This is the slightly expanded version of a session I recently did in Elluminate via LearnCentral with the students in our course, BeyondWebCT: Integrating Social Networking Tools Into Language & Culture Courses. Kevin Gaugler of Marist College was our guest speaker. This was the focus of the session: How can educators filter and manage the abundant resources and information now available through the internet? In the spirit of collaboration and community building, many educators are turning to these mediated environments to learn with and from each other. In this session we'll explore some tools that can help us manage content of interest to us and that can provide our students and us the option of learning with and from those outside the traditional course environment.

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2. Information Overload or Filter Failure?
Session Overview
Information Access Points
~Traditional & Emerging
~Concerns & Possibilities
~Examples
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3. Traditional
Where?
What?
How?
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4. Emerging
Where?
What?
How?
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5. Concerns & Possibilities
Filter,
then publish
versus
Publish,
then filter
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6. Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zipckr/3925513417 by zipckr
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7. Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photopia/455572466/ by HiMY
SYeD
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8. Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/279280606/ by mstephens7
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9. Let’s Practice!
http://beyondwebct.wordpress.com
http://bit.ly/JI5Q1
http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php
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10. http://uconn.edu/connect.php
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11. Information Aggregators
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13. Research Facilitators
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15. George Siemens & Stephen Downes
Connectivism & Connective Knowledge Course
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/
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16. http://www.zotero.org/
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17. Zotero
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19. Diigo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RvAkTuL02A
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22. Twitter
http://twitter.com/
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23. Authority 3.0?
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27. Tag Clouds
Wordle
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28. Time:
D.C. Snowstorm: How Global
Warming Makes Blizzards Worse
http://bit.ly/aUp2zf
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30. Authority 2.0 and 3.0:
The Collision of Authority and Participation in Scholarly
Communications
by Michael Jensen
www.nap.edu/staff/mjensen/authority_3_0.pdf
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31. Resources
Beyond WebCT: http://beyondwebct.wordpress.com/
Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com/
Classroom 2.0: http://www.classroom20.com/
Diigo: http://www.diigo.com/
Google Alerts: http://www.google.com/alerts
Google Reader: http://www.google.com/reader/
Netvibes: http://tour.netvibes.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/
(http://twitter.com/gaugler & /lindseybp)
Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/
Zotero: http://www.zotero.org/
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