Some of my students worked with the JDRF New England Chapter to record their spring research briefing. Thanks to Kevin Bell, Christina Gangi, Eileen Mullan, Taylor Murphy, and Julie Pomponi, who attended the event, recorded the videos, edited and posted them, and posted the accompanying presentations on slideshare.net. This gave the students the opportunity to create and produce multimedia and interact with blogging and collaboration tools. Way to go!
Qik!
Brandon Schug stopped by my office today. Brandon is a former student who graciously allowed me to use his Facebook profile in my textbook. We were playing with the Qik applicaition for the iPhone, which does live video streaming.
@anywhere
Similar to Facebook Connect, Twitter has launched @anywhere, a new service that allows users to tweet about activity on other sites from anywhere on the Web.
“We’ve developed a new set of frameworks for adding this Twitter experience anywhere on the web. Soon, sites many of us visit every day will be able to recreate these open, engaging interactions providing a new layer of value for visitors without sending them to Twitter.com. Our open technology platform is well known and Twitter APIs are already widely implemented but this is a different approach because we’ve created something incredibly simple. Rather than implementing APIs, site owners need only drop in a few lines of javascript. This new set of frameworks is called @anywhere.”
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
For the past three years, I’ve been working with JDRF New England Chapter send students to their annual spring researchb briefing. They record audio or video of the speakers, and post it online. It’s a great opportunity for students to work with a local organization and get experience interacting with multimedia. And they do a wonderful service by making these presentations available online to those who would otherwise not be able to attend their event.
Lauren Shields, public outreach manager, is coming back today to meet with this year’s team of students who will be assisting in this project. Last year, I was honored with a volunteer award by the JDRF, and the Bentley Observer covered the story.
Scripts in Google Spreadsheets
This Google Spreadsheet displays a Hangman game. It uses the script feature of Google spreadsheets.
Web 2.0 and Non-Profits
Prof. Don Chand asked me to present to a group of 10 directors of The ARC of Massachusetts, on ideas on how to use social networking tools for fundraising, awareness, and advocacy. Here are some some points that guided our conversation.
It’s a Book!
The textbook is published. I finally saw it in print last week at the Course Technology Conference in Tampa. This week it’s featured in the Campus Technology Magazine’s Web 2.0 Newsletter.
