Wordpress & Hypothesis

• Setting up a blog on Wordpress is fast and fairly simple. See this step-by-step guide.
• The hypothes.is web browser extension allows us to collaboratively annotate online texts. Here is a guide to using Hypothesis.

Social Bookmarks

• Introduction to Social Bookmarks - common craft video 
• Using Diigo in education - try searching key terms, like "literacy"
• Diigo resources - example: https://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation  
• Example of how you can follow people on delicious, and an example of a mature diigo site 
• https://www.diigo.com/user/cwerry
• https://groups.diigo.com/user/cwerry
• http://www.citeulike.org/faq/faq.adp
• http://delicious.com/cwerry
• http://www.academia.edu/
• https://pinboard.in/u:betajames
• https://pinboard.in/tour/

Personal Learning Networks

• helpful introduction to what personal learning networks are, and how you can build one http://www.edudemic.com/build-personal-learning-network/
• http://www.keithrispin.com/guest-post/building-your-personal-learning-network-guest-post/ 

 Search & Internet Archive

• http://archive.org/
• http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/
• http://web.archive.org/web/20000510023446/http://www.yahoo.com/
• http://web.archive.org/web/20060315022702/http://www.yahoo.com/
• http://web.archive.org/web/20100106050251/http://m.www.yahoo.com/
• http://www.yahoo.com/

Geofeedia

• Geofeedia - social search by location ("Geofeedia is the pioneer in location-based social media monitoring for government organizations, media companies, brands, agencies and more") 
• Sample Geofeedia analysis of social media use at the 2014 MTV Music Video Awards (on the company's blog page) 
• A description of how journalists use journalists use Geofeedia 
   

The Google Books Ngram Viewer

This simple tool is sometimes used by scholars to track the frequency of words and expressions. http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

For example, you could use it to track the frequency of certain words relating to digital media. The linguist Stephen Pinker uses it in this recent New York Times book review. 

Search

Archive.org - let's you view web sites from the past

The web archive, or way back machine (http://web.archive.org/) let's you enter a url and a date, and see what the web site looked like at a time in the past. This can be useful for examining changes to web sites over time. Former RWS511 students have used it to compare the way that presidential campaigns have changed their web sites in reaction to unfolding events but also to the potential of social media for political persuasion.

For example, consider Yahoo's 1996 web site, discussed by Clay Shirky in "Ontology is Overrated,"  http://web.archive.org/web/19961228024612/http://www4.yahoo.com/

10 Google Search Tips

10 Simple Google Search Tricks, By SIMON MACKIE

Search by Image and by Voice

Google has added search by image and search voice by tool

• Search by Image: http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searchbyimage.html See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t99BfDnBZcI&
• Search by voice: http://www.google.com/insidesearch/voicesearch.html Demo is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQnZe_Iggx0&NR=1

Wikis - What are They Good For

• See the wiki page  

Google Appointment Slots for Google Calendar

Allows you to schedule appointments and availability. You can set open appointment or meeting times in your google calendar, and invite students, friends, customers to their name and info into the slot. http://coolcatteacher.visibli.com/share/zev7BB 

DropBox - Many people swear by this to manage files...

Dropbox is free, and lets you keep your files in the cloud. Can be used from any computer. See for example this post.

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/dropbox-will-simplify-your-life/?src=me&ref=general

Google Cloud Connect for MS Office

Add this to Office, and everything you work on will be backed up automatically to Google Docs. http://tools.google.com/dlpage/cloudconnect

The Google Suite -Docs, Calendar, Reader, Chat, Mail, GooglePlus, Sites, etc.

A number of universities, including SDSU, have moved to Google.

Google Apps for Education

Google works with software developers who build education (and other) tools, services and platforms that integrate with google products such as calendar, email, docs, etc. Many of these are free and very useful.

https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/search?categoryId=25&orderBy=rating

RSS Readers

Can put important journals, organizations, group blogs etc. in your reader:

http://www.educause.edu/search?quick_query=facebook&Image1.x=0&Image1.y=0
http://www.kcnn.org/resources/journalism_20/

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ 

PROFHACK - Chronicle of Higher Ed  http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/the-profhacker-week-in-review-65/37270

Can set up RSS feeds by keyword

Can find the blog pages of authors you like or are studying, and subscribe.

Blogs by Shirky, Nicholas Carr, Larry Cuban,
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2011/05/etextbooks_flun_1.php
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/
http://larrycuban.wordpress.com/

TeacherTube

Fabulous resource for both teachers and students  http://www.teachertube.com/ 

NING

http://www.ning.com/   "Ning is the world’s largest platform for creating social websites. Top organizers, marketers, influencers, and activists use Ning to create an online destination that weaves social conversations in content and inspire action."

Social Bookmarking - Diigo, CiteuLike, Zotero, Delicious

"Best of" lists

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/bestwebsitestop25.cfm