Perhaps you have seen in your Twitter feed recently, tweets that trumpet the publication of “The Daily ____” and a link, or something to that effect, to an online newsletter. One of the current popular “spinoffs” from twitter and other social media services are personalized newspaper services. Two of these services that I have looked at are Scoop.it and Paper.li. Here’s how these services work, in a nutshell: After creating an account, you go ahead and input some of…
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The Power of Video (Editing)
I remember quite vividly the first time I got my feet wet with digital video editing. I was working for NCSY and was preparing a curriculum for a shabbaton/convention. I was looking for a little extra 'oomph' at the Saturday night "Kumsitz" program. I borrowed my sister's lime green iBook, and put together a slide show/video that incorporated the Wu Tang Clan rap about the Holocaust "Never Again." Here is a YouTube clip with the rap and scenes from…
ContinueAdded by Dov Emerson on June 21, 2011 at 12:00am — 1 Comment
What Kind of Twitter User Are You?
Malcolm Gladwell, in his classic book "The Tipping Point," explores the different ways that trends develop, and how ideas rapidly spread in ways not often anticipated by their originators. In discussing this phenomenon, Gladwell identifies different types of personalities that serve to help spread ideas as they go viral, including the "Maven" and the "Connector."
The Maven represents a…
ContinueAdded by Dov Emerson on June 14, 2011 at 12:04am — 1 Comment
Getting Students to Curate Their Own Online Newspaper (Paper.li, Scoop.it)
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"The BAD Old Days" - Reflections on Productivity Tools
In thinking about current internet productivity tools out there, I am struck by how easy they can make it to discover information, share it, and effectively work together with others. I know that is what they promise to do, so it should not come as a shock, but the contrast with how we ‘used to do things’ is striking.
Even something as simple as Google’s main search page, while technically one could call this a ‘search engine,’ I believe that this is a huge productivity tool. If you…
ContinueAdded by Dov Emerson on June 7, 2011 at 11:08am — No Comments
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