I am honored to be nominalized in Edublog Awards 2012 in 3 categories and if you like what I do in social media world vote me here http://edublogawards.com/vote-here/ once a day . I must told you that in december I prepair in this blog next posts weekly : Top 10 social media curation tools , Top 10 startup curation tools, Top 10 cloud edtools and more and in this way I hope next year this blog will be in best edtech / resource sharing blogs :)
Thank you dear friends who joined my free #globaled12 session : ICT4eTwinners Project, Smile Project and top 10 tools to develop a PLN . I am happy because were 31 attendes, but for everybody who can't participate click here or on next photo to see recordings and also here is my presentation .
I had the pleasure to be involved in SMILE Project managed by European Schoolnet and for thie reason I launch ICT4eTwinners ( Innovation, Curation, Teach4eTwinners Project )
I was a online presenter for the first time in Global Education Conference in 2010 http://bitly.com/globaled10presenter and now I am happy because my seession was accepted again :) My presentation is scheduled Friday 8 p.m Bucharest time here and everyone is welcome to participate and add feed-back . If you want to join and obtain the link to my session please join our facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/list#!/
events/397382353665893/ follow @LucianeCurator and add your comments and feed-back . I must told you that afer the session I will post here my presentation so stay tune :)
A FREE ONLINE EXTRAVAGANZA • NOVEMBER 12-17 organized by co-chair Steve Hargadon and co-chair Lucy Gray
A week-long virtual conference featuring general sessions and keynote addresses highlighting
ideas that inspire action in an increasingly connected world
WHAT
The conference consists of an online series of live webinars in a virtual conference format. The general
focus is on connecting individuals, classrooms, and organizations around the theme of global collaboration
in education. All sessions are recorded and archived.
WHEN
24 hours a day during International Education Week November 12-17, 2012
WHO
Students, educators, thought leaders, and organizations are involved as both participants and presenters.
WHERE
On the internet using the Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing platform
School, Library, or Organization Name: Scoala Gimnaziala Speciala Caransebes
Co-Presenter Name(s): Teacher Mineva Rositsa
Country from Which You Will Present: Romania / Bulgaria
Language in Which You Will Present: English
Target Audience (such as primary school teachers, high school administrators, students, etc.): Teachers, social media curators, researchers,
Short Session Description (one line): We will present here our research in 2 european projects : ICT4eTwinners project, SMILE Project and top 10 social media tools to build a PLN
Full Session Description (one paragraph minimum):
In XXI Century Education and around the social web new Social Media King is Curation who is about adding value for humans because only they can do what no computer can possibly achieve . The Internet Curator’s role is to seek on the web information related to a specic domain,fillter them, select them, organise, share, present them in a unique mode. For this reason we launch ICT4eTwinners project : Innovation, Curation, Teach for eTwinners where we collaborate and integrate new tools and apps useful for teachers and students in XXI Century Education . This is a eTwinning project launched after I was leader in community of practices 2 organized in SMILE Project . In our COP2 - Using social media in schools - whole school approach we have a team from 8 members who make a case study related to our theme European Schoolnet (EUN) has been awarded an inaugural Digital Citizenship Research Grant by Facebook and for this reason they launched Social Media in Learning Education Project . http://leedu.eun.org/web/smile/home This SMILE year-long project consists of three phases: - An online learning laboratory for 100 teachers from the 30 member states of EUN's partnerships to investigate and embrace the educational opportunities social media offers. - Research with the 100 learning laboratory participants to highlight trends and best practices for how social media is being used and can be used in classrooms. - Broad dissemination of results of the research through EUN’s interactive portals for teachers as well as through European and international meetings and conferences. Nowadays when informatics and science developed spectacular and the use of new online technologies aren’t regarded like a avangardist movement new tools and apps Web 2.0 and social media can bring a new dimension and can reform education around the world because electronic communication helps teachers and students to learn from each other. These technologies can stimulate discussion, open gateway to knowledge, promoting creativity and innovation for effective lifelong 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 online technologies are powerful and interesting tools, which open up new opportunities for everyone and for this reason teachers must learn how to use it in a creative mode and integrate in their classroom with students .
Because this year I became a Social Media Curator http://bit.ly/LucianCurator who really want to implement Curation Restart Education Project http://bit.ly/credproject and still I will launch a platform for it I decided to describe here in my blog top 10 edtech startups and in the same time to follow online many worldwide global events and after to post and describe here in my blog my top 10 startups presented at the event . In one of my previous posts I describe my top 10 startups al Leweb 2012 http://bitly.com/lewebstartups . Now I want to congratulate Bogdan Iordache who make from How to Web one of the biggest Social Media event in Romania .
Please leave a comment and write what you think about next edtools and about How to Web .
How to Web is top event for European tech innovators organized this year at Bucharest Teach Fast http://techfeast.co/ along with Startup Weekend Romania http://romania.startupweekend.org/ . Follow practical case-studies, discover how tech innovation changes the world, meet your peer tech entrepreneurs and professionals from all around Central and Eastern Europe. You can view a full list of How to Web 2012 speakers here http://2012.howtoweb.co/speakers/ . This year they also organized a startup competition and they selected 30 finalist teams http://blog.howtoweb.co/2012/10/how-to-web-startup-spotlight-2012-finalists/ . I am verry happy to see many gr8 romanian edtech startups in the list according to How to Web and for this reason next I will describe my top 10 romanian startups .
1.snipdocs is startup curation tool to share knowledge using a web application applying semantic search and visual bookmarks to help users build documents for research, work, or casual topics. Paid content is being offered directly within the platform to provide high quality results . Take any excerpt from any digital source and store it in virtual documents. Structure and edit your collected bits and pieces to your personal liking. Invite others to help you collect and curate the contents of your snipdocs documents.
2.JotPot’s mission is to take the traditional notebook and backpack to a whole new level by putting them online. It relies on the fact that more and more students leave their pencil and paper at home, in favor of using their laptops or iPads during classes. I believe that many more might switch if they actually had the right tool to take notes effectively on their laptops. What you can do with JotPot ? Take notes in an online notebook. View your course slides. Take notes side-by-side with the slides. Interact with your colleagues. Organize your university life.And the best part? It’s FREE for any student to use! You can read more and donate for the startup here http://www.indiegogo.com/jotpot
3. docTrackr was created by people who value privacy to prevent large enterprise/cloud providers from owning your data. docTrackr care about sharing ideas the right way. Putting all your documents into the cloud can mean losing ownership. docTrackr was built to make sure you control your data, you make choices about who can use it and that you have complete ownership of your files. At docTrackr, you have the control to your documents and make it easy to do that. You shouldn't have to fight with a complicated interface either, to know your documents are safe. Consider docTrackr a friend who safeguards your files, assuring them safety, security and when you want access, gives you an easy way to access any of your files quickly and privately. 4. Treeach is an online platform that connects innovative independent language teachers all around the world with people all ages who are eager to learn. At Treeach, we believe that creative and independent education can change things, helping us as society to think broader, to be different and to be able to step out of our comfort zone. Therefore, Treeach was created as an alternative website where authentic teachers can offer their services to hold private or group classes in their own communities or to teach online anyone in the world.
5. KeenSkim - Summarize web pages, articles & news Just like a highlighter-pen summary, but completely automatic!The problem Information exhaustion - too much information, too little time. But also too important to disregard!Whether you're and innovator, a decision-maker or a student, being up-to-date equals succes. The KeenSkim fix Skim the summary - KeenSkim creates for you a brief summary of the relevant bits in the storyGives you colored highlights inside the original page, for fast & easy reading the summary. How it works Gremlin technology - we finally managed to put those little buggers to good use!Best results on stories. Not so well on lists, tops, tutorials and interviews. But we're getting there!
6. TribeGarden enables collaborative lifestyle for co-workers, neighbors and students, offering tools for buying and time sharing management. How ? Express your need ; Share the need within your community via Facebook, Google+ or Twitter. Contribute Fund with your community.Enjoy Use the new acquisition with the other contributors
7. Nexi.me helps you find talented candidates through referrals from your employeesHere's why: Find more talents through social media Your employees are the best ambassadors for your company. They'll be happy to share the available jobs on their social networks and help their friends get hired. They help you find talented people. Effectively identify ambassadors Get notified when referrals are turned into candidates and easily find out who is the best ambassador in your company. Finding the right people involves using the right network to reach them. Analyze the referral relationship Understand how connected are your employees to your candidates. Have they worked together in the past? What's the rate of your candidate? Top 15? Top 3?.
Simbound is One e-Marketing simulation game with So many learning opportunities .Practice online advertising Learn Industry Metrics Test ideas in a safe environment Collaborate with learners from across the world Enjoy a game-like experience BrainRomania is a beta platform, new professional network for researchers and teachers .
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