Tech Talk Tuesdays

This was an informal session where participants determined the direction of the session. Participants came from a variety of educational sectors, from Australia and from Russia. Participants were asked the following:-

1. What they would like discussed in this session.
2. Tools or technology that they could share.

High interest was expressed in the recent release of google+ and twitter. Application sharing was used to demonstrate some of the tools shared.

From the chat came the following:-

Google+

• 40 google+ tips for newbies
• Google+ The Complete Guide (from mashable)
• Interesting Ways to Use Google+
• Potential in education

Twitter

• The Simple Twitter Book
• The Complete Guide to Twitter
• Gentle Introduction to Twitter
• Wiki page for twitter
• Why every teacher should join twitter

General tools/sites

• Social Network Reviews compares social networking sites
• Jing, a screen casting tool.
• The best web2.0 tools for education so far in 2011
• Powerpoint Heaven
• Make your images into jigsaws with Jigsaw Maker
• Diagram.ly
• Wordle for making word clouds
• Thirty ways to use wordle