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Sascha — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:03:37 +0000

This post is coming to you from nomadteacher.org – never mad – sometimes crazy | world wide teaching. If you see it somewhere outside nomadteacher.org or sayfun.me it has been stolen. While the supply of educational websites and services reaches new p… Related posts: Social Media & Education: Twitter for Teaching Free Tibet, online! Related posts:

Simple Banking: Online Banking simple.com kicks off!

Sascha — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 02:02:30 +0000

Finally! After more than two years of waiting (and forgetting) the new way of banking finally kicked off! Simple, the service that offered sign-ups more than two years ago and promised to kick old banks in their ass, rolls out to the public. Right now everything is by invite only but since I signed up [...] No related posts.

Stage 32 – Fade in to a Social Network for creatives and artists

Sascha — Sun, 13 May 2012 02:00:17 +0000

The other day I stumbled across a ‘new’ social network. It focuses on creatives and artists and aims on connecting both. It’s called Stage 32 and uses the slogan ‘fade in’ to stay in your mind. When signing up you’ll be asked to enter your name, location, age and profession (comedian, artist, director, etc…) so [...] Related posts:

The right to be read

Sascha — Thu, 10 May 2012 02:02:43 +0000

A few days ago I came across a google+ discussion started by a quite famous German PR guy where he asked what people think when somebody tells them that they didn’t read their post, article, statement or paper and, when asked about it, simply rep… Related posts: seocial! the secret…of good blog posts Related posts:

If you smell…what WWE is rocking. Social Media role model.

Sascha — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:02:29 +0000

A post about Social Media & WWE. Two of the things I like very much. Already love it. For those of you who do not know the WWE: WWE stands for World Wrestling Entertainment and it’s basically a good choreographed, action packed, ‘super athletes compete in fake beatings’. To make it short: It’s a big [...] Related posts:

Loudlee – social music network

Sascha — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:12:14 +0000

While you’re all going crazy about (wooohooo, a picture sharing platform!) I happend to come across loudlee. Loudlee is a ‘social music network’ that lets you add songs and artists to your library and follow people (like on pinterest :P) you like. So what’s new with that you might ask by now. And that’s a [...] Related posts:

Teaching Diary: English Communication Scavenger Hunt

Sascha — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:00:52 +0000

Once more a hands on post about something I tried in class this term. The first time ever that somebody over here tried to pull an ‘interactive’ game off so it wasn’t that easy to get the people involved but in the end it worked out. Not perfectly, but still funny and with the desired [...] Related posts:

Social Media & Education: Twitter for Teaching

Sascha — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:00:15 +0000

After already talking about the biggest of all social networks, facebook, and its potential for teaching purposes and the article on how to use a self hosted website for educational matters, it is now time to focus on another big player in the social media hemisphere. Twitter. For those of you who don’t know Twitter [...] Related posts:

Social Media & Education: Brief guide to jump-start your social media efforts

Sascha — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 02:01:08 +0000

After my blog post about Facebook & Teaching I received quite a lot of mails asking for more examples and advice on how to use Social Media for teaching purposes. While I am currently writing on further in depth posts on how to use some of the well known social media platforms I thought it [...] Related posts:

Social Media & Education: Using Facebook for Teaching

Sascha — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:01:23 +0000

Social Media is definitely a huge field with numerous possibilities to interact or getting started. However facebook somehow simply is the one network which is widely known as ‘the social network’ or even ‘the internet’. So it seemed quite reasonable for me to start my series ‘Using Social Media for Education‘ with facebook as first [...] Related posts:

Sociale Media & Education: Using Facebook for Teaching

Sascha — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:40:32 +0000

The new youtube

Sascha — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:52:04 +0000

Apparently youtube is testing a new layout of it’s website. And this time it’s not only a minor twist, it’s an actual change! I’ve noticed this on quite some profiles. However I still have some profiles where I still see the old layout. I have to say that I am quite happy with the change [...] Related posts:

Google rolls out Google+ Pages

Sascha — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:52:19 +0000

Beginning today Google announced to roll out Google+ Pages for businesses. You can brand your site, upload pictures, videos, share, connect, etc….everything you’re used to from this other social network. So check out the intro video. I think there’s not much more to say. We all know how important brand pages can be. Nevertheless I [...] Related posts: