Links for 2009-01-26 [delicious.com]

 

• Tweepler (Tweepler.com)
  Tweepler Is an easy, more enjoyable way of processing your New Twitter Followers. View a list of New Followers and classify them in one of two “Buckets” Follow (meaning you wish to follow them back) and Ignore (meaning you don’t wish to follow them and want to archive them out of the way, reducing clutter).
  (tags: web2.0 Twitter microblogging tools)
• Faves
  Sites you’ll love, from people like you
  (tags: web2.0 tools socialbookmarking)
• Dynamic Periodic Table
  (tags: science chemistry interactive)
• iSEEK – Web
  But what we built isn’t just a search engine at all. By making “web searches” more intelligent and intuitive, we left “searching” behind… and now offer you Targeted Discovery, the new era of information retrieval on the web.
  (tags: research searchengine)
• MelZoo
  This Meta search engine, offers “visual previews” of the search results. In other words users will receive much more relevant, quality information.
  (tags: research metacrawler)
• Twingly Microblog Search
  (tags: web2.0 Twitter microblogging socialmedia searchengine)
• Sitemark – Save, organize, share and discover your favorite websites
  With Sitemark you can save, organize, share and discover your favorite websites.
  (tags: web2.0 tools socialbookmarking)
• Searching The Internet Resources by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.
  White Paper and related audio/video media: Searching the Internet – A Primer
  (tags: resources research report searchengine)
• Homepage Startup
  If you’re after quick access to your favourite websites, then Homepage Startup is the ideal homepage you want to set your browser to.
  (tags: web2.0 tools startpage portal)
• Sclipo: the social learning revolution
  Use Sclipo to learn, teach and meet people that share your educational interests.
  (tags: web2.0 socialnetworking learning)
• Public Pedagogy through Video Games
  (tags: article education games theory gaming)
• Tame The Web » Blog Archive » Ten Trends & Technologies for 2009
  Welcome to the 2009 version of TTW’s annual look at the trends and technologies that I believe will impact what we do in libraries and information centers.
  (tags: trends web2.0 technology library future 2009)

Research Journal Assignment #1

Post three times  in your blog (research journal), using the numbers, letters, and phrases in bold as the titles of your respective posts:

1a: Possible Topics–Brainstorm a list of topics you’re interested in using for your research project this semester.

1b: My Topic–Write three paragraphs about the topic you’ve selected: (1) identify your topic and explain why you chose it, (2) discuss what you already know about your topic, and (3) discuss what you don’t know and want to learn about the topic. Each paragraph should be at least several sentences long. Grammar and spelling count!

1c:  Delicious Account–Create a link to your Delicious account.

Use the department and course number (ENG 1020 or ENG 122) and other appropriate tags (“Labels” on Blogger) for each of the three posts.

Bookmarking Account

Use any or all of the following resources to learn about social bookmarking in general, Delicious specifically, and tagging:

• Video:  “Social Bookmarking in Plain English“
• Video:  “Social Bookmarking – Delicious Part One“
• Video:  “Social Bookmarking – Delicious Part Two“
• Article:  “7 Things You Should Know about Social Bookmarking“
• Presentation:  “Instructional Uses of Social Bookmarking” (with voice)
• Video:  “Tagging & Folksonomy“
• Video:  “Tags:  Content Tagging and Its Importance“
• Article:  “Tags“
• Article:  “Tags and Tagging: How Do You Create Good Tags?“
• Presentation:  “Tagging That Works“
• Presentation:  “Tagging“
• Presentation:  “Tagging in an Academic Setting“

Register for a social bookmarking account with Delicious. Please make sure that your username includes your first and/or last name, so I can identify your account.

Start bookmarking websites you want to keep track of for class. These can be related to your topic or to research in general. Be sure you tag your bookmarks so you can find them again.

Feel free to explore my bookmarks and save any that you find interesting.

Research Journal

Use any or all of the following resources to learn about blogs:

• Video: “Blogs in Plain English“
• Article:  “How Blogs Work“
• Article:  “Starting a Blog – Blogging Basics for the Beginner Blogger“
• Article:  “Blogging Basics“
• Article:  “The History of Blogging“

Create a blog using Blogger. You can take a tour of Blogger, or you can watch this video or the first videos in this playlist if you need help getting started.  Any time you need help, go to the Blogger Help page.

This blog will be your research journal. Make sure that the title of your blog includes your first and/or last name, so I can identify the author when I’m reading your posts.

When you have created your blog, e-mail the web address (copy and paste it from the box in your browser) to me at the e-mail address in the syllabus.

You may use any layout or color scheme or widgets that you wish on your blog, as long as they are professional.  Please, though, make sure that the combination you choose for your font and background is readable.  Generally a dark font on a light background is easier to read.

Please turn off word verification for comments on your blog so your classmates and I can easily communicate with you on your blog.  To do this, click on the Settings link below the name of your blog in your Dashboard.  Then click on the Comments link (fourth from the left).  Scroll down to the question “Show word verification for comments?”  Click on the circle by No.  Finally, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on Save Settings.

What Is Web 2.0?

Read

Article:  “What Is Web 2.0“

Article:  “What Is Web 2.0 Anyway?“

Blog Post:  “Basics for Beginners:  What Is Web 2.0?“

 

Watch

Video:  “Webvolution“

Video:  “Web 2.0 Panel Discussion – What Is Web 2.0?“

Video:  “What Is Web 2.0“

Video:  “What is Web 2.0? And what about 3.0? Part 1“

Video:  “What is Web 2.0? And what about 3.0? Part 2“

Assignments in Blog

This semester I’m teaching four sections of second-semester freshman composition:  three sections of ENG 1020 (two on campus and one online) for Metro and one section of ENG 122 (online) for Red Rocks.   I’m using the same main textbook, The Bedford Researcher, for all the classes, and the assignments will also be the same for all of them.

I’ve been trying to figure out what would be the most efficient way to post instructions for assignments that I didn’t include in the syllabus (i.e., everything but the papers).  I could repeat the information in the wiki for the on-campus Metro classes and the course shells for both online courses, or I could post it once somewhere else and link to it.  That way, if I need to make any corrections, I only have to make them once.

I decided finally that this blog is the best place to post the assignments.  That way, my students can all ask any questions they have in the same place, and I’ll be notified immediately because I moderate the comments.

I’ll try it this semester and see how it works.

Leapfish

I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m going to have to soon.  Here are a couple of videos I found:

“LeapFish is the Best of the Web in a Single Search“

 

“LeapFish is the Fastest Search on the Planet“

Links for 2009-01-20 [delicious.com]

• Gartner Says 80 Percent of Active Internet Users Will Have A “Second Life” in the Virtual World by the End of 2011
  (tags: trends virtualworlds web2.0)

Links for 2009-01-18 [delicious.com]

• TwttrStrm
  Ask a question of your Twitter followers and easily gather all their answers in one spot.
  (tags: Twitter microblogging tools web2.0)
• Pingvine.com
  PingVine is a free service that takes an Atom or RSS feed from your blog, lifestream or favorite website and posts it to Twitter, Ping.fm or Identi.ca.
  (tags: RSS Twitter feeds microblogging tools web2.0)
• Zamzar
  Free online file conversion
  (tags: fileconversion online technology tools)
• BonzoBox – The Center of the Internet
  BonzoBox will redefine your internet experience! Instantly save your favorite websites as real-time images and save time by clicking through to your favorite websites without having to retype your log-in information.
  (tags: socialbookmarking tools visual web2.0)
• TwitPic
  TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter
  (tags: Twitter images microblogging tools web2.0)
• WordPress.tv
  WordPress.tv is Your Visual Resource for All Things WordPress
  (tags: WordPress blogging resources tutorials video web2.0)
• TweeTube – Share videos on Twitter
  Share your favorite videos quickly with short URLs. We let you track the visits and comments from the people that follow you on Twitter.
  (tags: Twitter microblogging tools video)
• iResearch-Reporter – Summarizes Your Web Search Results On-The-Fly!
  It’s not a search engine. Instead, it front-ends user queries to Google, Yahoo, or any other custom-defined information retrieval system. iRR relays search queries and retrieves full text of a batch of the most relevant documents, say the top 50 or 100. It goes to work and produces easily-readable, organized, and summarized prose text reports focusing on the most important conceptual, topical and proper name items covered in the set of documents.
  (tags: research tools)
• Twitter Friends Network Browser
  (tags: Twitter community microblogging socialnetworking tools visual web2.0)
• Social Networks That Matter: Twitter under the Microscope
  Scholars, advertisers and political activists see massive online social networks as a representation of social interactions that can be used to study the propagation of ideas, social bond dynamics and viral marketing, among others. But the linked structures of social networks do not reveal actual interactions among people. Scarcity of attention and the daily rhythms of life and work makes people default to interacting with those few that matter and that reciprocate their attention. A study of social interactions within Twitter reveals that the driver of usage is a sparse and hidden network of connections underlying the “declared” set of friends and followers.
  (tags: Twitter article microblogging research socialnetworking web2.0)
• Research Resources Online Guide
  This 170 page guide covers online research resources and tools for both the Newbie researcher as well as the Seasoned researcher!
  (tags: ebook research resources)
• Worldwide Freelance Writer
  Freelance Writing Jobs and Markets for Writers – The Worldwide Freelance Writer web site was launched in 1999 with the purpose of publishing information about freelance writing markets around the world.
  (tags: community freelance resources writing)
• The Teaching Company – View Cultural Events Listings: Denver
  (tags: art humanities literature music)

Concert of English Renaissance Music – Jan. 18

Thom Dowd and Gorse Ferraris will be performing English Renaissance music at noon SLT (PST) on Sun., Jan. 18, in the manor house on Renaissance Island in Second Life.