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Nicholas did an audio summary which wasn’t something I expected, but why not do it that way? Going forward, it will probably take more than just audio, because we will also want to embed and connect the things we make as we go along.

Amy jumped into some of the Daily Creates, which was very cool. We will all be doing more of those in the weeks ahead. She recognizes that the show is not to everyone’s taste, but still finds compelling things about it. That touches on a key question: What makes for good storytelling? What makes it work? What makes it effective?

Danielle, among others, talked about the struggles with using the various social media tools. It can be intimidating, if you’re not used to working with such tools, and it can be challenging to figure out how to use them effectively. But it’s also kinda easy, once you dig into it and start using them. Maybe using them effectively isn’t so easy, but using them is.

Overall I think we’re off to a great start. A lot of people had great analyses of the episodes, and great insights. I encourage everyone to look a little closer, and think about how the story is being told, the various techniques being used, the little details and the effect they have. Jim and I come at it from a little different perspective, having seen the entire series already and having thought about it for a while, but each of your perspectives is just as valid

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Our summer pilot, “Living the Dream,” is coming to an end this week, and I find myself asking how this can be.  I know, I know, I do this at the end of every semester.  It’s like I wake up one day, certain that someone pushed the fast-forward button on time remaining in the course, which sends all of us, my students and me, careening toward a sometimes celebratory, and sometimes denouement ending.  That end-of-the-semester feeling should have a name in the English language, a word that says  relief, pride, regret, exhilaration, sadness, and deep-in-your-bones-exhaustion in a few easy syllables.

But there’s no such word, especially for the way I feel as our summer cMOOC is drawing to a close.  This was the summer where I had the opportunity to teach in a different way than I have ever taught; this was the summer that changed my thinking about what it means to cultivate and participate in a community of online learners.

Long before the cMOOC was dreamed, my partner and I had planned a trip to Thailand.   My mother, before she passed away, had asked me what I most wanted to do with a small stash of money she was leaving me, and I said, without pause, “travel.”  She made me promise to do that; we did the locked pinky-finger swear on it.   I had not traveled since her death two years ago, and the trip was a sort of celebration of my promise to her.

I considered canceling the trip after I was asked to participate in the cMOOC, but then I thought: “This is a course taught entirely online.  My obligation is to be online, not be in Richmond.”   And so, with some trepidation, I went to Thailand after the third week of the course, and I took my students with me.  And it was, in so many ways, the most amazing journey.

I can tell you stories about Google Hangouts with students from hotel rooms and airports.  I can tell you about waking at 3:00 am to attend a Google Hangout held in Eastern Standard Time, and fumbling around in the dark to find a collared shirt to cover my pajamas!  I can tell you about racing home on a motorbike after a rainstorm to attend a scheduled Hangout with two of my students.  I can tell you about recording videos to my students by pools and in a hot hotel lobby.   I can recount late night and early morning blog commenting sitting outside with lattes on breezy terraces or in crowded open air restaurants.  But these stories, while very much a part of my time in Asia AND my time in the “classroom,” are not the most amazing things I experienced this summer in our pilot course.

I am not sure, but I think that because I was teaching from so far away, I was able to find a perspective on what we had been working so hard to build in the months before the course began;  and I was able to recognize, sometimes in almost startling ways, how community is forged and thrives in the best of cMOOC learning environments like ours has been.

Before I left I had been anxious and afraid that I would feel as far away as I actually was.   But here’s the thing that surprised me right away: I never felt far away, never had that “oh no I need to catch up” feeling I’ve had in my face to face classes after a snow day, or after missing a class to attend a conference.  I flew across the world, but I never felt disengaged from my students or my colleagues or the wider thoughtvectors community.  And this, I realized, is what connected learning really means.

Here’s another unexpected thing I quickly realized: my students weren’t emailing me all the time with questions.  In fact, my email inbox was eerily empty.   In previous online classes (taught on Blackboard), I received frequent emails from students: I was their “go-to” person whenever there was a question, and trust me, there were always a lot of questions.   In my face-to-face classes, I get emails from students all the time, especially when they encounter problems with their research, their personal lives, or with technology.

But here I was, diligently checking my email twice a day in Thailand, and my inbox was empty.   Something was going on; something must be wrong.

What was going on was Twitter.  Checking the twitter feed daily, I began to see that my students didn’t need to email me with every problem they encountered.  They had a whole community to consult.

In a reply to her tweet, Jon Becker suggested that she check Blackboard for her grades. “And so they are,” she replied. “Thanks!”

Another problem: “How have you guys been finding/choosing which blogs to comment on?” a student tweeted.  Tom Woodward told her about the random post picker on the thoughtvectors.net site for blogs in her section or all sections.

Sure enough, a reply with a link to this article appeared.

Two comments from Alan Levine and Jon Becker provided him with helpful information:

And finally:

And you know what Tom Woodward did?  He shared “a chunk” of all of his “long term #gender related links” from his Diigo folder.  Years of collected research on gender, shared with my student in one swift mouse click.

Students were asking for and getting help on their own.  Am I the only one who finds this kind of crowd sourcing for answers amazing?

In my face to face classes, especially in Univ 200, I spend so much time nudging and cajoling students to reach out and get help if they need it, make connections, email those librarians, talk to each other about their projects.   I try to decentralize the classroom, try to convince them that they can be as much help to one another as I can be, but often I still remain the default problem-solver in Univ 200.

While I always found myself having to urge my students to problem solve first  without involving me in my face to face classes,  I never had to even address this issue in the cMOOC.  Maybe it was the structure of the course itself, the openness of the platform, or the genuine unselfish spirit of some of the other participants (especially my colleagues and the open participants) that provided a space that encouraged students to reach out for help from someone besides “the teacher.”

Students were using Twitter to network, find resources and answers to questions they didn’t know — all without my nudging.  What teacher, sitting in Thailand waiting for emails, wouldn’t be happy about that?

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Another realization:  I never had one email from a student asking me to clarify any of the weekly blog assignments, and students blogged at least four times every week.   In past online classes I have always received an email or two asking for clarification about assignments.  In face to face classes, a few students always hang around after class to ask me to explain an assignment one more time.  Why wasn’t this happening in the cMOOC?

I can’t answer that. But again, I suspect it has something to do with the space itself.  The thoughtvectors platform allowed students immediate access to blogs from other students across sections who were working on the same assignments.  The structure of the space, then, encouraged browsing and looking around, and in doing so, maybe students found answers to questions they may have had, or inspiration for posts they needed to write.   Also, I suspect what Jason Coats often said as we planned the course, that the openness of the platform allowed for norming up, as well.  I didn’t have students who wrote five sentence blog posts, and maybe, just maybe, that was because they saw their peers doing so much more, and so they understood or felt motivated to do the same.

None of this is to say that we didn’t encounter problems along the way in our course.  Like every summer course, we felt pressed for time and weren’t able to develop some of the teaching components as thoroughly as we would have liked.   But as far as my students’ engagement in the course, in their emerging autonomy as learners, in their motivation to network and seek answers from a large community of learners, our pilot cMOOC has been a giant success.  As one of my students said, in a blog post about a concept experience we assigned using twitter, “Put out your hand and you may just end up with five more.”

Hands_reaching_out_by_LjupcAll those other hands were reaching to my students, and my hand was reaching too, from all the way across the world, both to my students and students in other sections, and all that reaching built an online community that we called thoughtvectors, and that, like so many stars, was my universe this summer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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It is the end of the year which means teachers are super busy (hence my lack of posts). We are trying to finalize grades, manage students bouncing off the wall (literally and figuratively), clean our classroom, mange parents who just now realized their child is not doing the greatest, give exams, grade exams, and keep our sanity in tact.

In all of this craziness, it becomes very easy to lose sight of why I do my job.

Then things snap me back and remind me, that despite all of the above stresses, I do this job because I love it.

I do this job because it is important.

I do this job because it is hard but someone has to be there for the kids.

I do this job because it makes a difference.

No, I do not work in a school where kids are facing economic hardships that make it difficult for them to go to school. I do not teach those that are homeless and struggle to find a place to sleep at night. I do not teach kids who are constantly hungry because their parents struggle to afford food.

I may not teach the disadvantaged but I still teach teenagers. Teenagers who are emotional. Teenagers who suffer loss. Teenagers who suffer betrayal. Teenagers who suffer from inner demons.

Teenagers.

I forget that sometimes because, by nature, teenagers are guarded. They are hyper-aware of the fact that their classmates judge them about everything from their clothes and hair to the way they reacted to a detention to the amount of school work they do. They don't always show me their struggle but I play a huge role in their struggle whether I realize that or not.

Two examples in the past two days have reminded me as to why I do my job and that I impact my students no matter what I may think. The first one is from a student I know was struggling all year. Not academically but personally. Their most recent journal entry brought me to tears because they were finally realizing how beautiful life can be.

"I looked at things I did on a daily basis, and realized: this really should not be that stressful, and so I changed it."

This one, single, line made happy. The entire journal entry made me beam with pride. Pride that they were able to see how good life can be. I know I was impacting this student's life because they have spent their entire study hall in my classroom talking to me and asking for advice. Regardless, I am proud that they are slowly starting to overcome everything.

The second example of why I teach came from what a student wrote in my year book. I have had this student for two years. They are quiet and don't volunteer a lot of personal information. They are smart but sometimes don't do their work. Although they may not be the best academic student, they are one of the nicest students I have ever taught. I never knew if I connected with them because they are so quiet. Then, they left this in my yearbook (I blacked out my own name)



It continues on to just say that they hope to have me senior year and to have a good summer.

When I read this, I was floored. I knew the student didn't hate me but I had no idea that I had actually made that big of an impact in their life. I go in and do my best to try to teach them poetry and Shakespeare and literary terms. I also try and teach them honesty in that I would rather they tell me that they just didn't feel like doing the homework or forgot to instead of making up excuses. I try to teach them to write a paper. I also try to teach them to always explain themselves and why they made a particular decision. I try to be a role model. Not in the sense that I'm perfect but in the sense that I own up to any mistakes I make and fix them. I try to teach them that "I'm sorry" carries almost no meaning and that changing the behavior or action that caused you to feel the need to say it is way more important then two words. 

I never knew that was getting through to some of my students until I read this. 

This is why I teach. I teach because it makes a difference. Even if that difference is only in a handful of students a year, it matters. 

I may complain about the pay (I can't even afford an apartment on my own) and about my students (a bunch wrote about how Romeo compares Juliet to an angle) but those are annoyances. Daily distractions from the real reason I do this job.

I teach to make a difference even if I don't always know that difference is happening.

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Since 4 years now, a revolution has been taking place in software development when 1st Ipad by Apple was relased on 3 april 2010 and since then this mobile device evolve and now are more than 1 Milion apps in Apple store, most of them are free and for this reason every day this mounth I will share in my blog  Top 10 ipad apps in all of kind of categories  . With iPad in Education , your classroom materials go way beyond the classroom. Discover over 65,000 apps just for education, interactive books on every subject, and speeches, virtual tours, and videos from experts and institutions around the world. Extending of mobile devices in Europe presents an opportunity for those concerned with education to explore their potential for mobile learning – learning facilitated by mobile technologies ( Learning in hand )– to enhance education. This highlights a missed opportunity for educators and policymakers, as mobile telephones – especially windows phones, iphones, ipads, smartphones, – can be equally powerful learning tools that are significantly less expensive than other devices like laptops and tablets, promoting BYOD ( bring your own device ). According to a September 2013 report from Gartner, over 102 billion apps were downloaded worldwide in 2013; 90% of those apps  free. Simple but useful apps have found their way into almost every form of human endeavour, and a popular app can see millions of downloads in a very short time. The huge market for apps has spawned a flood of creativity that is instantly apparent in the extensive collections available in the app stores.  Online app marketplaces provide an easy and highly efficient way to deliver software that reduces distribution and marketing costs significantly. Mobile apps are particularly useful for learning as they enable people to learn and experience new concepts wherever they are, often across multiple devices. People everywhere, but especially in Europe, increasingly expect to be constantly connected to the Internet and the rich tapestry of knowledge it contains wherever they go. According to the 2013 “ICT Facts and Figures” report, Europe enjoys the highest Internet penetration rate in the world (75%). The mobile penetration rate in Europe is at 1.26, meaning most Europeans carry more than one mobile device — 30% higher than the global rate, and multiple studies document that when people access the Internet they are most likely to do so with their personal device. London-based research firm CONTEXT reported that in the first half of 2013, tablet sales increased by 137% across Europe, with the Central and East European region one of the strongest growing markets worldwide. The unprecedented evolution of these devices and the apps that run on them has opened the door to myriad uses for education. Learning institutions all over the world are adopting apps into their curricula and modifying websites, educational materials, resources, and tools so they are optimised for mobile devices. The significance for teaching and learning is that these devices have the potential to facilitate almost any educational experience, allowing learners to organise virtual video meetings with peers all over the world, use specialised software and tools, and collaborate on shared documents or projects in the cloud, among many other things. In contrast to how mobile devices are used for learning, traditional ICT-based learning seems oddly place-bound. 

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Since 4 years now, a revolution has been taking place in software development when 1st Ipad by Apple was relased on 3 april 2010 and since then this mobile device evolve and now are more than 1 Milion apps in Apple store, most of them are free and for this reason every day this mounth I will share in my blog  Top 10 ipad apps in all of kind of categories  . With iPad in Education , your classroom materials go way beyond the classroom. Discover over 65,000 apps just for education, interactive books on every subject, and speeches, virtual tours, and videos from experts and institutions around the world. Extending of mobile devices in Europe presents an opportunity for those concerned with education to explore their potential for mobile learning – learning facilitated by mobile technologies ( Learning in hand )– to enhance education. This highlights a missed opportunity for educators and policymakers, as mobile telephones – especially windows phones, iphones, ipads, smartphones, – can be equally powerful learning tools that are significantly less expensive than other devices like laptops and tablets, promoting BYOD ( bring your own device ). According to a September 2013 report from Gartner, over 102 billion apps were downloaded worldwide in 2013; 90% of those apps  free. Simple but useful apps have found their way into almost every form of human endeavour, and a popular app can see millions of downloads in a very short time. The huge market for apps has spawned a flood of creativity that is instantly apparent in the extensive collections available in the app stores.  Online app marketplaces provide an easy and highly efficient way to deliver software that reduces distribution and marketing costs significantly. Mobile apps are particularly useful for learning as they enable people to learn and experience new concepts wherever they are, often across multiple devices. People everywhere, but especially in Europe, increasingly expect to be constantly connected to the Internet and the rich tapestry of knowledge it contains wherever they go. According to the 2013 “ICT Facts and Figures” report, Europe enjoys the highest Internet penetration rate in the world (75%). The mobile penetration rate in Europe is at 1.26, meaning most Europeans carry more than one mobile device — 30% higher than the global rate, and multiple studies document that when people access the Internet they are most likely to do so with their personal device. London-based research firm CONTEXT reported that in the first half of 2013, tablet sales increased by 137% across Europe, with the Central and East European region one of the strongest growing markets worldwide. The unprecedented evolution of these devices and the apps that run on them has opened the door to myriad uses for education. Learning institutions all over the world are adopting apps into their curricula and modifying websites, educational materials, resources, and tools so they are optimised for mobile devices. The significance for teaching and learning is that these devices have the potential to facilitate almost any educational experience, allowing learners to organise virtual video meetings with peers all over the world, use specialised software and tools, and collaborate on shared documents or projects in the cloud, among many other things. In contrast to how mobile devices are used for learning, traditional ICT-based learning seems oddly place-bound. 

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Dear friends like you know already from my previous post I will be teacher trainer in a Erasmus Plus Course conceived by me in partenership with Euneos : Curation Social Media Master Class in Semantic Web 3.0 http://educuration.wikispaces.com/Main+Page . I must told you that I discover more than 100 presentation tools, Power Point alternatives and I want to share all  these apps you can use to emaze your audience . What app you like , use to share your awesome presentation ? Please leave a comment also if I missed a killer app to emaze a global  audience . 



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Because in 1st Ipad by Apple was relased on 3 april 2010 and since then this mobile device evolve and now are 500.000 apps in store I will share daily all april mounth here in my blog Top 10 Ipad apps in all of kind of categories, and in last day of april Top 100 iPad apps to take notes in the class  :) 


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Syllabus – Topics and Readings

 

Week 1 (13 January 2014) – Introduction to the Course

The first lecture introduces the course content, rationale and requirements of the course.

Relevant Book

Kotler, P. & G. Armstrong (2013). Principles of Marketing. Harlow: Pearsons.

Core Readings

Humphreys, L. (2005). “Cellphones in Public: Social Interactions in a Wireless Era.” New Media & Society 7 (6): 810–833.

Additional Readings

Kujovich, Mary Yeager. 1970. “The Refrigerator Car and the Growth of the American Dressed Beef Industry.” The Business History Review 44 (4): 460–482.

Wei, Ran, and Louis Leung. 1999. “Blurring Public and Private Behaviors in Public Space: Policy Challenges in the Use and Improper Use of the Cell Phone.” Telematics and Informatics 16 (1): 11–26.

Related Reading

Selinger, E. (2013). How not to be a jerk with your stupid smartphone. The Atlantic (November).

 

Week 2 (20 January 2014) – Marketing and Technology

Public debates about technological innovation often talk about the ‘revolutionary’ impact of new technology. There are myriad examples for this phenomenon: “the internet revolution”, the “social media revolution” or the “Twitter revolution” to name but a few. These discussions principally argue that technological developments are shaping how we conduct our affairs, including how we organise our daily interactions as well as how we conduct marketing activities. At the same time, these discussions often ignore the political shaping and relevance of these technologies. This lecture explores the textbook premises of the relationship between marketing and technology. It sheds light on different perspectives on how technology is interwoven with marketing theory and practice.

Core Readings

Constantinides, E. (2006). “The Marketing Mix Revisited: Towards the 21st Century Marketing.” Journal of Marketing Management 22 (3-4): pp. 407–438.

Additional Readings

Bartels, R. (1986). Marketing: Management Technology or Social Process at the Twenty-First Century? In Marketing Management Technology as a Social Process. Edited by George Fisk. New York et al.: Praeger, pp.30-42.

Marx, L. (2010). Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept. Technology & Culture, 51(3), 561-577.

Möller, K. (2006). “The Marketing Mix Revisited: Towards the 21st Century Marketing by E. Constantinides.” Journal of Marketing Management 22 (3-4): pp. 439–450.

Related Readings

Friedman, T. (2009). Tweeting the Dialectic of Technological Determinism. FlowTV http://flowtv.org/2009/06/tweeting-the-dialectic-of-technological-determinism  ted-friedman  georgia-state-university-atlanta  /

 

Related Books

Robertson, D., and B. Breen. 2013. Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry. Random House Business.

Stone, Brad. 2013. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. Bantam Press.

Week 3 (27 January 2014) – Technology, Interaction and Networks

Over the past few years, social relationships are increasingly being described as networks. We find public discourse about networks, social networks, the network economy, network society and others. This lecture begins with a discussion of social interaction before moving on to concepts of market relationships and networks. It will form the basis for subsequent lectures concerned with online communities

Core Readings

Kaplan, Andreas M., and Michael Haenlein. 2010. “Users of the World, Unite! The Challenges and Opportunities of Social Media.” Business Horizons 53 (1): 59–68.

Additional Readings

Bernoff, J., & Li, C. (2008). Harnessing The Power of The Oh-So-Social Web, MIT Sloan Management Review, 2008, 49, pp. 335-342.

boyd, d. (2010). “Social Network Sites as Networked Publics : Affordances, Dynamics, and Implications.” In Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Networking Sites, ed. Zizi Papacharissi, pp.39–58. Abingdon: Routledge.

Ferguson, R., (2008). Word of mouth and viral marketing: taking the temperature of the hottest trends in marketing. Journal of Consumer Marketing, 25(3), pp. 179 – 182.

Watts, Duncan J, and Steve Hasker. 2006. “Marketing in an Unpredictable World.” Harvard Business Review.

Watts, D.J., 1999. Networks, Dynamics, and the Small-World Phenomenon. American Journal of Sociology, 105(2), p.493-527.

 

Related Books

Papacharissi, Zizi (2008). Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Networking Sites. Abingdon: Routledge.

Rainie, L., & Wellman, B. (2012). Networked: The New Social Operating System. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Week 4 (3 February 2014) – Wessel van Rensburg (RAAK) – Inequality in Networks (working title)

@wildebees 

 Week 5 (10 February 2014) – Social Networks and Reputation Management

At the same tome as social media and social networking has risen in importance for marketing practitioners new challenges have emerged that for example impact the ways in which companies’ reputation can be impacted by the use of these new media. This lecture draws on a few recent examples to explore some of these challenges to companies’ reputation and discusses ways in which companies might manage their reputation when using social media and social networking sites for their marketing communications.

Core Readings

Hennig-Thurau, Thorsten, Caroline Wiertz, and Fabian Feldhaus. (2013) “Does Twitter Matter? An Investigation of the Impact of Micro Blogging Word of Mouth on Consumers’ Adoption of New Products.” http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2016548

Additional Readings

Gruzd, A., B. Wellman, and Y. Takhteyev. 2011. “Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community.” American Behavioral Scientist 55 (10): 1294–1318.

Hamilton, K. & P. Hewer. (2010). Tribal mattering spaces: Social-networking sites, celebrity affiliations, and tribal innovations. Journal of Marketing Management, 26(3), p.271-289.

Hennig-Thurau, T., E. C. Malthouse, C. Friege, S. Gensler, L. Lobschat, a. Rangaswamy, and B. Skiera. 2010. “The Impact of New Media on Customer Relationships.” Journal of Service Research 13 (3): 311–330.

Phelps, J. E., Lewis, R., Mobilio, L., Perry, D., & Raman, N. (2004). Viral Marketing or Electronic Word-of-Mouth Advertising: Examining Consumer Responses and Motivations to Pass Along Email. Journal of Advertising Research, 44(4), 333-348.

Rainie, L., & Wellman, B. (2012). Networked: The New Social Operating System. MIT Press.

Sarstedt, M. (2009). Reputation Management in Times of Crisis. Journal of Brand Management. Vol.16, 499-503.

Week 6 (24 February 2013) – Rob Wilmot (BCS Agency) – Start-ups and Valuations

 @robwilmot

Week 7 (3 March 2013) – Jadis Tillery – Content Marketing (working title)

@jadistillery

Related Books

Jenkins, Henry. 2008. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York University Press.

Week 8 (10 March) – Search and Social Media Marketing

Over the past decade or so two important developments have emerged in the context of Internet Marketing: Search Marketing and Social Media Marketing. The growing economic weight of companies like Google suggest that Search will be one of the important marketing activities over the coming years. It is being used to obtain an understanding of the market as well as for the building of relationships and networks (Marsden and Kirby 2005; Moran and Hunt 2008). The lecture will discuss some of the practices involved in Search Marketing and assess possible problems these practices might raise for the relationship between companies and their customers. It then will turn to Social Media Marketing and explore how social networks like Facebook, Myspace or Jumo are used for marketing purposes, including the design, promotion and distribution of products and services (Penenberg 2009; Scott 2008). The discussion will touch on current debates concerned with viral marketing and online gaming as well as trust and reputation.   

 

Core Readings

Rijnsoever, Frank J. van, Castaldi, Carolina, Dijst, Martin J. (2012). In what sequence are information sources consulted by involved consumers? The case of automobile pre-purchase search, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 19(3), pp.343-352.

 

Related Books

Marsden, P., & Kirby, J. (2005). Connected Marketing: The Viral, Buzz and Word of Mouth Revolution. Butterworth-Heinemann.

Moran, M., & Hunt, B. (2008). Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company’s Web Site. IBM Press.

Pariser, E., 2011. The Filter Bubble: What The Internet Is Hiding From You, Viking.

Week 10 (17 March 2013) – Social and Sustainability Marketing and Technology

The arrival of new technology has also been picked up by market and consumer researchers. For example, over recent years video recording of consumers in shopping and leisure environments has been used to track people’s navigation through isles and gain an understanding of their shopping behaviour. With the arrival of the internet it has been recognised that people’s every ‘click’ can be tracked and followed and the information be used to personalise offers. This lecture critically assesses how technology is used to improve companies’ profits as well as offers for customers and considers some of the practical and ethical implications of these developments.

 

Core Readings

Brennan, Ross, Stephan Dahl, and Lynne Eagle. 2010. “Persuading Young Consumers to Make Healthy Nutritional Decisions.” Journal of Marketing Management 26 (7-8) (July 9): 635–655.

Related Books

Aaker, J., & A. Smith. (2010). The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways to Use Social Media to Drive Social Change. Jossey Bass.

Peattie, K., & Belz, F. F.-M. (2009). Sustainability Marketing: A Global Perspective (p. 306). John Wiley & Sons.

Striphas, T. (2009). The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. Columbia University Press.

Vaidhynathan, S., 2011. The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry), Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

 

Week 10  (24 March 2013) – Marketing, Interaction & Technology


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This week I sort of started two MOOCS – NovoEd’s Storytelling for Change and Dave Cormier’s Rhizomatic Learning: #rhizo14: The Community is the Curriculum.
I had a go at both of them – and they do both look good. BUT – I’m only going to proceed with #rhizo14 – it is more flexible and self-directed – it is setting us free to work together - and I already know and like quite a lot of the other participants.
Here’s some info on Storytelling for change in case it appeals – then I will paste in some cool stuff about #rhizo14 – including links to some of the best blogs that I’ve already stumbled across.
#storytelling-change
Home:
https://novoed.com/storytelling-change/home
Key Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will:
Be confident in using stories, especially personal stories, as part of their communication toolkit.
Know how to tell stories and use a specific set of storytelling skills so that they connect with the hearts and minds of their audiences (an audience of one or many).
Have developed, rehearsed, and received feedback on one personal story as a replicable model so that they can build a personal “library” or “back pocket” of stories that can be used in different situations.
Be able to use a 5-step process to integrate story into presentations for change, work, or many other situations.
Forums:
https://novoed.com/storytelling-change/forums

#rhizo14: And so it begins:
https://p2pu.org/en/courses/882/rhizomatic-learning-the-community-is-the-curriculum/
The tour:
http://davecormier.com/edblog/2014/01/12/your-unguided-tour-of-rhizo14/
The FB group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/260654857426965/
Dave’s opening blog posts thoughts:
“Rhizomatic Learning posits, among other things, that the community is the curriculum. That being able to participate with and among those people who are resident in a particular field is a primary goal of learning. In each of my classes the curriculum is, of course, filled with the ideas and connections that pre-exist in the field but the paths that are taken by the students are as individual as they are, and the path taken by the class is made up of the collected paths chosen by all the students, shaped by my influence as an instructor and the impact of those external nodes they manage to contact.”

W1: https://p2pu.org/en/courses/882/content/1796/
Week 1 Things to do:
Introduce yourself, follow one of the threads of discussion somewhere. Comment on someone's work. Get acclimated.
Week 1 Challenge - Use cheating as a weapon. How can you use the idea of cheating as a tool to take apart the structures that you work in? What does it say about learning? About power? About how you see teaching?
Bonus - Do lots of rhizomatic teaching? Tell us about it.
Some cool blogs:
Emily P: un content ed – Blog http://t.co/E00BGoyCsi Challenge everything!
Mariana F: http://mdvfunes.com/2014/01/15/i-am-not-doing-rhizo14-but-i-guess-im-in/
This fits:
Failing Superman: http://t.co/6aDQHGGhts- curriculum as endurance.
As does this:
Everything is a re-mix: http://t.co/LjNmTlLvRa - especially the richly textured beginning.
I just love this:
Irrational art series: http://danariely.com/2012/06/15/creative-dishonesty/Not dishonesty as much as a really cool research method.
And @dkernohan’s daily create challenges: http://t.co/OQ6j7uUMpp 
A big takeaway for the weekend:
https://vimeo.com/videoschool/lesson/483/weekend-challenge-20-steps
And if you’re holding back cos the tech scares you… this PPT essay on technology made me smile: http://t.co/Q3IzZMjufF

But the best note on cheating to learn comes from Ary’s wonderful blog: A small plot of land (http://fearlesstech4teachers.wordpress.com/):
“I am a former high school teacher with rhizomatic tendencies so I have been at war with public education for the last 20 years, defending my students’ right to think, question, create and express themselves, so hell yeah I’ve cheated! …for one I never taught from a textbook or assigned a workbook. I always got to know my students to discover what they wanted to read and write about. I asked them what they wanted to learn, and I listened. …It took months to set up this type of infrastructure and culture in my classroom, and honestly there were always those students and (their parents) who preferred to passively learn, answer questions at the end of the chapter, or complete a worksheet than to rewrite, remix and modernize an act of Romeo and Juliet, podcast it, or perform it live for their classmates. Some people prefer traditions. It‘s safe. My students took risks.  They weren’t students; they were actors, producers, writers, directors, poets, pod-casters, radio show hosts, bloggers, analysts, reporters, detectives, mentors, lawyers, teachers, game show hosts, artists, mimes…they did it all!  They created “stuff” all the time…”

Frankly in awe of Ary here for being able to do this in the public education system, and for younger students. I like to think that I managed a fraction of this in my evening A’level classes, mainly attended by adults wanting to wrestle with Shakespeare and Chaucer. I definitely try to mix it up in my University classes … but against the sheer monolithic power of state education ???!!!!! That is an achievement!

Right now we (my partner Tom Burns and I – with Quaco Cloutterbuck) are running ‘Becomingan Educationalist’ (http://becomingeducational.wordpress.com/). Deleuzian in form and content, we’ve started to de-territorialise – we are nomads – we are taking our lines of flight – and our lines of escape… 

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Now when new year is near the door I wish you HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 with peace and happiness . I wish you that all your dreams come true and all your wishes to be fulfilled  . I invite you all to drink a coup a champagne for New Years Eve. For me 2013 was a fruitful year because with my PLN help I win a ipad and I begin to mLearning and I really became a social media curator  https://lucianecurator.contently.com . Also I continue now in December my Nativity Project and also I was honored because Larry Johnson invited me to join Horizon Project Europe Expert Advisory Board http://europe.wiki.nmc.org/Advisory+Board and for this reason in january I invite to read here  my blog  post : Top 20 ed tech trends in 2014 .
In 2013 I begin to post in this blog : TOP 100 monthly and Top 20 weekly and I want to continue my series in 2014.

Next year, in 2014  I really want to find parteners and angel investors who will help us to launch a open source platform for Curation Restart Education Project. Why to READ thousands of blogs / websites to discover startup edtools and mLearning apps when you can read how to use all of them on this Open Source Platform made in Curation Restart Education Project . For more follow https://twitter.com/web20education  Like https://www.facebook.com/CurationRestartEducationProject/ .  In XXI Century Education and around the social web still 2011 new Social Media King is Curation who is about adding value for humans because only they can do what no computer can possibly achieve .The Internet Curator’s role is to seek on the web information related to a specic domain,fillter them, select them, organise, share, present them in a unique mode. Curation is the Art of : searching, selecting, sharing/bookmarking , organizing, interaction, communication and global collaboration . If you are agree with me that Curation is Social Media King not only in social web, but also in XXI Century Education and you are a social media and mLearning  addicted like me who want to change online classroom research I invite you to collaborate in this project and to join our google plus community  https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/100188349857613823793?cfem=1 . 
Curation Restart Education Project  aims to : promote global collaboration using a open - source platform / website where teachers worldwide can discover why Curation is Social Media King who restart Education . First the website will be with invitation only and hwo join must respect terms of use , and after I want this platform to be public accesssible for everyone on the web , windows phone, ipad or other mobile devices . On this website teachers worldwide can discover how to make a flipping class in collaboration and cooperation with others by sharing knowledge each other ; make a global Curation database for startup edtools who can be succesfully integrated in nowadays education ( now I can share 1000 startups 4 education useful for teachers ) , organising wekly webinars and online sessions about curation and many other things.We will have a section in our blog where we will post and describe top 20 startup edtools weekly like you can see here http://bitly.com/Top20LucianeCurator
This year I use list.ly to share my favorite startups,mLearning apps and I invite you to add your comments related to your favorite edtool and ipad app, after you will read about all 500 edtools and mLearning  apps .
In 2013 I follow live #iste13  and after I share  http://bitly.com/iste13edtools
In 2013 I follow live #websummit, here is my blog post  http://bitly.com/top100websummitstartup   






Now Because Curation is Social Media King
Finally 150 best edtools and mLearning apps voted by teachers worldwide  http://bitly.com/100eddies13edtools Best Free Education Web Tool 2013 - Edublog Awards
View more lists from Edublogs


I hope you like all and for this reason I invite you to discover more than 1000 in my boards updated daily with startup tools , windows phone and ipad apps to mLearning
http://www.pinterest.com/lucianecurator/boards/

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Dear friends,  like I mention in my previous post here http://bit.ly/collaborationincop2smile I am honored to be in SMILE Project digital publication because I had the opportunity to be selected Leader in community of practices 2 (Using Social Media in schools, whole school approach) organized in SMILE Project obtained through a Facebook Awards Digital Citizenship Research Grant managed by European Schoolnet ( the network of 30 European Ministries of Education, based in Brussels. As a not-for-profit organisation, EUN aim to bring innovation in teaching and learning to our key stakeholders: Ministries of Education, schools, teachers, researchers, and industry partners ) and for this reason they develop many projectS http://www.eun.org/about/projects/ .

Ollie Bray, our brilliant trainer from Intel Teach Essentials training course in Prague http://bitly.com/prgessentials invite all participants to join also Social Media in Learning and Education Project managed by EUN . Janice Richardson, manager of the project said last year when the project start ,, SMILE aims to investigate these issues and, through, an online learning course and mentoring techniques, not only encourage the take-up of social media in schools but also to map best practice in order to foster the exchange of ideas and experience”
You can download official Smile Project handbook free from here
and after you read the publication leave your feed-back, and add a comment to this blog post . smile handbook


The main purpose of this SMILE digital publication ‘Challenges and opportunities for schools and teachers in a digital word - Lessons learned from the 2012 SMILE action research project’ is to provide guidelines and examples to teachers on how to adopt social media in a school environment. “We believe that the SMILE report truly provides manageable steps on how to exploit the potential of these tools for the benefit of learners, both at classroom and institutional levels, in a pedagogically sound manner,” says Janice Richardson, Senior Advisor at European Schoolnet. 
The report also advocates a response to the important issue of online safety that seeks to move beyond a ‘lock and block’ mentality, to a mindset that prefers to use education itself to give young people (and teachers) the skills, the knowledge and the insight needed to be able to use the bewildering variety of tools on offer in ways that minimise risk.
“Nothing is more important to Facebook than the safety of the people that use our site. We think that online safety is a responsibility shared amongst parents, teachers, teens, policy makers and companies like Facebook. Because today’s kids are growing up in a new and different world, we believe that working with partners like these researchers is critical to learning more about ways that we can continue to improve our product. We strive to be as innovative when it comes to safety as we are in every other part of our business, and the Digital Citizenship Research Grants program is just one small part of our overall safety program. We will continue to create new safety programs to emphasise our ongoing commitment,” says Joe Sullivan, Chief Security Officer at Facebook, speaking of the research grants. This project has 3 parts :
1. An online learning laboratory for 100 teachers from the 30 member states of EUN partnership to investigate and embrace the educational opportunities social media offers and for this reason Ollie Bray, our trainer introduce all of us in the beautiful world of social media related to SMILE Community of Practices, presenting the 1st part of the project in 6 units . For each unit, he give us introductory video to view, along with a written commentary and additional sources of information. We have also  a list of links to explore and reflect on, and examples of interesting practice taken from both the education sector and beyond. At the end of each unit we made a series of tasks to help us deepen  understanding, and gain practical experience of many of the issues discussed,more here

Social Media in Learning and Education (SMILE) - Video 2 of 6 Using social media in schools - whole school approach. from Ollie Bray on Vimeo.

Still the begining I must told you that I  like verry much this project and for this reason  I was involved  in the discussions in 1st part of the project on the Elearning Platform managed by EUN http://leedu.eun.org/web/smile/home and for my research https://lucianecurator.contently.com/ I was accepted to be COP2 leader in part 2 of the project .

2.Research with the 100 learning laboratory participants to highlight trends and best practices for how social media is being used and can be used in classrooms;
The SMILE ‘learning laboratory’ was organised around a number of Communities of Practice that allowed more than 100 teachers from across Europe and beyond to study some critical aspects of the use of social media in learning and education:
· Social media - what is it?
· Social media - school policies
· Social media - pedagogical principles
· Social media - professional development (CPD)
· Social media - internet safety and responsible use
· Social media - challenges to adoption
 In XXI Century Education, the use of new online technologies ( social media and web 2.0 startup tools and apps ) aren't regarded like a avantgardist movement, but unfortunatelly although we have many free edtools most of the teachers still don't know or don't want to know how to integrate new online technologies into the classroom although in all the schools we have now computers connected to Internet . For this reason I accepted to be COP2 leader - Using Social Media in schools, whole-school approach . I had the opportunity to have Elena Radaelli from Italy my deputy leader who said after the project finished :
 "The reason that led me to attend the on line splendid course SMILE was related to my professional and personal necessity to see if social media such as Facebook, that normally occupy a relevant part of my pupils' daily life outside school, could actually enter school and become an interesting didactical tool. I decided to start with an ad hoc Facebook group focused on our Comenius project to share ideas, jokes, and pictures to enrich the project. [..] I was amazed how fast and precise they were to react and do their homework. During all my teaching years, I had never seen such a prolific, lovely and creative production of assignments, nice jokes, provocations in plain English! So without even knowing it, they started using their first foreign language as a real communicative tool. They were totally involved in the learning process since they didn't perceive it as a burden but as part of their daily life." 

3.Broad dissemination of results of the research through EUN’s interactive portals for teachers as well as through European and international meetings and conferences.
I continue to use social media like I told you in the online session . I focus on my COP2 when I continue to learn students to use social media in eTwinning projects and parteners ( teachers and students ) collaborate in the blog and facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/eSafety4eTwinners/ . Related to using using social media for professional development ( COP3 ) I present SMILE Project in 2 online conferences to a global audience http://www.docstoc.com/docs/136241127/ICT4eTwinners-project-Smile-Project-and-top-10-tools-to-build-a-PLN---Presentation-in-globaled12 and also http://www.slideshare.net/DUMACORNELLUCIAN/connecting-online-2013-conference-presenter-duma-cornel-lucian . I manage also https://www.facebook.com/groups/etwinningmentors/ 

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Dear friends,  like I mention in my previous post here http://bit.ly/collaborationincop2smile I am honored to be in SMILE Project digital publication because I had the opportunity to be selected Leader in community of practices 2 (Using Social Media in schools, whole school approach) organized in SMILE Project obtained through a Facebook Awards Digital Citizenship Research Grant managed by European Schoolnet ( the network of 30 European Ministries of Education, based in Brussels. As a not-for-profit organisation, EUN aim to bring innovation in teaching and learning to our key stakeholders: Ministries of Education, schools, teachers, researchers, and industry partners ) and for this reason they develop many projectS http://www.eun.org/about/projects/ .

Ollie Bray, our brilliant trainer from Intel Teach Essentials training course in Prague http://bitly.com/prgessentials invite all participants to join also Social Media in Learning and Education Project managed by EUN . Janice Richardson, manager of the project said last year when the project start ,, SMILE aims to investigate these issues and, through, an online learning course and mentoring techniques, not only encourage the take-up of social media in schools but also to map best practice in order to foster the exchange of ideas and experience”
You can download official Smile Project handbook free from here
and after you read the publication leave your feed-back, and add a comment to this blog post . smile handbook


The main purpose of this SMILE digital publication ‘Challenges and opportunities for schools and teachers in a digital word - Lessons learned from the 2012 SMILE action research project’ is to provide guidelines and examples to teachers on how to adopt social media in a school environment. “We believe that the SMILE report truly provides manageable steps on how to exploit the potential of these tools for the benefit of learners, both at classroom and institutional levels, in a pedagogically sound manner,” says Janice Richardson, Senior Advisor at European Schoolnet. 
The report also advocates a response to the important issue of online safety that seeks to move beyond a ‘lock and block’ mentality, to a mindset that prefers to use education itself to give young people (and teachers) the skills, the knowledge and the insight needed to be able to use the bewildering variety of tools on offer in ways that minimise risk.
“Nothing is more important to Facebook than the safety of the people that use our site. We think that online safety is a responsibility shared amongst parents, teachers, teens, policy makers and companies like Facebook. Because today’s kids are growing up in a new and different world, we believe that working with partners like these researchers is critical to learning more about ways that we can continue to improve our product. We strive to be as innovative when it comes to safety as we are in every other part of our business, and the Digital Citizenship Research Grants program is just one small part of our overall safety program. We will continue to create new safety programs to emphasise our ongoing commitment,” says Joe Sullivan, Chief Security Officer at Facebook, speaking of the research grants. This project has 3 parts :
1. An online learning laboratory for 100 teachers from the 30 member states of EUN partnership to investigate and embrace the educational opportunities social media offers and for this reason Ollie Bray, our trainer introduce all of us in the beautiful world of social media related to SMILE Community of Practices, presenting the 1st part of the project in 6 units . For each unit, he give us introductory video to view, along with a written commentary and additional sources of information. We have also  a list of links to explore and reflect on, and examples of interesting practice taken from both the education sector and beyond. At the end of each unit we made a series of tasks to help us deepen  understanding, and gain practical experience of many of the issues discussed,more here

Social Media in Learning and Education (SMILE) - Video 2 of 6 Using social media in schools - whole school approach. from Ollie Bray on Vimeo.

Still the begining I must told you that I  like verry much this project and for this reason  I was involved  in the discussions in 1st part of the project on the Elearning Platform managed by EUN http://leedu.eun.org/web/smile/home and for my research https://lucianecurator.contently.com/ I was accepted to be COP2 leader in part 2 of the project .

2.Research with the 100 learning laboratory participants to highlight trends and best practices for how social media is being used and can be used in classrooms;
The SMILE ‘learning laboratory’ was organised around a number of Communities of Practice that allowed more than 100 teachers from across Europe and beyond to study some critical aspects of the use of social media in learning and education:
· Social media - what is it?
· Social media - school policies
· Social media - pedagogical principles
· Social media - professional development (CPD)
· Social media - internet safety and responsible use
· Social media - challenges to adoption
 In XXI Century Education, the use of new online technologies ( social media and web 2.0 startup tools and apps ) aren't regarded like a avantgardist movement, but unfortunatelly although we have many free edtools most of the teachers still don't know or don't want to know how to integrate new online technologies into the classroom although in all the schools we have now computers connected to Internet . For this reason I accepted to be COP2 leader - Using Social Media in schools, whole-school approach . I had the opportunity to have Elena Radaelli from Italy my deputy leader who said after the project finished :
 "The reason that led me to attend the on line splendid course SMILE was related to my professional and personal necessity to see if social media such as Facebook, that normally occupy a relevant part of my pupils' daily life outside school, could actually enter school and become an interesting didactical tool. I decided to start with an ad hoc Facebook group focused on our Comenius project to share ideas, jokes, and pictures to enrich the project. [..] I was amazed how fast and precise they were to react and do their homework. During all my teaching years, I had never seen such a prolific, lovely and creative production of assignments, nice jokes, provocations in plain English! So without even knowing it, they started using their first foreign language as a real communicative tool. They were totally involved in the learning process since they didn't perceive it as a burden but as part of their daily life." 

3.Broad dissemination of results of the research through EUN’s interactive portals for teachers as well as through European and international meetings and conferences.
I continue to use social media like I told you in the online session . I focus on my COP2 when I continue to learn students to use social media in eTwinning projects and parteners ( teachers and students ) collaborate in the blog and facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/eSafety4eTwinners/ . Related to using using social media for professional development ( COP3 ) I present SMILE Project in 2 online conferences to a global audience http://www.docstoc.com/docs/136241127/ICT4eTwinners-project-Smile-Project-and-top-10-tools-to-build-a-PLN---Presentation-in-globaled12 and also http://www.slideshare.net/DUMACORNELLUCIAN/connecting-online-2013-conference-presenter-duma-cornel-lucian . I manage also https://www.facebook.com/groups/etwinningmentors/ 

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My dearest I follow here live from home many awesome sessions from SXSW 2013 including Bill Gates keynote. Like I told you before I follow live many events using twitter  like LeWeb , Tech Crunch Disrupt , How to Web and after I blog about .
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences & Festivals (March 8-17, 2013) offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. Fostering creative and professional growth alike, SXSW® is the premier destination for discovery.
Using twitter https://twitter.com/lucianecurator and #sxsw hastag I discover this days many informations and also many startup ipad apps where shared on twitter, many of this from my top 10 are SXSW Accelelator Finalists  .
Like I told you before I begin to use my Ipad won in eFront Competition http://bitly.com/LucianeCuratorCO13Presentation and next apps  are killer apps from my new Ipad and for #sxsw participants . What app from my Top 10 you like more and why ? Leave your comments and feed-back after this CURATION article and if you like what you read in this blog help me please to launch a global platform for Curation Restart Education Project http://krunchd.com/CredProject or hire me to write for you .
Here you can wath live #SXSW Accelerator . Now Flesky is the big winner .

Stream videos at Ustream

Fleksy is a revolutionary technology, which makes typing text on a touch-screen easy.
Ever dreamt of an auto-correct system powerful enough to work even when you don’t look at the screen? Enter, Fleksy.Used today by thousands of blind and visually impaired users to type faster and easier than many sighted people, Fleksy is set to revolutionize the way people think about mobile devices and to challenge the traditional barriers in touch-screen typing for everyone.
Featuring Syntellia’s patent pending technologies, Fleksy uses the familiar QWERTY layout, coupled with probably the most powerful text prediction engine out there.
Tap typing, re-invented.
How Fleksy works
Fleksy allows users to type text on the familiar keyboard layout, by tapping on the screen. Our patent pending technology does not need accuracy – just tap on the screen and Fleksy will automatically detect the text you meant to enter – even if you have missed every single key.
It is like nothing you have used before.
Happy Typing!


SXSW GO is the official mobile app for getting the most out of attending SXSW 2013. The app allows you to view/build/share your schedule, network with other Attendees, navigate the trade show, stay connected to the social world and more!
New features for 2013 include Discover and Schedule Sharing!
Build your schedule online at schedule.sxsw.com or directly on your mobile device. With SXSW® GO, you also can sync your online schedule with your mobile device, so your info will always be up-to-date!
FEATURES INCLUDE:
Schedule – Search/browse the entire event list. Build your personal schedule or sync with your online account.
Discover – Visually browse event media to build your schedule.
Share My Schedule – Share your personal schedule with your friends and see what events your friends are attending.
Map – Find venues, get directions
Search – Quickly find events, venues or exhibitors via keyword search.
Tradeshow – Search/browse Exhibitors
Presented by Showtime
Powered by Eventbase from Xomo

Blippar – a free magic ‘lens’ which uses your device's camera to 'blipp' and instantly unlock the world around you with exclusive information, entertainment and virtual experiences. 
‘Blipp’ any real world item carrying the 'blipp' instruction – such as magazines, newspapers, billboards, travel cards, logos or even grocery products. By simply holding your phone up in blippar mode to look at the image, it will magically jump to life with an exclusive content experience.Experiences might appear overlaid or ‘augmented’ over the real-world image or object (such as interactive games or magical digital apparitions); or it could take the form of a simple web-link (to watch a trailer, visit a website or ‘like’ on facebook), or perhaps an exclusive ‘take-away’ - something simple which downloads immediately to your phone for future use (such as a coupon or recipe). You won’t know until you ‘blipp’...Always free to users, blippar is a magical new way for your favourite publishers, brands and retailers to get exciting new messages, offers, experiences and helpful real-time information to you. Simply 'blipp' for more! 
How it works: 
• Browse the in-app catalogue or look for a blippar [b] instruction in the real world• Hold your phone up in blippar mode and fill the screen with the image or object
• Blipp! 
• No photo-taking - just hold, wait, enjoy and share!
Younity gives you access to all your files, from all your devices, without ever needing to "sync" your mobile devices again. younity creates a personal cloud for all your files, built from your devices. With younity, you have all your music, photos, videos and documents on all your devices - regardless of storage. All your files, from all your devices, all the time.
younity gives you instant, easy access to all your music (including iTunes libraries/playlists), videos, photos and documents on every computer you own. By first installing younity on each computer you have, you simultaneously have access to all files stored on all devices via your iOS device.
The "personal cloud" is a private cloud - we don't store your files online, can't access them and don't know anything about you or your files.
You don't have to log into each computer or browse them separately. You don't have to put files in special folders or flag them to be synchronized. There is no storage limit because you are streaming files from your devices, so you can have 2GB, 2TB or 2PB of files. If you want to download your files to local storage (for "offline use"), you can, but it isn't a requirement.
Just use every device the way you always have and know that you can have access to any file stored on any device you own.
younity even converts unusable file formats (e.g. WMA, OGG, etc.) to iOS-compatible formats in real-time when you stream, so you can keep your media in whatever format you like.
You can even search for files across all devices simultaneously, without having to even know which device a file is stored on.
younity is compatible with iOS, Mac OS X, Windows and soon Linux. Make sure that you first install younity on each and every computer (desktop and laptop), then install on all your mobile devices and enjoy unlimited access to all your files.
Yappem Rewarding Users in a Fun & Creative Way:
Yappem TM is a unique, social platform that empowers and rewards users who want to interact, support, and share their daily brand and product experiences with their friends and family. Users will benefit from the ability to learn from their Yappem friends, as well as other users with similar customer experiences, when they are sharing experiences, researching, purchasing, or troubleshooting pr0ducts and brands.
The Yappem experience is unique as it is the first social platform where users can focus specifically on their daily experiences with brands and products.
Compete in "Missions" to earn gift cards to your favorite brands and stores.
User’s can join brand communities to collaborate with similar customers and get rewarded for your loyal customer input.
Not only are you rewarded for expressing your experiences about brands, but you can also reward other users for participating and interacting with your posts.
Privacy is very important and you will enjoy the ability to set your privacy settings on each and every post – Yappem will never automatically post to Twitter or Facebook unless you enable that option on your post!

Designed for iPad and iPad Mini, Watchup is the smartest way to watch video news. Build your daily newscast in a snap from our growing selection of US and international news channels.
1. Scroll through the latest videos
2. Pick the best to build your newscast
3. Tap play and watch what's up in the world.
Or, if you're short on time, let Watchup generate your newscast automatically:
✓ Tap the "ON" button and watch the freshest video segments from the news channels you use the most.
✓ Or ask Watchup to deliver your Scheduled Newscast daily. Set the duration and time, and Watchup will remember to deliver the best videos from the sources you watch the most at the appointed hour every day.
The more you use Watchup, the smarter it gets!
Watchup makes your breaks smarter, because your newscast will play continuously while you enjoy your breakfast or relax.
Want to edit your channel lineup? Tap “+” to discover new voices that will enrich your day.
Watchup is free, it takes very little space on your iPad, and it helps you watch smarter.
Infoactive built an interactive, mobile-awesome, super-simple, live-data web-app-thing. That means you can connect dynamic data streams and share drool-worthy interactive visuals in less time than it took you to read this fetures :
INTERACTIVE
Don’t trap your data in a static image. Let it loose and turn numbers into interactive stories. Make your data fun.MOBILE-AWESOME
You can be as big as a high-res Thunderbolt Display or as portable as any smartphone. Our responsive visualizations are designed to scale.
LIVE DATA
Life is too short for yesterday’s news. Connect live data and change it whenever. Hitting ‘publish’ isn’t the end of the story; it’s just the beginning.
EASY AS PIE
You don’t need to be a programmer, a designer, or a data analyst. Heck, you don’t even need a tutorial. Drag and drop, rock and roll.

  Plotter is a social mapping app that lets you easily create, share, crowdsource and discover maps on your phone and ipad .
 Features:
CREATE MAPS OF MULTIPLE PLOTS (LOCATIONS)
Finally, a mobile map app that lets you plot maps of multiple locations that can easily be turned on and off whenever and wherever you need them. There is no limit to how many maps you can create.
RECOMMENDATIONS
We all have those friends you can rely on for a great recommendation. Plotter makes it easy to crowdsource your maps from your friends on Facebook and Twitter. All you have to do is create a map and then sit back and see what they recommend. Once a friend posts a plot for you, it will automatically show up in your Activity feed to easily add to your map or ignore.
THE MAP ROOM
Not in the mood to create your own map? The Map Room holds a collection of featured and popular maps that have already been curated by experts and the Plotter community. Keep checking back, as the Map Room grows everyday.
FRIENDS
Find and follow your friends to see what maps they're creating. You can easily recommend plots to their maps, and even take maps you like.
SEARCH
Search for addresses and locations just like you would on those other map apps. Once you find a location, you can add it to one of your maps or just view details like a phone number, website and reviews.
PATHS
Heading out for a trip to the city and want to route the day's activities? Paths allow you to set either a walking or driving path between all of the locations on a map. Simply order the locations as you'd like and you'll get a color-coded path you can follow. Access paths by swiping one of your maps in the left column list view.
                                              
Koozoo Broadcast a video snippet so everyone can see what it's like where you are. Or share a 24/7 view of what's going on outside your home or office window. What if it was REALLY simple for anyone to share fun and informative live videos of public places from their front window or from places they went throughout the day? Just think about it. You’d always know if there’s a line at your favorite restaurant or where the hotspots are in the city. Koozoo is the first crowd-sourced network of smartphone cameras with the goal of helping us all make more informed decisions.
There are two ways to share on Koozoo:
For mobile broadcasting, just download the Koozoo App to your current iPhone and start sharing snippets throughout your day.
For 24/7 broadcasting from your home of office, download the app to your old iPhone, install the old phone in your window (we’ll even send you a free window mount!), and share your view. All you need is WiFi, a power outlet, and a clear view of any street or public place.
EasilyDo is a smart assistant that pulls actionable information from your calendar, email, contacts, Facebook, etc. into one feed, alerts you at the right time, and offers to get tasks done for you with one tap – no to-do lists, no digging, no app-juggling. EasilyDo makes everyday tasks simpler and saves time. Features: Never Miss Something Important AgainGet birthday reminders, event invites, and important updates shared by your friends; send your wishes, e-gifts, RSVPs, congratulations and support — be there for your friends.
✓ Easily Navigate Your Day
Get ‘time to leave’ alerts and directions to your home, work, or next appointment; auto-dial into calls; text to say you’re on the way or running late — what you need when you need it.
✓ Stay Organized with Zero Effort
Merge duplicates in your address book, add contacts from recent emails, and file receipts into an email folder automatically — taking care of the niggling things that you always mean to get to and don’t.


TEMPO is Smart Calendar Makes Sure You Don’t Miss A Beat
Tempo is like having your own personal assistant prepare you for what’s next. It’s the only mobile calendar that intelligently enhances your meetings and events by connecting emails, contacts and location to your calendar. Tempo puts more in your calendar so you get more out of your day!
With details displayed right in your Tempo calendar, you’ll never again fumble across apps trying to complete a simple task, such as finding a meeting agenda or someone’s phone number. Tempo fills in the details even when you don’t enter them in your calendar. It knows what you need and what you want to get done. The more you use Tempo the smarter it gets!
Bringing Tempo to your busy day saves you time and eliminates the hassles that can come with preparing for your next meeting. With just one tap, you can:
• Send a pre-populated “running late” email or text
• Dial into conference calls – Tempo handles the passcode
• Get directions, parking and estimated driving time
• Review emails that pertain to the meeting
• Open related documents
• Quickly reach attendees via phone, email or text
• Find the exact location even if you don’t have the address
• Browse attendees’ LinkedIn profiles
• Connect to Foursquare and Yelp
• Get estimated driving time
• Wish your friends happy birthday on Facebook
• Know your flight status
• Use Siri to create your next calendar event or meeting
And so much more!
Tempo intelligently connects your calendar to your accounts and apps, including:
Contacts:
• Google Contacts
• Microsoft Outlook Contacts
• iPhone Contacts

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I am verry excited to see so many people who joined my online class( more than 700 registered to attend ) . Like I promise you you can download the presentation,join Curation Google Plus Community https://plus.google.com/communities/100188349857613823793 and like https://www.facebook.com/
CurationRestartEducationProject .#co13 Top 10 startup social media curation tools for Social learning in the workplace that will change research in XXI Century Education by @LucianeCurator


Here is the recording of my session .





Thanks Dr. Nellie Deutsch because you offer me embed code for my session . Dear friends after the session I invite you all to see / download my presentation here on my blog  and still then click on screen capture .


Dear efront eLearning team thank you because you selected me in top 5 finalists articles and now Ipad Winner in your Competition after 3 weeks of sharing / comments for our guest posts . Now I want to thank you to all my friends because with your help I have more than 400 shares and 12 comments I am Winner with next Title of blog post : Top 10 startup social media curation tools for Social learning in the workplace who will change research in XXI Century Education . Now I want to invite you to join my Curation session / online wiziq class  in Connecting Online 2013 Conference https://www.facebook.com/events/314906631960258/ to read my greetings for you in 2013 and 2012 year in review http://bitly.com/LucianeCuratorwishyouHAPPYNEWYEAR2013 and my letter to Santa using a startup social media curation tool http://checkthis.com/fvn/ where I please him to help me to win the Ipad competition and I pray to God to help me to implement a platform / website for Curation Restart  Education Project http://krunchd.com/CredProject ;  ; https://twitter.com/web20education . 
             Now I must told you that I will continue to write on this blog about TOP 10 weekly and your repplies, comments ; feed-back is welcome for all my blog posts.
                                                       


I chose to write about this topic now because I discover in 2011 a new social media king who is Curation, the Art of : searching, selecting, sharing/bookmarking , organizing, interaction, communication, . In XXI Century Education where informatics and science developed spectacular and the use of new technologies aren’t regarded like a avangardist movement new tools and apps Web 2.0 and socialmedia can bring a new dimension and can reform education around the world because electroniccommunication helps teachers and students to learn from each other.These new tehnologies can stimulate discussion, open gatewaythrough knowledge, promote creativity and innovation for effective learning. Teacher and also students should have an entitlement to safe internet access at all times. Pulling Piaget and Papert, the use of participatory media tools in education is typically geared towards, creating a more student centered in a adaptive environnement where learners can contribute to the course material,formulate and express their own insights and opinion, construct their own understanding of materialby connecting concepts, to personal experience or current events, and learn from one another in collaborative environments . Web 2.0, social media and other digital and information tehnologies are powerful and interesting tools,which open up new opportunities for everyone and for this reason teachers and students must know how to use it in nowadays education The Internet Curator’s role is to seek on the web information related to a specific domain, flter them, select them, organise, share and present them in a unique mode .

For this reason I want to implement the project Curation Restart Education Project http://krunchd.com/CredProjectNow I will describe my favrorites / top 10 startup curation tools who will bring a new dimmension for XXI Century Education although I discover this year more than 100 and you can read about here http://edtech20curationprojectineducation.blogspot.ro/ and about startup edtools and edapps here http://startup4edu.blogspot.ro/ and also about ipad apps to mLearning here : http://ipadappsineducationtomlearning.blogspot.ro/
Now here is the article with logos and links because I use all next tools almost daily  .


1. Glogster Edu is my favorite curation and presentation tool and I am proud to be a Ambassador.This edu tool open gateway through knowledge for students because develop children’s creativity and innovation . Glogster EDU is the leading global education platform for the creative expression of knowledge and skills in the classroom and beyond. GlogsterEdu empower educators and students with the technology to create GLOGS - online multimedia posters - with text, photos, videos, graphics,sounds, drawings, data attachments and more. I made a GlogsterEdu for Curation Restart Education Project http://dumacornellucian.edu.glogster.com/credproject/ 
2. Scoop.it enables professionals to share important ideas with the right audiences giving them an opportunity to create and maintain a meaningful Web presence, a crucial component to the success of their business and career. Scoop.it lets you share ideas that matter and shine on the Web through beautiful topic pages. Collect relevant content and add your insight to attract an avid audience. Whether you’re a professional or educator representing a business or nonprofit, Scoop.it will help you efficiently and effectively build your online presence. Scoop.it is a one-stop shop for social media and content curation publishing. When you post on your topic page, you can easily share to your social networks including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Advanced analytics available on Scoop.it Pro and customizable pages, post scheduling and Wordpress integration available on Scoop.it Business. 


3. Learnist is the latest social media curation tool for education , still in beta launch by Grockit team . Learnist super easy to share what you know by pointing to existing web resources. You can use videos, blogs, books, documents, images, anything to explain how to learn something.Use Learnist to share what you know and learn new things. Create Learn Boards on topics you understand and add learnings by pointing to videos, blogs, images and documents on the web. Board creation permissions are granted on rolling basis.
                                   
4.Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. Teachers use pinboards to manage their projects and also People use pinboards plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes. Best of all, you can browse pinboards created by other people. Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests. To get started, request an invite or leave a comment after you read my post with your email and I will send you a invitation to try this curation tool . Also don't forget that you must pin a immage to bookmark on pinterest . 
5 . Mentormob is a social media startup curation tool who make learning online free and accessible to the entire world . One Learning Playlist Can Reach Millions...Creating and editing Learning Playlists is a free and easy process. Not only does it show the world what you know, but it opens your knowledge to people who share your skills so they can help you refine it by adding and editing your Learning Playlist. Each Learning Playlist can be rated, bringing the best ways to learn to the top of the charts.Creating and editing Learning Playlists opens the door to being able to share your skills and get feedback from those who share your passion.So finally, we can get some real organization when learning online because after all, it's not up to the Internet to make learning free and accessible to the world, it's up to us.
 
6. Mightybell This is about infusing passion and color into everyday life. Too often, we spend time on what we have to do, not what we want to do. We’ve lost the ability to follow what makes us curious, in favor of choosing what makes us more efficient.With Mightybell, you can step into a world of curiosity and serendipity. By making space for ideas, interests and adventures with friends, you’re embracing the opportunity to create a more colorful life. Each Mightybell space has a story, one you can share with as many likeminded people as you want. You can share : a question, an article, a link, a video or a photo about something that interests you is all you need to start a Mightybell space. After all, you never know when you’ll discover your next passion.

 

7. Springpad Smart Notebooks to save, share and act on what's important to you and to your friends .Springpad now makes it easy to invite your friends so you can make awesome notebooks together. Springpad is great for just about anything and it's even better when you invite your friends.Springing just got easier .Now you can just type in the information you want to save and let Springpad do the rest. Try typing in a task you want to remember, an event you want to save, a movie you want to see, or a product you want to buy. It's that easy!
                                  
8. SymbalooEdu is a social media curation tool, great resource for teachers. With Symbaloo you can: Gather the best content on the web about 1 topic, and present it on a webmix Share a webmix with other teachers, and students . Discover useful webmixes in the Symbaloo Gallery to use in the classroom Share a webmix withparents to provide some insight of the used materials A worthy mention: Symbaloo is free of charge and doesn’t include any annoying ads.
                            

9. Zeen is a social media startup curation tool launch by Avos ( YouTube Co-founders) who offer a cool new way to share your interests with the world – bring pictures, prose, and videos together in eye-catching digital magazines.                                
10 . Socl — pronounced social — allows you to express and share your ideas through rich post collages comprised of images, links, captions and videos.Socl is a research project from Microsoft Research FUSE Labs and began as an experiment in social search targeted at students for the purpose of learning. Following the lead of the Socl community, Socl has since evolved to be a service where people connect over shared interests expressed through beautiful posts that take only seconds to create.

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