technology inspiration
endeavor to learn what is "tweeting", "if texting is different from IMing", "is a blog a website", and so on...
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"We have to move "to infinity and beyond" with our thinking if we are going to significantly impact the experiences of our students. While we might not yet "embrace" technologies such as IM or Facebook or podcasts or blogs or Twitters or Second Life and all the future social networking opportunities...we must look beyond our own comfort levels and continually enhance our skills if we are going to meet the needs of our students today and in the future." -Charlie Nutt, Executive Director 2009 NACADA Webmaster: Elizabeth Miller 404.894.1405 |
fall 2009 This quote helps put social media in context for me. Maybe it will help you too. -Elizabeth Miller "Social media is not a media. [The key is to listen, engage, and build relationships.]"-David Alston |
technology quick references
This is just a small list of resources to help get you excited and inspired about how you can easily learn and incorporate new technology into your advising, student services and recruitment. We promise to keep in continually updated!
- Blog and Website creation: WetPaint Wikis, Ning, Weebly, Webjam, Office Live, Blogspot, WordPress.com, WordPress.org
- Document creation, management, sharing: Zoho Docs, Google Docs, Box.Net
- Education website/blogs about education technology: Student Affairs Blog, Higher Ed Experts, College Web Editor, .eduGuru, EDUCAUSE
- Encyclopedias, knowledge bases: Wikipedia, Citizendium, Google Knol, Google Earth, Encarta, Worldwide Telescope
- Inspiration: Tech ICPA's Toolbox, Urban Fonts (free), Brusheezy (cool stuff for photoshop), Web Designer Wall, Logo Design Love, Smashing Magazine, eduStyle, Favicon Generator Meeting planning and Web conferencing: Meeting Wizard, Skype, ooVoo, Vyew, DimDim, Yugma
- Photo storage, editing, sharing, image/video resources: Flickr, Photobucket, Pixlr, Getty Images, iStock Photo, Arcagility, SimpleViewer
- Social Networking: Facebook, Twitter
- Video distribution and broadcast: YouTube, Viddler, SplashCast, UStream
- Website bookmarks organizer: Delicious, Diigo, Google Bookmarks
technology reports
Blogging (18MB PDF)
Facebook (90KB PDF)
Feeds (361KB PDF)
Instant Messaging (122KB PDF)
Metting Wizard (232KB PDF)
Tech Report (64KB PDF)