One of my favorite tools to show fellow instructors, and my students, is Evernote. The new widget and tool feature for Android phone are impressive.
Evernote for Android Update: Speech-to-text and Big Widget Enhancements | Evernote Blogcast.
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Every 60 seconds in social media (infographic)
A single minute may be barely enough time to construct a rational thought, but it’s time enough for social media denizens to inundate the web with their status updates, tweets, checkins, and photos.
Every 60 seconds in social media, two million videos are viewed on YouTube, 700,000 messages are delivered by way of Facebook, 175,000 tweets are fired off into the ether, and 2,000…
The chart in the referenced post is an awesome reason to explain to someone why they need to learn about and master the WEB 2.0 world. It is the way the world is moving.
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Evernote For Schools Site: Resource for Using Evernote in Education « Evernote Blogcast
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Evernote is one of the tools we cover in my “Web 2.0 for Students” class at Lake Michigan College. It also happens to be one of my personal favorite tools to help me stay organized and in my back pocket when I need to have information at my fingertips.
Evernote For Schools Site: Resource for Using Evernote in Education
February 14, 2012 | Posted by Ron Toledo in Our Notes
As more teachers and students adopt new technologies, including Evernote, they’re looking for useful resources to help them along the way. We’re excited to introduce them to�Evernote for Schools, our new microsite devoted to helping those in the education community use Evernote more effectively.
via Evernote For Schools Site: Resource for Using Evernote in Education « Evernote Blogcast.
With applications for the desktop, tablets, and smartphone, it is a tool that can be used in any environment.
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8 Great Ways Couples Can Use Evernote Shared Notebooks « Evernote Blogcast
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In my “WEB 2.0 for Students” class, we cover tools that help people collaborate in this fast moving world. Having a set of tools that allow you to seamlessly share information with others so that they can add their input or provide you new information to react to is critical.
Evernote is a tool I cover in the class as an example of a well made tool that helps students, and anyone for that matter, organize and connect with others. It is something you should look into as well.
8 Great Ways Couples Can Use Evernote Shared Notebooks
You use Evernote to capture and remember a lot of things that are relevant to you. Some of what you have in your Evernote account is also relevant to your significant other. With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, we came up with eight tips for using Evernote to inspire one another, communicate better and get things done together.
8 Ways to Use Evernote as a Couple
- For recipes: A couple that cooks together…We’ve heard from a number of users that sharing recipes makes planning weeknight dinners much easier. Share clipped or scanned recipes, as well as tasty memories you captured using Evernote Food.
- For travel planning: Whether you’re planning a family vacation, a romantic weekend getaway, or a yearlong trip around the world, you can use Evernote to stay organized. Email your itineraries, save maps annotated in Skitch, store photos, and more to a Shared Notebook. [Learn more about ways to use Evernote to plan a trip]
- For shopping and to-do lists: Get household chores and family responsibilities done faster. Share grocery shopping lists, checklists, and more. [Learn how to create a checklist in Evernote]
- For sharing information about your kids: If you’re a parent, you have to retain a lot of information about your kids — from class rosters to sports practices, vaccinations to everything in between. Make sure you and your partner are both in the know about everything related to your kids’ lives by sharing this information using a Shared Notebook.
- For home improvement projects: You’re already keeping track of kitchen cabinets, wood finishes, and vendor contact info in your Evernote. Put it all in a Shared Notebook and save yourself all those back and forth emails.
- For doing your taxes: Did you know you could use Evernote to keep track of your tax documents and related information? Share these with each other and have handy access to everything you need when doing your own taxes or meeting with your accountant. [Learn how you could use Evernote to do your taxes]
- For gift ideas: Make gift giving easier by sharing gift ideas for each other, kids, relatives and friends. [Learn how to use Evernote for remembering gift ideas]
- For staying in touch over long distances: Capture all of the things that happen to you over the course of your day and drop it in a Shared Notebook to shorten the distance between you.
via 8 Great Ways Couples Can Use Evernote Shared Notebooks « Evernote Blogcast.
In class, students are asked to work on research projects. The data they collect is stored in a shared folder on tools like Evernote. (The instructor is added in so I can see how they are progressing, and who is actually doing the work.)
If you have any other ideas on how Evernote could be used, leave a comment. Thanks.
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Class Promotional Material
As I was reviewing the latest example created by Visual.ly (see below) for Ground Hog Day, it dawned on me that this would be a great project to take on for each of the classes I teach at Lake Michigan College.
Create a visual collage which shows the following:
- Text and Author
- Chapter Title
- High lights in each chapter
- Technology used in the class to aid students
- Over of projects the class will undertake
- Type of homework
- Type of exams
This material would be available in the e-catalog and admissions advisers.
OK, what and I missing and what do you think of the idea?
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10 Commandments of Blogging
I found this using StumbleUpon and thought it was great. I will be using this in my WEB 2.0 for Students class when we cover ‘self publishing’.
For fun, I was envisioning a Mel Brooks skit in which he originally was holding four (4) tablets and two of them dropped and he went from 20 commandments to 10 comandments.
What are some of those lost 10 Commandments?
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9 Quick Tips For Better iPhoneography
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I found this post on Mashable and thought it was very pertenant for students who are starting out sharing photo content when self publishing. The saturation of smart phones and photography has open a new door to shared imagery this world has never seen before.
The full post can be fount at:
via 9 Quick Tips For Better iPhoneography.
For example, I show my students how to self publish photos to a blog using their smartphone. The photos are taken and thenemailed to a Flickr account which then automatically publish the photo to a blog with a preset template.
Example: GOOSE DROPPINGS
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Tips for New Bloggers
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In the first few weeks of our class we cover self publishing. You will be asked to blog daily to recieve full credit for the points. The post below might help with some of the intial jitters.
64 Practical Blogging Tips For Absolute Beginners
Hope that helps.
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Facebook Pages have Shelf Life
There is a perception that Facebook status updates will have long lasting reach. Meaning, they will be out there forever on many different walls with the update gathering lots of impressions.
Well, the post below from EDGERANK CHECKER tells us otherwise:
POST LIFETIME: HOW LONG DOES A FACEBOOK POST LIVE?
When a Facebook Page posts to Facebook, each individual Post has a “lifetime”. A Post is considered dead when the growth in engagement is less than 10% of the largest growth of engagement between hourly snapshots. Understanding when a Post dies, or stops receiving engagement, is important because it allows the Admin to plan when to post next. The average Post Lifetime can be a strong indicator in determining optimal Post Frequency.
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