Google Plus, Chrome Apps and Tools gateway to knowledge in #education20

Complete #googleplus guide for #Universities #edtech20 #google+ guide

2011-11-21T13:21:00.001-08:00

Google+ for Universities and projects / Google Plus Guide
Google+ makes connecting on the web more like connecting in the real world, providing new ways for students and faculty to find, share and connect online - both inside and outside the classroom and for reason I write in a previous post complete guide to google plus in education http://googlepluschrometoolappsineducation20
.blogspot.com/2011/08/complete-edtech20-guide-to-googleplus_09.html
Like you know now #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project has a page on Google+ for a good collaboration to circle goo.gl/wyidi

Organize your college life with Circles

Circles make it easy to organize your online social and academic lives by sharing relevant content with the right people. With Circles, your photography friends don’t have to get an update about your morning workout, and your triathlon team doesn’t see all your thoughts on the latest camera gear.

Check it out: See how Stanford University created a shared circle of different organizations on campus who are on Google+.

Promote your class, group or team with Google+ Pages

With Google+ Pages, you can create a Page for your student organization or class and use it to share important updates with your membership.

Professors can create Google+ Pages for classes to share homework updates, the latest news on the course topic, or interesting ideas and articles. Universities can also interact with prospective and current students with a Google+ Page.

Check it out: See how Washington University in St. Louis uses their Google+ Page to share campus news and updates, or how Georgia Tech students promote the newest volume of their research journal.

Collaborate and share with Hangouts

Hangouts are group video chat that you can use with up to 9 of your friends. It's ideal when you need to hold virtual office hours, or collaborate on a project - but you're not able to physically meet in the same room. Hangouts are also a great way to connect with your high school friends and family, or to spend time watching YouTube videos with friends in other dorms when you don’t feel like putting on your shoes.

Check it out: Boise State University students study together withHangouts.

Find and connect with groups on Messenger

With Messenger, you can use your mobile phone or computer to chat with a bunch of people at once, instead of having to send individual texts. You can engage in multiple messages at once, so you can make weekend plans with your sorority sisters while simultaneously discussing Plato with your philosophy classmates in a different group chat.

Get Started

Helpful guides and links

Google+ Your Community Guide

Ten ways to build a community on Google+

Interesting people to follow on Google+

Ways for college students to use Google+

Ways for professors and faculty to use Google+

5 must have #socialmedia apps / chrome extensions to share your #googleplus posts

2011-09-13T09:43:00.000-07:00

Nowadays are many apps and chrome extensions to share your google plus post on many social media sites .

My favorite extenssion still now is

Publish sync for google+ and facebook green edition

This is a super top extension, provide two-way syncs Google Plus, Facebook, Twitter, Plurk. It supports article, video, pictures and web links. It also supports sharing function which users are able to share whatever public content in Google+ to: Linkedin, Digg, Myspace, facebook, Twitter..so on.

Features:

1.Supports Google+ Facebook Twitter Plurk Sina QQ mutual synchronization.
2.Supports Google+ circles.
3.Supports Facebook fans page.
4.Can choose any site you want to synchronize .
5.Supports for Mac and Win system.
In addition to sync,also supports sharing. You can share public published content to  Linkedin,Digg,Myspace,facebook,Twitter etc.
After the installation of extension, bind your facebook, enjoy all the functions described above.

Note about permissions:
The extensions access to your pages to implement the sync feature and requires browsing history because it uses the current page URL to auto fill the share button's link field. These permissions are only required because it's the only way to implement all these features.Apart from this,the extensions does not in any way collect any private information or monitor private data in your browser!


SGPLUS  Complete social network integration: post to Facebook and Twitter, see your feeds inside Google Plus, and much more




Features

Start Google+ is designed to help you jump right in to Google's new social network. Here's a few things that the plugin can do:
* Put your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and RSS streams inside your Google Plus stream, complete with "Stream" links on the side and rich media
* Automatically post to Facebook AND Twitter AND LinkedIn whenever you share something on Google Plus (you can turn this on/off from within the share window in Google Plus - see the screenshots)
* Add a Gmail inbox notifier to the top bar, so that you do not have to keep a gmail tab open. Clicking on the Gmail icon shows a menu with the unread messages that let you access your emails directly inside Google+.
If you visit http://startgoogleplus.com you can also transfer or sync your photos from Facebook! You can even get a free invite to Google+ if you are not yet a member and you can make a personalized shorten link to your google plus account like me for example  http://sgplus.me/web20education

ExtendedShare for Google Plus to share to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and many more.

Google+ does not have a quick way sharing your posts to other social networks, this extension will add a link "Share on ..." to each post. Once clicked, it will bring up an internal bubble asking you where to share your post. If you just request one share link, you just choose it, for example Twitter, and it will add a link called "Share on Twitter" to every post

G++ Make Google+ Awesome by Adding Facebook and Twitter Feeds

G++ is a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome that turns Google+ into an integrated social media platform.

- FaceBook & Twitter feed in your G+ Stream!
- Post statuses to Facebook & Twitter directly from G+!
- Like, Comment, Post to Facebook!
- Twitter - Tweet & Retweet in G+!

Netvani+ is a free service that will post your Google+ updates to your twitter and facebook accounts automatically.

Netvani+ is a free service that will post your Google+ updates to your twitter and facebook accounts automatically.

Netvani+ uses OAuth to verify your Google+ identity, and then parses the contents of your public feed's page which are posted to your Facebook and Twitter accounts that you give permissions for.

We can't submit your private updates, and right now we parse the contents of the actual page itself. Later when a google+ api is available, we will migrate to the API.

This service is free courtesy netvani.com. An online social media tool that helps businesses manage their social media presence.

Tools used

This service is programmed in ASP.Net MVC. We use OAuth2 to authenticate on Google+, Facebook, and Twitter.

Content from your google+ profile page are parsed from the page itself.

I want to invite you dear readers , teachers , researchers and social media curators to join free here http://tiny.cc/docedtech20 #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation and #semantic project gateway to knowledge in #Education20 http://central.ly/web20education/ launch this year . For this reason I made next presentation http://tiny.cc/editgoogleplusppt and I want to invite you to add in the ppt your posts related to Google plus tips, tricks, features and more gateway to knowledge and #semanticweb 3.0 in #education20 and also if you like please add comments and share this post with other useful google chrome extensions and apps .

Kindly I invite all of you to join my #edtech20 session in #mmvc11

2011-08-17T04:48:00.000-07:00

Still the begining I must told you that this blog is part of #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation and #semantic global project gateway to knowledge in #education20 http://unhub.com/web20education/
and you can join free here http://tiny.cc/docedtech20
I am verry happy because my presentation ,,Building a powerful PLN in edtech20 project in the New Age of Curation"
is scheduled Friday 8 PM Bucharest time in MoodleMoot Virtual Conferences in English and Spanish on WizIQ by Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning and I invite you all to join free my session / class related to new #CURATION tools and Googlre Plus to build a PLN and all the sessions scheduled in this awesome conference organized by Dr . Nellie Deutsch Muller

Click on the phtoto to register and join free my class

Building a powerful PLN in edtech20 project in the New Age of Curation by Integrating Technology for Active Lifelong Learning

Get your own Virtual Classroom

The MoodleMoot will take place from August 17-21 online via WiZiQ Virtual Classroom. The presentations will be conducted in both English and Spanish. You are invited to join the presentations now to ensure that you get the video recordings.

The topic tracks for MMVC11 are:

Moodle for instruction and learning for blended and fully online courses
Teaching with Moodle in unique ways
Online facilitation using Moodle
Moodle tips
Moodle communities of learning
Research studies and case studies on teaching with Moodle
Moodle innovations and developments
Best practices with Moodle
Case studies
Innovations with Moodle, Mahara, Blended &amp; Blended Online Learning
Mobile Learning
Action Research Projects
Reflective Practice &amp; E-portfolios
New and Innovative Software
Integration of technology into the curriculum

Each presentation will be 40 - 60 minutes long with 15 min for questions and answers.

You are invited to join each of the events (public google docs) and/or website by clicking on the link provided for each session so you can get email notification reminders a few hours before they start as well as the recordings. Please make sure you set your time zone according to your location.
If you like my presentation I invite to join free and collaborate in #edtech20 project http://unhub.com/web20education here http://tinyurl.com/doc-edtech20project
and here you can subscribe for #edtech20 newsteller http://tinyletter.com/edtech20 .
Instead of this photo I will post after the conference presentation

I am very happy also because #edtech20 project has now a mobile app and you can read what is new in our project here .
http://edtech20socialmediacurationproject.mobapp.at/

About
#edtech20 free project http://central.ly/web20education/ is extended of the project ,, Teach, learn, play in 21st Century using web 2.0, social media used in an e-Safe way in education 2.0 " who was selected finalist project in ELEARNING AWARDS 2010 , runner up in the cathegory ENISA silver award for teaching online safety and citizenship .

I start this project because I was selected in june 2010 by European Schoolnet to work in the TIS – Insafe ; Teaching Internet Safety Project under European Schoolnet and TeachToday . I made a team from next european teachers : Coordinator Lucian Cornel Duma (ROMANIA) - me , Aureo Torres (SPAIN) ,Maria Sourgiadaki (GREECE) ,Catalina Nicolin ( MECTS Romania ) and Inge de Cleyn ( Belgium ) . We work all at this module proposed by me is called ,, How teachers and students can use free web 2.0 and social media in education 2.0 “ and all the resource where presented on Teachtoday website between 21- 22 octomber 2010 at Safer Internet Forum in Louxembourg . We made next teaching units :
1. Free microblogging safely in education : Twitter apps http://www.slideshare.net/DUMACORNELLUCIAN/teaching-unit-free-blogging-safety-in-education-5326694
2. Free blogging safely in education http://www.slideshare.net/DUMACORNELLUCIAN/teaching-unit-free-blogging-safety-in-education-53343973.
3.Free animation 2.0 safely in education http://www.slideshare.net/DUMACORNELLUCIAN/free-animation-20-safety-in-education
4. How to introduce Internet safety issue via the discovery of free virtual worlds , Second Life.
I belive that new technologies web 2.0 and social media can open gateway to knowledge for teachers worldwide and for this reason curation tools will prepare the appearance of semantic web 3.0 in XXI Century Education and I http://gplus.to/LucianDumaTeacherCurator made on #edtech20 circle on google plus ( the new tool who prepaire the introduction of new web in #education20 ) . I wish in the future to make a big platform where teachers worldwide can discuss how they can integrate efficiently new technologies in #education20 , but for this we need help and founds and I hope toghether to bring edreform .

Curation has always been an underrated form of creation and it is generally the selection of, care for and presentation of the objects entered into a collection, whether that collection is physical (such as items in a museum) , digital (such as entries in Wikipedia) . Today I use gr8 curation tools many in beta for curating social media ( tools, apps, articles , blog posts , tweets , videos , photos and much more ) like scoop.it , perltrees , postano , shareist , storify , chirpstory , curated.by and bagtheweb .
My favorite are 4 scoop.it , pearltrees , postano , shareist, but every day appear new curation tools who prepair the aparition of Semantic Web who is driving the evolution of the current Web by enabling users to find, share, and combine information more easily . For example delicious tool is a kind of curation, but this new curation tools allows your readers to add comments and suggestion for evry post .
The emphasis of curation may vary among:
The selection process - such as the use of expertise or expert advice to decide what items or content should be added to a collection or archive.
The caretaking process - controlling the decay of historical object (such as census records) .
Presentation - determining how objects or records are displayed, including what metadata will be displayed along with them.
2011 is the begining of New Era of Curation and every day appear new awesome social media curation tools like write Mashable in the article 4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the web . When I read Mashable's article I allready used Pearltrees http://pearltrees.com/#/web20education and after I made #edtech20 team on pearltrees . When Tim Berners Lee originally conceived of the Internet, he envisioned three principal functions and I think that is curation
Allow anyone to access any type of document
Allow everyone to disseminate his or her own documents
Allow everyone to organize the entire collection of documents
Brian Solis write also in his website about curation and curators who play an important role in the evolution of new media, the reach of material information, and the social nicheworks that unite as a result. Curators promote interaction, collaboration, as well as education around the topics that are important to them. As such, services that empower curators will fill the void between creation and consumption. Forrester’s estimation of consumers of social content will erode from 70% to much lower numbers as many ease into social networking through curation – sharing with others the content that captivates their attention. The ease of doing so forever converts the static consumer into a productive curator or perhaps one day, a full fledged creator.
With creation and curation increasing the exchange of information commerce, we are moving new media toward the mainstream creating bridges between social and traditional media and the people who connect around related information. As such, what you discover and equally what you share creates an information economy rich with contextual and topical relevance linked through shared experiences.

I want to collaborate in #edtech20 project with teachers worldwide and to discuss about new tools and apps web 2.0 , social media , and semantic web 3.0 . We will discover toghether how to use many edtools , apps and widgets related to mlearning, wikis , blogs , microblogs , social networking , news readers and news agregators , animation , cloud words , online communities , on-line web conferencing , chats and webinars , bookmarking , sharing using videos , photos , interactive presentations , documents , podcast and audio . I am in the top scoop.it curators ( 30 000 visitors on my topics )and for this reason I made a scoopit curation topic and also a blog for my favorite topics

1.#curation http://edtech20curationprojectineducation.blogspot.com/

2.#socialmedia http://teacherluciandumaweb20.blogspot.com/

3.#googleplus http://googlepluschrometoolappsineducation20.blogspot.com/

google chrome , tools , apps and more in education 2.0

4.#mlearning http://mlearningedtoolsandappsineducation20.blogspot.com/

5.#elearning http://elearningappsandtoolsineducation20.blogspot.com/

6. Second Life http://teacherluciandumasecondlife.blogspot.com/

In conclusion let's make a big curation #edtech20 PLN and toghether we will discover semantic web 3.0 . I invite you to join FREE this project and complete this google doc with your informations http://tinyurl.com/doc-edtech20project and after I will invite you to became a member in our ning network http://web20ineducation2010.ning.com/ and in our wiki
I will make a page on #edtech20 wiki with all collaborators http://web20andsocialmediaineducation2010.wikispaces.com/1.1.+edtech20+project+collaborators+ . All the members who will be involved in this project will use #edtech20 hastag and are invited to curate with me if they use scoopit and if not to add their comments and feedback about what I and other members share in this curation topics and also we will collaborate in our facebook page http://tinyurl.com/edtech20facebook .
I write this words about #edtech20 project, but your advices , comments and feed-back is welcome .

I invite you also to see my #edtech20 glog

Leadership Day 2011 Google COLLABORATION DOCUMENT

Scott McLeod, a highly regarded education leader who is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Kentucky, is calling today for educators who blog to participate in Leadership Day 2011. Dr. McLeod issued the following assignment for those who would like to lend their voice to the conversation in his fifth annual Leadership Day:

"On Friday, August 5, 2011, blog about whatever you like related to effective school technology leadership: successes, challenges, reflections, needs, wants, resources, ideas, etc. Write a letter to the administrators in your area. Post a top ten list. Make a podcast or a video. Highlight a local success or challenge. Recommend some readings. Do an interview of a successful technology leader. Respond to some of the questions below or make up your own. If you participated in years past, post a follow-up reflection. Whatever strikes you."

Complete #edtech20 guide to #googleplus in #education20

2011-08-09T08:00:00.000-07:00

Still the begining I want to invite you dear readers , teachers , researchers and social media curators to join free here http://tiny.cc/docedtech20 #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation and #semantic project gateway to knowledge in #Education20 http://central.ly/web20education/ launch this days . I am proud because my first post was readed by 500 visitors . For this reason I made next presentation http://tiny.cc/editgoogleplusppt and I want to invite you to add in the ppt your posts related to Google plus tips, tricks, features and more gateway to knowledge and #semanticweb 3.0 in #education20 and also if you like please add comments and share this post .

Now let's see what is Google Plus not only a social network, it is a sharing network for your photos ,videos , research and in this post you can read some gogle+ features and stay tune because I will add many apps and tools related to google plus in next posts on this blog .

Still today #edtech20 #socialmedia #curation project has a page on google plus and you can circle me

https://plus.google.com/b/117125932309589630500/117125932309589630500/about

Differences between Google+ Pages and Google+ Profiles

Pages are extremely similar to profiles, but they have some key differences:

Pages can’t add people to circles until the page is added first or mentioned. Learn more.
Pages can be made for a variety of different entities whereas profiles can only be made for people.
The default privacy setting for elements on your page profile is public.
Pages have the +1 button.
Pages can’t +1 other pages, nor can they +1 stuff on the Web.
Pages can’t play games.
Pages don’t have the option to share to ‘Extended circles’.
Pages don’t receive notifications via email, text, or in the Google bar.
Pages can’t hangout on a mobile device.
Local pages have special fields that help people find the business’ physical location. Learn more about local pages.

1 . My favorite feature is circle and for this reason I made #edtech20 teachers circle like I write in my previous post here .

+Circle Enable you to organize contacts into groups for sharing across various Google products and services. Although other users can view the list of people in your collection of circles, they cannot view the names of those circles. Organization is done through a drag-and-drop interface. To understand Google Plus and Circles better, go to the Settings Gear and select Profile and Privacy. Look for "See how your profile looks to other users."You can add in the google plus main stream photos , videos , presentations and links and also you can share with your circles and also on twitter ,facebook your posts . Type in a user name from different circles and click Preview to see what your profile looks like from the specified user. Browse your circles to see what all the different people in your life are sharing with you.Last feature now you can move and organize your circle .

+Sparks is a feature within Google+ that allows you to get a feed from a variety of websites on any topics you choose . Simply search for the things you are interested in to bring up a feed for that interest.

A front-end to Google Search, enabling users to identify topics they might be interested in sharing with others. “Featured interests” Sparks are also available, based on topics others globally are finding interesting. Sparks is a great way to find information to help in your professional development towards building your e-capability, all information is current and reliable.

+Hangouts You can connect with your google plus pln ( friends and circles ) via video by clicking on the Start a Hangout button in the right sidebar of your home page

Used to facilitate group video chat (with a maximum of 10 people participating in a single Hangout at any point of time). However, anyone on the web could potentially join the 'Hangout' if they have the unique URL of the Hangout.

Google Plus Mobile App 4 your Ipad , Ipod,Iphone is the latest feature added yestarday read here

Google+ for mobile makes sharing the right things with the right people a lot simpler.

Huddle lets you send super-fast messages to the people you care about most. And no matter where you are, the stream lets you stay in the loop about what your friends are sharing and where they’re checking in.

Features:
* Circles let you share the right things with just the right people.
* Stream is where you can get updates from your circles or see what people are saying about things nearby.
* Huddle is super-fast group messaging for everyone in your circles.
If you like my post I invite you to share on google plus ,facebook and your favorites social media sites and add me to your circle and if you you don't use still now Google Plus leave a comment with your email and I will send you a invitation .

Google Plus Games

Google want to make playing games online just for fun and for this reason now you can play online games using your googleplus account .

I also want to share with you I'm on g+ parrody . I also want to share with you google plus song And here is a video who explained google plus

#googleplus is gateway to #semanticweb #web30 and it is new trend in #education20

2011-07-09T14:40:00.001-07:00

3 days ago I received a invitation and I joined Google+ project , Real-life sharing, rethought for the web .
I begin to discover this new tool and I made a circle ,, #edtech20 teachers " related to my ,, #edtech20 #socialmedia curation and semantic project gateway to knowledge in #education20 ... http://central.ly/web20education/ where I add the best teachers, elearning and edreform specialists from my twitter PLN see here

Also all the members begin to collaborate using this new PLN tool who open the gateway to knowledge and for semantic web 3.0 and if you joined google+ I can add you in our circle if you leave here a comment with your google plus username or link, here is our stream https://plus.google.com/stream/circles/p52dd4caf891398d6

Because I think that this is the first tool who open the gateway to The Semantic Web 3.0 who is the extension of the World Wide Web that enables people to share content beyond the boundaries of applications and websites. It has been described in rather different ways: as a utopic vision, as a web of data, or merely as a natural paradigm shift in our daily use of the Web. Most of all, the Semantic Web has inspired and engaged many people to create innovative semantic technologies and applications. semanticweb.org is the common platform for this community.

Also because every day appear new tools and apps for google plus I made a curation storify with new features for google+ . http://storify.com/web20education/storify-of-googleplus-in-edtech20-socialmedia-cura . If you read my post and if you know or discover new google plus features please leave a comment or links to your twitter, facebook , youtube, flickr and more and I will include in the #googleplus #storify .
Because I think google+ is the new trend in education and over the social web I made a curation topic related to the best tools, apps , features and articles related to this new PLN tool .

I will write about goole+ project features in my next post so stay tune and here still then you can read more about this new trend ....
from GOOGLE .
Google+ is a social networking service operated by Google Inc. The service launched on June 28, 2011 in an invite-only testing phase.^[1] The following day, existing users were allowed to invite friends, who are above 18 years of age, to the service to create their own accounts. However, this was quickly suspended in a day after there was "insane demand" for accounts.^[2] Google+ will be built as a layer that not only integrates different Google social services, such as Google Profiles and Google Buzz, but also introduces many new features including Circles, Hangouts, Sparks and Huddles.^[3] Google+ will also be available as a desktop application and as an application on Android and iOS operating systems. Sources such as The New York Times have declared it Google's biggest attempt to rival the social network Facebook,^[4] which had over 750 million users in 2011.^[5