successful word choice and using the filters on the left-hand side of the screen to uncover information you never dreamed was possible.







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May 04, 01:02 PM



Fotobounce is unique from other photo sharing software applications. Here’s the features:
Photos are stored locally – NOT where they can be potentially lost in “the cloud.”
Private Networks = truly private sharing
Facebook, Google, Twitter and Flickr friendly – be a “social” butterfly.
Built-in Face Recognition and Automated Tagging.
Secure remote access with Fotobounce Viewer.
Multiple sorting options mean no more photo “hide and seek”.
Photos delivered directly to your photo library from your mobile device.
Multiple Printing Options.

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May 03, 03:32 AM





Wollage.com is simply a scrapbooking social-network that enables you to creatively share the memories and experiences that make you, you.Each scrapbook is filled with collages, which are the pages of the scrapbook. There are individual user scrapbooks and group scrapbooks, called "collections." Collections are made-up of pages linked from individual scrapbooks with the intention of bringing together memories of a shared experience. Your scrapbook is uniquely made-up of your ideas, snips, web scraps, photos, and w/e else you can come up with, all "smashed" together into a collage (a.k.a. a "smashbook").
Some notable features available to you are: image cropping (circular, rectangular, triangular, free-hand!), image suggestions, page & photo commenting, free-hand drawing, image & shape resizing and rotating, an "about me" blurp to freely describe yourself, and the ability to invite, share with, and connect to friends and family, making Wollage the best place on the web to creatively and collaboratively share your memories and experiences!







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April 28, 03:42 PM


Google Drive. Keep everything. Share anything. 
Dear friends do you think that Google Drive star will beat evernote and dropbox in XXI Century Education  ? Leave a comment .
Access everywhere
Google Drive is everywhere you are—on the web, in your home, at the office and on the go. So wherever you are, your stuff is just...there. Ready to go, ready to share. Get started with 5 GB free.
Google Drive is available for:
PC and Mac
iPhone and iPad (coming soon)
Android devices
Features :

Create & collaborate.
In Google Drive, you can create new documents, spreadsheets and presentations instantly. Work together at the same time, on the same doc, and see changes as they appear.

Work better with the products you use everyday.
Gmail
Say goodbye to bulky email attachments. Send a link from Google Drive in Gmail and everyone has the same file, same version—automatically.


Google+
Your videos and pictures in Google Drive are instantly available in Google+, so you’re never more than one click away from sharing with your circles.


Powerful search.
Google Drive helps you get to your files faster. Search for content by keyword and filter by file type, owner and more. Google Drive can even recognize objects in your images and text in scanned documents.

View anything.
Open over 30 file types right in your browser—including HD video, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop—even if you don’t have the program installed on your computer.


Google Drive with your favorite apps.
Create, open and share files from a variety of apps directly in Google Drive.

Share the way you want.
You can share files or folders with anyone, and choose whether they can view, edit or comment on your stuff.

Start a discussion.
Create and reply to comments to get feedback and make files more collaborative.

Go back in time.
Google Drive tracks every change you make—so when you hit the save button, a new revision is saved. You can look back as far as 30 days automatically, or choose a revision to save forever.



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April 26, 03:33 PM






Coursera offer high quality courses from the top universities, for free to everyone, currently host courses from Princeton University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and University of Pennsylvania changing the face of education globally .


Classes offered on Coursera are designed to help you master the material. When you take one of the classes, you will watch lectures taught by world-class professors, learn at your own pace, test your knowledge, and reinforce concepts through interactive exercises. When you join one of our classes, you'll also join a global community of thousands of students learning alongside you. Coursera know that your life is busy, and that you have many commitments on your time. Thus, courses are designed based on sound pedagogical foundations, to help you master new concepts quickly and effectively. Key ideas include mastery learning, to make sure that you have multiple attempts to demonstrate your new knowledge; using interactivity, to ensure student engagement and to assist long-term retention; and providing frequent feedback, so that you can monitor your own progress, and know when you've really mastered the material. Coursera offer courses in a wide range of topics, spanning the Humanities, Medicine, Biology, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Business, Computer Science, and many others. Whether you're looking to improve your resume, advance your career, or just learn more and expand your knowledge, we hope there will be multiple courses that you find interesting.

Features of the Coursera Platform :

Education for Everyone.
Coursera offer courses from the top universities, for free.
Learn from world-class professors, watch high quality lectures, achieve mastery via interactive exercises, and collaborate with a global community of students.


Learn.
Classes offered on Coursera are designed to help you to master the material. You’ll be able to learn at your own pace, work on your own schedule, test your knowledge, and reinforce concepts through interactive exercises.


Interact.
When you join a Coursera class, you’ll also join a global community of thousands of students learning alongside you. At any time, you’ll be able to ask questions, make suggestions, and get feedback on course topics from both peers and experts in the field.


Achieve.
Improve your resume, advance your career, expand your knowledge, and gain confidence by successfully completing one of our challenging university courses.



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April 26, 04:41 AM




MyStickies, a web-based application  gives you the ability to put a sticky note on any web page your browser can visit. When you come back to the page, your sticky note is still there, where you left it. This enables us to remember what was important about the page to us.

A part of the MyStickies service is an account area where you can go to quickly view all the notes you have placed. You can modify the text of the notes from there or delete old notes no longer needed. The account allows you to review your notes, go back to the sites you have "stickied," and otherwise manage your notes.
Sticky Pages

MyStickies also gives each account an unlimited number of Sticky Pages. These are blank pages except for a title which you choose, which you may place your notes on. They are a scratch pad for you to organize thoughts, keep to-do lists, or write reminders to yourself. If you need a place to put a note, and you don't want to clutter up any web-pages, Sticky Pages are the place to go.

MyStickies Tags

Tags are a relativly new, and extremely useful way of organizing your stuff. The basic idea is that you can add any number of descriptive categories to a note and then view notes in those categories later. To add a tag to a note you just click on the note, then click on the add tag button.
The Future of MyStickies

MyStickies currently is planning and has in the works support for multilingual notes, browser extensions for Internet Explorer and Safari, sharing tags' notes and individual notes with friends, rich text notes (bold, italics, and links) and some form of public notes.

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April 23, 02:06 AM



SlideRocket is a revolutionary new approach to business communications designed from the start to help you make great presentations that engage your audience and deliver tangible results.
Dear friends in my previous post I describe my top 10 startup tools to make a killer presentation http://web20education.bo.lt/startuppresentationsincredproject , but sliderocket isn't in the list :)

Features
Import Your Presentations

SlideRocket protects your content investment and opens up a world of previously unavailable possibilities by importing your existing PowerPoint or Google presentations. Import as images for quick and easy sharing or import as editable files for full compatibility with SlideRocket.

You decide how to get started and we'll help you reinvent your presentations for the way you work today.
Access Anywhere

Wherever you are, SlideRocket's right there with you. Online, offline or mobile you can login, access your presentations and make them available to your customers and prospects 24x7.

SlideRocket delivers the same beautiful experience across operating systems and devices so your message is always well received.



Create Presentations Online

With a full set of professional design tools SlideRocket helps you create breathtaking presentations that will wow your audience. Combine themes and layouts, shapes, charts, tables, pictures, audio, HD video, and Flash to tell your story without compromise.

SlideRocket goes way beyond its desktop counterparts and offers you the power of the Internet. Easily integrate content from free public web resources like Flickr or YouTube and utilize plug-ins from Yahoo! and Twitter to extend functionality and quickly add pre-formatted content to your slides.



Work Together

Collaborate with your co-workers using SlideRocket's slide library. Easily share presentations, slides and assets across the organization to facilitate reuse and consistency while letting SlideRocket do the heavy lifting with automatic version management and content inheritance for always up to date slides.



Share Presentations Easily

SlideRocket makes sharing easy. No more supersized email attachments, no more platform or version compatibility issues. Just publish a presentation URL and share it, embed your presentation in a web page or blog, or send an invite, all with a few simple clicks. With SlideRocket it's easy.



Present Dynamically

Dynamic presentations take on a whole new meaning with live embedded data in your slides. Pull data in real time from sources like Google Spreadsheets, Twitter live feeds and Yahoo! Finance stock quotes and let your slides update themselves. Your team, customers and partners always see the latest information, straight from the source.


Clickspiration

Inspiration is just a click away in SlideRocket’s gallery of professionally designed presentations. Find the creative spark you need to realize your own project and borrow from the experience of the world's best presentation designers to get a head start.



Security ON

Presentations hold some of your most precious data, yet presentation files are often left unsecured, stored on laptops or thumb drives and shared indiscriminately. The reality is that hard drives crash, viruses attack, computers are stolen, and important documents are lost, accidentally deleted or worse, shared with competitors.

SlideRocket stores and protects your presentations online and ensures you have complete control over how they're accessed and distributed. If you value your intellectual property, SlideRocket is the easiest way to effectively secure your presentations and related assets.


Meeting of the Minds

SlideRocket puts the power of web meetings at your fingertips without the need to download and install additional software. With stunning clarity and support for full motion video, transitions and builds SlideRocket presents your slides with full fidelity so your audience sees them the same way you do.

Measure Presentation Effectiveness

An industry first, SlideRocket analytics lets you measure your presentation effectiveness by showing you who viewed and what they did as a result. Get high level viewing trends and individual viewing details to understand how well your presentation is performing.

You used to send out your presentations and wonder what happened. With SlideRocket, you know.
Go Mobile

You never know when you might need to deliver an impromptu presentation. On a plane, on a train, "in a box, with a fox". Wherever you are SlideRocket's HTML5 viewer lets you seamlessly share presentations on any HTML5 compliant device to deliver moving presentations wherever you move.



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April 10, 04:09 AM




HOWTO: Get the most from Sprint.ly’s dashboard
Introduction

Sprint.ly’s dashboard is the main entry point to the product. It consists of three main features: a Kanban board, a cadence graph, and a focus graph. These three features give everyone a 5,000 foot view of where the product sits.

The Kanban Board
The Kanban board is comprised of four columns for each phase of a ticket’s life: Backlog, In-Progress, Complete, and Accepted. Items move left to right through the board as they progress through their lifecycle.Item cards on the Kanban board can be prioritized by dragging them up or down within a single column or they can be moved left/right to push a ticket backwards or forward in the lifecycle.You’ll notice that the Accepted column is always empty. Once and item is done it disappears from the board entirely. You can always get back to a complete list of your accepted items by clicking on the link in the middle of the Accepted column’s drop area.

The Focus Graph
Above the Kanban board are two sets of graphs. The pie charts to the left are what we call the focus graph. There is a pie chart for each of the four phases of a ticket’s life: Backlog, In-Progress, Complete, and Accepted. Above each pie chart is a total number of items in each phase.Each pie chart is broken down into four slices by item type. The In-Progress and Complete charts of are particular importance as they show what type of work your teams are currently focused on. For instance, if the CEO says that quality should be the main focus for the time being, you’d expect there to be more red than green in the In-Progress and Complete pie charts while the team flushes bugs from the queue.


The Cadence Graph
To the right of the focus graph, also above the Kanban board, is a stacked bar graph, which we call the cadence graph. This is a running window into how many items your team has marked as Complete in the last week.

The bar graph is stacked by item type so you can get a feel of where your team was focused on any given day. More red means they were focused on bugs that day, while more green would indicate they were focused on adding features.

Conclusion
The Sprint.ly dashboard is your window into the general focus and cadence of your product. Was designed it specifically for non-technical people to use in the hopes that we can demystify what the technical team is doing and how progress is going.
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April 09, 12:56 PM


April 08, 01:22 PM



Duolingo builds a world with free education and no language barriers. Users are able to learn languages for free, while simultaneously translating the Web. They started Duolingo by allowing English speakers to learn Spanish and German. As of this week, Spanish speakers can now learn English, and they expect to have French in April. There have been literally thousands of requests for other languages — Duolingo team working hard to add them, but it may take us a few months. In conclusion The Duolingo Website and Service allows users to learn or practice a language while they translate content from the Web. Users are presented with different types of educational activities; while they perform these activities, they also generate valuable data such as translations of Web content. For those of you still waiting for an invitation, Duolingo have started inviting people faster and for this reason you should join .



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April 06, 01:19 PM


Tricider Free online tool for easy brainstorming and voting
Find the best solution by involving your friends, colleagues or clients.A feedback session with customers or the decision on the new logo. tricider is the easiest way, to gather all opinions and ideas. It´s brainstorming and voting, all in one and online! Even hard decisions can be easy with tricider.
Features
Free and no registration.
Save time - discussing and voting online.Tricider is easy to use. In less than a minute, an online discussion is opened. This saves a lot of emails and phone calls. tricider is perfect for preparing meetings - or even to replace them completely.

Brainstorming without limits
Whether you want to collect ideas for best location for the next team event or vote for the new name and logo of your product: tricider provides the right features for any kind of question. You can vote for any kind of ideas, text, pictures or even links. Online and very easy to use.
That's what others say
Bring your blog to life
Have the engaging discussion right on your blog. Embed a tricider widget on your website as easy as a youtube video. Completely free and no one has to register. You can let your readers participate in idea discussions, votings and brainstorming. It's your own little crowdsourcing.
Free and no registration.
More than a survey
Polls are nice. But voting alone is a bit dreary. It gets really interesting when readers contribute their own ideas and start debating. But not as unstructered as in comments. tricider is the tool for the finest user-generated content. Fuel for the next blog post.

Attract new readers
An exciting question will be spread by your readers via Facebook and Twitter. If you turn it into an online contest with little rewards, even more readers will recrute their friends to vote for their ideas.




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April 05, 12:09 PM



eazyBI is easy-to-use business intelligence as a service application. Upload any data or connect to existing data source and within minutes start data analysis.
Do you have valuable business data hidden in spreadsheets, databases or other applications?
Standard application built-in reports not flexible enough for your specific needs?
Business Intelligence tools by big vendors too complex and expensive?
Then eazyBI is right solution for you!




Any source data

Upload data from CSV files or import data from other web applications (Twitter,Basecamp, Highrise, JIRA, Zendesk orHarvest) or use your existing data warehouse.




Analyze with drag-and-drop

Create reports using easy drag-and-drop and just couple clicks. All your data are available at your fingertips. It is fun to play with data and discover new information.




Drill into details

Start with summaries and drill into details across any data dimension. Order results by any measure and identify top and bottom performers.




Create charts

Easily create interactive charts (bar, line, pie, timeline, map or Gantt charts) to better visualize your data.




Publish dashboards

Combine several related reports in one dashboard page and share it with other users.




Export to CSV or Excel

Export any report results to CSV or Excel formats or embed reports as iframes .



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April 02, 12:42 PM



This is how it works Jilster 

Here you can read how to create a magazine with Jilster, step by step.
The chief editor starts

To start creating a magazine, first, you need to register (for free). After you have created a magazine, you have access to the newsroom of your own magazine. Now you are the chief editor.
Assemble a team of editors

As a chief editor, you can invite your friends, colleagues, or family members to participate in making the magazine. You do this by sending them an e-mail through Jilster. You will automatically see how this works in the newsroom. These people will receive your e-mail, containing a link that provides access to the newsroom. At first, they are invited to fill one page in the magazine with their contribution.
Competencies of the (chief)editors

After they have accepted the invitation, you can click one of the editors and assign multiple pages to this person, or make him a chief editor too. A (co)chief editor can edit and view all the pages, an editor can only view the page(s) assigned to him by the chief editor. The cover can only be created by a (co)chief editor.
Communicate through the ´shoutbox´

The members of the editorial team can always communicate with each other with the ´shoutbox´. So you do not need to confer with each other by e-mail.
Layout of the pages

You can design the pages entirely according to your own taste. To get started, you can use the sample pages (under 'templates'). You can change these and design them just like you want. Text from Word can be spread out over one or more columns. Also, you can vary the fonts and colors. You can upload your own images from your computer. And you can scan, upload and post old photos, handwritten letters, comics, or childrens' drawings. If you have created a page in InDesign, for example, you can upload this page as a PDF file.
Hand in the pages to the chief editor

You can regularly save your pages during the creative process. And continue editing them at a later stage. If an editor is satisfied with his page, he can hand in the page to the chief editor, by using the ´hand in´ button. After that, only a (co)chief editor can modify this page later on.
Browse a free edition

After you and your editorial team have filled eight pages, you (as a chief editor) can browse through an online edition of your own magazine. You can also invite others to view your magazine.

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April 02, 01:43 AM








Now on Photopeach You can easily create multiple Student accounts without email addresses. Students do not have access to alter or delete your account. Easily organize projects with tags and publish them as public pages to share with parents and the community. Your student’s work will not appear among published content on PhotoPeach by default.
Download unlimited shows in burnable DVD (.iso) Format and High Quality Digital Video (.mpeg) format for sharing online Upload your own .mp3 music files to customize your slideshow soundtracks Create unlimited photo albums, and unlimited photos per album Customize the transition effects between photos to your liking .
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April 01, 12:03 PM



Nowadays are many tools to make a killer presentation for the audience . If you like this tool leave a comment .
SlideSix is multimedia enabled presentation sharing, empower users to create a unique and powerful impression by giving them a rich web based application where they can import presentation material and personalize their message by narrating each slide with video or audio.
In addition to the power of narrating your presentation, users have the ability to embed external videos from YouTube or Vimeo. To learn more about this new feature you can view the introductory presentation.
SlideSix   interface is simple, but effective and user friendly. Users can import presentations (PowerPoint, OpenOffice, PDF) and supporting documentation (ZIP), edit its details, record multimedia, manage their personal profile and groups all within a single web based interface,platform proven rich internet frameworks and technologies we offer a scalable, reliable and familiar desktop-like user experience.
What differentiates SlideSix from other social presentation sharing communities?
Simplicity and identity are keystones of our presentation sharing community. Social networks, more often then not, are utilized by people looking to create a unique web identity.
The motivation for the desire to create such an identity varies. Some people use social networks for personal reasons � to keep in touch with friends and relatives or reconnect with others whom they may have lost touch with. Others use them for business reasons - to create an online presence for a company or product.
Often folks use them for a combination of business and personal reasons. SlideSix is a social presentation sharing community that caters to everyone. Users can privately share a personalized and narrated photo album, or a public product introduction with an embedded multimedia demonstration. The possibilities are as endless as our users creativity.
SlideSix transcends one of the biggest flaws of most social communities on the web the inability to differentiate ones identity from all of the other faces in the crowd. There will be no mistaking your identity with a multimedia presentation on SlideSix.



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April 01, 02:35 AM




With Gmail Tap on your phone, you'll be able to:
Tap without looking at your screen
Replace 26 keys with 2
Double your productivity by typing two emails at once

Features
Two keys: dot and dash
Space bar: added to increase typing speeds
Multi-email mode: dual threaded keyboard (Warning: power users only)
Predictive text mode: autocomplete re-imagined
Optional audio feedback: engage all your senses
Coming Soon
Ship to shore mode: activates your phone's flash to communicate with other power users across an ocean (of people)
Table tap: microphone enabled off screen tapping
Double-black diamond mode: adds a third, fourth and more keyboards for writing up to 8 messages at once

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March 30, 12:21 PM




Chalkable - APP STORE FOR SCHOOL
Amazing digital tools and content can transform the way students learn in school. The Chalkable app store lists the best education apps from across the web.
THE CHALKABLE PLATFORM
Lots of Apps. One login. One calendar. One gradebo-ok. It all just works. The platform is the set of tools for students, tea-chers, admins, and parents. Tools like the Feed, Calendar, Grading, Messaging and more.
MAKE LEARNING BETTER
Learning, we all do it. It’s an important part of what makes us human. When thinking about learning, it seemed to us that “good learning” has an awful lot to do with good tools and good content.
The most powerful tools and most immersive content live on the web. With the Chalkable App store and platform, schools gain access...and that makes for a better learning experience

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March 29, 12:55 PM



Penzu is an online diary and personal journal that is focused on privacy. With a unique and compelling user experience, it makes writing online as easy and intuitive as writing on a pad of paper. Origins of Penzu
Why isn't there an easy and secure way to record your thoughts online? All of the current online solutions are either clunky, bloated, or not geared for private writing. Why would you want to keep a private journal on a blogging service that's intended for public use? The alternatives to keeping private information on a desktop computer or in a notepad while effective, aren't entirely safe either.
 
Penzu offers a secure place to store your thoughts and ideas in the cloud. Not only are entries password protected in an online account, but individual entries can be locked with military-grade encryption. With our powerful security also comes extreme ease of use. The core component of the interface is the Pad - a metaphor for a pad of paper. This universal design element has allowed Penzu to transcend language and cultural barriers as people from 170 countries continue to use the service. We have always made the user experience a top priority and it is one of our main differentiations from complicated and confusing competitors. The name, Penzu, comes from many influences, but mainly it is a derivative of the Latin "pensare" which means to think or be full of thought. 


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March 28, 12:47 PM



NoRedInk.com is a web-based learning platform that helps students improve their grammar and writing skills. Here’s what makes special:
High-interest Content: Students generally find grammar boring because the content doesn’t relate to them. We generate all our grammar sentences using each kid’s favorite celebrities, hobbies, TV shows, and personal friends, making the content inherently interesting. Students can get unlimited practice, and they never see the same question twice.
Adaptive Learning: Our engine provides differentiated instruction, adjusting questions based on what students get right/wrong and drilling down to their underlying misconceptions. When learners get stuck, we show them tutorials that help them correct their mistakes and keep going.
Practice Exercises/Quizzes/Assignments: In addition to students practicing their grammar skills on their own, teachers can use the site to give assignments and quizzes that are uniquely generated according to each kid’s interests.
Progress-tracking Features: Our color-coded "heat maps" allow teachers, students, and administrators to track progress easily. Teachers can use class trends to instantly inform instructional decisions as well as view students’ homework and quiz scores. This site was created by a teacher, so it’s easy for teachers to use.

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March 16, 05:35 AM


The Virtual Worlds Best Practice in Education (VWBPE) is a community-based conference that provides opportunities for participants in all virtual worlds to share current teaching, learning, and research practices in 3D virtual environments. Conference presentations focus on teaching/learning, scholarly work, projects, events, activities and new and innovative tools for virtual education. Presenters will focus on the identification of best practices in education designed for 3D virtual world technology.
This 53 hour conference will indeed provide opportunities for sharing and further understanding virtual world technology. Whether your virtual adventures take you to Second Life, OpenSim, World of Warcraft, Eve Online or Club Penguin – you are part of a global interconnected network. It’s about people. It’s about community. Its’ about learning. It’s more than a platform – it’s the stories we tell and the way we share them.  The divide between what is real and what is virtual is a state of mind.
You can keep in touch with this conference on facebook  , on twitter  or join second life group .
January 24, 09:25 AM


VILLAGE ; Language Learning and Community Building in Second Life
Besides Second Life, the session  use the following Grouply for sharing information and facilitating interactions: http://village.grouply.com

Objectives :
*to help the teacher learners to get to know each other
* to help them to open a Second Life account and work on their appearance
*to introduce basicprocedures in Second Life: e.g. sitting & standing; moving fromplace to place, turning round, flying using voice etc.
*to visit different spaces in Second Life to explore their potential for being used for language learning
*to visit some spaces in Second Life where languages are taught to understand how Second Life is being used or may be used for language learning and teaching as well as to practice both informally and formally
*to participate in and reflect on learning conversations with experienced educators in Second Life
*participants to reflect on what has been experienced during the course and to share their ideas with others in the discussion forum
*to facilitate formation of an active community of practice. 
Week by Week Outline
Week 1  January 10 - 16, 2011 - Introduction
This week we will be meeting each other and introducing ourselves. Participants will be encouraged to sign up for a basic account in Second Life using the website and provide us with their Second Life name. We will send them an invitation to join our Second Life group VILLAGE  . Then meeting in-world, we will help them change their avatar appearance, and use camera control. We will introduce them to ways of avatar movement (walking, running, flying, sitting, and teleporting), and ways to set up and use text and voice chat.
Week 2  January 17 - 23, 2011 - Second Life Tools and Resources
This week we will help them to develop basic ‘navigational skills, e.g creating landmarks & teleporting to other places & map and mini map reading. They will also consider ways of ‘networking’ in SL
using the ‘add friends’ feature; filling in your user profile, and using the IM facility.Participants will try their first building skills, become familiar with the use of various teaching tools and Holodecks on offer.

Week 3  January 24 - 30, 2011 Exploring Educational Spaces in Second Life
This week we will take the participants to different educational spaces in Second Life so that they can form an understanding of the  SL environment. We will arrange meetings with experienced language educators teaching in these places. We shall focus  on exploring ‘learner friendly environments’ , and will concentrate  on places where English is taught.
Participants will continue to network for informal get togethers and invite experienced Second Lifers to join us for a learning conversation.

Week 4  January 25 - February 6, 2011 -
Simulated real-life scenes, role-playing and active communities in Second Life
This week we will focus on simulated real-life scenes, recreations of historical monuments, sites, real life places, and lively, active communities in Second Life.  
There will be opportunities for the participants to experience immersive environments and the challenges involved in learning a language in SL.
When meeting during ‘happy hour’, we will reflect on experiences made and talk about how active communities in Second Life may
be used for language learning. Again guest speakers will be invited
to share their valuable expertise. 

Week 5   February 7 - 13, 2011- Evaluation & wrap-up
This is a time to get together, wrap-up and to sum-up the experiences. It is also a time to enjoy each other's company whilst preparing the party.  Participants will be asked to reflect on what they have experienced during the course and to share their ideas with everyone about good practice. People will also be encouraged
to continue learning and sharing through joining in-world groups.
 Moderators
Heike Philp, head of LANCELOT SchoolTM GmbH
and co-initiator of both EU funded LANCELOT and
AVALON projects. She looks back to more than 2 decades
of teaching experience, amongst others asa German teacher in Japan and England. 
SL: Gwen Gwasi
Dr. Kalyan Chattopadhyay,  who holds Masters in English Literature, and TESOL and ICT (Leeds), is currently Assistant Professor in English in B.S.College, University of Calcutta. He is Vice-President IndiaCALL (www.indiacall.org), and Executive Committee member AsiaCALL (www.asiacall.org).
SL: Kalyan Horatio 
Dennis Newson M.A.(Cantab), P.D.E.S.L (Leeds) Taught EFL in Africa, Arabia, Norway and Germany in middle schools, secondary schools, teacher training colleges, a technical university and an arts university. He was consultant for short periods in Bosnia and Kosovo and conferences have taken him to Poland, Hungary, Las Palmas, Russia and England. He has developed his interest in SL since alleged retirement.
SL: Osnacantab Nesterov
Maria Pinto is a Bachelor in Education with a major in English and an Educational Technology Specialist.
She is also a specialist in Usability and a web-based material designer. She worked as EFL/ESL professor in the area of ICT in the English language teaching (ELT) at the University of Carabobo. She is currently working as an eLearning facilitator and consultant in her hometown, Venezuela.
SL: Mary Rousell
Nahir Aparicio M. holds a Bachelor degree in Education with a Major in teaching English as a foreign language. She is a professor at UPEL-IPC where she belongs to the Chair of Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages, teaching Applied Linguistics related courses. SL: Nahiram Vaniva
Carol Rainbow B phil Ed (hons) has taught in theUK for many years but is now in service as an ICT Consultant for Oxfordshire LA working with teachers to make sure ICT plays a key role in enhancing pupil education in Oxfordshire schools. Her main interests currently are using Second Life as a teaching platform
and e-safety.
SL: Carolrb Roux
 





 

March 09, 11:48 AM


Week 6: Feb 15 - 21 - AND TLVW10 SECOND LIFE PARTY .




Overview



This week offers an opportunity for us all to step back and reflect on what you have seen and experienced during the whole EVO session. You can reflect on what you have experienced during the last five weeks and to share your ideas with everyone about good practice. You will also be encouraged to continue learning and sharing through the SLExperiments and other group meetings, which will continue after this EVO session has ended. In this final week, we will also organise some round table discussions about language learning and teaching in virtual worlds, which will be recorded.


Learning outcomes



By the end of this week, you should have done some of the following:

*

have visited another virtual world (optional, because they are not available for all computer platforms).
*

have posted your reflections about your visit of these virtual worlds.
*

have attended a round table panel discussion.
*

have reflected on what you have experienced during the session.
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have shared ideas about good practise with other participants.


Useful SL skills


Click this link to go to the SL skills list and tutorial videos.


Activities



1.

Take a field trip to another virtual world (to be decided). Compare SL with this and post your reflections to the TLVW Ning.
2.

Attend one of the round table panel discussions and be prepared to ask questions. If you are interested in being part of the round table, then please contact one of the moderators.
3.

Post your reflections on your experience during this session in the Ning forum for this week.
4.

Post and discuss with other participants your ideas about good practises in teaching languages in Second Life in the TLVW10 Ning forum.


Optional Readings/Viewings/Activities



* Attend a SLexperiments meeting and chat with some of the members
* Articles and links to language education in SL/Virtual World.
* Virtual Worlds Facet Study - by Sarah Robbins
February 11, 10:23 AM


Week 5 - Do It Yourself! Workshops


There is a lot packed into this week and the Optional Readings /Viewings list is long. See this positively as a richness and not a threat!

Overview

Participation in teaching - participants will be encouraged to put their knowledge into practice and arrange to teach each other in 15 minute slots

Learning outcomes

By the end of this week, you should have done some of the following:

  • have joined a group in our Ning in a time slot that suits you best for a synchronous meeting.
  • have participated in an example teaching session/lesson, and reflected on this session in a blog post in the TLVW Ning.
  • have participated in one of Wlodek's Barbosa's workshops on Phonetically Augmented Virtuality, and reflected on it in a blog post in the TLVW Ning.
  • have prepared and taught a mini language lesson for your peers, received and given feedback on these lessons.
  • have posted snapshots of your mini lesson to flickr.
  • have reflected on your teaching in your blog in the TLVW Ning.

Useful SL skills

Click this link to go to the SL skills list and tutorial videos.

Activities

  1. Join the Ning group for the time slot that suits you best.
  2. Participate in the AVALON project Business English teaching session. (Details of place and time to be posted later in 'Events').
  3. Participate in one of the Spanish lessons by Dafne González in LanguageLab. (Details of place and time will be posted later in 'Events').
  4. Attend a demonstration of Holodecks and how they can be used in language teaching and learning. (Details of place and time will be posted later in 'Events').
  5. Participate in a workshop on how to use the Builder's Buddy, a way of creating holodeck-like scenes for use in teaching
  6. Participate in one of Wlodek's Barbosa's workshops on Phonetically Augmented Virtuality*
  7. Attend Carol Rainbow's workshop on sound. (Times and place to be announced later in 'Events').
  8. Prepare a mini language lesson (max 15 min). Think about what you learned about different methods, places and tools and how they were used by other teachers to help plan your session. Think about the rationale of choosing particular activities, tools, etc. in SL and the pedagogical, language aims of your lesson.
  9. Meet with the participants in your group in-world and teach each other and give each other feedback. You need not necessarily teach EFL. You can teach any foreign language of your choice. For participants that could prove to be a novel experience and something worth reflecting on.
  10. Don't forget to take pictures during these sessions (you will be busy teaching so ask someone else from the group to take pictures of your session and help other's when it is their turn). Upload the pictures to flickr, tag them with "TLVW10" and add them to our group pool
  11. Reflect on your teaching in your personal blog in Ning or elsewhere (provide a link if you write on a different blog and tag it with tlvw10). You can embed pictures of your session in this blog post.
  12. Participate in the discussion about Virtual Worlds vs Other Methods of E-Learning and the discussion about Real Life vs Second Life language learning and teaching.

Resources

Optional Readings/Viewings

February 11, 10:08 AM


An introduction to different methodologies, tools and places where languages are being taught and learned in Second Life.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this week, you should have done some of the following:

  • have participated in some of the tours (guided or self-access) of language teaching/learning spaces in Second Life
  • have taken part in a discussion about teaching and learning languages in Second Life
  • have reflected on your visits and discussions in a blog post in the TLVW Ning
  • have a better idea of the range of different possibilities for teaching and learning a language using Second Life
  • be aware of how some people & organisations use Second Life for language teaching and learning
  • have attended a presentation/demo of favourite (language) teaching tools of the more experienced members.
  • have started to understand some of the benefits and challenges of teaching in a virtual world

Useful SL skills

Click this link to go to the SL skills list and tutorial videos.

Activities

  1. Visit Virtlantis, which is an island owned by Kip Yellowjacket (SL), a language teacher, who provides some space and facilities for other language teachers for free. You can also have your own small teaching space (there is a voluntary monthly donation). Try to find and talk to some teachers and students while there and report back in the Ning forum for this week.
  2. Attend a guided tour of AVALON Learning, the home of the AVALON EU project ,a two-year project funded by the European Commission as a part of the Education and Culture DG Lifelong Learning Programme which aims to create and test language learning tasks and activities in Virtual worlds as well as creating and piloting a training course for teachers who would like to extend their e-learning skills to include virtual teaching worlds.
  3. Go on a tour of the EduNation island owned by Gavin Dudeney. Talk to some educators you meet there. How do you like the place? What can educators do there? Report back in the Ning forum.
  4. Visit the EUROCALL/CALICO Headquarters in Edunation to find out about the help and resources they provide for teachers
  5. We will also visit the British Council Isle and find out about their work in the Main Grid and Teen Grid of Second Life, investigating the use of language learning quests
  6. Participate in one of the discussions about different aspects of learning and teaching languages in Second Life.
  7. Attend one of the scheduled (language) teaching tool demo/presentation sessions. If you are an experienced SL user, select three of your most favourite (language) teaching tools, set them up in the sandbox and, if possible, demonstrate how they work and how you (would) use them in your lessons.
  8. If possible, attend the talk & tour at Monash University by Xilin Yifu, lecturer in Mandarin Chinese about teaching Chinese to students in Second Life.

Resources

Educational tools shop (Dudeney Ge's)

Educational Freebie Mall at Montclair University

Teacher Tool box ( in Virtlanis)

Info Island & the Alliance Library

Ohio State University: SL guide an freebies

Educator's tool gallery, and more

Optional Readings/Viewings

February 11, 10:07 AM


This week will be spent visiting areas in SL where different languages are spoken. This will include Real Life places that are represented in SL as well as places where languages can be learned. The overall aim is for everyone to have an initial idea of how SL can be used / is being used for language learning, (teaching) and practice both informally and formally.

There will be guided tours of some RL places in SL where we will try some language activities. Then, you will be given a list of LMs (landmarks) to more such places, which you can explore in your own time. There will also be a tour of an interactive Mexican town, which is a nice example of how learners can interact with scripted objects in SL.

All of these places can be used in a synchronous formal session with a teacher but also informally by students, who can practise their language skills and learn vocabulary on their own.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this week, you should:

  • have reflected on your visits in a blog post in the TLinVW Ning.
  • have participated in the forum discussion for this week
  • be aware of how Second Life can be used by language learners for language practice
  • have started to become comfortable with the Second Life interface and with its communication tools.

Useful SL skills

Click this link to go to the SL skills list and tutorial videos.

Activities

  1. Select some of the Real Life places in SL from the map or list below (or get a notecard with landmarks by clicking the poster for this week in the Webheads HQ in Second Life) and visit them. If possible, do this in pairs or form small groups. There will also be some organized tours during the week (check out the events for this week). Take snapshots and post them to our Ning (you can do that from your page on Ning or from the front page by clicking on "add photo" or Flickr group. Write your reflections in a blog post or in the week three forum.
  2. Attend one of the scheduled guided tours to places where languages are taught. As a preparation, you can watch some of the videos in the "Optional Reading/Viewing" section below.
  3. Post your reflections to your blog on the TLinVW10 Ning.

Resources

This is a map with a (complete) overview of real life places in Second Life. Click on the image to go to the original website. There, you can click the pins to get to the SLURL page and teleport.

Here are some suggestions:

How it works: Click the link. A new browser will open with the Slurl. Click teleport.

Copy of notecard with suggested language learning activities: RL in SL Language Activities

Optional Readings/Viewings

February 11, 09:52 AM


Week 2: Jan 18-24

Coordinator: Włodzimierz Sobkowiak (Wlodek Barbosa in SL)

In this week there will be field trips to different educational spaces in Second Life and discussions. The choice of these spaces will be guided by the overall character of this course, as well as participants needs. As the core theme here is teaching languages, we will visit arts & humanities oriented places in Second Life, rather than those relating to sciences. In each case there will be ample time for discussion and feedback, as well as participants' own reflections on the places visited. Participants will be encouraged to visit some places individually, and then provide feedback to the group by blogging about their experiences on the TLVW10 Ning.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this week, you should:

  • know your colleagues on the TLVW10 even better
  • have increased your skill and comfort level with the main tools for interaction and communication, both in SL and on Ning
  • have learned how to use some of the more advanced functionalities of the SL user interface
  • have been on a guided tour of an innovative and creative educational space in Second Life, as a result of which you should...
  • have been inspired to think outside the box about using virtual worlds for language learning
  • have collaboratively explored and evaluated at least one general educational space in Second Life (not the guided field trip above); see below

Useful SL skills

Click this link to go to the SL skills list and tutorial videos.

Activities

  1. Attend a synchronous 1-hour session and work in a group to practice communication, navigation, movement, profile completion and taking snapshots inworld
  2. Post your reflections on the activity as a blog post in the TLVW10 Ning
  3. Attend one of the scheduled guided tours of an educational sim, take photos while there and post these and your reflections to the TLVW10 Ning and/or Flickr (tag your snapshots with tlvw10)
  4. Explore and evaluate at least one general educational space in Second Life (not the guided field trip above) and post these and your reflections to the TLVW10 Ning and/or Flickr (tag your snapshots with tlvw10)
  5. Participate in the discussions or ask questions related to this week in the forum on the TLVW10 Ning.

Resources - some educational spaces to visit in SL:

Optional Readings/Viewings

February 09, 02:25 AM


This week, we will be meeting each other and introducing ourselves at our Ning community site, http://tlinvw.ning.com/. You are also encouraged to sign up for an account in Second Life if you haven't already done so. If you have had no experience of Second Life, you should complete the orientation this week. If you have provided us with your Second Life name when signing up for Ning, one of the moderators will send you an invitation to our Second Life group (the group name is 'TLVW10') .

Learning outcomes

By the end of this week, you should:

  • have started to get to know your colleagues on the TLVW session
  • be familiar and have a basic comfort level with the main tools for interaction and communication through
    • reading the course information here on the session outline pages and sent by email.
    • reading your colleagues welcome messages and posting your welcome message to the TLVW Ning.
    • moving, communicating and navigating in Second Life at a basic level, as a result of completing a self-paced orientation and attending a synchronous meeting
  • know what the expectations are for the 6 weeks of the TLVW10 EVO in terms of what you should leave with and the commitment it is likely to involve

Useful SL skills

Click this link to go to the SL skills list and tutorial videos.

→ You will have a much better first experience in SL if you watch some of the basic skills video tutorials and test whether voice is working before our first meeting in SL (You can test whether your voice is working by going to Voice Echo Canyon). Should you have problems ask your questions in the forum, leave a comment on one of the moderators' profile pages on Ning or send us a message. You can also attend one of the SL audio troubleshooting events.

Activities

  1. Join and post to the TLVW Ning;
    1. read your colleagues welcome messages; and
    2. post your welcome
    3. read the course outline and the activities for each week and plan your schedule accordingly for what you are able to commit to
  2. Join Second Life, download and install the software, complete an orientation and attend a synchronous meeting;
    1. Join Second Life (if you are asked to select a "Gateway" during sign-up, select "Virtual Ability", download and install the software, log in and complete the orientation at Virtual Ability (You can skip this stage if you are not new to Second Life).
    2. During the first week, you will receive an invitation to join the TLVW group in Second Life. This will appear as a blue drop down menu in the top right corner when you login at some point. Please click the Join button when this happens. Please note the TLVW moderators' avatar names: Graham Stanley = Baldric Commons, Nergiz Kern = Daffodil Fargis, Dennis Newson = Osnacantab Nesterov, Maria Pinto = Mary Roussel, Nahir Aparicio = Nahiram Vaniva, Włodzimierz Sobkowiak = Wlodek Barbosa
  3. Go to the useful SL skills page and watch the basic SL skills tutorials suggested for week 1.
  4. Attend one of the 1-hour, synchronous Introductions meeting sessions at the TLVW headquarters (also called "Webheads HQ) in Second Life during this week. You only need to attend one but there will be 2-3 repeated sessions at different times to accommodate the global span of participants' time zones. Check the Events page on the TLVW Ning to find out when they are scheduled.

January 25, 02:41 PM


What is TESOL EVO?

The TESOL Electronic Village Online offers a series of free online workshops for teachers.

Find out more here: http://evosessions.pbwiki.com/

and here http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EVOvideo2010/

What is TLinVW2010?

A hands-on collaborative teacher development workshop to explore the relationship between virtual worlds and language learning.


When is the workshop?

Jan 11 - Feb 21, 2010

FLICKR GROUP . Here you can see photos from the event .



Week 1 - Introductions

This week, we will be meeting each other and introducing ourselves. You are also encouraged to sign up for the accounts for the online tools we will be using in the course: our community site (http://tlvw.ning.com) and Second Life. If you have had no experience of Second Life, you should complete the orientation this week. Once you have provided us with your Second Life name when signing up for Ning, one of the moderators will send you an invitation to our Second Life group (the group name is 'TLVW10') .

Week 2 - Exploring Education and Virtual Worlds

This week there will be field trips to different educational spaces in Second Life and discussions. The choice of these spaces will be guided by the overall character of this course, as well as participants needs. As the core theme here is teaching languages, we will visit arts & humanities oriented places in Second Life, rather than those relating to sciences. In each case there will be ample time for discussion and feedback, as well as participants' own reflections on the places visited. Participants will be encouraged to visit some places individually, and then provide feedback to the group by blogging about their experiences on the tlvw10 community portal on Ning.


Week 3 - Second Life and Languages

This week will be spent visiting areas in Second Life where different languages are spoken. This will include Real Life places that are represented in Second Life as well as places where languages are taught. The overall aim is for everyone to have an initial idea of how Second Life can be used / is being used for language learning, teaching and practice both informally and formally.

There will be guided tours of some Real Life places in Second Life where we will try some language activities. Then, you will be given a list of landmarks to more such places, which you can explore in your own time. We will visit the British Council Isle and find out about their work in Second Life. There will also be a tour of an interactive Mexican town, which is a nice example of how learners can interact with scripted objects. All of these places can be used in a synchronous formal session with a teacher but also informally by students, who can practise their language skills and learn vocabulary on their own.

Week 4 - Teaching a language in Second Life

An introduction to different methodology, tools and places where languages can be taught and learned in Second Life.This week the specific focus will be on organisations and individuals who are teaching languages in Second Life. There will be opportunities to observe some language classes and discover the challenges involved in teaching in a virtual world . Among other places, there will be an arranged tour of Ciudad Bonita, a Spanish town run by Language Lab, one of the companies most active in Second Life language teaching. There will also be an opportunity to find out more about the work of AVALON, a European Union funded project examining best practice for language teaching and learning in virtual worlds.

Week 5 - Do It Yourself! Workshops

Teaching Participation/Practice - participants will be encouraged to put their knowledge into practice and arrange to teach each other in 15 minute slots. Guest speaker. Participants will also have taken part in a synchronous meeting, participated in a Business English lesson in AVALON and another in the Spanish village in LanguageLab, have posted snapshots of their particpation on flickr, have written a blog entry and participated in two discussions on virtual worlds, other methods of E-learning and Real Life v. Second Life language learning and teaching.

Week 6 - Evaluation & wrap-up

Participants will be asked to reflect on what they have experienced during the course and to share their ideas with everyone about good practice. People will also be encouraged to continue learning and sharing through the SLExperiments, Osnagroup and other group meetings.


COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA

Ning community: Teaching Languages in a Virtual World, http://tlinvw.ning.com/

We will be using this site for the course outline and weekly activities, participant discussions and content sharing.

http://www.secondlife.com

Second Life will be the virtual world used during the session. We may visit others if interest and time allow.

January 19, 09:54 AM


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