Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 08/20/2013

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://joelcomm.com/i-am-leaving-social-media.html">I Am Leaving Social Media - Joel Comm - JoelComm.com</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">I read Joel Comm's book Twitter Power and it has been one of my longtime favorites on the topic. Here he talks brutally about the negatives of social media. I admit the topic caught my attention. I"ve just found that if I'm brutal about who I follow and make sure they're real educators, I'm usually pretty happy with my stream. I unfollow junk as soon as it is evident it is junk. Ultimately we all must guard who we follow or we might just find ourselves following the garbage truck.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/twitter">twitter</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/social">social</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/media">media</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/opinions">opinions</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/social media">social media</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/edu_trends">edu_trends</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://deaddrops.com">Dead Drops | Un-cloud your files in cement! 'Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space.</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Dead drops.com has a list of dead drops around the world. Some of my students brought this in as a maker project that they want to do in Friday's #geniushour . Honestly, I'd never heard of this and I'm not sure what I think about this. It could easily be used for great things - sharing photos or making a time capsule of sorts, but it could also be use to pirate files. It is interesting what happens when students bring in ideas.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/maker_projects">maker_projects</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/file">file</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/sharing">sharing</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/hacking">hacking</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='https://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 08/20/2013

I Am Leaving Social Media - Joel Comm - JoelComm.com I read Joel Comm's book Twitter Power and it has been one of my longtime favorites on the topic. Here he talks brutally about the negatives of social media. I…

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