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via Edudemic Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a l...
A collection of web 2.0 resources and tools aligned to ISTE NETS to engage and motivate student and teaching learning.
Via Karen Bonanno
Fandrop is the hub for you to discover and share any content on the web.
From "About" page on official site:
"You take the coolest experiences of online surfing and drop them all into one spot, you get Fandrop. Fandrop is the place for you to connect with others just like you and share the joy, love, and laughter.
Key features are:
- Save Your Favorite Videos;
- Collect Cool Content;
- Save Awesome Articles;
- Collaborate On Projects;
- Save Webpages;
- Plan A Vacation..."
Excerpted from review article on TechCrunch:
"Fandrop, a new content sharing site, is debuting today to help you find out what’s trending across the web. The site surfaces things like tweets and Facebook posts, YouTube videos, images from sites like imgur, articles, web pages, and more. In some ways, it’s similar to other social networks and social sharing sites, in that you can friend and follow other users, create profiles, build collections of content, and post things you find to the Fandrop platform.
All the content on Fandrop’s site is user-submitted, either through an online form, bookmarklet, or through the import of feeds from Facebook, Twitter, for example.
When you go to the homepage today, it’s a mix of clickable distractions – funny videos, gifs, photos, posts, music videos and more. You can explore different categories such as “celebs,” “tech,” “sports,” or “aww,” the latter which features a lot of cute animal photos and videos. You can also create an account in order to build and share your own collections. When you find something on the site you like, you can vote it up Digg-style, or share it to social networks.
Fandrop is not open to the public yet, but 1,000 TechCrunch readers can get in by using this link: www.fandrop.com/techcrunch
Check out it: http://www.fandrop.com
"About" page: http://www.fandrop.com/about
Review article on TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/14/fandrop-debuts-a-digg-like-service-for-viral-media-hacks-its-way-to-over-1-million-pageviews-monthly/
Introducing video about Fandrop: http://youtu.be/_REaOwNNgFA
Via Giuseppe Mauriello
American Libraries Magazine, the magazine of the American Library Association, delivers news and information about the library community.
I stumbled upon the graphic below, which is a great look at the “History of Social Media.” The image comes from Jump Media. Be sure to click the image to explo…...
Via Pedro Ramalho, Paulo Tomás Neves
Last month, Sheila May-Stein, a librarian assigned to Manchester this year, posted a photo on Facebook with a comment that the library had only 40 usable books in its fiction section. She wrote: “Feeling overwhelmed and despondent when I see pictures of iPad labs and brand-new books and all the other privileges white suburban kids have when I compare it to what the kids at this school have. They are learning every day that they aren’t worth clean, fresh paint and unstained carpets and books that aren’t 65 years old.” May-Stein’s posting went viral, drawing donations from as nearby as Bethel Park’s Lincoln Elementary School, where students raised money to buy books about football, and from as far away as Manchester, England, where a woman said she felt an affinity with a neighborhood with the same name.
Via Karen Bonanno
Giuseppe Mauriello: Grafetee is finnish startup focused on people using location based bookmarking about their geo-location, need, and interest. From official website: "1)Discover events, places, services and photos around you;
2)Bookmark real-world events and places - nearby locations with the mobile app or any place or event on any website with the browser bookmarklet - for later reference.
3) Share your discoveries with your friends - either via in-app functionality or use the app to mirror your Grafetee content to your Facebook timeline. Free, no ads, no registration required! From review article on PandoDaily: "Grafetee has officially launched. The company’s apps, available for free on the App Store and Play Store, make it easier for users to find, bookmark, and share places of interest with their friends, family, and the Finnish police force. Essentially, Grafetee is to places as the bookmarks folder is to Web pages. Users can scout out a few locations that they’d like to visit – for, say, vacationing or house-hunting – and, with the click of a button, save that location to their devices. Though this sounds (and is) fairly simple, it’s much more convenient than finding a location on the computer and hoping to remember it long enough to search for it again later. Alternately, users can take a picture of a location and share it with their friends without having to go through the “search, grab a link, and text it” rigamarole. The system can be used for everyday tasks, like sharing a new restaurant with a significant other, but where it really shines is as a white-label solution that Grafetee can tweak to suit other groups’ needs..." Check out Grafetee here: http://grafetee.com Watch video about Grafetee introduction here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41KfXcpnk2Y Read full review article on PandoDaily here: http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/19/grafetee-builds-its-location-bookmarking-platform-with-help-from-the-finnish-police-force/
Via Giuseppe Mauriello
"Search and social media are joined at the hip – or are they? As search engine rankings get more complex, and the dust has settled on search engine updates from the last 18 month, marketers are left wondering what’s next. Although social media and search engine optimization used to be in two different camps of online marketing, they seem to be increasingly linked together. In 2010, Google implemented a more social friendly search algorithm that took author reputation, bookmarking, commenting and other social “signals” (likes, retweets, shares and more) into account when presenting their search engine results. In addition, they began to implement the “Search Plus Your World” option for searchers who were logged into their Google accounts while searching. Other search engines quickly followed suit, and SEOs everywhere began to emphasize social media for optimization. But what kind of social media and how many social media signals are a factor in search engine results? Find Out More: http://www.socialsnap.com/blog/2012/10/the-real-story-behind-social-media-and-search/
Via Antonino Militello
How social context is playing a role in SEO and how marketers can adjust their strategies to match the changing character of search.
"More and more, search engines have begun to incorporate social context into their search results. And it's high time we dive into what role social context is playing in SEO, and how marketers can adjust their strategies to match the changing character of search. So without further ado, let's get into the nitty gritty of what's being called "social search" and learn how it affects marketers.
"Social search" is an evolving term for the way in which search engines factor a user's social network -- also referred to as social graph -- into how results are displayed after a search query. In social search, content that has a social connection to you in some way is prioritized. A social connection could mean someone you are linked to via Facebook, Twitter, or any other major social network. Alternately, some forms of social search prioritize content that has been shared by social media influencers, even if those experts aren't directly tied to you".
Read more: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/33662/A-Crystal-Clear-Explanation-of-How-Social-Media-Influences-SEO.aspx
Via Antonino Militello
In its Policy Priorities report, Can Social Media and School Policies be "Friends," ASCD provides a state-of-the union on social media use in schools.
Via Lourense Das
Interesting application of using IFTTT
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Library fact sheet with statistics on internet access, filtering use; information on selecting and installing filters; additional resources
Allowing everyone to discover everything happening around them.
Via Visual Loop
Will be interesting to see if students find this intrusive over time.
Another example of location-based information being used to target audience and drive business. If you keep all of your contacts in Google you might be interested in seeing a map showing their locations.
"Visual content has become one of the most desirable types of content -- because it's so darn easy to consume. But it's not enough to just create beautiful, funny, engaging visual content ... marketers are now wondering where the best place to promote that visual content is. Just about every major social network allows marketers to share visual content in some capacity, but that doesn't necessarily mean that particular network is the best medium for visual promotion. And in a world of hundreds of social networks, marketers need to optimize their time to promote the most appropriate types of content on the most appropriate channels. Until now, it's seemed like Pinterest really takes the cake in terms of the best social network for visual content promotion. But recently, Facebook launched a little something called Collections, which is a Pinterest-style feature that allows users to add products to a wishlist or curate them into a particular list. Sounds kind of like Pinterest, doesn't it"? Read More: http://socialmediatoday.com/traslavina/935221/pinterest-vs-facebook-which-really-better-visual-social-network
Via Antonino Militello
Good lesson in cloud and backups. Are we too complacent in use of various tools? Do we care enough about our data to take the extra step of backup and dual storage? Sadly, for the most part, I think not.
It does take time to gain traction. "A challenge to the way teachers think about Twitter - a short list of ways to embrace, rather than reject, it as a tool for the classroom, for learning.
Via Studyvibe, Karen Bonanno
New Search Engine, New Ranking Factors. Facebook Search ranking factors could indeed be much different than traditional SEO factors. And that can have a huge impact on how digital marketers work, especially how it relates to SEO, social media marketing, and paid search. Until Facebook launches a serious search engine, SEOs will continue executing, analyzing, and refining their efforts based on a number of SEO ranking factors related to websites, webpages, links, on-page optimization, domain authority, etc. Sure, Google and Bing continually update their algorithms, but we know that on-page optimization is important, building high-quality links is important, pumping out high-quality and unique content is important, etc. So, what happens if a big player jumps in the game with a completely different set of ranking factors? What if Facebook launches a killer search engine? What will it look like and how will it work? And more importantly for digital marketers, what will the ranking factors be? Full Article Here: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/facebook-seo-beastrank-ranking-factors-facebook-search-engine/49696/
Via Antonino Militello
As social media continues to evolve, it’s important for us to keep up with the changes, and social media policies are no different.
Via Judy O'Connell
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Looks interesting, thanks for share it ;)