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Episode 44
photo credit: Thomas Hawk
Twitter Commentary in response to blog post by David Jakes (sorry–we’re a little long winded, but we just had to do it…). If you’re sick of hearing about Twitter, fast forward about 23 minutes. Hey… you were warned!
Resources
Newbie’s Guide to Twitter
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9697867-2.html
Good beginner’s guide for anyone new to Twitter from Rafe Needleman whose name Anna dubbed in later because she had a flub. It’s a terrible edit. Painful. We’re human.
Long Portraits
http://photojojo.com/content/photojojo-original/long-portrait-video
A quick and easy, but powerful example of digital storytelling. 30 second or less video of someone responding to a question. Great to take at the beginning of the year and then end of year, or from year to year, maybe with the same question each year, to watch the kids grow and change. Good for career days.
Artsonia
http://www.artsonia.com/
World’s Largest Children’s Art Museum
MooURL
http://www.moourl.com/
Web’s cutest URL shortening service. If you have a really loooong URL, just paste it in the text field, and they’ll milk it, creating a moourl for you. It lasts forever, It’s automatically copied to your clipboard, and It’s really cute.
We’re dropping our forums…but you can communicate with other edutechs:
- use Twitter
- use comments on episode notes
- use Diigo
- IM us
A Vent.
I’m SO tired of SPAM! I know we all are, but really. This is ridiculous. WHO is actually buying all these meds and… erm… enhancements? Please tell me there really isn’t someone THAT ignorant! And the worse… lately I’ve been getting loads and loads of variations on the Nigerian scam. You know, where someone has a will with no heir and they have the same surname as me! And I can be that heir! And if I just give some perfect stranger ALL of my personal information! And… oh… a coupla grand to pay for all the transfers up front… I could be rich!! Really, who FALLS FOR THIS?!
So I guess the spammers are realizing that people aren’t falling for this? It’s a guess, but today I got this email:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI Seattle Office
1110 Third Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98101-2904
Phone: (206) 350-6981The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Has discovered through our intelligence Monitoring Network, that you have an on going transaction with a Financial Institution in Nigeria, as the owner of the said sum $7,500,000.00 USD confirmed on a certified cashier’s check.
So the Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI) Seattle, Washington in conjunction with The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Has screened through our various Monitoring Networks and has been confirmed and notified that the transaction you have with the Financial Institution is Legal and you have the Lawful Right to claim your due fund. We advise you to go ahead with the transaction as we are monitoring all their services and networks. Be advised that any letter or claims notification received from anybody or company should be forwarded to us with immediate effect.
Meanwhile, you are advised to follow the procedure of the Financial Institution. They have their own legal procedure which we have examined and confirmed legal. Follow their instructions while you keep us updated for more details. You are advised to contact the necessary office for more details of transfer as we are monitoring every move now.
Please, be advised and be aware that your funds had been insured and the necessary charges would be taken care of by you, as confirmed by the Monitoring network. For your own good you are advised to confirm any transaction or lottery promo you have either involved yourself with in the past to enable us trace this scammers. Only the Financial Institution has been confirmed Legal any other are still under investigation, and so many others are scam, most especially from Nigeria and Africa.
You are to contact the EFCC Director of Operation Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde with the information below in regards to more details on your funds.
Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde (Director of Operations)
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
Phone: +234 1 479 0580
E-mail: efcc-ng@live.comIf you need to contact me at any stage please do not hesitate to call (206) 350-6981.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Robert S. Mueller, III (Director)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Wow! The director of the FBI wrote to me, personally. ME! To let me know that this transaction is legal. Whew! What a load off my chest. And it MUST be THE Robert Mueller because his email address says so – even though the reply-to is a different address. I’m sure that’s to forward to his secretary. Gosh, I would have guessed the director of the FBI to have better grammar and punctuation. And I’m not fond of them just monitoring my transactions. But so nice of them to tell me I’m going to be rich legally. /sarcasm
I’m so sick of spam!
Episode 43
Shout Outs:
- Greg Smith from Round Rock, TX, for promoting our podcast in his district. We love to hear from our listeners.
http://lifehacker.com/374302/google-docs-offline-access-rollout-starting-today
It’s going offline! Yay! It wasn’t an April Fool’s Joke! We don’t have it yet but we’re sure looking forward to it!
JotForm
http://jotform.com/
Create forms with drag and drop. Publish to spreadsheet. Share data. Free account only allows 100 submissions a month. $9 a month will get you unlimited plus a little more.
Education Packs on Twitter
http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/Education+Pack
A PB wiki site for building your Twitter network. We’ve linked straight to the Education pack but you can add yourself anywhere. And find other Twitterers with commons interests
Twubble
http://www.crazybob.org/twubble/
Loads up people you follow and then lists people THEY follow telling you how many of the people you follow follow them but you don’t follow. Do you follow?
Mnemograph: Web Based Timeline (thanks to tbarrett’s del.icio.us share)
http://mnemograph.com
A web-based timeline software application for creating, and sharing history and planning diagrams. Beautiful displays. Easy way to pull in Flickr images and Wikipedia history.
XTimeLine
http://www.xtimeline.com
Another web based timeline. Already has many historical timelines to view. Have to have a (free) account but you can add editors to the same timeline.
CompFight
http://compfight.com/
An advanced Flickr search. Turn safe search on/off. Creative Commons. Get all thumbnails on one page with a hover over for the size of the original images.
Jing Project
http://jingproject.com/
Capture video, images and allows you to publish on their site or locally. Embed link, email. All free.
Start Your Search Engines
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6545435.htm
April feature article we wrote on search engines.
Check out our latest article…
Our article for the April edition of School Library Journal is now available. We talk about search engines and how to get the most out of your (and your students’) search efforts. We’re currently working on the next article to continue the conversation about different types of searching.
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