Category: Social Media
Digital tattoos and virtual shadows
How you present and protect your personal information is, and always should be, a constant concern in the world of smart phones, twitter, Facebook or whatever the social media medium de jour. I read this post by Kate Torrgovnick on the TED blog called “Two ways of thinking about social media: digital tattoos and virtual shadows,” [...]
Google via Text Message
You are staring at the one bar of cell service you have in the subway just praying that the web browser will return an answer before you leave the station……. and it starts to load just as you leave. Rats. Did you know that you can text Google (466453) a question and get an answer [...]
Google Reader to Retire July 1
I have been out on maternity leave for a while and a bit out of touch, I have to admit, but I somehow missed the announcement that Google was retiring its aggregator, Reader on July 1st. Maybe I am now dating myself…. but I have used reader for years in conjunction with NetNewsWire and sad to see it [...]
Phone Outage: November 28th 7am-9am
FIT Community: On Wednesday November 28th from 7am-9am, IT must apply critical upgrades to expand the phone system in support of the new Advisement Center. Users may experience sporadic outages of the phones during this window of activity. After 9am if a user phone is not functioning a simple reboot should be performed. A reboot [...]
Social Media
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Mini Retreat Breakfast: Social Networking on November 11th!
SOCIAL NETWORKING: Expanding Teaching and Learning with Global Outreach Dear faculty, You are invited to a mini-retreat breakfast on social networking on Friday, November 11, 2011. Please join Ruben Quinones, Director of New Media and faculty member at NYU, to explore the role of social networking in education and its potential to promote inclusion by bringing [...]
Wordle Fun
Just because it’s Wednesday (silly excuse) I wanted to post something for fun. In this day and age of tags, keywords, IDs and categories, why not have a little fun with all those words and create a visual. If you haven’t heard of Wordle.net, take just a second to check this site out. You can [...]
EduTech Day: Panel member Salman Khan’s “Khan Academy”
After hearing from Salman Khan at the “Social Media” panel at FIT’s EduTech Day last Thursday, I came across some great material that I wanted to share about Sal and his “Khan Academy.” Sal started his educational video collection with a few algebra videos that he uploaded to YouTube to help tutor his cousins. He [...]
EduTech Day is here (well…. almost)
Tomorrow is EduTech Day at FIT and we are ready to go! The Great hall was set up today, lighting is moody (in a good way) and the presentations are race ready. We have unbelievable faculty and student presentations throughout the day and sponsors including Herman Miller, Adobe, Apple, Cisco. An Administrative panel discussing their [...]
Video of the day – Blogs in Plain English
With the recent release of WordPress blogs at FIT the buzz is all about and I have received lots of questions of how a blog is really different from a website, or a wiki. I am a huge fan of the “Plain English” videos so please allow me to present Common Craft’s, Blogs In Plain [...]
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