EduBlogger Con 6/26/10

express.smarttech.com allows you to open SMART notebook and notebook express lessons.

yolinkedncation.com
allows you to see embedded links or the URL and pulls out the content with keywords highlighted.

booth 2419

sweetsearch.com
a search engine for students. Only searches 35k sites for schools/they are all curated sites

reminded me of Pioneer Library

metamark.net
URL shortener--easier to get a custom shortened URL than some of the other ones out there

LongUrl gives you the long URL but doesn't take you to that exact place

HugeUrl gives you the huge url but again doesn't you there

LetMeGoogleThatForYou.com
put in a search and gives you a link that will take you to google to search

Read It Later
whenever on a web page that you want to look at later it saves it to your Read It Later list to read at a later date. (would be great from tweets that would be good)

edmodo
Empowers teachers into share real time messages
Create groups and give students code to connect with the teacher in a private social network
Add to library things that you find that you like or waht to share with students

techhead.com
lowest prices on microsoft items

bingle.nu
In case you need to make a bing and google at the same time
the esarch will come up on two sides

google.com/squared
compare and contrast

wordle.net
create
paste in a bunch of text
in between each word add a ~ then it will put them in order

Web 3.0
There is an overwhelming amount of information out there
use the web page she is posting to see how much information is sent in one second-overwhelming.

Teaching responsible use for social networking/bullying, etc.

Facebook-should we open it or not? A school has created a group so they are not able to see your personal page.

Bigger than just digital literacy. It is information curation with a community.

You need to be everywhere and how do you do that?

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An author will skype in for 15 minutes
Henry Jenkins Tranversal Media
Etin Wanger's work on Multi-Membership

#ebc10network is the hashtag for this conference

PLN-
the leader doesn't really believe in the actual term "PLN."

has nothing to do with only the people you interact with on twitter.
P=Personal/Professional, etc.
L=Learning

Twitter is mostly about socializing and not learning. Blogs are more for learning.

There are affordances for social media for learning. It's the terminology that is the question.

I am surprised by the number of people taking notes on paper here at this conference. Strange!

Anytime teachers get together they call it "PLC."
Doesn't make it necessarily so.

We do need to have a common language though.
Everything will have different meanings for different people.