'The Lingospot APP offers a powerful combination of automatic content aggregation and filtering and in-depth content editing.'
OK, but this costs $500/month at the basic level. Does someone have an open source version of this? Could be a tremendous, wiki-like tool for teachers and students to generate enduring project stories and long term data. Workflow, baby. Workflow.
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How to Create Workflow: From Diigo Bookmarks to WordPress Blog Post.
I am using Diigo’s automatic blogging. It is a fairly frictionless workflow although I have discovered that I must leave the post “uncategorized” or it will publish as gibberish of some sort. Here is a screencast on how I do this.
Stannard is great in that he finds good tools and then does even finer video tutorials. I use about half of these tools but I want to learn how to use MyBrainShark, Lyricstraining, audioboo, and MailVu. 
Workflow is so critical to managing the tsunami of stuff headed your way.
Capture anything you see on your PC screen with SnapIt. It is convenient tool for graphic designers, bloggers who capture and crop images for their posts, for tech writers who need to describe menus and interfaces of applications, web designers and those who work with graphics every day. It captures and auto saves images with one click. 
Suggested by Jennifer Gillett
Audio is getting easier and easier.
"Mixlr makes broadcasting easy. Broadcast live, high-quality audio across the web, iPhone, iPad, Android and mobile devices. Sign up now for FREE." Robin Good: Syncdoc allows you to backup online, sync computers, and share files while leveraging the distributed and massive storage capabilities of Google. Select a folder on your PC, like “My Documents”. Syncdocs copies this folder online and then keeps it in sync across all your PCs giving you access to all of your files even when you are offline.
Find more info here: http://www.syncdocs.com/ Via Robin Good 
Hangouts keeps getting more and more nice features! 
Mitch Resnick is on the conference committee for the 2012 Digital Media and Learning Conference, "Beyond Educational Technology: Learning Innovations in a Connected World." As Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab, he develops new technologies and activities to engage people (especially children) in creative learning experiences. His Lifelong Kindergarten research group developed ideas and technologies underlying the LEGO Mindstorms and WeDo robotics kits, used by millions of young people around the world. Via scmorgan 
The portfolio and blog of Katie Koch, a web designer and interaction design student living and working in Brooklyn, New York. "Reflective practice needs to be systematic, built into your workflow." These are wise words and I wonder what people actually do to make this happen. 
Aza Raskin, a user-interface designer for the Web browser company Mozilla, has a novel way of meeting such challenges. His workspace consists of three computers: one for his primary work, a second somewhat nearby for email, and a third much farther away for "the fun"—this last one is rigged to get progressively slower and more difficult to use. Via Howard Rheingold |
Using Evernote in workflow. Very cool. 
I know just enough about what they are talking about to know that it sends an interesting tingle down my spine. I am thinking about how someting like this might be used in an eDCamp, unconference, or as the opening to Project Based Learnings. This is the part that got my juices going:
"A central challenge in crowd computing is the workflow design problem: 1 how can we divide a complex job — for instance, editing a paper or writing a computer program — into a sequence of microtasks that can be solved by a pool of crowd workers on the web? Effective workflow design is a difficult process, requiring careful task design, extensive software development, and iterated testing with a live crowd." 
I love user case studies. Here is one.
Today's French lesson was paperless. No pen required, no exercise books, no text books, no dictionaries. I found a great resource on the TES resources site on Racism from a teacher going by the n...
'The Lingospot APP offers a powerful combination of automatic content aggregation and filtering and in-depth content editing.'
OK, but this costs $500/month at the basic level. Does someone have an open source version of this? Could be a tremendous, wiki-like tool for teachers and students to generate enduring project stories and long term data. Workflow, baby. Workflow. 
A dispute between Time Warner Cable and MSG has meant that a number of viewers can’t watch the Knicks, Rangers and Sabres. A resolution does not appear imminent. 
Google has added a new chat feature to Google+. How could this change the way we conference? 
From Amber Thomas's open and free Scoop it: A little bit of genius from the University of Nottingham and Pat Lockley. 'You know the faff of downloading an image from flickr, then laboriously copying and pasting and editing information about it so you can attribute it, to comply with the "BY" requirement of CC licences? This little tool searches across openly licensed resources, displays them, then offers to do the hard work for you. It gives you the image with a little black bar on the bottom with the attribution in it. Attributed to the University of Nottingham and Pat Lockley, of course ;-)' Also works with audio and video ... Via amber thomas, ChrisPegler, ChrisPegler 
It seems that every week there is a news article debating issues in education from the value of standardized testing amongst scandal, the value of technology on education, how to improve the qualit... Via Anne Whaits 
Superior analysis of importance of workflow, specifically in animation but generally for all. The Tool. The reflection tool is designed for you to reflect on aspects of your teaching and thinking in just a few minutes time. The first question of each series, or question set, is listed below. When you click on the question, you are taken into a series of four or five questions, the first of which is the question you clicked on. The intent of the exercise is to help you bring what you care most about into your work thoughtfully and with understanding. 
Simple tech tidbit for students to manage files on jump drives, hard drives, cloud drives like Dropbox. |
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