Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Swimming in the Flow: Navigating  the New Information Landscape

Will Richardson's talk to SIGMS

Slide show here
bit.ly/istewr2

Backchannel here
http://www.todaysmeet.com/sigms11

Will Richardson's talk to SIGMS

"curate" we need to teach this
"The word “curate,” lofty and once rarely spoken outside exhibition corridors or British parishes, has become a fashionable code word among the aesthetically minded, who seem to paste it onto any activity that involves culling and selecting." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/fashion/04curate.html

buckets
Not using tools well in a learning context
Need LMS to teach students how to "connect" through the technology
Important book by Clay Shirky "cognitive Surplus" not information overload, but filter failure
"The Filter Bubble"
"The Power of Pull"

http://refynr.com to parse down twitter feeds

http://www.tumblr.com hits sweet spot between blogs and twitter, update really quickly, 140 not always enough, here he can do both, has built in community

http://iftt.com "if this, than that" rules it you post to twitter, goes to tumblr, beta, invite only, ties to evernote, find someone on twitter who can invite you, send from evernote to elsewhere

Instapaper- synchs to iPad
Flippad great for iPads

Who do you trust online? http://klout.com eventually we might look to this

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