#edtech20 #edtools of the day #choosito next generation, content #curation platform

Like I write in my previous post Content curation is the act of continually identifying, organizing, and sharing the best and most relevant content on a specific topic or issue online . I think curation tools are gateway through knowledge and semantic web 3.0 in XXI Century Education . For this reason I launch #edtech20 curation and semantic project global project where teachers worldwide can join free to discover toghether step by step the way through semantic web 3.0 and to post in this blog .
Dear members of #edtech20 #PLN like I write in my previous post I want to post about new edtools used in #edtech20 curation and semantic project in XXI Century Education and I invite you to join this free project and fill up this document with your information http://tinyurl.com/doc-edtech20projectand after I will invite you to collaborate in this blog and #edtech20 PLN http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/ and wiki https://web20andsocialmediaineducation2010.wikispaces.com/. You can contact me also at webmaster@luciandumateachweb20.eu for more informations .
Today I write about #choosito next generation, content curation platform
Concept
Choosito! is the next generation, content curation platform, supported by advanced natural language technology and fueled by the community. Its purpose is to help teachers, students and parents find quickly educational resources on the web.
Schools offer students safe and laser focused search and learn experience. Teachers build their own grade level and subject area libraries and fully integrate them with research assignments. No more broken links! Students sharpen their research skills and quickly find the resources they need for their assignments.
Innovation
Choosito! Web is the only real time text processing search engine on the web. Advanced natural language technology and linguistic analysis are used to analyse web pages and characterize the thematic content of the site and the linguistic complexity of the text.The Teachers' library is the only community fueled content curation platform with searchable educational resources and no more broken links.
In Choosito!'s Questbook, research assignments are fully integrated with resources and enriched with automatically executed web searches.
Idea and development
Choosito!'s ambition is to assist teachers face the challenges that the internet era poses to educators. These in the experience of Dr. Eleni Miltsakaki would be summarised as follows:
1. The internet is a tool both very powerful and tricky to use, especially so in education.
2. The focus of the educational purpose has changed radically from knowledge focused to research skills focused.
3. Their own studies did not prepare teachers for providing what is now required of them.
4. There are technical and infrastructure issues that often act as barriers for effective use of the internet in education.

Eleni's idea initially was to create a search engine which for the first time would aim not towards the information and its usage so much but mainly towards the user and her characteristics. This is how Choosito! came to being and evolved to becomingthe first search engine to focus on the user and ask: Who is she? Is she a researcher, a kindergartener, or is she a high-school student? Is English her first or second language? Is she researching a science school project or is she searching for details regarding her hobby? All these factors influence what she is searching for, why should they not influence the answers she is getting?

This is technologically possible by the ability to automatically perform linguistic analyses of text. Choosito!'s core technology performs.

1. Evaluation of the text's level of difficulty.
Choosito! analyses the text of each page identified by the keywords, evaluates its level of difficulty and categorises it into a corresponding educational level (elementary school, middle school, or high school and above.).

2. Identification of the text's main subject or thematic area.
Choosito! analyses the text of each page identified by the keywords, and assesses the thematic content of the page, categorizing it into main school subject areas (e.g., science, language, arts, health & sports).

Both the analysis of reading difficulty and thematic content are performed by Choosito! in real time i.e., following the submission of the keywords. This means that Choosito! is capable of accessing and analyzing the web in its entirety, with all the websites and information available at the time of the search.

As search results, Choosito! presents either all web pages that fit the keywords, adding the extra information of the difficulty level and primary subject area, or only the pages matching the selected difficulty level and / or subject area, in addition to the keywords (filtering).

Filtering content by school grade and subject area is the core features of Choosito! across all its functions which include:


1. Choosito! Web
2. Choosito! Library: access to official educational sites
3. Teachers' Library: content curation platform, enriched by teachers
4. Images: access to photographic material
5. Questbook: access to inquiry based research assignments, fully integrated with all Choosito! search functionalities.


Choosito! is to date the only search and learn environment that's curated by the educational community and assisted by the most advanced natural language processing technology.

Dear #PLN if you know other curation edtools and you have advices for me please live a comment .

#edtech20 #edtools of the day . #slideshare is the best and world's largest community for sharing presentations.

Dear members of #edtech20 #PLN like I write in my previous post I want to post  about new edtools used in #edtech20 curation and semantic project in XXI Century Education and I invite you to join this free project and fill up this document with your information  http://tinyurl.com/doc-edtech20projectand after I will invite you to collaborate in this blog and  #edtech20 PLN http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/                                                   and wiki https://web20andsocialmediaineducation2010.wikispaces.com/. You can contact me also  at webmaster@luciandumateachweb20.eu for more informations . Today I want to write  about slideshare the best and world's largest community for sharing presentations and the best on-line tool for on-line presentations still appear prezi .

 I begin to use this edtool 3 years ago http://www.slideshare.net/DUMACORNELLUCIAN/ and because I write in my blog about new edtools and apps like you can see in my presentation for #co11 .

Teacher Duma Cornel Lucian Romania present #edtech20 project in connecting online 2011

Today I want to show you a presentation made by me related to European Union , EU educational projects and  programes and Roamania in European Union and I appreciate your comments and feedback .

European Union

View more presentations from DUMA CORNEL LUCIAN http://unhub.com/web20education/82503

SlideShare features a vibrant professional and educational community that regularly comments, favorites and downloads content. SlideShare content spreads virally through blogs and social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Individuals & organizations upload documents to SlideShare to share ideas, conduct research, connect with others, and generate leads for their businesses. Anyone can view presentations & documents on topics that interest them, download them and reuse or remix for their own work.

SlideShare is the best way to get your slides out there on the web, so your ideas can be found and shared by a wide audience. Do you want to get the word out about your product or service? Do you want your slides to reach people who could not make it to your talk? Are you a teacher looking to share your lesson plans? It only takes a moment - start uploading now, and let your slides do the talking. The world will take notice.

Today a Slideshare features you can organize a online video  session using     

http://www.slideshare.net/zipcast and also now you can upload videos on slideshare . 

International eTwinning Project ,,Different, But Equal "

View more videos from DUMA CORNEL LUCIAN http://unhub.com/web20education/82503

A surprise for #edtech20 #PLN AND my 3000 FOLLOWERS @SCOOPIT #curation #edtools revolutionize XXI Century Education .

Dear members of #edtech20 #PLN like I write in my previous post I want to post  about new edtools used in #edtech20 curation and semantic project in XXI Century Education and I invite you to join this free project and fill up this document with your information  http://tinyurl.com/doc-edtech20projectand after I will invite you to collaborate in this blog and  #edtech20 PLN http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/                                                                 and wiki https://web20andsocialmediaineducation2010.wikispaces.com/. You can contact me also  at webmaster@luciandumateachweb20.eu for more informations . Today I want to write  about  the best curation tool scoop.it .but please add comments and also I have a surprise for you . If you want to try this incredible curation tool please email me or add here a comment with your oppinion about this tool or curation tools and with your name and your email and I will send you a invitation because today I have 3000 followers and I will tweet more related to semanticweb , curation , edtools and I will use #edtech20 hastag and I invite you to follow and post in the topic 
#edtech20curationandsemanticprojectinXXICenturyEducationby@web20education






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Scoop.it everywhere

View more presentations from Scoop.it

Scoop.it is topic-centric, but  we can’t forget that it’s first of all a social media
 The main difference with the others social media is essential: Scoop.it lets users follow topics, not people. Scoop.it brings you content on topics you’ve decided to follow, shared by other people on these topics. People we meet are users who are willing to discuss about the same subjects. What gather people together are their passions! We don’t always share our passions with our friends: especially if they are unusual. Your interest about the Chinese culture may not be shared with your best friend!

In short, with Scoop.it you share content with people who are likely to find it relevant. Scoop.it enables to share things you would not normally share on other social Medias.
Sometimes you find that it’s too risky to share links with your family, your colleagues or old classmates. They will also not necessarily be very interested in your passions. And above all, the information that you will find relevant, will not be lost in the middle of thousand other posts.
And if you are a little bit curious (we are all), you will read the content on topics curated by other users who share the same interest, and you will comment their links.

Scoop.it  was born officially in  11 november 2010 and it is a gold mine for curious people and it is  a social media answer to curation 

We created Scoop.it because we felt social media needed much better curation tools than the ones which exist today.
What do we mean by that ?
With the explosion of Facebook, Twitter and blogs, we feel it’s not always easy to discover or share content on a specific topic with people who share exactly the same interest. Yes, we receive great content from our Facebook friends or from our Twitter contacts. The simple fact someone we know – and respect the opinion of – decided to share it makes it more likely to be good. This is a basic form of curation : highlighting good content.
But as our social networks grew, our timelines became crowded by constant updates, some of which are great, some not so much and others even spam. And at the same time, we all have topics that matter to us that never get covered in these timelines. If you’re passionate about freeride skiing and online video games, you can’t just expect everyone you connect with on social networks to be as ecstatic as you are about the latest patch changes in World of Warcraft or the latest hardware tests in airbag avalanche systems.
This is what we want to change.
We want Scoop.it to be the place where passionate people can select great content on the topic of their choice, assemble it in an easy-to-read online media and share it with others who share the same passion. And we want it to be easy.
Your Scoop.it experience will start by defining the topic you want to cover. Based on that and on keywords you select, we will automatically suggest potentially interesting links from a variety of sources we’ve crawled for you across the web. From Twitter feeds, from Youtube, from blogs related to your topic and many other social media we plan to integrate soon.
We think that will make your life easy : by receiving a constant stream of topic related suggestions, you’ll never be short of inspiration to find the best links and content on your favorite topic. And in just 1 click, you’ll add them to your topic, an online media that you’ll shape with your particular tastes and vision. Of course, there are other ways to add content to your topic like for instance the bookmarklet you can add to your browser tool bar as a “scoop it” button, etc…
The other important feature is that topics you create can be followed. By anyone, no need to be a Scoop.ituser. Via a topic’s permalink, via RSS or even simply via email. They’ll receive a daily update on all the topics they’ve subscribed to.
Eventually we’d like you to think of Scoop.it as a service that inspires you on the topics you feel passionate about so that you can highlight and share the best content you found.
So pick up the topic of your choice, start publishing on it the greatest links you’ve selected, share it with others, have them subscribe to your new media and build a community of followers sharing your passion !
In a word, be the curator of your favorite topic.

 

#edtools of the day . #SymbalooEdu is the best to made a #PLE and #edtech20 bookmark

Dear members of #edtech20 #PLN like I write in my previous post 
I want to post daily about new adtools used in #edtech20 curation and semantic project in XXI Century Education and I invite you to join this free project and fill up this document with your information  http://tinyurl.com/doc-edtech20projectand after I will invite you to collaborate in this blog and  #edtech20 Ning PLN http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/ and wiki https://web20andsocialmediaineducation2010.wikispaces.com/. You can contact me at webmaster@luciandumateachweb20.eu for more informations . Today I want to present you a wonderfull edtool, 

SymbalooEDU who  is a PLE   curation tool to organize and share the best of the web with others, for example your friends, colleagues or students. I am very proud to be accepted a certificated Symbaloo Edu Teacher after I made  for #edtech20 project a webmix .
 

 Nowadays there are many online tools and resources for teachers in the market, with the attempt to make classes more interactive and appealing. After Symbaloo’s launch, we have received a large number of emails in which people have stated that Symbaloo is a great resource for teachers. Some teachers even say that Symbaloo is amongst the most promising educational resources on the web, especially because it works very good as a Personal Learning Environment

The  history of Symbaloo and  it  features              The visual interface and ease of aggregating content and sharing it, makes Symbaloo a great resource for teachers. With Symbaloo you can:

• Gather the best content on the web about 1 topic, and present it on a webmix
• Share a webmix with other teachers, and students
• Discover useful webmixes in the Symbaloo Gallery to use in the classroom
• Share a webmix with parents to provide some insight of the used materials

A worthy mention: Symbaloo is free of charge and doesn’t include any annoying ads.

Symbaloo as an educational teacher resource in Holland

In Holland, where Symbaloo has been founded, the most popular webmix is Digibord. This webmix is created by a teacher and is used in many classes on the digital board in the classroom (smartboard). It has been installed over 45,000 times in the last school year. This photo is of a Dutch classroom that is using a smartboard with Symbaloo (we found it on a Dutch newssite for teachers).

At Symbaloo, we think our tool can be used perfectly as one of the main resources for teachers . Once everything is set, Symbaloo can be used as the central point for gathering content for the class and for the students.

Start the discussion about Symbaloo as an educational resource in your classroom

For the school year that starts this September, we would like to do something extra for schools. Currently we’re working on a special EDU version of Symbaloo with the best online content, so all teachers can start right new school year with a great resource. We are interested in knowing which topics you would like to have a webmix for, or if you already have one please share it with us!

Symbaloo update: Embed Content

I was very  excited  when I saw  that Symbaloo has launched a new feature: embedding your internetfavorites on your webmix. This means you don’t have to leave Symbaloo anymore if you want to see a photo on Flickr, a video on Youtube or a document of Google docs. On this video you will learn how to embed webservices onto Symbaloo.

How to embed on Symbaloo from symbaloo on Vimeo.

What’s Next for Your Delicious Bookmarks?

As news of Yahoo’s Delicious bookmarking site coming to an end hits bookmarking enthusiasts worldwide we question whether some are ready for a change. What is the Future of Bookmarking?

Delicious users, we feel your pain and offer a solution that is quite contrary to the status quo. Imagine seeing all your bookmarks visually, being able to search for collections of bookmarks around one topic and being able to share them to Twitter and Facebook with the click of a button. That is in fact possible now on Symbaloo and we are currently developing a solution to import your bookmarks from Delicious that will be available soon.

Why Symbaloo? Symbaloo is a visual way to save and organize your online bookmarks. We are free of charge and free of advertising. Colors, icons, images and text can all be used simultaneously to identify your bookmarks. Videos, slideshows and photo albums can easily be embedded for quick access without having to leave Symbaloo. Your bookmarks go with you where ever you go. They can be accessed from any computer or device such as the ipad, whiteboards or tablets.

Many services are embeddable on Symbaloo such as Youtube, GoogleDocs, Flickr and more with many more on the way. See all embeddable services on Symbaloo.

Tired of Tagging? Our pre-populated and user generated database contains thousands of pre-tagged tiles. Simply search within our tile search box for your favorite sites. For those who still have the itch for tagging, the option is still there but by tagging groups of links into what we call a webmix, you are now making it easier for everyone to find collections of valuable resources all centered around one topic.

Social sharing is easy on Symbaloo. Users have the option to share their webmixes publicly by publishing to our Symbaloo Gallery, which indexes to Google, or they can share privately through email, Twitter and Facebook.

Quick saving is a must. To make bookmarking your favorite sites even easier we have a Symbaloo Bookmarker add-on available for Firefox and Chrome. If you are browsing websites and would like to bookmark it to your Symbaloo you simply click on the Symbaloo Bookmarker that you have installed to your browser toolbar and it will add the bookmark to Symbaloo without leaving the site that you are on.

Firefox Link
Chrome Link

Get Social With Symbaloo

We have some very exciting new features to tell you about that might get you socializing more through Symbaloo. Last week some new social widgets were added to the tile database: Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. With these new widgets you will be able to browse, update and post to these social sites but also see what your friends are up to directly from Symbaloo.

Facebook Widget

With the new Facebook widget connecting with your friends has never been easier. As you can see you will have access to all of your basic Facebook functions through the center box once you have added the Facebook widget to your webmix.

To update your status just click on the little “thought bubble” icon in the top right corner next to the home button and a text box will appear for you to type in your update and post to Facebook. You can even view your photos or those of your friends without having to leave your Symbaloo. Click on “photos” and it will take you to the albums and images you wish to view. Once you click on the image it should enlarge the image right in your screen, it will open directly in the center like this image here:

Twitter Widget

What you can do with Facebook you can also do with Twitter. Post updates and browse the latest. By adding the Twitter widget to your webmix you will be able to view your twitterfeed, profile, messages, mentions and tweet without ever having to leave Symbaloo.

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YouTube Widget

Last but not least is our YouTube widget. If you are as addicted to YouTube as we are then this tool is for you. You don’t have to leave Symbaloo anymore to browse videos, view your playlist or see what’s popular on YouTube at the moment.
Install these widgets today and start socializing through Symbaloo! We’d love to hear what you think about these widgets. If there are any other tools that you would like to see added to our database please submit a comment below.

IN CONLUSION LET'S Create , share and discover .using Symbaloo is a new visual way of navigation on the internet.

#edtools of the day used in #edtech20 project . #GlogsterEdu is the best in XXI Century Education .

Dear teachers first I want to wish  HAPPY EASTER / PASSOVER .
Like I write in my previous post kindly I invite you to collaborate  and join free  #edtech20 curation and semantic project in XXI Century Education and fill up this document with your information  http://tinyurl.com/doc-edtech20projectand after I will invite you to join free and collaborate in #edtech20 Ning PLN http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/ and wiki https://web20andsocialmediaineducation2010.wikispaces.com/ 
and if you want you can post your favorite tool in this blog because 
I want to post daily 1 of the best #edtools used in #edtech20 project and I invite you to post with me in this blog . 
Today I want to write about the best and my favorite edtool in  XXI Century Education Glogster Edu who can be used in many ways and for this reason I want to show you some presentations made by me using this wonderfull tool and I want to told you that I am very  proud to be accepted in  Glogster EDU Ambasador Team and I have a GlogsterEdu  Premium account (Glogster EDU Premium is a collaborative online learning platform for teachers and students to express their creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom) Click to see my Glogster Edu Ambassador introduction made by Deena Kelly.

Because today is Easter I want to show you a glog made after international Contest ,, Ressurection of Son of God and the renaissance of whole making "

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Glogster Edu is the leading global education platform for the creative expression of knowledge and skills in the classroom and beyond. Glogster EDU empower educators and students with the technology to create GLOGS - online multimedia posters - with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more. 
My students love to make glogster edu presentations to show their activities, their work and also  to learn many things using this edtool.

In my first glog I present #edtech20 project :





I don't know if you saw still now , but #edtech20 project is included in April Newsteller .

Benefits

Expand Digital Literacy

Glogster EDU creates a digital learning environment, where teachers and students learn technology in an easy to use and scalable format that simplifies the educational process and produces assessable multi-modal results across the curriculum spectrum.

Enable Standards MasteryGlogster EDU enables public or private schools, districts, states, and education institutions of all kinds, to meet and exceed educational technology and content area standards for creativity and innovation, communication and collaboration, research and information fluency, critical thinking, problem solving and decision making, and digital citizenship.

Promote Independent Problem SolvingGlogster EDU creates an adaptable and innovative learning environment for all learners, regardless of age, gender, culture or learning style. Students are encouraged to be independent, inventive problem solving and lifelong learners.

Demonstrate Understanding of Curriculum ObjectivesThe Glogster EDU format encourages students to express independent and creative thought, and be competent and confident problem solvers. Glog-based teaching and learning strategies facilitate such development, and open possibilities for designing new curricula to meet education objectives.

Fulfill UDL PrinciplesGlogster EDU’s platform fulfills the UDL Principles of: Multiple Means of Representation, in order to give diverse learners options for acquiring information and knowledge; Multiple Means of Action and Expression, to provide learners options for demonstrating what they know; and Multiple Means of Engagement, to tap into learners' interests, offer appropriate challenges, and increase motivation.

Enhance Formative and Summative AssessmentsGlogster EDU enhances the connections among curriculum, instruction, and assessment methods. Glogster EDU will increase the efficiency of summative assessments and expand the scope and nature of formative assessments.

Provide Differentiated Instructional ActivitiesGlogster EDU’s differentiated format promotes a positive balance between acquisition of factual knowledge, the mastery of concepts and skills, and the imaginative use of multi-media and relevant Internet resources.

Features

Glog Creation Interface

A Glog is created using a very easy to understand, drag and drop interface that is relevant, enjoyable, and scalable for students of all ages and learning styles. A Glog is an interactive visual platform in which users create a “poster or web page” containing multimedia elements including: text, audio, video, images, graphics, drawings, and data.

Create Curriculum Based Projects for Classes, Groups, Teams, or Individuals

The teacher can work with students in a classroom or through remote instruction using this multimedia platform – a community system for sharing is prepared where student‘s work is stored and available at any time. The teacher creates projects with templates and instructional guidelines, assigns them to the students, provides feedback throughout the assignment, and assesses their finished work.

Glog Presentations! Share student or teacher projects in Class, School, District or Beyond

Once projects are complete, the teacher can share students’ work in a variety of educational settings. Glogs can be embedded in a blog, wiki, or web page or shared with others using Glogster EDU’s innovative presentation capabilities. Choose exemplar student projects and demonstrate students’ achievements with parents, administrators, students, and other educators.

Private and Safe Learning Environment for Teachers and Students

The teacher easily creates a private virtual classroom with students by registering for a teacher administered account, generating student accounts with safe logins and passwords, and monitoring all activities within the account throughout the learning process. Student accounts can be created without providing email addresses or other contact information. The Teacher’s Dashboard provides direct access to all students, projects, and other activities.

Single Multi-Subject and Class Dashboards for Teachers and Students with One Login and Password

All educators utilizing Glogster EDU’s inventive platform have direct access to individual students through a single portal – the Teacher Dashboard. Not only can teachers see all student activity within their own Teacher Dashboard, each student can also easily view and manage all of their classes and projects within their Student Dashboard. A single login and password will provide each teacher and student with complete access to multiple classroom activities. In the near future, Administrators will have a unique, secure login access for monitoring entire district or state-level Glogster EDU activities.