Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: March and February 2012

• “How To Write Readable – And Retweetable – Tweets“
• “Searching the Internet – A Primer“
• “The Annotated Emma, by Jane Austen, Annotated and Edited by David M. Shapard – A Review“
• “Why Ebooks Fail as Research Tools“
• “A Few New Releases: An Unfaithful Queen, A Kingmaker’s Daughter, a Mistress and a Time Traveler“

Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: October 2011

• “The Kindle Fire and Disruptive Innovation“
• “The A-Z Dictionary of Educational Twitter Hashtags“
• “Uses for Audio in eLearning“
• “The future of online bookmarking“
• “At Last – Recognition for Blog-based Portfolios“
• “bPortfolios: Blogging for Reflective Practice“
• “Regaining Your Faculties“
• “Educators – Google Plus Is for You“
• “Content Curation: What Does it Take to Be Successful?“
• “How To Curate Conversations With Storify“
• “10 Tips on Curating Social Media Content for Your Nonprofit or Foundation“
• “4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web“

Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: June 2011

• “In Search of Future-Focused Learning Technologies“
• “Designing With A PowerPoint Grid“
• “Creating Effective Responses to Student Discussion Postings“
• “Types of Questions for On-Line Discussion“
• “YouTube across the Disciplines: A Review of the Literature“
• OpenSimulator: School Quick Start Guide
• “Why Twitter Needs Channels“
• Web 2.0 Tools in Education: A Quick Guide
• “The Future of E-Learning Is More Growth“
• “Putting Online Learning Statistics in Perspective“

Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: October 22, 2010

Articles I’ve run across during the last two weeks:

• “Recent Research on Interactive Learning“
• “Online vs. Face-to-Face Throwdown: Good Teaching Transcends Course Format“
• “Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies“
• “Using Twitter to Transform the Classroom!“
• “GovGrid offers agencies cheap, quick regions and mini-grids“
• “An OpenSim grid primer“
• “Open Source eLearning Tools: eLearning Technology“
• “How Visual Clarity Affects Learning“
• “Academics Discuss Mass Migration From Second Life“
• “Online Discussions: Tips for Instructors“
• “The Lecture is Dead Long Live the e-Lecture“

Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: September 24, 2010

Blog posts, articles, and reports I ran across in the last week:

• “John Ostwald: Pros and cons of online learning“
• “Learning styles: Worth our time?“
• “Writing in Twitter’s Shrinking World“

Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: September 17, 2010

Blog posts, articles, and reports I ran across this week:

• “7 Things You Should Know about Privacy in Web 2.0 Learning Environments“
• “5 Tips for Getting the Most out of Google Reader“
• “Open Textbook Production and Wikis“
• “Teaching students about Creative Commons and appropriate use of images“
• “4 Ways to Use Twitter to Support Your Blog“
• “The New Twitter & Search, An Illustrated Guide“
• “10 Usability Tips Based on Research Studies“

Blog Posts, Articles, and Reports To Read: August 27, 2010

This weeks “to read” list:

• “7 Things You Should Know about . . . Assessing Online Team-Based Learning“
• “Cheating in online learning“
• “A Framework for Teaching with Twitter“
• “11 Ways to Find Free Classes Online“

E-mail Alerts Services

I’ve recorded the results of my test of Google Alerts.  I wondered what similar services were available, and after doing some research, I found the following:

• Google Alerts
• Yahoo! Alerts
• notify.me
• Social Mention
• WatchThatPage
• Favebot
• TweetBeep.com
• Tweet Scan
• TweetAlarm
• Twilert

Half of them are for Twitter or other social sites.

Are there any services that I missed?

Presentation: “Integrating Social Networking & Web 2.0 Applications into eLearning”

Presentation:  “Integrating Social Networking & Web 2.0 Applications into eLearning“

TweetGrid

Earlier this week, I posted a list of “Web-Based Tools for Searching Twitter in Real Time” in which I wrote that I liked Monitter because you could use it to “track three keywords at the same time.”  At the time, I had only tried TweetGrid‘s search function and not its dashboard that searches up to ten keywords and updates in real time.  It also has party and widget options.  I’ll definitely be using TweetGrid more in the future.

I found several videos on YouTube that show and tell how to use TweetGrid:

• “Tweetgrid: Filter the Twitterverse in style!“
• “Twitter Tweet Grid Tutorial“
• “Twitter Guide to TweetGrid“
• “How to use tweet grid – Basic“
• “How to Watch Multiple Streams of Twitter Tweets Simultaneously with TweetGrid“
• “Twitter Tools“