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My Social Networking Toolbox: Out With The Old, In With The New (2011)

December 5, 2011 by Colleen Leave a Comment

Social Media Landscape

Today’s announcement about Gowalla shutting down got me thinking about some of the other under-utilized social networking sites (SNS) that I’ve signed up for (and forgotten about) over the years, as well as the new ones I joined this year.

Filed Under: Apps Tagged With: BLIP.fm, Blogger, Delicious, Diaspora, Digg, Diigo, Foursquare, FriendFeed, GetGlue, Goodreads, Google, Gowalla, LibraryThing, MySpace, Pinterest, Posterous, SCVNGR, social media, social networking sites, Tumblr, Twitter, Wordpress

What Facebook Needs To Fix In Groups To Make Them More Useful For Educators (Part 2)

September 2, 2011 by Colleen 2 Comments

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The second part in my look at what Facebook needs to fix or implement in Facebook Groups to make Groups an effective tool for classroom instructors.

Filed Under: Apps, Educators, Libraries Tagged With: classroom instruction, collaboration tools, communication tools, educational technologies, Facebook, Facebook Groups, Google, higher education, librarians, research tools, social media, social networking sites

What Facebook Needs To Fix In Groups To Make Them More Useful For Educators

July 6, 2011 by Colleen 5 Comments

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A handful of key features that Facebook needs to incorporate into Groups in order to make them more useful for educators to use for classroom instruction and discussion. Particularly in light of the Google+ launch.

Filed Under: Apps, Educators Tagged With: classroom instruction, collaboration tools, communication tools, educational technologies, Facebook, Facebook Groups, Google, LMSs, social media

My “must have” apps after 1 academic year on the iPad

June 1, 2011 by Colleen 8 Comments

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My list of “must have” apps for the iPad. How I organize my apps. And which ones are important enough to sync to my home screen.

Filed Under: Apps, Educators, Libraries Tagged With: Amazon, chat, collaboration tools, communication tools, Diigo, documentation tools, Dropbox, ebooks, educational technologies, Evernote, Facebook, gadgets, Gmail, Google, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Talk, Google Voice, Instapaper, iPad, Kindle, Mendeley, MindMeister, mobile apps, Remember The Milk, research tools, SharePoint, Skype, social media, texting, Twitter, YouVersion

Trying out Google Wave!

October 1, 2009 by Colleen 1 Comment

I was treated to a nice surprise shortly after getting home from work last night… my Google Wave invitation arrived in my personal email inbox at exactly 7:49pm. I applied for my beta invite the very first day Google started accepting requests, and reapplied several more times over the last few months.  Like so many […]

Filed Under: Apps Tagged With: collaboration tools, communication tools, Google, Google Wave, social media, social networking sites

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