Kaye Sweetser’s favorite tools

1. Microblogging — Twitter (and Twemes.com/edb)
2. Facebook — example: use the gift function to send gift to nonprofit volunteers, etc. Also creating groups, an alternative to ProfNet, pitching. (Most of us on Facebook let students add us but don’t invite them.) Also, you can create a class to post announcements and reminders (@scullyke12). Can also buy ads and target them very narrowly (@rdfrench)
3. YouTube — example: Bateman team created two videos with middle school kids to promote auto safety. Could do a contest with an entire class or campus.

Robert French’s favorite tools

1. Flip camera — students buy one instead of a textbook. Students also have video on their cameras. Don’t worry about great production value.
2. Utterz — use a cellphone for a podcast. He’s recording one as we watch! Plus Seesmic, ooVoo etc. Just get students out there interviewing people, etc. — the content is less important than the experience. Students make mistakes and problems come up, but you deal with them as it happens (ex: student talking about celebs from internship).
3. Robert and Mihaela Vorvoreanu are Skyping a video demonstration! Can also record them. Great for guest lectures or class meetings when the instructor is traveling. Robert also says his class has its own 800-number. QIK.com allows you to stream video from a good cellphone.
4. Tubemogul is another online video service — allows you to upload once and put it into 13 other sites (but you have to register with them first).
5. Live streaming such as Ustream or Blog Talk Radio
6. FERPA release: Robert will share his template for potential lawsuit purposes in case a student does something dumb online and then tries to say “The professor made me.”

Phil Gomes’s favorite tools

Before he revealed his favorite tools, Phil showed us some videos that his Edelman “students” produce in one morning at the end of their week-long course. It looks like they have some fun in addition to learning a lot.

1. Flickr online photosharing service. You can upload but then put them on other sites (blog, etc. — we are using it on Twemes.com today in conjunction with our tweets). Can use sets and collections (of sets) to organize photos, and you can tag/search tags.
2. Ning allows you to build your own social network. “Proof of concept” — demonstrate in a client pitch what it would look like before actually launching it. Add videos, photos, forums, blogs, etc. You can create groups by interest and friend people and create badges and widgets for people to put on their sites, and there are RSS feeds for different parts of the site. Dr. V. points out education.ning.com as a resource for educators.
3. Phil also talked about mashups, such as a guy who used Flickr to create a search by hue and color. Dr. Kaye Sweeter points out this could be used to find pictures, get permission to use them in the right color for a campaigns class. Other cool examples like Flussgiest– just to show what’s possible.

Tags: edbuga08, edelman digital bootcamp, Grady College, Kaye Sweetser, Phil Gomes, Robert French, social media tools, The University of Georgia

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