links for 2008-07-05

• Twitter Alerts – TweetBeep.com
  Be the first to know who’s twittering about you, your products, your company, or your website!
  (tags: twitter tools mashup alert monitoring)
• PollDaddy Twitter Polls – Send a poll directly to your Twitter!
  Here you can quickly create a poll and post it as your Twitter status. Just fill out the form below and hit send!
  (tags: twitter tools poll mashup web2.0)
• Yuuguu
  The easiest way for you to work as if you are in the same office, when you can’t be in the same office.
  (tags: collaboration remote screensharing desktop)
• Dave Eggers makes his TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School | Video on TED.com
  Dave Eggers: 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School
  (tags: education video eggers ted)
• feedly: a more social and magazine-like start page
  A more social and magazine-like start page for firefox!
  (tags: firefox aggregator rss web2.0 startpage social)

NECC’s Ongoing Influence

Last year, I didn’t have a Twitter account.

The NECC Conference was in Atlanta and when it was over, I went home. Once I got there, I worked my way through my notes and observations and made an impact on myself and planned for how I was going to use the ideas in the upcoming year.

This year, I have a Twitter account. You can follow me at http://twitter.com/dougpete/ First thing this morning, I took the lawn mower through the grass. Then, I fired up my computer and Twhirl grabbed 20 tweets and I saw that the chatter from this year’s NECC continued. I summized “NECC” and holy cow. People were blogging and commenting about their experiences and learnings from the conference. On a normal day, my online learning network has about 200 people. Now, literally, there are thousands of people posting observations, pictures, and resources to share the experience.

I haven’t even begun to dig into the archived ustream resources or archived presentations from the ISTE website.

The learning is ongoing as people continue to share.

It’s never the same as being there, but the resource list and ideas will continue to grow. I still have Alan November’s book to dig into and I also bought that book about Ghosts in Texas. (Despite the rumours, I’m not all nerd…)

This year, the learning continues. The cool thing is that it won’t continue alone.

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Tags: NECC, Professional Development