This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. 
Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting. Via Kathleen Cercone Pond is a social media aggregator and publisher that allows you to follow your friends, collect information about them and share your own content in some of the most popular online social content services available. In Pond you decide what content you want to see and your friends don't even have to use Pond. As long as you can add them as contacts in any of the services Pond supports or they provide a feed (eg., a blog RSS feed), you can add them to Pond and follow their stuff Via Kathleen Cercone 
lay Shirky famously pointed out that the problem in the information landscape today isn’t necessarily that there is too much information but that our filters aren’t any good. Students feel this problem acutely due to their perpetual crunch for time and lack of nuanced Google skills. So where does a responsible student go for reliable information she can use in an academic context? Via Kathleen Cercone 
Viewshare is a free platform for generating and customizing views, (interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds) that allow users to experience your digital collections. Via Kathleen Cercone 
Living - How to Make Instructables - Explore the Biggest How To and DIY community where people make and share inspiring, entertaining, and useful projects, recipes, and hacks. 
Like infographics and data visualizations? Visual.ly is the world's largest community of dataviz and infographics. Come explore, share and create. Via Kathleen Cercone The Internet, like all intellectual technologies has a trade off. As we train our brains to use it, as we adapt to the environment of the internet, which is an environment of kind of constant immersion and information and constant distractions, interruptions, juggling lots of messages, lots of bits of information. As we adapt to that information environment, so to speak, we gain certain skills, but we lose other ones. Via Nik Peachey 
The latest recording from the British Council Seminars series is about digital literacy. What is digital literacy, and what is its significance to you as a teacher? Via Nik Peachey |
Jon Miller of News Corp may have predicted 2012 will see the "channelisation" of the web, but he really means a renewed focus on curation... 
Prominent designer Kevin Burgh discusses the marriage between art and technology and what inspires him. Brainify is academic social bookmarking and networking for college and university students. If you are looking for the best sites and a great community to help with your courses, this is the place for you. Via Kathleen Cercone 
Create your own private, personal network At the heart of Personal is a secure private network that you build organically. Family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, sites, apps, service providers, businesses – connect safely with anyone you choose. Imagine seeing who has what in a single snapshot. It all starts by becoming the official gatekeeper of your digital information. Via Kathleen Cercone EmbedPlus lets you easily edit and watch upgraded video embeds with enhanced playback and relevant content. Use it on your site and even with YouTube WordPress plugins. Via Kathleen Cercone 
Applications, tutorials, ideas, educational games, mobile apps, and web tools to help you integrate technology into education and enhance mobile learning... 
Draw it Live is a free application that allows you to work together with other people to draw in real time. You simply create a whiteboard and share its URL to allow other people to join in. No password is required, and no special plugins are required. Just click on the link, type in your name, and start drawing and chatting with your friends: Via Kathleen Cercone 
Picozu is a drawing and photo retouching application built on jQuery, HTML 5 and CSS3. Make sure you use a modern browser if you want to experience it. 
Kitely enables you to get your own virtual worlds for training, education, collaboration or fun. Log in with Facebook to create your free account and start using your own virtual world within minutes. Via Kathleen Cercone 
The Indiana Department of Education is backing trials to see if the model can work in the state’s public schools. John Keller, the department’s assistant superintendent for technology, says state officials want Indiana “to be seen as a place where innovation happens in schools,” and is looking seriously at the flipped classroom as part of a broader push towards that goal. Via Nik Peachey |
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