Web Tools

I’ve spent a great day at Connected and have been pointed in the direction of loads of online applications that will help you lots in your youth work and with your presentation.

Check out:

Ning.com for open or closed blogs (check ours from Connected)

Flickr.com – photo sharing

Twitter –  tell people what you are up to, or what they are missing – direct to their mobile

preview.getthebuzzword.com or docs.google.com for online word processing you can work together on.

PBWiki.com – start your own wiki page and allow others to edit it! (Connected wiki)

Jumpcut online video &  editing

Also, don’t forget to download the Coming Of Age book for some great podcasting tips.

shift6

Shift6 (or ^6, the keyboard shortcut for ‘insert here) is a new blog looking at mobile device use, particularly among young people.  well worth a read or adding to your RSS feeds.

Highlights so far are some information on BLYK, a new invite only mobile phone network for 16-24 year olds, a great blog about why Radiohead’s digital back catalogue release is cool but way too expensive and some good stuff about iPhone, Google Phone, mobile development and all that stuff.

advertising and web 2.0

This is an interesting post about how Eurostar have blogged their move to St Pancras and used some great user generated images on Flickr.  It flags up some of the control issues around using blogs rather than adverts.

facebook song

Is this you?

Students Today

Ever wondered what it is really like to be a student?  The students of Kansas State University’s Digital ethnography Class have been finding out what students really do withe their time…

Is this how your student experience is turning out?

what is blogging? and why blog?

Rob Howard of Community Server talks about blogging from a business point of view (about half way down the page – watch our Converations Matter video) but makes lots of great points and give some interesting statistics and trends following up some of the stuff we discussed this week in class.