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I’ve got Google Wave invites to give away to the first eight (8) educators who comment on this post! (Please include your school or how you are involved with education in your comment.)

What is Google Wave?  Watch below to get an idea:

While Wave is still very much beta and makes my head spin thinking about it, I am using it everyday and can see to potential for learning.  I am even including this in my PIP as a PLN.

Please be patient waiting for your invite.  As Goolge states, “Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick.”

Happy waving!

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Official Update to the popular video for Fall 2009

Michael J. Elson Off Topic, Social Networking Digital Video, Multimedia, Shift Happens, YouTube

Heard of Delicious?  Diigo?  No?  There are just two of the most popular sites providing social bookmarking services.  Social Bookmarking is a method for you to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet.  And lucky for us, the good folks at Common Craft have created a simple video to explain what this is all about.

After watching the video, stop by the school’s Delicious and Diigo accounts for some link goodness.  The school’s Diigo account is somewhat limited so stop by mine for a better example of what it looks like.

Note:  Diigo has special education accounts for teachers and classrooms, so be sure to visit.

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The US Marines issued an order Monday that bans social media sites including Twitter, Facebook and MySpace on its network.

The sites increase the risk of sensitive information leaking out to adversaries, the order explains.

Read the full article here: US Marines Banned From Social Media Sites.

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Most people use Twitter, the top micro-blogging service, the same way they use Facebook status updates — as a narcissistic mini-diary of their lives’ mundane events. But Twitter can be

more than a distraction and time killer. In fact, it can follow breaking news, set alarms and reminders, track packages, and stay organized. Here are five ways to get more out of Twitter than just updates on what your friends’ cats are doing.

5 Ways That Twitter Can Make Your Life Better.

Michael J. Elson Social Networking Social Networking, Twitter

Twitter’s popularity has soared recently, and for good reason. What started as a simple way to update friends about daily life has grown into a powerful tool for business, communication, and education. While many campuses are just picking up on the educational rewards possible with Twitter, there is still plenty of room to create new and exciting ways to use Twitter on campus. The following tips will help you know just how to get started using Twitter in academia, teach you etiquette, offer strategies and benefits, provide suggestions for specific ways to use Twitter, list tools to use with Twitter, and more.

100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics | Best Colleges Online.

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Michael J. Elson Social Networking education, Online Communities, Twitter, Web

Oxford University Press has been studying the language of Twitter these past six months – take a look at what they’ve found.

Seems the most commonly tweeted word is (hold the drum roll) “the.”

Read more below:

HigherEdMorning.com » Blog Archive » The hidden problem with Twitter.

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