Episode 146 – Keeping up with EdTech: Twitter, Diigo, and RSS Feeds

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Tom: It’s Thursday, February 28th, 2013 and welcome to episode 146 of Tech Talk 4 Teachers, I’m Tom Grissom. Cindy: and I’m Cindy Rich.

In this episode we talk about some of the tips and tricks we use to keep up with the constant flow of information coming at us daily. It is easy to become overwhelmed but there are some things you can do to keep ahead of the game. In this episode we explore some of the technology we use to manage and archive the vast amounts of information we receive each day. As usual we also share our Technology Picks of the Week and discuss the ICE 2013 conference currently underway and how to take advantage of using hashtags on Twitter like #ice13 even if you cannot attend in person.

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Tools we use:

Twitter

https://twitter.com/

Cybrary Man's Educational Web Sites and Educational Hashtags
http://cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html

#edchat Twitter Discussions
http://shellyterrell.com/2009/08/18/edchat-join-the-conversation/

Diigo

https://www.diigo.com/

Google RSS Reader

https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=reader&passive=1209600&continue=http://www.google.com/reader/&followup=http://www.google.com/reader/

OneNote

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote

YouTube video using OneNote in class at Pitt Meadows Secondary School

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T5X_iSRNueU

Technology Picks of the Week

TweetDeck (now part of Twitter)

http://www.tweetdeck.com/

Request your Twitter Archive

http://blog.twitter.com/2012/12/your-twitter-archive.html

Google Glass

http://www.google.com/glass/start/

That wraps it up for episode 146 of TechTalk4Teachers. Show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at eiu.edu/itc To leave a comment or suggestion, please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the Tech Talk for Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom and I'm Cindy Rich,


Keep on learning.
Tom Grissom, PhD
Cindy Rich, PhD

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