Potentially useful ICT sites 06/17/2009 (a.m.)

• The Educational Technology Site: ICT in Education: --> Independent Review of ICT User Skills

  My review of the just-published Independent Review of ICT User Skills

  tags: Independent, Review, of, ICT, User, Skills, in, education, Terry, Freedman

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Potentially useful ICT sites 06/09/2009 (a.m.)

• Elevator Pitch: Thirteen year-old Scott Campbell has a vision for the future of news | Media | guardian.co.uk

  The 13 year old news mogul. Amazing? Frightening! Great stuff. I wonder what they're taught in ICT lessons...

  tags: ICT, business, news, online, young, entrepreneurs

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Potentially useful ICT sites 05/30/2009 (a.m.)

• Video: #FollowFriday, The Fad That Adds Value To Twitter

  Since January 16th of this year, Fridays have become a big day for Twitter users. The reason for the hype is a result of the hot trend called #FollowFriday. Micah Baldwin, the Creator of #FollowFriday and the VP of Business Development at Lijit, talks with WebProNews in the above video and tells how he had no idea his one tweet would reach the level it has.

  tags: #followfriday, followfriday

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Potentially useful ICT sites 04/10/2009 (p.m.)

• Episode 36: A conversation about Teachmeet NEL 2009

  I recently met up with Dave Smith and Anthony Evans to talk to them about what makes Teachmeet NEL 2009 different from other Teachmeets, and why people should come. This recording, which is just over ten minutes long, is the result.

  tags: TeachmeetNEL09, Teachmeet

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Potentially useful ICT sites 04/09/2009 (a.m.)

• stateofvgamer_040609_fnl1.pdf (application/pdf Object)

  Interesting report on users and usage of various games consoles

  tags: games

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Potentially useful ICT sites 04/07/2009 (a.m.)

• Suicidal teenager saved by Facebook friend - Telegraph

  A British teenager who attempted to commit suicide was saved by police after a Facebook user on the other side of the Atlantic raised the alarm.
  
  At last, a story about the potential BENEFITS of social networking for young people.
  
  It also serves as a warning though: look how little information the police had to go on before finding the boy's actual address.

  tags: Facebook, Terry Freedman

• Facebook saves businessman from bankruptcy - Telegraph

  A struggling printer has saved his business from bankruptcy thanks to social networking website Facebook, he said.
  
  In the light of all the negative stuff being published around social networking, it's good to see a write-up of the positive aspects. In this story, Facebook is used to bring the services of a near-bankrupt company to the attention of a wider audience.

  tags: Facebook, Terry Freedman

• Memex 1.1 » Blog Archive » Relationship Symmetry in Social Networks

  Interesting analysis of the differences between Twitter and Facebook in terms of friends/followers. Concludes that Twitter is a more realistic reflection of how behave in everyday life. My view: yes, but so what?

  tags: Facebook, Twitter, Terry Freedman

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Potentially useful ICT sites 03/15/2009 (p.m.)

• Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Social Bookmarking and Annotation, Social Information Network! - Annotated

  Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community

  tags: no_tag

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