Top 10 #pln tools used in #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project voted on #c4lpt

In a social media Curation world it is very hard to use all the tools to integrate new technologies in XXI Century Education and for this reason I launch #edtech20 #socialmedia  #curation global  project gateway to knowledge in #education20 
http://www.justabout.co/edtech20socialmediacurationproject
to collaborate with teachers worldwide . Read more here . Some tools are older , but also social media curation tools are new still this year 2011 and I will try to find the best as you can see here      
I invite you also to comment and add your favorite tools in 2011 on our page : on facebook http://goo.gl/eTpsz and google plus http://goo.gl/VGoQO . I invite you to join and collaborate in this  global#edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project goo.gl/n8snMYour comments and sugestions are welcome after you read this related to my favorite tools and 
1. Twitter is the best, most powerful tool to build a PLN . In only 140 characters Twitter bring a new dimmension for global sharing and worldwide collaboration . Instantly connect to what's most important to you. Follow your friends, experts, favorite celebrities, and breaking news

Follow me http://twitter.com/#!/web20education and use #edtech20 hastag . http://twubs.com/edtech20
Now I will write about my favorite social media curation tools . I also invite you still 1 december to visit the blog made for #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project where I will describe many social media curation tools like this http://edtech20curationprojectineducation.blogspot.com/ .
2. Scoopit is my favorite and the best social media curation tool in 6 mounths I reached 50 visits on my topics .Easily Publish Gorgeous Magazines. Leverage Curation to increase your visibility. Give persistence to your social media presence.

Here are my 5 favorite topics

Curation

Web 2.0 and Social Media

Elearning

mLearning

Google Plus 

3. Pearltrees it is also a awesome social media curation tool

Pearltrees is the best way to organize, discover and share the stuff you like on the web. How does it work? Pearl the stuff you like on the Web .

4. Pinterest is also a new social media curation tool describe as The Best Broccoli of Your Life. LOVE this recipe. No one who has tried this has disliked it. 1 comment 1 repin

Source: chime.in via Lucian on Pinterest

5. Google Plus is also  a new tool to build a #PLN  . 
 Google+: real life sharing, rethought for the web.

Google+ aims to make sharing on the web more like sharing in real life. Check out Circles, Messenger and Hangouts, just a few of the things we've been working on.
I made a page for #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project to keep in touch with PLN http://goo.gl/wyidi 

#edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project Circle me

on Google+

6. Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. I must told you this is a tool I use daily to keep in touch with friends and PLN .

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TIS4ETWINNERS/

I made a group for #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project 

and a page here

7. Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community . Diigo Groups provides a ground-breaking collaborative research and learning tool that allows any group of people to pool their findings through group bookmarks .






8. LinkedIn is a tool to build your own PLN ( Professsional Learning Network ) . Over 135 million professionals use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas and opportunities. Stay informed about your contacts and industry and join #edtech20 LinkedIn group

 

9. SymbalooEDU is a Social Media Curation Tool ,  Personal Learning Environment (PLE) for teachers to visually organize and share the best of the web with students. I am proud to be a symbaloo edu certificated teacher 

10 . eegoes | What matters to you?
eegoes is a social network and online community for easy, userfriendly geolocated content sharing. Meet people, share links, photos, videos and events . Join free our group and discover this new tool in beta and collabrate here http://www.eegoes.com/group/edtech20

I am happy  to be also Glogster Edu Ambassador

Glogster.com - Poster yourself - Make your interactive poster easily and share it with friends. Mix Images, Text, Music and Video. It is fantastic!

Here is the final presentation top 100 tools for learning by @c4lpt

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011

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This blog is curated by Lucian http://bit.ly/Lucian20 ; http://xeeme.com/eCurator/ founder of #edtech20#socialmedia #curation project http://tiny.cc/edtech20 and if you like this post share and comment and also kindly I invite you to join free this project herehttp://tiny.cc/docedtech20 and follow https://twitter.com/#!/web20education Also join our facebook page here http://tinyurl.com/edtech20facebook and our PLNhttp://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/ . Also I write when I don't tweet and curate in gr8 blogs here http://weblist.me/curation. I invite you to subscribe free to #socialmedia#curation blog
http://feeds.feedburner.com/edtech20CurationSemanticProjectInEducation ; web 2.0 blog
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Web20SocialMediaInSafetyModeInEducation ; Google Plus Blog
http://feeds.feedburner.com/GooglePlusChromeToolsAppsAndMoreInEducation20
mLearning blog http://feeds.feedburner.com/MlearningEdtoolsAndAppsIneducation20
and my first blog with gr8 tools and appshttp://feeds.feedburner.com/MyPln-PersonalLearningNetwork

I want also to invite you to see a mindmeister map made by Robin Good with best tools in 2011

Kindly I invite to join free #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation and #semantic project gateway to knowledge in #education20 in the New Age of #Curation

This is my 100 post in this blog dear visitors and friends members of my #PLN and I am verry happy because my presentation ,,Building a powerful PLN in edtech20 project in the New Age of Curation"   
 was scheduled Friday 8 PM Bucharest time in  MoodleMoot Virtual Conferences in English and Spanish on WizIQ by Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning    and I invite you all to see free my session / class and all the sessions scheduled in this awesome conference organized by Dr . Nellie Deutsch Muller

Click on the phtoto to register and join free my class 

Building a powerful PLN in edtech20 project in the New Age of Curation by Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning

Get your own Virtual Classroom

The MoodleMoot will take place from August 17-21 online via WiZiQ Virtual Classroom. The presentations will be conducted in both English and Spanish. You are invited to join the presentations now to ensure that you get the video recordings.

The topic tracks for MMVC11 are: 

• Moodle for instruction and learning for blended and fully online courses
• Teaching with Moodle in unique ways 
• Online facilitation using Moodle 
• Moodle tips 
• Moodle communities of learning 
• Research studies and case studies on teaching with Moodle
• Moodle innovations and developments 
• Best practices with Moodle 
• Case studies
• Innovations with Moodle, Mahara, Blended & Blended Online Learning 
• Mobile Learning 
• Action Research Projects 
• Reflective Practice & E-portfolios 
• New and Innovative Software 
• Integration of technology into the curriculum 

Each presentation will be 40 - 60 minutes long with 15 min for questions and answers.

You are invited to join each of the events (public google docs) and/or website by clicking on the link provided for each session so you can get email notification reminders a few hours before they start as well as the recordings. Please make sure you set your time zone according to your location.  
 If you like my presentation I invite to join free  and collaborate in #edtech20 project http://unhub.com/web20education  here  http://tinyurl.com/doc-edtech20project  
and here you can subscribe for #edtech20 newsteller http://tinyletter.com/edtech20 . 
Instead of this photo I will post after the conference  presentation

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I am very happy also because #edtech20 project has now a mobile app  and you can read what is new in our project here .
http://edtech20socialmediacurationproject.mobapp.at/

About
#edtech20 free project http://central.ly/web20education/ is extended of the project ,, Teach, learn, play in 21st Century using web 2.0, social media used in an e-Safe way in education 2.0 " who was selected finalist project in ELEARNING AWARDS 2010 , runner up in the cathegory ENISA silver award for teaching online safety and citizenship .

I start this project because I was selected in june 2010 by European Schoolnet to work in the TIS – Insafe ; Teaching Internet Safety Project under European Schoolnet and TeachToday . I made a team from next european teachers : Coordinator Lucian Cornel Duma (ROMANIA) - me , Aureo Torres (SPAIN) ,Maria Sourgiadaki (GREECE) ,Catalina Nicolin ( MECTS Romania ) and Inge de Cleyn ( Belgium ) . We work all at this module proposed by me is called ,, How teachers and students can use free web 2.0 and social media in education 2.0 “ and all the resource where presented on Teachtoday website between 21- 22 octomber 2010 at Safer Internet Forum in Louxembourg . We made next teaching units :
1. Free microblogging safely in education : Twitter apps http://www.slideshare.net/DUMACORNELLUCIAN/teaching-unit-free-blogging-safety-in-education-5326694
2. Free blogging safely in education http://www.slideshare.net/DUMACORNELLUCIAN/teaching-unit-free-blogging-safety-in-education-53343973.
3.Free animation 2.0 safely in education http://www.slideshare.net/DUMACORNELLUCIAN/free-animation-20-safety-in-education
4. How to introduce Internet safety issue via the discovery of free virtual worlds , Second Life.
I belive that new technologies web 2.0 and social media can open gateway to knowledge for teachers worldwide and for this reason curation tools will prepare the appearance of semantic web 3.0 in XXI Century Education and I http://gplus.to/LucianDumaTeacherCurator made on #edtech20 circle on google plus ( the new tool who prepaire the introduction of new web in #education20 ) . I wish in the future to make a big platform where teachers worldwide can discuss how they can integrate efficiently new technologies in #education20 , but for this we need help and founds and I hope toghether to bring edreform . 

Curation has always been an underrated form of creation and it is generally the selection of, care for and presentation of the objects entered into a collection, whether that collection is physical (such as items in a museum) , digital (such as entries in Wikipedia) . Today I use gr8 curation tools many in beta for curating social media ( tools, apps, articles , blog posts , tweets , videos , photos and much more ) like scoop.it , perltrees , postano , shareist , storify , chirpstory , curated.by and bagtheweb .
 My favorite are 4 scoop.it , pearltrees , postano , shareist, but every day appear new curation tools who prepair the aparition of Semantic Web who is driving the evolution of the current Web by enabling users to find, share, and combine information more easily . For example delicious tool is a kind of curation, but this new curation tools allows your readers to add comments and suggestion for evry post .
The emphasis of curation may vary among:
The selection process - such as the use of expertise or expert advice to decide what items or content should be added to a collection or archive.
The caretaking process - controlling the decay of historical object (such as census records) .
Presentation - determining how objects or records are displayed, including what metadata will be displayed along with them.
2011 is the begining of New Era of Curation and every day appear new awesome social media curation tools like write Mashable in the article 4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the web . When I read Mashable's article I allready used Pearltrees http://pearltrees.com/#/web20education and after I made #edtech20 team on pearltrees . When Tim Berners Lee originally conceived of the Internet, he envisioned three principal functions and I think that is curation
Allow anyone to access any type of document
Allow everyone to disseminate his or her own documents
Allow everyone to organize the entire collection of documents
Brian Solis write also in his website about curation and curators who play an important role in the evolution of new media, the reach of material information, and the social nicheworks that unite as a result. Curators promote interaction, collaboration, as well as education around the topics that are important to them. As such, services that empower curators will fill the void between creation and consumption. Forrester’s estimation of consumers of social content will erode from 70% to much lower numbers as many ease into social networking through curation – sharing with others the content that captivates their attention. The ease of doing so forever converts the static consumer into a productive curator or perhaps one day, a full fledged creator.
With creation and curation increasing the exchange of information commerce, we are moving new media toward the mainstream creating bridges between social and traditional media and the people who connect around related information. As such, what you discover and equally what you share creates an information economy rich with contextual and topical relevance linked through shared experiences.

I want to collaborate in #edtech20 project with teachers worldwide and to discuss about new tools and apps web 2.0 , social media , and semantic web 3.0 . We will discover toghether how to use many edtools , apps and widgets related to mlearning, wikis , blogs , microblogs , social networking , news readers and news agregators , animation , cloud words , online communities , on-line web conferencing , chats and webinars , bookmarking , sharing using videos , photos , interactive presentations , documents , podcast and audio . I am in the top scoop.it curators ( 30 000 visitors on my topics )and for this reason I made a scoopit curation topic and also a blog for my favorite topics

1.#curation http://edtech20curationprojectineducation.blogspot.com/

2.#socialmedia http://teacherluciandumaweb20.blogspot.com/

3.#googleplus http://googlepluschrometoolappsineducation20.blogspot.com/

google chrome , tools , apps and more in education 2.0 

4.#mlearning http://mlearningedtoolsandappsineducation20.blogspot.com/



5.#elearning http://elearningappsandtoolsineducation20.blogspot.com/

  
6. Second Life http://teacherluciandumasecondlife.blogspot.com/

In conclusion let's make a big curation #edtech20 PLN and toghether we will discover semantic web 3.0 . I invite you to join FREE this project and complete this google doc with your informations http://tinyurl.com/doc-edtech20project and after I will invite you to became a member in our ning network http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/ and in our wiki
I will make a page on #edtech20 wiki with all collaborators http://web20andsocialmediaineducation2010.wikispaces.com/1.1.+edtech20+project+collaborators+ . All the members who will be involved in this project will use #edtech20 hastag and are invited to curate with me if they use scoopit and if not to add their comments and feedback about what I and other members share in this curation topics and also we will collaborate in our facebook page http://tinyurl.com/edtech20facebook .
I write this words about #edtech20 project, but your advices , comments and feed-back is welcome .

I invite you also to see my #edtech20 glog

Leadership Day 2011 Google COLLABORATION DOCUMENT 

Scott McLeod, a highly regarded education leader who is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Kentucky, is calling today for educators who blog to participate in Leadership Day 2011. Dr. McLeod issued the following assignment for those who would like to lend their voice to the conversation in his fifth annual Leadership Day:

"On Friday, August 5, 2011, blog about whatever you like related to effective school technology leadership: successes, challenges, reflections, needs, wants, resources, ideas, etc. Write a letter to the administrators in your area. Post a top ten list. Make a podcast or a video. Highlight a local success or challenge. Recommend some readings. Do an interview of a successful technology leader. Respond to some of the questions below or make up your own. If you participated in years past, post a follow-up reflection. Whatever strikes you."

Gr8 #edtech20 tools and apps Primary Technology

About 

Primary Technology is dedicated to ICT in Education. Established in 2004 with a focus on providing high quality primary school ICT support, quickly became a Naace accredited company and won awards for work in schools throughout Bradford. They ensure teaching and learning never suffers from technical issues , a variety of learning resources and communication tools.

Open Source

We actively support the open source community by releasing projects online and collaborating with non-profit organisations and schools. We are helping to enable a more transparent system that does not profiteer from education. All of our online learning resources for children run no advertisements; teachers have confidence to trust the content that we provide and this helps to bring new users to the sites.

Globally Free

We provide tens of thousands of web pages every day generating no direct revenue but providing important, otherwise unavailable services to ensure education can take place. Free doesn't pay the bills but it can make a big difference to a child's life.

Putting Education first, second and third.

Being ahead of the curve is important in today's market place. We constantly deliver services months before competitors. We do not provide ICT services to consumers or business, allowing us to focus all energies on providing new and improved services to education.

Primary Wall is a web-based sticky note tool designed for schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time . I like very much because the wal can be protected with a password .

School Email is a hosted email service for secondary schools and colleges. It is designed for staff and students with a number of desirable features including child protection, calendar sharing and large mailbox storage.

Primary Email is a hosted email service for primary schools. It is designed for staff and pupils with spam filtering, child protection, calendar sharing and large mailbox storage.
Primary Pad is a web-based word processor which promotes collaborative learning. It is designed for schools allowing teachers and pupils to work on a pad at the same time. Pads can be public or shared only within schools and can be accessed from any computer with an internet connection. This allows for collaborative learning to continue outside of school

Primary Paint allows children to paint, draw, write and colour. Not only can one child get creative with this, Primary Paint allows multiple users allowing for a collaborative creative masterpiece! 

Primary Blogger is a free blog service with over 1,000 active blogs. It is free from advertising making it ideal for schools. It is easy to use and has some great customising features making it suitable for staff and children. You can also integrate this with your school’s VLE. 

School backups allows you to minimise downtime, by providing quick access to your data and the quickest possible way of restoring your server state. Our Service provides daily backups of teacher and pupil work and server state backups every 5 days, 24-hour restoration of files, confirmation emails, alerts and unlimited storage (fair use policy applies).

Primary School Teaching is a free service for teachers to share their lesson plans and resources. Not only can you access resources easily but you can edit other people’s resources to improve them and keep them up to date.

gr8 #edtech20 stiky note /websites who can be used free on-line in your projects or in your classroom part 1

Dear friends teachers and researchers members of my #edtech20 PLN I want to announce you that I launch the #edtech20 #curation and #semantic project and in this project I want to collaborate with teachers worldwide to bring toghether semantic web 3.0 in the classrom http://unhub.com/web20education/ . If you want to join free this project please repply here , send me a email webmaster@luciandumateachweb20.eu or fill up this document with your information  http://tinyurl.com/doc-edtech20projectand after I will invite you to collaborate in this blog and  #edtech20 PLN http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/                                                                 and wiki https://web20andsocialmediaineducation2010.wikispaces.com/

Today I want to write about gr8 stiky note /websites who can be used free on-line in your projects or in your classroom part 1 .Please add comments , feedback and suggestions . 

1. Wallwisher is the first edtool used for stiky note . You can post photos , videos , links and more in a wall .

When was your big bang?

Wallwisher was born out of the offices of SharedCopy in January 2008 (and you thought only living beings conceived). For over a year, the project was in a perpetual zombified state thanks to the academic commitments of the project's sole active janitor (pronounced 'yan - eetor'), Nitesh (@xiphar). In April 2009, the project was brought back from the dead. Where did the idea come from?
Wallwisher's janitor has a post-it overuse problem. He uses post-its as reminders, coasters, bookmarks, wrappers for used gum, to-do list managers, memos. So he decided to have some post-its for the web. SharedCopy, a startup that dealt with adding notes to web pages, therefore, came as a natural choice for the janitor's December internship. It was there that the janitor came up with the idea for using a sticky-note/noticeboard interface for communicating on the web. How is Wallwisher built?

Wallwisher is coded in PHP which is, as the name suggests, a language full of Pretty Horrible Practices. To find coding nirvana, therefore, Wallwisher uses the CodeIgniter PHP framework which has to be the next messiah many religions are waiting for.

On the front end, the coolness is possible thanks to the jQuery javascript library. Anyone out there who uses any other javascript library is, in the janitor's opinion, a web hater.

Here you can see a wall made by me for Lisa because today was her BIRTHDAY and teachers woldwide wish her HAPPY BIRTHDAY @teachingwthsoul

2.PrimaryWall is a web-based sticky note tool designed for schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time. http://edtech20project.primarywall.com/2

What is Primary Wall useful for?
Getting ideas, collaborating, sharing and quickly posting pieces of information when working in a group or collaborative environment.
Why is PrimaryWall better than any other web based sticky note platform
PrimaryWall was concieved by a teacher and is built for schools so we kept things simple, fast and user friendly.

3.Stixy is  your online bulletin board. Create as many Stixyboards as you like, one for each project. Use Stixy to easily organize and share:

• Your family’s schedule
• Projects at work
• An upcoming holiday with your friends
• Your photos from your last bike trip
• Or share a file or two with a friend

Only you set the limitations for how you want to use Stixy.
Be creative! We have no fixed grid that you need to follow. Can you see the widgets in the widget tray below? Just drag a widget out on the board and place it anywhere you want. Resize it, move it around, and select from a number of options to design your reminders, photos, notes, and files.
Share
To share a Stixyboard with friends, family, or your colleagues at work, is as easy as it gets. Sometimes it’s nice or in fact necessary to have an online space for common photos, reminders, files, and so forth. Each Stixyboard has a unique set of members. No one else can see or use your board unless you choose to open your board for public view.

4.Corkboard.me for presentations, demos, online classes and more. 

Features

Ever wanted to show someone your cork board but didn’t want them to edit it? Well now you can. Whether you’re giving a presentation, teaching a remote class, showing off your talent or simply sending others your task list, use the view-only URL to ensure your cork stays yours. Find it in the bottom left corner of your board.

Have a website? Add your cork to it! Like your favorite video sharing site, adding your cork board to your own website is as easy as clicking a few buttons and clicking paste. Find the embed tag right next to the view-only URL. Check out the awesome one we made above.

See changes in real time.

This feature got us really excited. If your coworker adds a new note, you see it. If your boss makes an edit, you get it. If your hubby adds a picture, you see that picture too — no need to be in the same room, no need to continuously refresh the page.

Chat with other viewers.

Sometimes there are things that just don’t fit well on a cork board, and when working with others, conversation can be one of those things. That’s why we implemented a chat feature so you can communicate with others contributing to your board.

Find what you’re looking for.

This feature’s actually been there awhile, but we didn’t give it much press. If you’re working with others and have many notes, finding them can be trouble. Not to worry. Now you can use the built-in mini-map to easily find what you’re looking for.

cork on your own website! to Your Cork Board

Did you know you can post images on your corkboard? This feature has been available since day one, but the truth is most people didn’t. It’s real easy .

5.Edistorm takes the metaphor of sticky notes on a boardroom wall and brings it online allowing anyone - anywhere to brainstorm with only a web browser.

Each user picks their favorite ideas and Edistorm brings the best ones forward.

Features : 

Always Available

At the end of a traditional brainstorming session, someone takes a picture of the boardroom wall and then either tasks someone to transcribe the chaos or more likely, email the photo out to everyone. Next time you goto revisit the issue, you end up starting from scratch wasting time, money and ideas.

Edistorm allows you to work on your ideas during a structured brainstorming session but the storm is available 24/7 and can be referred to, added to and revised on an ongoing basis.

Idea Database

We have calendars to store events, address books to store contacts, yet we don't have a place to store ideas. We've all stored ideas in emails to ourself, on scraps of paper or notebooks we can never find, or worse yet forgot them.

Edistorm is an always available idea database to store, retrieve, share and get feedback to build on your ideas.

Visual Idea Organization

Edistorm allows you to organize your ideas in a real time interactive wall. Each sticky note can have its own color and the users decide what the arrangement means to them.

This freeform method of collaboration will feel familiar to anyone that has thrown stickies on their walls.

Make Better Decisions

Research has proven that groups of users can make better decisions than a single user.

Because you're not limited by the size of your boardroom or the ability to facilitate brainstorming with a group larger than a dozen, you can collaborate with your entire organization in coming up with better ideas.

Each employee can add ideas, vote on the ones they like and make comments on specific ideas to help refine or improve them.

Freedom to Brainstorm

Edistorm is always free for anyone adding ideas to a brainstorming. Feel free to invite anyone you'd like.

Creating public or solo brainstorms is always free, while creating private invite only storms requires a subscription.

All accounts have a no credit card required 30 day free trial.

Idea Bots

Even if you're brainstorming by yourself, you're never on your own. Edistorm created Idea Bots that brainstorm with you providing you suggested ideas.

Edistorm has a variety of bots including, thesaurus, rhyming, related words and a social media bot. We're open to suggestions for future bots.

6.Linoit.com  is a web application that provides you with an online canvas and allows you to post online stickies, pictures, videos, and attachments. You can also share your online canvas with others by sharing its URL. Sharing the URL would allow others to post stickies as well. You can probably see how Lino it could be used to conduct an online gallery walk. To give you an idea of what it could look like, I inserted an screenshot of an online canvas with pictures of four multiplication solutions and stickies with questions and comments posted around them. Now you can collaborate in groups using this interesting edtool .

7. Nota is casual collaboration.                                                                                                              Nota is a unique, cutting-edge collaborative web platform that allows users to create, share and collaborate on presentations and virtually any other form of online material. Using Nota’s proprietary toolset, users can instantly integrate text, video, maps, clip art, photos from web album or on the local computer, or license-free images from Flickr, and material from an ever-expanding array of sources. Users can then instantly embed their work in Facebook or blogs, and can share and collaborate with friends.

• It's easy to use, even for someone with no computer experience.
• Fast load times mean near instant co-creation

8.PinDax offers a fun real-time alternative to the traditional online message board.

Features include:

• Post text, images, files and polls in real-time
• No download needed, runs in your browser
• Customizable widgets integrate into your site
• E-mail notification when there are new posts and replies
• Search your posts
• Send posts via e-mail
• Chat with other members viewing your board
• Add categories and feeds
• Approve messages before they are seen
• Keep your board private or share it with the world