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We blogged about the 2.0 version of this video WAY back in the golden ages of 2007. And, apparently totally missed the 3.0 version!  But, served up this week is version 4.0 of “Did You Know?” or as it is also sometimes called “Shift Happens”. It is now in widescreen format, has a great pop culture surprise reference and is now almost half the length and, as always, remains well worth watching.

For more information, or to join the conversation, please visit http://mediaconvergence.economist.com/ and http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/.
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I presented a session on the Pellissippi 2.0 and Pellissippi 2.1 experiences at the NISOD conference in Austin, TX and will be presenting a variation of it at the FUSION 2009 Desire2Learn Users Conference in St. Paul, MN.

NISOD -The presentation is at 1:30 pm on Monday, May 26.

FUSION – The presentation is at 10:45 am on Wednesday, July 15

Here is the handout – embedded from Scribd.
Pellissippi 2.0 – NISOD 2009

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If you are using Twitter, be sure to follow our new account to get announcements, campus news and other information.

  http://www.twitter.com/pellissippist

If you want to know more about Twitter, you can read what we said about it way back in the Fall of 2007 during our Web Wednesday talk on Microblogging.

Need something more current? Probably! Twitter has changed a lot. Check out these resources:
Why Everyone’s Talking about Twitter – TIME

tweeternet – What is Twitter?

7 Things You Should Know About Twitter | EDUCAUSE

Or, just watch this “Twitter in Common English” video to get things rolling. See you on Twitter!

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We have played with Wordle in the past but someone reminded me of it today so I had to back and visit it again. Wordle is a Java based tool that creates a “word cloud” based on the frequency of a word being used in either a block of text, within an RSS feed or tags from a Delicious (social bookmarking) account.

Here is a Wordle from the feed of a blog called Falalala – all about Christmas vinyl records:

And finally, the Wordle from the tags used in the PSTCC ETS Delicious account:

Can you think of ways that Wordle could be used in your class?? Perhaps:

• Analyzing speeches (either theirs or someone elses)
• Analyzing essays or articles (again, theirs or another’s work)
• Determining the focus of a certain blog, news site or other RSS feed provider

What else?

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An intrepid group of explorers joined me last semester for Pellissippi 2.0. We explored some of the concepts behind the definition of social software and Web 2.0 as well as took a whirlwind tour of some of the most popular social networking and social media sites (with a few esoteric detours).

If you didn’t have time to join us last semester or just want to do it all over again, consider joining in Pellissippi 2.1!

This time, we are going to work within our own little social network. So, if you were not really sure about joining Facebook or Flickr or any other social site just yet..this might be just the thing for you. It will be open just to our group but you can still learn about how social networking and social media sites work.

Once you are comfortable with the environment, you can expand out to other sites and see how they might fit in your own personal and professional worlds.

Join us!

Visit Pellissippi 2.1

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If you have a few minutes, you might want to participate in this survey. The results will be published by Elsevier Publishing in a series of papers this year.

Social Media in Higher Ed – Ward

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We are starting to explore the new Educator’s Accounts in Diigo. Feels good to be a pioneer!

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It is time to get ready to get ready as we work towards the start of the 2008-2009 academic year! There are ton of teachtech related sessions this year during our in-service. Here are a few of them:

Best Practices for Teaching Online – A faculty panel discussion (Goins Auditorium)
Friday, August 15 9:45 am

What you need 2 learn about the NEW Desire2Learn (Goins Auditorium)
Wednesday, August 13 10:45 am and 3:30 pm

myPellissippi Overview (MC 146)
Wednesday, August 13 10:45 am and 3:30 pm
Friday, August 15 9:45 am

Tomorrow’s Gonna be a Banner Day (ER 327)
Wednesday, August 13 10:45 am and 2:15 pm

NoodleTools: Plagiarism Prevention tool (ER 147)
Wednesday, August 13 2:15 pm

Making the Transition from Office 2003 to Office 2007 (ER 327)
Friday, August 15 9:45 am
Friday, August 22 10:30 am

Communicate/Create/Share: Using Web 2.0 in your teaching (AL 151)
Friday, August 22 9:00 am

PLUS – the D2L Open lab is scheduled for Friday, August 22 from 1 pm – 3 pm.

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If you are not able to go to the FUSION 2008: Desire2Learn Users Conference next month, here’s something to consider.

There is a Hitchhikr site created now.

Hitchhikr, you say? What is that?

From their site:

we can’t always make it to the conferences we need to attend to mix with the people we need to see — face-to-face. This is why Hitchhikr was invented, to provide you with a virtual space where, thanks to blogs, podcasts, and RSS, we can connect, share, respond, and grow knowledge out beyond the place and time of the event. Here are some tutorials on how to tap into the emerging technologies that make Hitchhikr possible.

So, you can visit the page and see all of the blog postings, images, YouTube videos, etc as folks are at the conference and share what they are seeing and learning in a variety of ways.

Could be a fun experiment!!!

Photo attribution: Next Stop the top by lo2

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