EduTek n Social Media Advisor

Blended Mode of Learning using MyOpenCampus

I had already blogged about ‘SocialMediaLearning through MyOpenCampus’ at http://bit.ly/g8324F Now MyOpenCampus is available in the new version enabling you to

• Start a discussion, assign users and user groups and send notifications about them to users through email.
• Upload files and share them with users
• Create assessments, assign users to take them, announce the test results after deciding minimum passing %.

This is simpler version of original MOC brought out earlier, enabling you to interact with users of your choice without using Twitter and blog.

Hence when MOC (MyOpenCampus) is integrated with regular F2F teaching, it would allow the faculty more time for presenting the concepts effectively as testing the students’ knowledge, reflection on topics and sharing information can be done through MOC.

Moreover, MOC is user friendly and hence can be used by faculty and students with ease. Help videos are also available as soon as you log into MOC

NCHER Bill

I had already mentioned about Higher Education and Research Bill in my blog post titled ‘NCHER Bill’. The bill has been introduced in Rajya Sabha. The important details of the bill can be learnt by reading the article in Hindu titled ‘A mission to boost innovation, promote accountability in education’

The full text of the bill can be learnt by clicking here.

As I had already mentioned, it really is a bold step in improving quality, research, innovation in Higher Education.

As I talk about improving quality in Education, I recently read another interesting article in Hindu titled ‘A ‘5Es' strategy for education in Tamil Nadu’ where not merely models but strategies also suggested to improve the 5 Es in Higher Education namely expansion, equity, excellence, employability and e-governance.

Those interested can access the entire article by clicking here.

                                               

 

 

Happy New Year 2012

Wishing all my readers a 'Very Happy & Prosperous New Year 2012!'.

My last 200 tweets in the form of PDF diary available at http://www.twitario.com/pdf?twitterUser=ELnSMediaExpert 

 

EduTek on Scoop.it

 Want to know the latest happenings in Educational Technology. I am curating content related to Educational Technology and scooping them on webpage EduTek

You can view some of the articles I’ve scooped on the webpage EduTek below.

Would like to keep yourself up-to-date with what is going on related to Educational Technology? Then follow me on EduTek and know the latest and important information related to Educational Technology.

 

Educational Technology & Digital Marketing on Facebook

The following are some of the links and information I share on my Facebook page 'Advisor2U' related to Educational Technology and Digital Marketing / Social Media Marketing.

Just visit the page ‘Advisor2U’ and like it, to update yourself with the information I share related to above mentioned topics.

Create Your Google+ Branded Page

Google+ now lets you create your branded / business page.  Creating your Google+  branded page is simple. Just follow the video for instruction and it’s as simple as that.

 

I’ve created mine at https://plus.google.com/117910132570041602200/

How about you?

 

Concept board

Realtime teamwork can easily be realized on thoughts and documents. Can be tried with colleagues, customers, friends and students.

 

Mobile Learning through iSchool Initiative

View the video 

The iSchool initiative (Mobile Learning) 

Source - The iSchool initiative (Mobile Learning)

Create ‘Lists’ for Facebook like ‘Circles’ for Google+

You can now create lists and organize your friends into various lists such as

• Close friends
• Family
• Place of stay (Chennai)
• Company
• School /College you studied etc easily.

Creating lists have been made easier because Facebook has recently announced three improvements:

• Smart lists - Lists that create themselves and stay up-to-date based on profile info your friends have in common with you--like your work, school, family and city.
• Close Friends and Acquaintances lists – Lists where you can see your best friends' photos and posts in one place, and see less from people you're not as close to.
• Better suggestions - You can add the right friends to your lists without a lot of effort.

In order to create your lists, just visit https://www.facebook.com/ and you can see lists on the L.H.S. of the webpage as shown below.

In order to create more lists, just hover your mouse around lists and you can see ‘More’ appearing as shown below.

Click ‘More’ and you can see various lists already created by Facebook based on your place of stay, where you studied etc  with options to create a new list according to your requirement as shown below.

You can click existing list and add members to it. Or you can click the tab ‘+Create a List’, add the ‘List Name’ and create list choosing people from your friend list.

This enables you to keep tab of your friend’s’ activities without much hassles.

 

 

Social Reader as NewsPaper for Facebook from Washington Post

Yes, you can get Social Reader, a newspaper for Facebook from Washington Post.

According to Mashable, ‘The Social Reader application, built on Facebook’s new Open Graph, offers users a personalized news reading experience, with front page stories pulled from The Post and its content partners’.

To get Social Reader on Facebook, click here.

You’ll visit a webpage, whose screenshot is as shown below:

Click the button ‘f Read Now’. You will be asked to login using your FB login details. That’s all there is to do. You get a WP Social Reader as shown below.

To access the newspaper at anytime, just type the URL https://apps.facebook.com/wpsocialreader  and login using FB details.

Or you can visit your FB newsfeed page and can click the application ‘Washington Post Social Reader’ as shown below.

You can send invitations to your friends too and see what they are reading to make your Facebook Newspaper more exciting.

 

Google Related is Cool!

‘Google Related is a Chrome Extension that shows you useful, interesting content while you browse the web.

When you're surfing with Related, you'll often see a thin bar along the bottom of your screen that offers videos, maps, reviews and other content that's relevant to that page. When you see an item you like, you can spread the word by using the built-in +1 button’

You can install the Google Related Chrome Extension by clicking here.

What you can find by installing Google Related can be realized by watching the following video.

 

The following screenshot (My Twitter a/c in Hoot Suite) shows the presence of Google Related as thin bar with the items such as video and webpages. 

Pointing the arrow near ‘web’, lists related websites that can be +1d as shown below.

In this case, Google Related suggests web pages related to HootSuite not even competitor’s applications. Of course I have not tried many web pages to generalize this.