Beginning of May 2010 edition of the What Did They Tweet weekly series!
Let’s see what our Personal Learning Network (PLN) tweeted about in education and social media. However, I should note that one of the top stories this week on Twitter was about the new way to embed Tweets as posts in 3 easy steps, which was tweeted by @xdamman. This feature is reflected in this post! Do you like the new look? Please let me know in the comments!
Fantastic Videos
Visual Effects: 100 Years of Inspiration http://youtu.be/LP_hAszQPgk
Marion Popiolek
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Wanna motivate? watch this: [
Stephan Hughes
defstef98
RT @hyponastic Using stats to design the ultimate TED talk. http://tinyurl.com/22p4e98
lmockford
lmockford
Seth Godin talks Education and his book Linchpin live in Elluminate at 8amPDT/11amEDT/3pmGMT http://tinyurl.com/344wf6w
Steve Hargadon
stevehargadon
Find the archive of the event here- http://www.learncentral.org/node/71871
Excellent lecture! Watch recording http://tinyurl.com/379vf8n
#downesba #Rosario
Mariel Amez
mamez
Resources by me & others
- Google Wave’s New Wave Templates
- An amazing Glogster: Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century via @tperran
- Smories- Video data bank of short stories read by kids via @NikPeachey
- Guess the Google find out how many points you score in this great game via @ransomtech
- Dictionarist.com- An online talking dictionary which provides definitions and translations in many languages via @FaizaK
- Pecha Kucha’s videosfor the British Council Moscow conference via @olgabarnashova
Opportunities for Educators
Below is a list of great opportunities for free resources and more:
- Nominate a Teacher for @ASCD’s Outstanding Young Educator Award
- Enter to Win a Mouse Mischief Classroom Makeover from Simplek12.com! This ends by May 21st.
- Educators submit your best idea for Early Learning: Making a Difference to win $200 and a Flip Video camera. Tweeted by @weareteachers. This ends by May 25th.
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For more tweets, check out these posts:
- Monthly Best Tweets by Larry Ferlazzo.
- It’s Tweet Week on by Kevin Creutz’s blog.
- My PLN Says… by Burcu Akyol.
- Monthly Tweets by Karenne Sylvester.
Challenge:
Share one of these resources with another educator not on Twitter. Then tell them you got the tip from educators on Twitter!
Do you like the new look?
Hi Shelly,
Another great round-up of links as usual, and yes, I do like the new look – think it’s very cool!
Must give embedded Tweets a go myself…
Sue
Yup, it really looks cleaner and glad to be able to comment again. It was frustrating when I’d read something in the reader and then have something to say to you and then couldn’t
I think the embedded tweets look great.
Thanks for the plug for my tweet week. Have a great weekend.
Shelly, I DO like the new look! I just read through the BlackBird bookmarklet steps – nice, easy ways to embed tweets! Great links with an EXTRA personalized feel to them because of embedded tweets – Thanks for showcasing the tool.
So cool! I love the embedded Tweets! I managed to miss a lot of these great Tweets, thank you (as always) for rounding up the best of the best here.
Thanks for sharing these great resources, Shelly. Guess the Google led me to Montage a Google – more cool flash!
Fantastic new look, Shelly. I love how you have embedded the tweets on the page. I would really like to be able to do this one day soon! Great resources shared. Thank you very much.