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We have got, this will be almost a...
I don't want to say the opposite but a very sort of
maybe opposite in a multidimensional space version of
the last presentation that I did for you and I stood up here and I talked and I had a PowerPoint
and it seemed like it was somewhat organized and logical.
This is not going to go that way. This presentation
is the result of sort of a history of this program where at one point
the LSTI in its early days was very much all about tools.
It was like here is how you use photo shop, and here is how you use, and
that is what we did. Over time it evolved to be
much more about learning theory, and how you structure your class and
the hands on stuff that we have been doing over the last couple days.
As a result everything which is the here is the technology that
you need to literally get hands on. You know, here is how you do this and the tool you use
to do this has gotten kind of scrunched into this 1 hour and a half bit.
So, instead of doing a presentation in any kind of formal sense, what we
are going to do is we are going to work our way through a list.
So, it would be very good for you to follow along. So if you go
into Niihka and you click under the presentation resources
for today
you will see there is a link to a Google Document.
I am going to give you a second to get to that because I just want to make sure you get to that.
What I suspect is going to happen is that some of you are going to be like
totally into what we are talking about and following the bits and pieces and others of you
are going to tune us out at various points and just follow
the document and look at the things that you are kind of into learning about and
ignore what you we are talking about up here. We are not, as I said, going to be presenting
in any formal sense. We are going to go through this document and say this is what this is,
this is what this is. We are going to demo a couple of things that we think
are really important in some sense.
Let me switch this back. Sorry.
So, the way the document is organized,
it should look like this resources and links for the LTSI social media technology
tools talk. Is there questions
If you cant get to it raise your hand and one of the LTSI people
will help you find it.
- So, this is the document put together over all of this time?
Yes but it is also crimped from another list that another guy put together and we
fold things we like and they like and so as you can see
if you are looking at it now it goes on, and on, and on and on.
What we did was we first of all we put together two
lists that we are going to talk about in the beginning called the just works list.
Then the App Comfortable list. What we did, the three of us, we said
lets look at our laptops, lets look at what we do what are the apps
that we use most often. So lets spend a little time with you talking about
those and that is this list that is up at the top here. Then
what we did
was took this list of organized
sort of categories that we pulled from the link that is at the top of the document.
We called it, some of the language that describes
what they are is actually not ours. So, don't blame us for what is next to some of the words.
Then what we did was we put little gold
stars next to the apps we thought were most
useful. So, if you are interested in that category
we would recommend the things that have the gold stars first.
Anything that is not gold starred, is like a buyer beware.
It's the way I would put it. Some of the links may be dead, some of them may be
add kind of crap
you know all of these apps come, and go so often it is really hard to kind of keep track
of what is there or not. So, we wanted to make sure we just kinda hit the big
ones for you. So, the plan today is we are going to go through the list at the top and
then if we have time we are going to hit the gold star items
and just talk about what each of them is and why you might want to use it. Does that make sense?
Alright. So, first off
Ok. Andy
- Hi, I'm Andy.
So, I am going to start off with an application called Jing, which
allows you to capture your computer screen and easily share it with other people.
Now, there are pay applications like Camtasia that you can do this with that are
that have a lot of power and can do a lot of things. Jing does these things really quick
and with very little effort on your point. So, this is an example of one that I created
for a class on
how to use MEDLINE
and Pubmed. Right. So, something I needed to capture.
So, I am going to begin. If I skip ahead you will see that the screen
moving and your seeing my cursor moving around. All I did
to do this was to download a free application.
I went to link Jing.com, you can Google Jing,
and if you notice in my screen because I have Jing running I have a little
yellow sun in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
If I hover my mouse over that I get the
little crosshairs and you see these little
crosshairs here. I just click on that and
it gives me this where I can select a portion of my screen that I want to capture.
I highlight it and then I click
here on capture a video, here on the bottom. It looks like a little movie
reel. It is going to count me down. 3,
2, 1. Ok, now it is capturing my screen.
So, if I were to go back up to here and go to Google
Right. I have captured all of that
as it changes.
Of course I did not hear
Learning Technologies summer institute. Then when I am done
I click stop. I click finish. It is going to do this.
It is going to say...I am going to call it TSI 13. I give it a name.
Then I click on this button share via screencast.com
It is going to do this. It is going to prepare to upload.
Then it is going to be up on screencast.com, where you have a link. You just
put that link into your Niihka site. Ask your students to go watch it. They click on it and watch the thing.
It is that simple. It is all free. If you want a
screencast.com. Here. - Are there any questions? - Yes. Number one
why do you want to do this? What is the difference between this and cutting and pasting?
- And what? - No, I actually captured my
screen. I created a video of what I was doing on the screen. So, if you want to show students
something that is on your screen. Watch.
- You want to show them how to do something. You want to demo something
like you would show something on a projected screen.
This is capturing all of that as a video, putting it online, and making link to it.
So, you can send your students to watch what you do on your
screen in a recorded way.
- There is no limit to how much you can record? There is. There is a 5 minute
limit, for free. If you give them money you can do more.
But for free, I just try to think in
5 minute chunks. I figure 5 minutes is enough. Any video
like this probably shouldn't be any longer then 5 minutes anyways. You would tune it out after that anyways.
In our list kind of way doing this I just want to be clear, we are not
trying to show you literally how to do what he is doing up here. We just want you to kind of
note that looks cool. So, that when you break up later you can spend some time with your
consultant really doing it. - What was the question? I did not hear it.
- What Martie was asking was why would you want to do this. Right.
The answer is, most of what we all
do in a classroom is showing our students something that is on the screen. It might be a PowerPoint,
or a website or a video. This captures all of that and
saves it as a video. So, for asynchronous viewing of our content
this is really useful. Jing pay version is like what, $20.
- No much. - Even the pay one that has the unlimited, Steve, is
like $20 and the alternative to it if you look under the app,
the lower part of your listing, App Comfortable.
There are two links. One is to Screenflow and one to Camtasia. Screenflow
and Camtasia are the more high end version of that. So, they
cost a little bit more. But, they do a lot more. So, you can
annotate the video and you can zoom in on things. You can do some
actually pretty cool high-end stuff. You do not need to be a programmer. I mean
if you know how to use any kind of video and photo
editing applications you can do Camtasia and you can
do Screenflow. Camtasia and Screenflow. - It's on the left side. - They are on the
second list that says App Comfortable.
They are sort of the App Comfortable version. So, Jing is for someone who just wants
it simple, easy, is not really comfortable with
apps a whole lot. If you want to get deeper use Screenflow or Camtasia.
Screenflow is Mac. Camtasia is PC. Yes.
- When I find my semesters slacking off of common course standards,
I want to show them the main screen and I want to click on it and show them the next screen and next screen.
Does this do that? - Yes. - If it is on your
screen it captures it. - It is capturing whatever you are doing on your screen. It captures all of it.
The main advantage of this over Camtasia is that this does the hosting too. You do not have to
worry about where are the files going. It puts it online for you. I
used it for quick and dirty things. Sometimes when I am sitting at the reference desk if I need to show somebody how to do something.
If they are on the phone or on chat, I will really quick make a video.
Within like 2 minutes I can create these videos and throw them up. - Can you break out...?
- Yes. I will show you how to do that. - Can you put audio on it?
- Yes. That was talking. It records your voice. - I am sorry. I think I...
- Yes, the audio is not working. We are trying to get these speakers going.
It will record what you are saying or what is on the computer even too.
I know it is awesome. I am sorry there is one question. - Can you
upload that to YouTube so you can do closed captioning because it has to
be compliant right. - Yes and no.
So, you can download it
and then upload it to YouTube. Screenflow, which is what I
use, has an automatic YouTube uploader built in. - Screencast-o-matic does the same thing and you get
15 minutes for free. It is a little clunkier but it you can do it through YouTube. - Oh, ok.
- Write that down. - Screencast-o-matic.
Deb? - This ADA compliance concern
is making me a really attentive and
or nervous, in terms of all the content I want to convey.
and making sure that any videos are
closed captioned. - So, this
is probably going to contradict what you are going to here when we have our panel on this but
I think you are better off putting something then nothing.
If you are going to let the ADA compliance prevent you from actually doing what your job is suppose to do.
I think that is worse then just putting something up. So,
ideally we would have everything closed captioned.
We would have everything ADA compliant. Lets try and get a close as we can to that.
YouTube does do automatic closed captioning, which is awesome. At
Miami, and Gail will talk about this later, Gail's office
and the folks over in ALT have actual software
and people who will help you do closed captioning for your videos. So, you can take
your videos over to their office. Is that right? Jason was talking to me
about that yesterday. Matt. Ok, that is the thumbs up from Matt.
So, if you are letting ADA compliance concern you, go to the Matt's office, go to the ALT
people and they will hook you up. Ok.
- Can you embed what you record into PowerPoint
or is this more about capturing the PowerPoint
and embedding it into the class?
- What would you use to narrate some PowerPoints? - This
I think this is more about capturing PowerPoint to show the
video. You could embed this into a PowerPoint theoretically.
But it is tough for me to understand what would be a story.
I guess if you were
Yes, you could. - But there are other
apps that would be better to do that?
If you wanted to have a video or animation or something.
- You can embed a Screencast--o-matic into your PowerPoint just like
any other link. So, you click on it and it will come up. So, Yes.
This is not exactly the same thing. This is Flash isn't it.
- Yes, this is Flash video. - Ok, that sometimes causes trouble. - It does cause trouble.
- The regional people they did not like us to use Jing because it
just is not as good. They had trouble with it. So, they suggested
Screencast-o-matic. But that is just their... - Alight, So,
we have a huge list. We got through one. So, I am going to go really fast. Ok.
Jing is for capturing your computer screen and voice.
Soundcloud.com is for recording audio
only. Ok. It is a website.
It is also on all your mobile devices. Ok.
Create an account on SoundCloud. You have to go through that whole process.
There an upload button. Then you see a record button.
You hit record. Then you start recording. Hi, I'm Jason.
I am recording this right now. Hit stop.
Upload your recording. You give it a title.
You can give it a tag. You can give it a
type. You can give it a spoken
You can make it public or private. I would recommend
if you are going to use something like this and you want to use little bits and pieces
of audio in different types of formats, in different parts of your class
You can enable downloads. Then you download this
audio file as a way file and then embed it elsewhere.
I am going to enabled that. Save.
Ok, So, now if I hit play.
Yes. - Once you download this to the
cloud can you erase it? I
don't want some of my assignments up there for all eternity.
for my counseling class. You can make it private
and then only share those links with certain people. - Can it make it go
away at the end of the class after I finish grading it. - You can just hit the trash can
and it deletes it. - Even after you have saved it and all of that. - It doesn't matter.
Anytime. The same way with any cloud document as long as it is in your space. - That is all I need to know.
- This has a share button. We talk about
social media and all these things are relatively connected. You can quickly share it to
all these social networks. You can grab a widget and embed it like you would a YouTube
video or you can just download the file and use it elsewhere.
- By widget what he means is that it give you a snippet of code
that you can put inside of a web page and put inside of Niihka.
It takes that SoundCloud file and literally sticks it inside of
a Niihka as oppose to people clicking on a link and going out to SoundCloud.
- When we work with our Gurus will they tell us how to embed things
into other things? Yes, just tell your Guru you want to know how to embed things
for your Niihka site. There was another question
I remember. There was another hand. Are we good? Ok.
- I am really quickly going to show you a service called Join Me. This is...
we have on campus WebEx. You can do sort of video conferencing
with WebEx, though you have to have
everybody who wants to join your
screen, has to download a client.
Sometimes that can be difficult to have happen. If you just want to do this quick
I showed you Jing. It's quick. Now Screencast-o-matic looks like maybe a better
solution. I went and checked it out. I think it looks great.
All I did was
go to Joinme.com, create a little account, and download a little thing.
What it does is when it launches it is going to connect me
and see it
I have to update. Of course, that had to happen when I am walking through people.
What it is going to do is it is going to generate a link. All
I have to do if someone wants to join me and have a synchronous video conferencing
where someone is watching what I am doing. Watching my screen at the same time I doing
it is send them the link. So, if I do share
It does it thing. Now you see this link up here at the top that says
Join Me
/952-
493-182. If you were to go
to there you would see my screen. That is all you have to is go to that
link. So, you just send somebody the link. Like, if you are teaching an online class
and somebody is having difficult doing something that is related to the computer and you need
to really quickly help them through the process. You can start up Join Me and
you send them that link. They are going to go there and see what you are doing. So, if you were
to go there right now you would see my screen. I am going to leave it running.
So, it is 952-493-182. I will write it
up there. I am going to let my screen run.
If you have the free version you are limited to 10
simultaneous users. If you pay them you get 200.
It is not all that much to pay them. We have been using this to answer
chat reference questions. So, when they get to be complex, like a complex reference question.
We will send them this. Then people can see it, which I think is not
only applicable to answering library reference questions. It could be pretty much anything.
So...
This is the quick and dirty way to show your
desktop computer to someone remotely. You have something on your computer.
You want to show it to a student. You want to show it to a colleague. You are working on some research.
You want share what you are doing, Join.Me. That is all you have to do is
go to Join.Me and you can do that. Then there are more
complex ways to do this type of conferencing and relationships.
Andy mentioned WebEx. Miami University
has a contract with
WebEx. WebEx is a business
level conferencing software
platform. You could theoretically
run your entire online class using WebEx. That could be your
platform. Mary Jane and I were talking yesterday about what is a platform.
Platforms are under these sort of contexts. They are ecosystems for doing
what you want to do. You could use Niihka for an online class. You can use
Google docs for an online class. You could also use WebEx. So, what
WebEx is, is high-end video conferencing.
and desktop sharing. So, if you go to
WebEx... Sorry.
If you go to Miamioh.WebEx.com
is that correct?
So, Miamioh, the link is up there. We also have the link in the document.
Miamioh.WebEx.com. It asks for your Miami login. You log in with your
Miami ID and password. You can set up a full
high-end conferencing session, where you can share your desktop
It has a whiteboard. It has files
sharing. It has chat. It records the entire
thing. It even has built-in Skype functionality.
Voice over IP. So, you could just use your audio on your computer.
Your students can use their audio and you can actually talk to them.
So, you can have 40,50... I don't think we have a limit our WebEx license. Although,
I have never pushed it. I know you can easily do that many people,
who are participating in this WebEx session. Where you
show what you are doing on your desktop. You show PowerPoint presentations.
You share files. You can run a distance based synchronous
event using WebEx. We just spent an entire
session on that. I put that in the high-end version of what Andy is talking about.
But that is an option for you. What I have just gone on and done here
here in WebEx was setup an instant meeting. So, you could set up an
instant class or you could actually schedule a class. You can work with your Guru
they are going to show how to use WebEx if that is something you would like to spend some time doing.
today. Next up we have got a
LogMeIn. I am only going to mention it given our time constraints here.
But for a lot of us, if we are traveling on the road
we want to access our desktop computer from
being on the road. LogMeIn is a fantastic tool to do that.
What LogMeIn lets you do is open a web browser so
you are at a confrence or you have your laptop. Honestly,
if you are sitting on an airplane you pull up your browser, you pull up your laptop,
and you type in an address and in your browser you
will see the screen of your computer in your office. When you
move your mouse it moves the mouse of the computer on your office.
When you do applications you see it all within the browser. You remotely control
your computer. You can access your computer
anywhere you are. Use it, transfer files, it
is as if you are transporting your computer. Not only that, but it also has an iphone
app and an android app, and an iPad app so that you can run
your computer on your iPad. It is like have a little
windows computer. You were going to say something. - Is this like
pcAnywhere and GoToMyPC? - Yes. Exact same thing. LogMeIn is just like pcAnywhere
or GoToMyPC. They all do the same sorts of things. - But this one does the have the other apps.
- It is not necessarily one over the other. So.
LogMeIn is the link right after JoinMe. That is LogMeIn.
LogMeIn has a free version and a paid version. It just depends
how many computers you want to hook up to it.
LogMeIn is super secure. It is business grade security.
It is HTTPS, all encrypted.
- Can you acess any program then on your computer, like SPSS,
not actually sitting in your computer. - Yes.
Absolutely. If you can run SPSS in your office. You can run SPSS
on your iPad. Yes? - What are you putting in your browser?
to get to your...? - It is just an address. It is like a web
address. It is specific to you. So...
- Can you put in muohio. - No, it's...
the way it would work would be you would go to LogMeIn.com
and there would be a login.
This isn't going to work for me because this actually is my office computer. So,
I am not going to be able to do that. But, you would go to the login page here.
You would type your login, which I don't even have one password here
because I don't do it this way. But, you would type it in and then it will give you a list of
computers that are your computers. It will look something like this.
I actually have the app running in here. So,
slightly different. But it gives you a list of your
computers like in this case. Here is one of my computers and you would just click on it
and you would go to it. That is how it would work. So,
that is all I can tell you until you actually setup an account
because what you type in is really specific to you. But, you just type in a web address
and it takes you to your computer.
Next up. - What's up. - WunderList.
So, we get a lot of questions about
to-do lists. There are as many to-do lists out there
as..Yes. There
is a new one everyday. Everyone has their own opinion about what the best to-do list is.
I am not going to say that my choices are the best. They are just
things I have been into. I was very into remember the milk for a while.
That is actually a really handy one that I like. But, lately my to-do list of choice
is WunderList. You guys have WunderList? I like WunderList quite a bit.
WunderList is just a handy, literally
just a to-do list. It works exactly like you think. You add things to it.
It goes into...you can star things or prioritize
them or put them into folders. One of the things I like most about WunderList though
is it integrates really well with other applications.
When you install WunderList you can also install and add-on to your
browser. So that, notice when I go to YouTube
there is a button hear. This is a terrible projector.
That believe it or not says add to WunderList.
So, when I go to YouTube there is now a button in YouTube that says add to Wunderlist. So, when I see a video
I can just click a button and it will actually remind me
and create a link to add it to WunderList.
Right. So, here is the shark and duck video. All of a sudden I just hit save and it
gets saved and it adds it to my list. Even better then that
the plug-ins works within your email.
Patricia McNab just sent me this email. I don't even know what this is about. I probably
should pull it up before I play this.
Its all blurry. Notice that I have this button here
that says add to Wunderlist. So, my Miami Gmail now has a button that says add to
Wunderlist. So, when I get an email and I want to add it to my to-do list
all I do is hit that button. It adds it into my to-do list
with a link. It puts a link to the Gmail email
into my Wunderlist. Now when I open Wunderlist, say on my
iPad or on my phone, I can actually click on it and it takes me right
to that email. Right to my to-do list.
I love Wunderlist. But, there are other ones like it, happy to talk about
those things. I got one more. I have 1Password.
Alright. This is another one that can get more complicated
than you might want to go into right now. So, I am going to just demo it
fast and quick. In this world of multiple
logins and hacks, if there is
one security things that we can argue to you that I would just to infuse
into your brains, do not use the same password for all the websites you go
to. Do not use your kids' names, your dogs' names, your
birthday, your phone number, your address, your parents' names,
the school you went to, the street you live on. I probably hit
like a 1/3 of your passwords here is some form or another here, right.
Birthdays... These things are imminently hackable.
The thing you really want to do is essentially have random passwords for all the places
you go. The problem is how the hell do you remember them because of my god
Right. I mean like *+^ blah blah blah.
So, there are tools that honestly we think are,
I think this is an indispensable tool. I probably use this more than anything else we are going to show here today.
1Password is an application that
sits on your computer and whenever you set up a new password
A) it will create a random one for you. But more more importantly
B) it remembers the name and password
for every website you login into to. So, next time
you go back to it, all you have to do is type in your single
password. Your one password that unlocks the thing on your computer
and it goes and finds your crazy password.
Pulls it in and puts it on the website.
If I go to
yes, so Dropbox,
which is what I am going to go to in a minute.
So, if I go to Dropbox, here is the login.
It is all set for it. Do you want to sign in? I click on sign in.
I do not know what my password is. I hit a little key stroke thing
at the bottom of my computer here. Notice this thing comes up on the left here and says do you want
the Dropbox password and I am like yes I do. It just puts it in there for you.
The reason it did not ask for
my single one password is because I just used this like 30 seconds ago.
So, if you do not use it for a certain period of time it makes you put that single
password again. But, the bottom line is that you remember a single master password
It remembers all your other passwords
for you and it automatically fills in web pages when you go to them.
It syncs with all of your computers. So, your home computer
and your office computer, and your iphone, and your android,
and iPad all get synced together. Peter. - If you are not sold on this,
I use this and it has a built-in
that allows you to put secure notes in their as well. For example I have
the serial numbers for every piece of software I own available here.
It allows you to put personal information, like bank accounts. I have VIN numbers
for my car. - My credit cards. My checking account.
- Copies of my passport with photo. Everything is secure.
in that same one password, all in one app.
It is probably the most, I would say again,
I would agree with Glen. - It will change your life. It is really handy.
- It is one of those things that I would say that the learning curve on this is a little bit
steep at the beginning because it just seems counterintuitive
with the way we have been conditioned to login. Once you get past that,
which is about a day or two, you will be
amazed at how you lived without it. - It's not that... My wife
who hates everything technology.
It literally took her a day and she uses all the time now.
- You can do a demo on that later this afternoon if people are interested.
- One question, if you use a computer that is not synced
with your, say you use some random computer, you won't have access to those?
- Yes. You actually can. There is a way to do that too.
- What you can do is login into 1Password
and then go in. You have to manually click along
on what the password is and copy and paste it. If you wanted to.
- Yes you just go to the website because it actually uploads... all your
passwords are kept in this crazy super secure place but is on the web. It is all in the cloud.
Even if you are on a random computer you can login to the website with
your single password. - If you do that it is a few more steps. But it can be done.
- You will see in the links there, there are three things we have there.
We got 1Password, RoboForm, and LastPass.
Those are the three most popular. They all do the same thing. They all do literally
the exact same thing. PC people tend to like RoboForm
a little more than 1Password. 1Password is Mac. It is a
little bit more Mac friendly. LastPass I have not used. It looks like it's
really good for both. I think six and one half dozen of the other. They all
offer you 30 day free versions of them. So, you can just try one for free.
and see if you like it or not and play with it. - 1Password is actually free
up to a certain number of logins. It is not even a time sensitive thing. If you only have like 5
logins. You can use 1Password for free, forever.
It is once you get to a certain number of passwords you want to store.
- How much does it cost? - I think is $20. It might be less.
- It says $49.99. -1Password is really $49.99.
- With a 100% money back guarantee. - Wow, that has gotten a little
a lot more.. - A year? - No, it is just a license.
It is not an annual subscription. To me it is totally worth it.
- You can get a lot of free password things,
like Keychain, Macros, and also Google Chrome. They do similar things.
Alot of people keep passwords there. - You can.
But I think one of the things I like about these applications is that they
sync across all your various devices too.
I agree, you are absolutely right, partially if you are tech savvy.
I think those things work. But if you want something that works out of the box, I like the
apps. Dropbox. Just a show of hands how many people here use Dropbox.
Ok. Super quick.
Dropbox is literally a folder that gets
placed on your computer. When you put files into that folder,
it copies them up into the cloud and puts them on
Dropbox's servers, wherever they are in magic cloud land.
Then any other computer you have, which also
has your Dropbox folder on it like the one in your house, will
get those files copied automatically back down to it. So, you can think of it as
a cloud based storage place for your files, but also
a place in which you have synced file across
multiple computers. So, if you are working on a paper in your office
and you keep that paper in your Dropbox folder. You hit save.
When you get home you open it up on your home computer. It is
exactly where you left off in your office. Even better, when
it is up there in the cloud you can hit a little button that will give you a link to that file.
You can send that link to someone else to see your file.
If you have a piece of music you want your students to hear. You put it up in
Dropbox. You grab the link. You send the link to your students. They can all hear
that file. Dropbox and Google Drive are the exact
same thing, for the most part. They are both
accessible from your phone. They are both accessible from your pad.
One of the things that Dropbox does is it links with
1Password. So, 1Password keeps your 1Password file in Dropbox.
Dropbox has some really interesting synchronization features.
- What was the other one besides Dropbox? - So Dropbox. Yes, Google Drive.
Those are the two big ones. If you look further down on our list when we get there,
there are actually are other competitors that offer more space than Dropbox.
Box.net is one that I like a lot.
There are other ones that give you.. like ADrive gives you
50 GB of space, if you can imagine that, 50 GB free.
Totally free. Some of these
cloud storage providers, you can think of
them not only as a place to store your files but what they also
serve as is backups for your computer. So, you can
actually setup your My Documents on your computer to automatically
backup to these cloud storage places. So, if your computer
ever gets hosed. You are fine. You backed up the files you need
or if you need to access your My Documents when you are on the road
or you are not near your computer. If you are using something like Dropbox or Box
or any of these other services you can just go onto a computer at
the Hilton, login to Dropbox. Go into your My Documents
and access any of the files that you want.
- I am going to talk really quickly
about an application called Evernote. It is a note taking
application. The big advantage of Evernote over other things that you might use it that
it syncs between all of your devices. So, I have an iPhone.
So, if I go to a meeting and I launch Evernote on my phone and I take
notes on my phone. Then when I come home or when I get back to my laptop,
I start up Evernote and those notes that I took automatically sync
those notes will be in Evernote on my computer. They are going to be
at any place that I go. This has been really indispensable for me for
note taking. The great thing is that you can not only use
text but you can also add pictures.
For instance, if I want to take this picture here.
This is a...
So, if I take this. If I drag it over to Evernote and then I clicked plus.
It puts the picture into the notes and then I can annotate it. I can add
notes.
That is the guy that invented
the video game Mind Craft, which I am putting up here because of my son.
I feel very proud that my son wrote his 3rd grade biography project on
him, which I thought was pretty awesome. I also tweeted him
and he tweeted him back, which is why I want to make sure we get into Twitter
because of my son in the 3rd grade. This guys is one of his heros because he loves
Mind Craft. He was actually have a little conversation with the guy.
You get that from Twitter but I love Evernote because
I do not have to worry about where is the file and I don't
have to worry about having a laptop or something to write with when I walk into a meeting. I have got my phone.
I can take the notes on my phone and then I have it everywhere else that I go, on the iPad
or anyplace I want to go. - I love Evernote tool. Whenever
you are surfing you just click on the Evernote and it just takes a picture of that
- It takes a picture of the web page and puts it right in there with a link. You can get back to it.
You can use it in place of all sorts of things. Not only note taking but it is almost a bookmarking app.
You can use it that way. It makes your online life a lot kind of easier and more
seamless. - See in his web browser he has the little elephant
button at the top. That means when we goes to any web page if he clicks the little Evernote
elephant button it saves that whole web page to his Evernote
notebook. - I would advise everybody...
this is the one app here that I would advice everybody to just check it out because it works really well.
- How does it arrange notes, like chronologically, alphabetically? - You can store
them how you want. - Or search? - You name your
notebook. So, you start up a notebook and you name it. When I go to a conference I will name it
whatever, ACRL 2013, and all the notes from that
conference are in that notebook. Then I can bind and take pictures. You can take a picture off your phone
but is totally searchable. Like, me I am as you might gather
by this very unorganized. So, I say I am going to tag things
and organize them. But I don't. Evernote indexes everything. You just search on a word.
It will find those notes for you. What is even cooler is
with your pictures. If you take pictures of something as text, it does
optical character recondition of that text. So, you can actually search
on a word that is in a picture that you took and
Evernote will find it for you. - So, if our students are doing this in class they are actually
taking notes on Evernote. Is that right? - Yes. It is by far the most popular note
taking app. I am sure that is what they are doing in your class.
Alright.
Switching back here. I am going to talk about a Chrome
plug-in called Awesome Screenshot.
But it really is a class of applications. So,
you don't literally have to use the one you are about to see here. But one of the things
that we get asked a lot in the LTSI is how do I just capture a picture that I am looking at
on my screen and show it to my students.
- *muffled speech* - You don't.
I will tell you why here in a second.
- What is the name of it? - Awesome Screenshot.
- There we go.
So, now lets imagine that I am looking
at a web page. Here is a CNN story this morning. There is a picture of
Fort Hood and I want my students to see that thing I
found on the web. I can click this button in my browser here and you can see called Awesome
Screenshot capture and annotate. I can capture just
the visible part of the page, the entire page I am looking at, or a selected
area. I pick a selected area.
I click the capture button and
this comes up. I can actually then
make a little arrow, like look at that.
I can put some text on it, like this is
really important here.
I can crop it because I did not cut it really well.
I will crop it like that and then I will click done.
Then it gives me the option of saving it
temporarily onto my Google Drive. It connects with your Google.
Save it as a file to My Desktop or print it.
I often use temporarily because what is creates is a 3 day link.
So, it automatically uploads it to their website for 3 days
and it creates this link here.
Then I can just take that link and send it to somebody. Like, here this is what I wanted to show you.
There is the link or you can tweet it
and that whole media stuff. Awsome Screenshot
is what is called a Chrome extension. So, if you use
Chrome as your browser, you can go to the Chrome extensions
store, which we will talk about a little bit in about 10 to 15 minutes.
You can get these things that modify Chrome, your browser.
There are some super cool ones, really cool ones. Actually, 1Password
has one. A lot of these apps...The Evernote elephant
that you saw in Andy's browser is a plug-in fro Chrome. So,
this is a Chrome plug-in. Whether you use Firefox,
or Chrome you can get plug-ins that do this.
Safari does not have... Is that right? I
don't use Safari. I don't think Safari has an extension store.
So, you can't do this with Safari. You can do it with Firefox or Chrome.
If you literally go to the extensions store and you search on Screenshots
there are a lot of different apps that do this. I like Awesome Screenshot but there are
other ones that do it. One of the reasons I like it, we are going to come back to it, is that it is part
of Diigo, which is a social bookmarking service. So, it actually
connects up with another thing that we are going to show you here in a little bit.
Alright last one, I am going to show you here. Then we are going to switch over to
Jason is an application called MightyText.
I am showing this to you as an example for those of you
who have android phones. MightyText is an android
application. There are versions of this for iPhones and things that your
Gurus can tell you about. The reason I want to show you this is because I find
as a productivity tool this is awesome. What it does is it takes
text messages and it brings them to your desktop.
So, instead of having to answer text messages on your phone, which you might have to type lots
of things and your thumb gets tired or you do not have your phone with you.
or it interrupts what you do. It literally makes it a desktop application.
So, it is a free thing. I download it onto my
phone and what this is literally doing... Let me see if I can do one here to Lisa.
I will send the text message to Lisa.
Are you in the back there Lisa? - Yes.
- I type it and it gets sent
to Lisa.
- *muffled speech*
- So,
go ahead can you text back to me Lisa. So, I am typing this on my
computer. What it is literally doing is going over the internet to my phone.
and sending it as a text message from my phone. It only works if my phone is turned on.
It is kind of like tethering my text message functionality on my phone
to my computer. What is does is it pops up.
Did you reply yet Lisa? - Yes. - Ok it sometimes takes a
minute. But when it connects back up again I will actually
get a little announcement thing up at the top that says.
No, I brought my little red scooter thing in today. - Glen,
uh. - Oh yes, see this will pop up and interrupt whatever you are doing.
- Oh, ok. That was my question. - Yes. You don't have to refresh it or anything. It will just come up.
- So, you could be emailing a document and boom. - Yes.
I love MightyText. There are other things like it. Actually IOS has a
thing that works with Apple and iPhone that does a similar sort of thing.
Your Guru can tell you about it. - So, you might be wondering
how the hell do we keep track of this? How do we learn about all this stuff?
- Do you want me to? - Yes go ahead and go to my computer.
I think we all have different ways that we go about learning this type of
information. Rarely do I actually use Google to search anything
anymore. I have these apps that basically send information
to me based on my interests. I have my phone up
here. I am going to talk about two apps that I use on a day to day basis.
The first is Zite. I will pull it up right now.
Zite. You create an account on Zite
This is a mobile only app. - That was my question, is it mobile
only. - Yes. It works IOS,
Windows phone, android, all those. - Why are we seeing
your phone? - This is Reflector. I thought
this was going to be the coolest part of the presentation today. It is
a software called Relfector for Mac.
You create an account. You basically say these are the types of things
I am interested in, such as art and culture, business, film and tv.
Then you can actually search for specifc things, like
I am interested in marathon running or barefoot running,
which I am not actually. I don't know why it is up there. Backpacking.
So, you create a personality based on your interests. Then you also connect it
to Twitter. It has a really good artificial intelligence.
So, it see who you follow on Twitter, what they are tweeting
about, the articles they are tweeting about, and then it basically builds
it finds what it things is the best
or most pertinent or relevant article that you are
similar articles. It's coming from TechCrunch,
ReadWrite Web, Boing Boing
and almost everyone of these is pertinent to me. I come in here
and I always find something that is useful for me. Ok.
Then you can click on one of these titles here.
It makes it really easy to
read and then if I want what I can do, is what I typically do,
is tweet directly from here if I want other people to find out about it.
I do that everyday. The other thing I do is I add
to Pocket, which is what I am going to show you next. Pocket
is essentially, we use to talk a lot about a software called Delicious,
which was a social bookmarking tool. A way to sort to sort of keep track of
everything you find on the web in a web based spot.
Well, Delicious does not really exist anymore. Diigo has taken over in a lot of
repects. Pocket is a similar tool. A place to save
content that you find on the web. So, I just save that to my Pocket.
Lets see here...
As you can see, The Real Cost
of Self Publishing a Book is now in my Pocket. I can see that on my
phone, I can see that on the GetPocket website.
So, what Pocket is doing is different. It may not be
obvious how this is different than what he just showed you with Zite. Zite is giving you
links to websites. Pocket saves the article.
It essentially downloads a copy of it onto your
phone, or onto your computer, or into Pocket
space so that you can read it later. So, whether or not that still
exists does not matter. It literally saves the article for reading later.
So, even if you don't have internet access you can actually read your Pocket articles
on your phone or on your computer. - It also optimizes it
for looking at it on the phone. So, you can make the text bigger. - Right. I can change the text size
here. I can change the actual font from a Serif to a
Sans Sara font. Yes. You can
make the background kind of yellowish. Then if we switch
over to this laptop here and show you. There is a
extension, a Pocket extension, for Chrome. I am sure there is one for
Firefox as well. So, if you find the website you are interested in, you click on
this pocket button. It automatically saves it to your Pocket.
- You can search Pocket. Right. You can search for words.
So, like I am constantly finding articles. You are browsing the web.
It is the world of limited attention span. So, you see article you like
and you don't have time to look at it. You just hit your Pocket button. Later you go in
and you are like what was that article about marshmallows. You just search the word
marshmallow and it finds that article for you and you can read it.
Can you switch over my computer? - Yes.
- I am going to show you two related things to that because there are similar
sorts of read it later functionality. We find that faculty really
like this largely because we see things we want to use for our
research, things we want to show to our students, things we don't have time to look at.
We want to capture that, remember to look at it and read it later, and
possibly even show it to our students. Even
going farther, ask our students to find things on the internet,
curate them, save them in some way that they can share
them with the rest of the students. The kind of features that we are talking about here
are all related to that. So, if we take the model that Pocket has
one step further. I am going to show you what is called
a RSS reader. RSS, doesn't matter
what it stands for. What it is, is when ever you go
to a website, there is a little secret. Think of it as a
high frequency message coming from the website that you cannot hear.
Only dogs can hear it. That is what an RSS feed is. It is this little thing you can't
actually see. What it is broadcasting is the headlines
and the summary of each article
on that website. Almost every website out there has these
RSS feeds. It is a thing that is built into web systems.
So, everything from the New York Times, to the
journals that you subscribe to, to the blogs that you follow. They all have this
thing called an RSS feed, which is broadcasting the
headings and the first bits of all the articles on that
site. Now what you can do is
subscribe to an RSS feed. What that means is you
want to collect those headlines to see whether or not you want
to actually read those stories. RSS readers
are aggregators of our SS feeds. So, let me
describe what mine is and it may help you here. So, I teach Social Media Marketing.
So, there are these websites that talk about Social Media Marketing that put up
blog posts all the time, everyday. Every minute
there is a another article or more. I can't keep up with it.
So, what I do is I put them together into this
RSS reader. One way to think about this is it is kind of like
a personalized newspaper. It takes the headlines from all
the websites and blogs that you follow and it puts them together like
it is a newspaper. Then I can click on it
and I could save it. I could share it. I could read
it. I can read this my phone. So, you can think about this as a way of
curating the internet. It is amazingly powerful.
So, all the blogs that you read. All the websites you go to everyday.
You do not have to go to them. All you need to do is
collect the RSS feeds. Your Gurus will show you how to do it. It is really
crazy easy to do. Collect the RSS feeds, put them all together, and
then you can just go to one thing everyday and see all the
headlines from all the things you normally look at. From CNN
to Washington Post, and those things. To cat blogs,
to whatever it is you are into. You curate it. Now,
what you can then also do is share those curated sets of
lists. So, with my students I have them put together
curated RSS feeds on the things they are researching.
So, a student is doing a paper on the Civil War,
great battles of the Civil War.
Then she would go find blogs about the Civil War and Civil War memorabilia websites.
They will find all these bits and pieces, curate it all together, and create
a feed of information around that. Then potentially
use that. Think of it as a live bibliography in a weird way.
So, they can share that with other students. They can share that with you and
in many ways this is how I co-create content with my students.
We are collectively building a live textbook on Social Media Marketing.
That is what this is, a live textbook, in some senses.
Feedly is what I am using here. Google Reader used to be
the one I talked about. Then Google just announced they are going to close it.
So, Feedly is the one that everyone talks about. But if you actually go
down to the RSS reader of the long document
there is a bunch of other ones or a least a couple that have been put out there for you. The other one
click the Diigo tab. Yes? - Is it predicting, like it won't suggest other things
you might be interested in? - I do not know if Feedly does that. That is a really good question.
It should. - *muffled speech*
- Totally free. In fact if you have a Google Reader
site, Feedly will just import it because they are trying to get all the Google people in.
You just hit a button and it adds it to Feedly. Then you look at it in your browser.
- How is this different
then something like Zite? - So, what Zite does...
Zite is more predictive. You say here at the topics I am interested
Pulse is another one. I use Pulse, which is a lot like Zite. It finds...
It goes and finds things it thinks you might be interested in.
Feedly and RSS readers you actually say these
are the websites I want to keep track of. You
literally tell it what to find. That is the big difference. Otherwise they are
actually very very similar. So,
the last thing that is in this category is what is called social bookmarking.
Social bookmarking. The way to think of this is that
when you find a website you liked and you bookmarked it in Safari or
whatever you are using, Chrome that kind of thing. Right. Your bookmarks are there on your computer
You with me? Yes. Ok.
What these services are, a way to think of it is
instead of your bookmarks being saved on your computer, your bookmarks
get saved to the cloud and they can be
shared. So, obviously this is an opt-in thing.
It does not share all your bookmarks. So, when you sign up for a service like
Diigo. In fact, Diigo has an entire thing just for teachers.
They are very proactive with education. You can see this is teacher
console. It has all these features to just register
your students and close it down. So that it is not really public
You can spend some time with your Guru on this if you think this is interesting. But the idea is
that whenever you find a website, kind of like I was talking about Feedly,
except Feedly bookmarks it and only you see it.
This bookmarks it and it can be shared with other people.
So, it is about social
bookmarking. That is the title, Social Bookmarking.
Services like Diigo let you do more then just bookmark. You can actually annotate.
This is something that I have bookmarked within Diigo
It has functionality. But this is going to take longer than I want.
But you can actually highlight things within an article with a highlighter.
and leave notes on it. Then when your students go look at the article they actually
see your highlighting and your notes. It saves the entire thing.
I think it works really well for the classrom.
It is a little clunkier. It has a little more of a learning curve then some of these other things.
But in that same category.
Alright.
I am going to do this super fast. I am not literally going to show this one.
- So, that assignment that you have your students
where you have them assemble their RSS feed, the way I
do my exams they have to pull from a number of sites. If I put that in there
for them could I copy like a screen page of that? Do I share my...?
- Lets talk a little about that during the break because there
is a lot of different options. It can get complicated. None of
them are complicated. I just don't want to run through it right now. - Then it is possible. - Absolutely.
We are now into the apps that require more technology part. I am going to go fast
through this, which is I know counterintuitive since these are the more complicated things.
But just because we can spend more time on this. The first two I have on there are
Jaksta and Audio Hijack Pro and I am going to ask Joe Basile to just
stick his fingers in his ears for the moment, while I talk about these two.
So, Jaksta and Audio
Hijack Pro are two apps that I use on my Mac. There are PC versions of them.
So, don't worry so much of the literal name of the application as much as the category.
So, Jaksta is running this app that I bought.
Notice what I am going to do. I am going to go to YouTube and I am
going to run the video of the cat riding a Roomba
dressed as a dragon.
So, we are going to skip the ad, 3,2,1.
Skip that.
I have found this video and I want to
share it with my students. The question
we often get is how can I do that. Notice I can add it to
WunderList. But you cannot download it. At least that is what YouTube
tells you. What Jaksta is doing here
is grabbing it for me in the background. It's...
Jaksta runs... I told you just cover your ears.
Think of it as sort of a little filter.
So, any streaming video from anywhere, anyplace that streams video,
comes into your computer. Jaksta hijacks that and it
records it. So anyplace that has streaming video,
Jaksta will record that for you and download it onto your computer as a file
that you can reuse. Awesomely cool. Audio
Hijack Pro does the same thing except with audio.
So, if you are listening to some streaming podcast. If you are listening to some streaming
music, which you want to use for academic
purposes. It grabs that and it saves it down to your
hard drive. There are various applications that do that
Audacity is on all of these computers.
Audacity is the high end version of what Jason showed you.
of Soundcloud. Audacity is a application
that does pretty complex audio editing. You can
literally mix wave forms and stretch time.
and do all sorts of amazingly complex and cool things.
Last two things I am going to show you on this list and then we are going to go to Twitter are
both email plug-ins. As we move to Gmail
one of the things
that people have not
been taking advantage of is that Gmail is highly customizable.
Most of you, I suspect, are using Gmail just the way that Miami rolled it out
to you. You can actually add things into it and change
it. For example even within Google's
functionality. Like I am going to send an email to Lisa
and I am going to be really mad at her. I am going to say," You suck. I hate you."
I am really mad. I set up this thing.
Look what it says at the top, undo. I have 12 seconds
to pull that back.
- You better.
- You know right after...how many times have you sent and email and right after you sent it your are like oh ***.
I forgot to cc someone or I needed to...
you can add that onto your Google preferences, the thing that delays the sending of it.
and lets you undo. - On your preference page. - Right. It is in your preferences
- *muffled speech* - Yes. That is for my faculty, not
me. My faculty, I swear.
So, there are two plug-ins that I use fairly regularly that I like a lot.
The first is called Rapportive and I am going to pick on
I am trying to find someone who will have something useful here.
Look at what happens when I pull
up an email from my student, Ben Parks. Look at what is on the right here.
It shows me his picture.
It gives me his Twitter handle and I can click this button and automatically
follow him. These are his most recent tweets. I can add him as a friend
on Facebook, Linkedin, Google Contacts, compose an email
to him. Everyone that I get
emails from it does this. So, even people who are not my
students. I am going to try and be really careful what I show up here. So, lets
see. Who is not at Miami here? Here is
Raphael Ferodo. He is a professor at
Denver. I get
his picture. Complete strangers, I will see their pictures
on it. It is called Rapportive. It pulls it all from social media.
It is a free plug-in to Gmail. The other one I use
is Boomerang. - What was the name of that? - Rapportive.
It is on the list under App Comfortable. R-A-P-P. There is a link to it.
If I want to send an email to
Lisa and I want to say," You suck, I hate you"
and I want to make it happen after I quite. I can
with this plug-in called Boomerang. I can click send later
and have the email sent sometime in the future.
- When your out of the country. - Right.
Not only that but lets say I get an email, like I got this one from Patricia McNab a moment
ago. Right. When I am reading this email
Where is my Boomerang box?
Well, what I will do, you can track
an email to see whether or not someone responds to you in a period of time. So,
what Boomerang does is it literally boomerangs it back. So, when you send an email to someone...
For me my to-do lists are my emails. Like, I send it to you and
I wait for you to send it back to remember I need to do that. Boomerang
you can set it up so if you don't respond in X days
it sends it back to me automatically and says Mariana
has not replied to my email. So, it prompts me when people don't respond
to my emails, which I find amazingly handy.
- That one is called Boomerang? - Boomerang. Oh, here it is. I was looking in the wrong place. See Boomerang
at the top right there. - So, if you said send these all at 3 o'clock today
Can you cancel things in between? - Yes. You can cancel
before it goes. So, when I am looking at an email I can
say return me to this conversation, click on that. Only if nobody
responds or just return me to it no matter what. In a certain period
of time, which is
crazy handy. - Boomerang is great.
- Alright, I think we are going to talk about Twitter.
- We are going to take the rest of the time, close to the rest of the time, to
talk about Twitter and the ways we can use Twitter
in the classroom. The first time that I was involved
in LTSI in 2007, Twitter existed
but barely anyone used it. As we track this over time we see our
students here. There has been a large increase
in the number of students who have adopted Twitter.
I have never a problem with people using Twitter,
for classroom purposes. I am going to talk about different ways in which this can be done.
But first of all, how many of you are on Twitter?
We are actually getting a higher number. Every year more and more people are
on Twitter. But I am still going to go over the basics of how this works.
What you do is basically you send really quick
140 character little text messages
and you follow other people. So, this is my Twitter
stream. Katie has been tweeting about stuff. She is right there.
Other people I follow. Most of them I do not know. A lot of these people
are technology reporters. I will guarantee you that
in your field there are lots of people who are
actively tweeting about that subject.
Marketing, there has got to be a million people who are tweeting about that. Really good people.
What I do... This is what I do at the beginning of the
semester. I create a list of people. You can create lists in Twitter
I make my students, if they don't have Twitter accounts, I make them sign up.
for Twitter. They can just ignore it when the semester is done if they don't want
to touch it ever again. I have
created a list here of people.
This is my IMS 201 list.
I kept it short. It has 29 people
and if they go to it
they can go to this. It is just Twitter.com/Andyrebel/IMS201AR.
They go here and they have button that says follow. They can follow all of these
people with one click. So, they have this list and they are following them.
I ask my students to follow these. They find stories in here.
Then I ask them to do things with that. Grab that story, reading something they find interesting.
and respond to it in a blog post of something like that. Sometimes
they even respond back to these people. You can get into conversations with people.
What this done is this gets content
outside of the
classroom into your students'
lives. So, you are getting your course content. It is like the Holy Grail of teaching, right.
To get your students when they are not in the classroom to be actively engaging in
course material. This gets it. They are already in Twitter.
This stuff is getting your course content into their Twitter stream is what happens.
They are seeing things related to your course, tweeted by other people outside of the class.
I also have for my class a course hashtag. Students have to
find stories online and tweet a certain number of them.
I will explain in a second. A hastag is...
It is basically the number sign
and then something specific to the course. Our hastag for LTSI here is #LTSI2013.
Or is it #LTSI13?
- 13 - What this does is it
allows you to take the tweets. I can search for that. Then
I can see all of them in one place. So, when I search for #LTSI13, I see
all the things that people have tweeted with #LTSI13. My hashtag for my course
is #IMS201AR. So, my students are
tweeting things and they are giving it that hashtag. I am going in and checking to see that they do that.
They are all searching and seeing things that their classmates are tweeting. So, what we are doing
is having a conversation about course related material
using Twitter, which for most of them is a social media service that they are already using.
But we are having a conversation about course material at times we are not in class.
So
anyone else can jump in anytime. We all use it this a lot. This is just how I use it.
- *muffled speech* - Yes.
- Are they all closed? Like everything you do. Your lists are closed. - No. That is all
public. Twitter is like standing on top of a building with a megaphone
and screaming things out. - There is no private Twitter. There kind
of sort of is. But it is not its best use. - So, when
you are doing a class, whatever they are sharing is public. - Yes. But you know
in some ways that is awesome. One of our faculty in IMS,
in his game class, he was tweeting with students
and connecting them to industry people so they could ask them questions about their jobs.
The hashtag he used for his class totally caught fire.
It became a trending topic on Twitter. He had literally thousands
and thousands of posts. They made t-shirts out of the hashtag.
#IMS235. That people were selling because it became a
public rallying cry around how people work in the industry.
It is a longer story. But the point is it should be public. If you want to have a private
conversation use email
use Niihka, have chats in WebX or wherever
you are. This is purely for public conversation. - So, I let my students
follow me and mine is a mix between what is going on personally and
what is going on professionally. I always think about that when I am posting
about say, my 3rd grader just got
in touch with Markus Perrson or you know. How do you...? - Did you want...
- You can create a second Twitter account. One could be professional and one could be personal.
- You can have multiple personas, multiple Twitter accounts. I have multiple ones.
- I don't do that. I am just out there. My students get to know me over the course of the semester.
- I have one account and
I am cognitive of the fact that it is a public account. But I still
want to be personable with my students. So, if I see they are talking about something
that I am really into that is outside of the class. I will tweet back just to build that sort of
rapport in that space. That is a valuable space that
you can build that rapport. - They know I can see Valley Girl now.
- How long do the tweets stay up there or is it permanent?
- They sort of fall off. If you search for
it you could most likely find it. It sort of falls off
after a certain period of time. - But there are people and actually The Library of Congress
included, that are achieving everything that has ever been tweeted.
So, it never disappears. I will say to Debs point... I will get to you in a moment.
I think this is important. We are not going to talk about Facebook today.
We are not going cover a lot of things because we are running out of time. So, we are going to talk some more later.
But, I think I speak for us but you guys jump in
or anyone from LTSI, anyone. But
that public private thing, that is where Facebook gets really messy. That is why I stayed
off of Facebook for my classes. I do not find Facebook
logistically it is not very productive and easy to use as a classroom tool.
But I also think that it violates that private public space in a way
that I am not comfortable with, as far as the relationship with my students and their relationship
with me. Everyone has their own rules for that. Actually if a student
wants to friend me on Facebook I usually except it because I put things on Facebook.
You should never put anything on any of these services you don't want your
grandmother to see because someone will find it. It is all findable and never
goes away. Facebook is just, my problem
is more with what I see of them. I don't want to see. - I don't follow my
students. - I sometimes see things on Twitter that my students post and I am like
I did not see that Green Beer Day picture. I did not see anything. - Let me just
show you... I want to show the list thing. I want to follow up on what was talking about.
Give me a subject you study. Somebody, what is your area?
- Marketing. - Marketing is too easy. We have already done that. - German.
- Latin.
- Give me the name of
a famous latin scholar.
Ok.
I just read an article about this guy.
So, there are going to be people here. Here is Harvard...
Here is the trick. I am finding something where they are talking about him here.
He has a move team and they are doing something cool with...
So, Harvard Classics. Find one person you want to follow.
Lets go to the Harvard Classics page now.
Alright. This is a little more about them.
Here is their page. This is not filling up well.
There is a thing called Lists. I can
click on this and find lists that other people have curated
that include Harvard Classics. So, now here is a set
of lists. Here is someones has made
classics. People who tweet classic stuff but necessarily all the time. Lets take a look at
that one. There are 208 people on that list.
Now I have a Twitter list about the classes
folks who are interested in that. These are things posted, how long ago.
2 minutes ago, 3 minutes ago, 6 minutes ago.
- I see that subscribe button. You can tell your students to all go there
and subscribe to that. Then this stuff gets into their Twitter stream. So, as they are reading their Twitter
and tweets from their friends, they are going to see stuff about classics. Right there in their social screen.
It is right into their conversation. - So, the list
serve is totally powerful, really powerful. You went to Twitter.com to do a search.
I did a search. I find one person who I think is going to be on that list. That is the key.
That is your little wedge. Find one person, go to their page, see
what lists they are on, and then you are going to get
the fire hose of all the other people, who other people have already curated
and think are similar. But that is the best way to start getting into Twitter.
- Another trick is to find an influencer or someone who has a lot of
cache and see who they are following and who
is following them. That is also another way to find people and find content.
- So, like journalists or that type of thing. We could go on.
The thing about Twitter. When I do... I have this whole talk I do about how to use Twitter
and the way I always begin it is the first thing you should do on Twitter
is listen. It freaks people out. They are like, who
wants I ate a sandwich for breakfast. I do not want to do that kind thing. You do not ever
need to talk on Twitter. When you first get into Twitter, just listen.
That is to me the greatest value of Twitter,
is listening. Find the right people to listen to, group
them together, start paying attention, and what you will find is
this becomes the news for you. This and Reddit are pretty much
where I follow everything that is happening in the world.
Everything breaks on Twitter before it breaks anywhere else. If you just
kind of group things and organize them. The problem is Twitter is just like this
massive, it's not even a river of information. It is this fast
moving ocean. So, it is constantly going.
There is this great quote. I mentioned Clay Shirky at my opening presentation, one of my favorite quotes.
He said," the problem today with all of this stuff is not information
overload. The problem is filter failure." That
is the problem. Right. So, any of these tools that you can create
that allow filters so you can see what you need to see when you need to see it
That is really a useful tool for you.
Alright we have like 5 minutes and a lot
talk about. - Did you talk about creating a hashtag if we want to do this for our courses?
- You just type it. You just make it.
Hashtags are called... You can just make them up.
You can make whatever hashtag you want. - Just make sure all the students are using the same one. So, you give them the hashtag
and tell them to add that to all their tweets. Then you can just search for that and you
see everything your class has tweeted. - We want to
search on that hashtag to see if it is not being used elsewhere in a different context.
Yes. You don't want to use
- We have one, LTSI has.
- You had a question before. - It does not matter. But actually,
I would like to have my students to start to follow
authors. But I would like to use
those tweets in class. So, can they
will get different authors sending them tweets. Can they copy
those tweets or somehow send them onto the course hashtag?
- So, if you click on more here. Next to it
So, I am clicking on more. Notice
the option comes up to email the tweet or embed the tweet. That literally
will create a unique link that only brings up that tweet.
Then you will be able to put that tweet literally, you were just asking about embedding.
You can embed that tweet physically in one of your Niihka
sites. Where you literally see the tweet kind of called out.
- So, I want everyone in every class period to post
one tweet they received from an author. Then we can discuss them in class.
So, they can do that. - Yes. you absolutely can do this.
This creates a unique link to the tweet.
Other Twitter questions?
Yes. - *muffled speech*
- Yes. You can actually see tweets whether or not they are following you. That is the thing about Twitter.
But Yes. - *muffled speech*
- Can you speak louder please. Sorry I can't hear you. - The question was
can you see your students tweets no matter what they tweet and if they do
is it a problem that they constantly tweeting and you are going to have lots of noise?
Absolutely. So where it works best because Twitter is
this constant stream of crap. It is just constant.
So, if you want to have a more contained conversation. Twitter
is not a good place for that. Just because it constantly
moving and it is a lot of noise. Twitter is good for sort of
a quick hit and miss. You can make a Twitter list of all of your students
and when you click on that list in Twitter it
concatenates all their Tweets into one stream.
But 30 students who are Tweeting
on a lot, you could have hundreds and hundreds of tweets a day, and you may miss something.
So, if you want a more contained conversation
that is where a forum and discussion board is a little better because it has a little more
history. It is a little more contained. The right tool for the right
job. - Do you ever get a student who asks you a question,
like they tweet you a question about class? Instead of emailing you.
You miss it, so. - Sometimes that happens.
- You have to be clear with them about how to get you if it is a question about class. - Right.
- Use this format. - Yes, absolutely.
You need to let them know if you tweet to me I may miss it. But where
Twitter is good. Here is an example. Rosemary Ward uses
Twitter in her class, where they are tweeting live questions
while class is going on. So, she pulls up her Twitter list.
The twitter list is up here and she is lecturing and do her thing.
Then she gets questions from the students. They can see each others' questions.
Some of them answer other questions live. So, she does not even
answer them. That is where that kind of thing is really useful for question and answer.
- I suppose you could do the same thing if you are online. You could have them tweet while they are watching your presentation.
- Yes. - It would create the same sort of effect. - Absolutely.
- It is a live interchange of
synchronous nature that gets played out. - You see
this sucks I hate you right here. So, thats...
Alright. So,
there are a bunch of other things gold starred and we aren't obviously
we are barely scratching the surface. I want to talk about a couple of them with you now.
When we have the whatever you want session later
today one of the options you will have is to come back in here
and we are going to continue going through this list and hit all the ones we missed. So,
we will be able to spend more time on those. Some of them we did want to make sure we mentioned.
So, I am just going to say what they are. We can talk
about them with your people. Ustream, U-s-t-r-e-a-m,
is a live video streaming app that you can get for your phone.
Actually it will work on your computer as well, or your iPad.
It lets you do live video streaming to anyone.
But to your students. Right. So, you are at...
I don't know. Mary Jane is actually in
Hati doing something with her research. She can pull, assuming
the interest is fast enough where she is, she pulls out her phone and she can
actually show live video of what she is doing. Her students
log onto Ustream and they can watch that live video.
Ustream is entirely free. The letter U
s-t-r-e-a-m. - What is the Tundra?
- It is such a long list I don't even remember.
It is in there. It is one of the gold starred ones. Ustream.
- That is good enough. - Aviary, A-v-i-a-r-y
Aviary is one of the... If you look at the gold stars next to Aviary
there are a couple of ones like it. It is image editing.
Like, you want to do Photoshop stuff, like cropping and, making it black and white,
doing filters, and that kind of thing. Aviary is a free web based
tool that does photo editing. You do not need any software. It runs
in your browser. That is it runs in Internet Explorer, whatever you are using.
You just follow what it says. It
really is point and click. You can edit your pictures and you can upload your pictures
and do that type of things. I know hold on.
Polleverywhere. Pull that one up really quick because that is one you all
asked for. I know.
We started 5 minutes late.
Polleverywhere is something you all asked for in
your survey. You wanted to talk a little about. Again your guru can help you.
Polleverywhere is not coming up here you have to...
Polleverywhere lets you
do live voting and polling with your students in the classroom.
It is a free tool. They have an education license
thing in fact, that lets you get a little more then the free. You get a little more
functionality then the average bear gets. If you show them you
are a professor/teacher. But what it lets you do...
There we go. So,
You do not need to know anything. It is totally point and click.
So, Jason set this up. What has been your favorite piece of technology so far?
Now you can reply to this on the website by going
to this web address or you can text
message, or you can
tweet. So, someone do that. - Probably the easiest one is just to go
to this website. Pollev.com/mulibrary.
But if you have Twitter you can pull out your mobile device
and type in @poll with that number and then you can type
in whatever your favorite piece of technology is. What is that? - Is there a space.
- Yes. There is a space between it. Pollev.com/mulibrary
- Now he could set this up as multiple choice.
So, you literally just text number 1, 2, or 3 if it is a multiple
choice poll. So, it does not have to be an open ended question. So, it does not have to be an open ended question. You do all
types of polling and questioning. He just did the simplest one here.
As people respond the answers are going to show up live here. Has
anybody responded yet? - Mine gave me a
piece of pie. Is there something more? You have to
sign in in the left upper corner. - No you should not have to sign in.
There it is. Refresh the page.
You should see it now. There you go.
As people respond it literally will show up here. If you do
a poll with choose number 1, 2, or 3. It will have a bar chart
here. That gets live updated showing you how the voting is occurring
in real time. - What did you say? Sorry.
Where is it?
- I will show you a quick... I am actually going to stop the poll now.
I will show you a quick multiple choice.
Ok, which
entity can exist without the other, world wide web
or the internet. This is a test. This is a test now.
Again you can go to the same website. If you refresh the page you are going to see a different question.
So, refresh the page on your browser and somebody vote here. So, that we can see.
This will happen live as you are all voting.
What is even cooler is it says download a slide. It actually gives you a little bit of code
that you a pull into a PowerPoint presentation. All of this as a live
document can be in your PowerPoint presentation. So, as you
are doing your PowerPoint people can vote on things during the live presenation.
You see live updating and all that.
So, it is free up to...
I think you can up to 40 people voting on something at a time.
After that you have to get some sort of an account. Our library has an account.
- Can we go through the library's?
- No. - The free account is good
enough for what you want to do. The free account will do everything you want to do in the classroom.
If you ask for the education account, you can get even more. But you do not need to use
someone else's account. - We are going to do an old fashioned poll.
How many people need a bathroom break? Alright.
- I just want to say 69%
of you, not correct.
So, we need to talk about that. - So, our advice about
how to keep going here is A) take the list that we
had for this site. Look at the gold star ones
and experiment. Just click on them and read what they do. B)
Hang out for our session later this afternoon and we will go through the rest of these with you.