Ever wonder if the people in Madrid are as excited about something as the people in New York City? What about the people in Oslo, Tokyo, Munich, and the other big cities of the world? Thanks to the new Tweet-o-Meter, you can see just how …
We just stumbled across a great resource that is part wiki-part search portal-part community. It’s called ChaCha and is similar to Yahoo! Answers. One of the more interesting areas (and most active) is the education area. There are currently more than one MILLION questions answered …
A new study from Oxygen Media and Lightspeed Research asked 1,605 adults in the US how they use social media. Their findings? Despite knowing the privacy risks and immortality of online information, we’re obsessed. The Craziest Stats The research found that 40% of those surveyed …
If you’re like us, you want to stay current on the newest and most effective ways to incorporate social media into the classroom. Social media and Web 2.0 technology is not meant to replace teaching; it’s meant to be a tool with which to teach …
Like the rest of the academic world, we’re big fans of the social bookmarking tool Diigo. The site allows you to easily save, share, and embed your favorite parts of the Internet pretty much anywhere. What’s so great about Diigo is that it not only …
From teachers to students, signing into websites is something everyone must do if they browse the web with any frequency at all. You may have noticed that Google remembers your GMail login when you view Google Calendar, Wave, Voice, and all other Google products. Same …