Sarah Milstein, author of the O’Reilly Radar report Twitter and the Micro-Messaging Revolution, pointed me to this blog post with a lot of interesting suggestions about how to use Twitter as a teaching tool. It’s good reading, and the Academic Hack blog (which I hadn’t heard of) looks like a good new addition to my RSS reader.
Tag: Sarah Milstein
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Storytelling with Web 2.0
From my college friend @SarahM, who has turned out to be vastly cooler than I am, comes a tip about storytlr, a new service that looks like it has some interesting potential for the classroom. Basically, it takes inputs from all kinds of Web 2.0 tools—Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Picasa, Facebook Random RSS feeds, etc.—and strings them together into a narrative. Basically, you choose the inputs, the date range, and the web page template, and the system puts out a storyboard with your pictures, videos, blog posts, tweets, etc., in chronological order that you can then edit. This would be fantastic for class projects or trips.
Sweet!