2011 is coming before 2010 ends, let me thanx all the good people like u my PLN , who made 2010 beautiful for me. I wish u all : Fantastic JANUARY , Love able FEBRUARY , Marvelous MARCH
Foolish APRIL , Enjoyable MAY , Successful JUNE , Wonderful JULY , Indepedent AUGUST , Powerful september , Tastiest OCTOBER , Beautiful NOVEMBER , Happiest DECEMBER. Have a VICTORIOUS YEAR! I hope that I am the 1st person to wish u happy 12 months of 2010:)
I wish you all HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011 and all your wishes come true and in 2011 I hope to have a good collaboration using PLN and discover toghether new edtools and application who can reform education worldwide using semantic web 3.0 and why not to meet personally :) .
Yestarday I find on the social web 3 new applications who can be used using #newtwitter . Hoverme About
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Kynetx offers the premier platform for building a new breed of Apps that are context-aware, cross-platform, and act as event listeners in the cloud.
Qwerly provides the most comprehensive people search engine for the social web, the API is freely available.
Hoverme is a browser plugin that will enhance your social web experience. The initial release works on the new Twitter web interface. With Hoverme installed you will be able to view the social web profile for each of your friends simply by mousing over their name in your Twitter stream. The profile provides links to the person's other profiles on sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Delicious and many more.
If you install this plugin you can find your friends on Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Delicious and many more
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Qwerly is a whois for Twitter. For every Twitter user that is looked up on our site, we generate a simple profile with links to that person's other profiles on sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Last.fm, Delicious and many, many more. This way, you can discover where your friends and other interesting people hang out online. Here you can see qwerly at work .
Still the begining I wish you my friends and my PLN Christmas with peace in your soul and a Happy New Year .
Thank you very much Santa Claus for my new website
For you beautiful Christmas carols from Timisoara Opera soloists . If you enjoy my post please let a commnet
I invite you to wath also at the international exhibition ,, Nativity reason for joy and celebration of all christians " .
Description : We want to know how students from all over Europe celebrate God's Birth in their countries . In this project parteners schools can make with their studdents many activities wich is about the Bird of Son of God or Christmas , and our children will make different paintings , drawings , ornaments and cards for Christmas .Each partner can contribute according to what they are able to do: texts, photos, pictures, songs and music audio files paintings , drawings , ornaments and Christmas Cards cards . We will use in this project:e-mail, Forum, Other software ( presentations ( Powerpoint, slideshare , slide , picture trail , authorSTREAM...etc. ) video ( You-Tube , Twit Vid ,Vimeo ) , podcasting , other tools and aplications web2.0. and all will be posted on this blog . After our project will be approved all the parteners will be invited to publish work on the blog of the project made by founder in this project – students from Scoala Speciala Caransebes .
Aims: This project aims to make the students as more activities dedicated to the birth of Son of God and to make many drawings and ornaments for Christmas .This project will be carried out in English and we will use Twinspace as well as create a blog -this blog (a new technical help to teachers and pupils ,this tool will be provided). Students will organize celebrations dedicated to the birth of God , they will sing carols in different places and studdents will make many paintings and drawings for the Christmas . We expected many countries and schools join us in this project , and at the end of the project each partner school involved in the project presented their activities (foto , video ,Powerpoint , picture , drawings ) on a website of the project . http://studentsallovereuropecelebrategodsbirth.piczo.com/?g=1&cr=2 At the final this blog will be made public and everybody can see how Students from all over Europe celebrate The Birth of Son of God or Christmas. We want to organize a international exhibition at the art gallery Corneliu Baba from Caransebes with paintings and drawings made by students all over Europe for celebrate the birth of Son of God or Christmas .
All the parteners will work on this 10 tasks in our project :
Every partener will make a presentation or a video to present the school .
1.The Bith of Son of God – The reason for Christmas
2.About Nativity of Jesus in many languages
3.Christmas Spirit in my school
4.Christmas carols and songs
5.Paintings and drawings for Christmas
6 . Santa Claus and Christmas Tree
7.Ornaments for Christmas
8.Other activities made with our students for God's Birth or Christmas
9.Christmas Cards for Everyoane .
If you like my wishes your comments are welcome .
In the final I want to share with you digital story of Nativity using web 2.0 and social media .
Copyright allthingschristmas.com
Dear friends, members of my PLN because Christmas is near the door I will write here my favorite Christmas greetings , cards , wishes and videos using nowadays web 2.0 and social media. Click on the links and share with your friends and your PLN:)
In 25 december orthodox christians celebrate Nativity . I will post more informations about Christmas next days but today I find a very interesting video Nativity digital story . Christmas story told through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, Google Maps, GMail, Foursquare, Amazon . Do you like ?
Nowadays most of the teachers still use with students power point to make interactive presentation, but I will present here some alternatives for slide shows . I used with students for making Christmas and #edtech20 presentations .
Animoto Productions is a bunch of techies and film/tv producers who decided to lock themselves in a room together and nerd out. Animoto, a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Produced on a widescreen format, Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.The heart of Animoto is its newly developed Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology that thinks like an actual director and editor. It analyzes and combines user-selected images, video clips and music with the same sophisticated post-production skills and techniques that are used in television & film.
If you are a teacher or educator, apply for a free Animoto for education all-access pass for use in the classroom. Produce unlimited full length videos from photos. Animoto, the end of slideshow .
Masher lets you easily create a video by mixing together video clips, music tracks, and photos all for FREE!
Follow 3 easy steps :
1.Mix...Your videos and photos, with our huge library of video clips from BBC Motion Gallery, Rip Curl and more.
2.Mash...Your videos and photos together using our simple studio, then add some words, music and special effects.
3.Share...Your video Mash by posting it to sites such as Facebook, MySpace, or by emailing it.
Stuplefix Studio the next generation of video creation tools, now has a whole new editor and theme, Outline, for your videos. Outline will take your pics and videos for a classy ride, sliced and diced by lively stripes. It's dynamic, has a unique touch,we think it's beautiful.Give it a try .
Onetruemedia Somebody's going to look like a creative genius in a few minutes (hint: it's you). It's just so simple to mix your video and photos with our fresh, stylish effects to create wow-worthy Video Montages.Follow 3 simple steps :
1.Upload your photos and video clips
2.Chose a stile , add effects , captions and music
Flixtime turns your photos and videos into stunning and unique videos in just minutes! Sign-up for a free account, and upload your images, videos and music. Then, sit back and watch your masterpiece come together!
Follow 3 easy steps :
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Juxio is a new visual way to communicate. Individuals and businesses use Juxio to combine images, text and more into mashable, visual streams called Juxes to share across social media and in print.
Juxes are created on both our Web and iPhone apps. In the future we will support additional mobile devices. By making Juxio available anywhere at any time, we hope you find more ways to create new meaning.
MovieMakerOnline.com let's you instantly create your own video online, absolutely free, right now! Just upload your photos (or other pictures) and favorite audio record and download your own video in FLV format, which you may upload to YouTube, facebook and other sites. Present your videos with favorite photos to friends of you!
JayCutthe worlds premier online video editor in your own language.
After months of hard work we are very proud to present the next generation of the JayCut video editor. We had one goal: to redefine what is a great online video editing tool.
The new release of the JayCut video editor will appeal to beginners as much as to professionals. The easy learning curve, intuitive design and high-end capabilities make it the perfect application for anyone looking to start editing without the intimidation of having to buy an expensive and difficult editing program.
With new improved design and a ton of added features you’re now able to create astonishing masterpieces in minutes.
Dear visitors teachers and researchers please add new interesting tools like comments .
Some times ago I started to use flock and I like very much this web 2.0 and social media browser . In 2 december Flock launched latest release, the new Flock v3.5 browser. New Flock lets you enjoy the benefits of an even faster and better-performing Chromium 7. Flock now integrate with LinkedIn and offer new Flock for the Mac. With LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr all together in your Sidebar, its simple to follow and search friends and family and that much easier to organize your online content, both personally and professionally.
,, Flock continues to provide the most effortless way to get the most out of your social experience. Flock is the only browser that lets the user:
-See all of their social content in one place by simply glancing at the sleek Flock Sidebar, including tweets, Facebook and LinkedIn status updates, RSS feeds, and YouTube and Flickr content. Other browsers require that a user click down several layers for RSS content, Twitter and Facebook updates and do not support LinkedIn, YouTube and Flickr.
-Choose to see everyone in the Sidebar and get their updates fast. With other browsers there is no immediate time-based stream of all friends and content. And users cannot see who has the most recent status updates across services.
- Share content and updates across Facebook, LinkedIn and multiple Twitter accounts with two clicks. With other browsers you have to perform separate operations for each service you want to update.
-Group friends in multiple ways while still having their social media updates visible in the scrolling Sidebar. They can also combine or group their friends according to work, play, school, clubs, interests—any way they choose. Other browsers do not allow users to combine or group their friends across services, or view friends by service, all in the same convenient user interface.
- Utilize Social Search, so users can “See what your friends are saying.” When you enter a question or search query in the address bar, Flock shows you recent pages, favorite sites and feeds, and Google search results, as well as any matches from your friends’ status updates, tweets, and photo/video uploads across all of your social networks.
RockMelt does more than just navigate Web pages. It makes it easy for you to do the things you do every single day on the Web: share and keep up with your friends, stay up-to-date on news and information, and search. And of course, RockMelt is fast, secure, and stable because it’s built on Chromium, the open source project behind Google’s Chrome browser. It’s your browser – re-imagined and built for how you use the Web.
If you can stand a few kinks and bugs, sign up for early access, and we’ll get you an invitation as soon as we can. We’d love to know what you think.
Your World Built into Your Browser
With RockMelt we’ve re-thought the user experience because a browser can and should be about more than simply navigating Web pages. Today, the browser connects you to your world. Why not build your world right into your browser?
Your friends are important to you, so we built them in. Now you’re able to chat, share that piano-playing-cat video everyone’s going to love, or just see what your friends are up to, regardless of what site you’re on. Your favorite sites are important to you, so we built them in too. Now you can access them from anywhere, without leaving the page you’re on. And RockMelt will tell you when something new happens.
Share or tweet links often? Yeah, us too. No more wading through each site’s goofy share widget or copy-pasting URLs. We built sharing directly into the browser, right next to the URL bar. Like a site or story? Click “Share” and BAM – link shared. You can use it on any site to post to Facebook or tweet about it on Twitter. It’s just one click away. That easy.
Personalized and Backed by the Cloud
Wherever you go on the Internet, RockMelt makes the Web a personal experience. Because RockMelt is the first browser you log into, it unlocks your Web experience with your Facebook friends, your feeds, your favorite services, even your bookmarks and preferences. RockMelt is also the first browser to be fully backed by the cloud. This means you can access your personal browsing experience from anywhere, and you get quick updates from the people and sites that are important to you.
Behind the scenes, RockMelt is always working on your behalf. Do you visit the same site 10 times a day, checking for new posts or updates? Well, RockMelt keeps track of all your favorite sites for you, alerting you when a new story comes out, a friend posts new pictures, or a new video is available. And when you open a RockMelt feed, the content is already waiting for you. You can Like, comment, reply, retweet, share - all the actions you’ve come to expect from each service you follow.
Faster Search
Last but not least, RockMelt makes search faster. And better. We got tired of clicking back and forth trying to find the right search result. So we made search as simple as leafing through a magazine. With RockMelt, you can use your keyboard to flip through Google search results and pick the one you want. Super fast. Super cool.
Rock Solid Foundation
Any intro to RockMelt wouldn’t be complete without recognizing all the tremendous work that came before us—and which we’ve built upon. We’re based on Chromium, the open source project behind Google’s Chrome browser, which in turn is based on WebKit, the open source HTML layout engine used by Apple, as well as a host of other projects from Mozilla and others. These projects, which we contribute to, represent the best browser technology out there. RockMelt wouldn’t be possible without these projects, as well as the open APIs, help and support we’ve received from Facebook, Twitter, and others. We’re proud and deeply grateful to be able to build on the shoulders of these giants. Thanks friends!
Get Your RockMelt On!
After two years of work, RockMelt is still a baby. It’s our baby and we’re proud of it, but we’re most excited about what it will grow into. We’ve just scratched the surface of what we want to do. If you’re on Mac or Windows and you don’t mind some kinks and bugs, we hope you’ll sign upfor early access and let us know what you think! We are sending out invitations as fast as we can, while making sure our service scales up. We hope you like RockMelt as much as we do. You can follow our blog or our Twitter account or like us on Facebook for updates. Happy browsing!
My nomination for 2010 Edublog Awards
Now into the 7th year teachers worldwide are nominalized . For me is very hard to chose only 1 teacher or resercher per cathegory because in my google reader I have more than 1000 educational websites and blogs .
Here are my nominations :)
2.Best individual tweeter http://twitter.com/#!/web20education : Twitter account for the eSafety free project in the clouds for teachers worldwide ,, Teach, learn, play in 21st Century using free tools and applications web 2.0 and social media in an eSafety way in education 2.0 ” . This project was finalist in ELEARNING AWARDS 2010 in the cathegory ENISA award for teaching online safety and citizenship .
3.Best group blog : http://edudemic.com/ Edudemic connecting education&technology
4.Best new blog : http://luciandumateachweb20.eu/ - Teacher Lucian Duma share knowledge using in a safety mode tools and application web 2.0 ,mLEARNING, ELEARNING AND SOCIAL MEDIA gateway through knowledge in EDUCATION 2.0 .
5.Best resource sharing blog : http://www.technogogy.org.uk/index.html - The aim of :/technogogy is to promote and expand the educational potential of new technologies through sound pedagogical exploitation. Here you can find materials and advice on the use of ICT, new technologies and social media in education.
6.Most influential blog post : http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ Free Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching with Technology written by Richard Byrne .
7.Most influential tweet / series of tweets / tweet based discussion : #edtech20 - Tweets related new techologies ( edtools ) web 2.0 and social media used in XXI CENTURY in teaching and learning .
8.Best teacher blog : http://www.teacher.be/
Lucas van de Paer is teacher in Multimedia and Graphic Arts and Design in Belgium .
9.Best librarian / library blog http://bloggit.es/Bloggit is a great way to learn English, learn about information technology and, above all, HAVE FUN!!
11. Best elearning / corporate education blog : http://internettimealliance.com/wp/ Internet Time Alliance, a multidisciplinary think tank. The Alliance develops learning architectures that reduce time-to-performance, chop overhead, and increase innovation.
12 . Best educational use of audio : EdTechTalk Collaborative Open Webcasting Community
16 . Best educational webinar series : #edchat Every tuesday teachers and educators from around the globe meet on Twitter to discuss one topic using the edchat . #edchat is a collaboration of educators, parents, students, and other stakeholders finding solutions to the challenges facing every educational system worldwide say Shelly Terrell founder of #edchat .
19 . Best use of a PLN : http://eflclassroom.ning.com/ EFL Classroom 2.0 is an award winning, young, vibrant community of thousands of English language learners and teachers. We are pioneers in Web 2.0 resource sharing. The community is entirely free but requires a quick registration.
20 . Lifetime achievement : http://www.techlearning.com/ For 30 years, Tech & Learning has served the K-12 education community with practical resources and expert strategies for transforming education through integration of digital technologies.
Although I organized some international : symposiums, contests or exhibitions and also I was participated in many on-line conferences , symposiums or webinars the GLOBAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE was for me the first on-line conference where I was a presenter . I present on-line #edtech20 project - free eSafety project in the clouds for teachers around the world . Many teachers 2.0 asist on Elluminate at my presentations like CHAIRS : Adina Popa , Lucy Gray , Gabriel Vleisides, Now this project in the clouds has a free opensource PLN PUBLIC LEARNING NETWORK where every teacher interested by eSafety use of web 2.0 and social media in nowadays education can join free . http://teachlearnplayesafetyeducation.wall.fm/blogs/11
If you miss my presentation you can see al recordings on ELLUMINATE . I also make a short movie with my on-line #edtech20 presentation .
Some information about this Global Education Conference .
The 2010 Global Education Conference will be held November 15 – 19, 2010, online and free. Sessions will be held in multiple time zones and multiple languages over the five days.
The conference is a collaborative and world-wide community effort to significantly increase opportunities for globally-connecting education activities and initiatives.
There is no formal registration required for the conference, as all the sessions will be open and public, broadcast live using the Elluminate platform, and available in recorded formats afterwards. Links to watch the sessions will be posted a few days before the conference begins, in the “Sessions” and “Schedule” pages, and recording links will be listed soon thereafter.”
The Twitter account is http://www.twitter.com/globaledcon. The hash tag #globaled10. Global Education Conference 2010 http://globaleducation.ning.com/group/edtech20
The description of the project : ,, Teaching and learning in XXI century using in a e-Safety way tools and applications web 2.0 and social media in education 2.0,, is a project launch by me because I was selected this year to work in a TIS – INSAFE Teaching Internet Safety project under European Schoolnet .
The module proposed by me is called ,, How teachers and students can use free web 2.0 and social media in education “ and all the resources will be posted on TeachToday website . All modules where presented in 22nd October 2010 at Safer Internet Forum in Luxembourg organised by the European Schoolnet and European Commission .
Web 2.0 and social media can bring a new dimension and can reform education around the Europe because electronic communication helps teachers and students to learn from each other. These new tehnologies can stimulate discussion, open gateway through knowledge, promote creativity and innovation for effective learning. Teacher and also students should have an entitlement to safe internet access at all times. Pulling Piaget and Papert , the use of participatory media tools in education is typically geared towards, creating a more student centered, adaptive environnement where learners can contribute to the course material, formulate and express their own insights and opinion, construct their own understanding of material by connecting concepts, to personal experience or current events, and learn from one another in collaborative environments . Web 2.0 , social media and other digital and information tehnologies are powerful and interesting tools, which open up new opportunities for everyone and for this reason teachers and students must know how to use it nowadays in a safety mode .
Dear teachers , visitors and eLearning specialists you can join free this free opensource PLN - PUBLIC LEARNING NETWORK for this e-Safety project http://teachlearnplayesafetyeducation.wall.fm/blogs/1and also you can join many others groups - See it in the clouds :)
The VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE conference is a live online conference dedicated to language learning with technology. It is aimed at educators and language teaching professionals in language schools, institutes or other language related organisations.
It is held entirely online using virtual classroom technology and provides a superb opportunity to profile one’s company as being truly ‘state-of-the-art’ in understanding and promoting Internet-based learning.
The VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE conference will present a number of web tools and best practise on how to use these tools in class for the benefit of our language learners.
Click this link to see the recordings
PLENK2010 will be offered as a connectivist course, therefore offering participants to acquire the experience of developing and working within a learning network while studying the body of relevant research.
In a connectivist course course materials and course content are defined by participants as the course progresses, rather than prior to the course by instructors. Though the course outline defines a set of selected topics, these function as signposts for an iterative process of search, practice and reflection, as described here: http://connect.downes.ca/how.htm
To facilitate this process, course facilitators will maintain the following levels of course support:
a course wiki, which may be edited by participants, describing the course outline
a daily newsletter, which will aggregate student blogs, Twitter posts, and discussion posts
each Sunday readings and resources will be posted to the wiki and (on Monday) to the Daily
a Moodle discussion forum, read and responded to by course facilitators
Wednesday Elluminate session, usually featuring a relevant guess speaker
Friday Elluminate session, as a weekly review with course facilitators
The course may not be limited to this level of support as course participants are encouraged to develop their own course supports and to share those supports with other participants. Examples of such supports in previous courses have included concept maps, Google groups, Second Life sessions, in-person meetings, course-meetups, and more. Facilitators will participate in these additional supports as possible given time and facilities constraints.
In the last five years, the twin concepts of the personal learning environment (PLE) and personal learning network (PLN) have been offered as alternatives to more traditional environments such as the learning management system (LMS) and institutionally-based courses.
During that time, a substantial body of research has been produced by thinkers, technologists and practitioners in the field. Dozens of studies, reviews, conference presentations, concept papers and diagrams are now available.
The purpose of this course will be to clarify and substantiate, from the context of this new research, the concepts of personal learning environments and networks. Course facilitators and participants will analyze the research literature and evaluate it against their own experience with the intent of developing a comprehensive understanding of personal learning environments and networks.
Personal Learning Environments, Networks, and Knowledge is a course sponsored and organized by the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI) at Athabasca University.
PLENK2010 started in September 13, 2010 and will end in November 14, 2010
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages and it is also an online tool that lets you write brief text updates – tweets ( in 140 characters ) . Twitter is the best microblogging tool for sharing using social media in nowadays education . In only 140 characters twitter revolutionize the concept of global sharing and worldwide collaboration . Twitter has thousounds of tools and applications who make from twitter numer 1 web 2.0 tool for sharing around the world . Read more on our blog . Read more here . News from the Twitter blog about a Better and New Twitter .
Twitter has always been about getting a lot in a little. The constraint of 140 characters drives conciseness and lets you quickly discover and share what's happening. Yet, we've learned something since starting Twitter—life doesn't always fit into 140 characters or less.
Here are some highlights:
New design. The site has a cleaner timeline and a rich details pane that instantly adds more impact to individual Tweets while still maintaining the simplicity of the timeline. And, experience infinite scroll -- you no longer have to click “more” to view additional Tweets.
Media. Now, it’s easy to see embedded photos and videos directly on Twitter, thanks to partnerships with DailyBooth, deviantART, Etsy, Flickr, Justin.TV, Kickstarter, Kiva, Photozou, Plixi, Twitgoo, TwitPic, TwitVid, USTREAM, Vimeo, yfrog, and YouTube.
Related content. When you click a Tweet, the details pane shows additional information related to the author or subject. Depending on the Tweet’s content, you may see: replies, other Tweets by that user, a map of where a geotagged Tweet was sent from, and more.
Mini profiles. Click a username to see a mini profile without navigating from the page, which provides quick access to account information, including bio and recent Tweets.
These changes will roll out as a preview over the next several weeks starting with a very small percentage of registered accounts tonight. During the preview, you'll be able to switch back and forth so you have time to grow accustomed to the way things work. Eventually, everyone will have the updated version of Twitter.com. We are incredibly proud of the work the Twitter web team has accomplished. We hope you are too!
“New Era Teaching and Learning” will be a moodle extravaganza with webinars and tutorials and monitored discussions. It will be a 'show and tell' of examples of best practice in online teaching and innovative uses of online tools and technology.
The course it is free for educators all over the world new to teaching in an online environment as well as for advanced online users and students. It will bring people together from around the world to learn from each other, collaborate and get online teaching ideas and support.
Ursula Franklin says that an analogy of the perfect society is a potluck supper. "A society in which all can contribute, and all can find friendship, that those who bring things, bring things that they do well... All share their talents and all belong." Her analogy fits perfectly with this course. It will be a Professional learning Potluck. Participate at your convenience. The course will be archived to use the resources for continued professional development.
We currently are parteners from countries including Romania , Latvia, Turkey, Ecuador, Zambia, Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago, Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, Ireland, USA, Australia, Morocco, Peru, Lesotho, South Africa, Spain, Mexico, Israel, New Zealand, France, UK, Japan, Canada and Kenya.
