EduGeek Journal

Here is a typical scenario in education when an instructor or administrative person decides to explore some online social networking tool. Let’s take micro-blogging for an example. You sign up for Twitter, learn to use it, and then Tweet away for a few days or even weeks. They you get busy and disappear for about [...]

Google has been bit by the social bug. A big, crazy, infectious social bug. Social networking is becoming a part of everything they do. I was recently working on an online Google Presentation for an upcoming conference presentation and noticed that GTalk is integrated in to Google Presentations. You can chat with people online as [...]

I get weekly emails toting some service that is going to take e-learning to the next level, several steps forward, into the next century, etc. If this was even the case half the time I get a notice, e-learning would already be in the 25th century. But, obviously we’re not there yet. So I wanted [...]

If you are like me, you get random emails, IMs, Jaiku/Twitter notices, etc from random people about random cool Ed Tech stuff. You try to pass them on to as many people as possible, but you inevitably leave someone out. Then, you remember the people you forgot and can’t find the original message anymore. Wouldn’t [...]

Yahoo! Teachers, currently in beta, is a collaborative tool enabling teachers to easily collect, create, and share teaching materials with others. Yahoo recently opened up the site to beta users for educators wanting an early look at the new tool. Most of the information on the Yahoo! Teachers site and in recent news articles describes [...]

(As my Dad would say…) I’m not one to say I told you so, but… The tech and investment worlds are abuzz as Google and Microsoft battle it out to see who will get to invest a significant chunk of change in Facebook. (Read more here.) We should find out in the next day, but [...]

These two online presentations popped up in my daily feeds. Just finished reading through them and thought you’d find them interesting. An in-depth look at the history of today’s social web. Tweet This Post

Teach42.com reported yesterday about a new study by the National School Boards Association and Grunwald Associates LLC that explored the online behaviors of teens and ‘tweens’ in the United States. The press release can be found here, and the report itself can be read here. The report contains a wealth of information that can be [...]

John Swords (aka Johnny Ming from the very informative SL podcast SecondCast) posted a very interesting comparison of Twitter/Jaiku and Myspace/Facebook — the problems the first in each pair has been experiencing recently, and how the second has handled similar circumstances in a much better way. For those who’ve been using Twitter recently, you know [...]

Even though social networking is not new, new social networking services seems to going in all kinds of new directions this year. Blogs and discussion boards seem to have been the prototype social networks. Then MySpace and Facebook made networking an official force on the Internet. Facebook had one feature that gave users the ability [...]