This is my Module 7 blog posting. Please find below the embedded version of my Final Project. I used Screencast to post the content, Microsoft PowerPoint on the Mac to create it, and Apple's QuickTime Pro 7.7 to edit it. Although the presentation may not l00k like much, it took me many hours to put together. I was having issues with Adobe Flash cutting off my audio at the end after posting to Prezi otherwise I would have done a cool Prezi like everyone elsezi...
Here is the Adobe issue
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4384670
I uninstalled it, but it started to get waaay to late, so I had to do quite a few things just to get this on uploaded to Screencast.com. So, this is what I have...because I don't think I will be working on this tomorrow (um, later today)...
Take care...and happy blogging!
Greg
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Using StumbleUpon.com to Aid in Educational Research
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Welcome to Stumble Upon where your search experience is an adventure tailored just to you and your interests.
Today, we're going to talk about using Web 2.0 tools to aid you in your Educational Research but first, for those of you who are not familiar with Stumble Upon, let's go over the functions of the website.
Slide 02
To use Stumble Upon, you may either Sign Up or Sign In and if you have a Facebook account, you can use that.
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For this presentation, I'll Sign in using my account.
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After signing in, you can take a little tour of the site to familiarize you with its features.
Let's skip that part so you have something to check out on your own.
Slide 05
To get started, after you sign in, you can just click on the "Stumble Your Interests" button.
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The first time you click on the button, you'll have the option to download the Google Chrome Extension or a plug-in for other desktop and mobile device browsers.
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Or you can simply get the Stumble Upon bookmark and drag it onto your bookmarks bar.
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At the top of the page and to the left, you have the options to Like or Dislike or perform other options like report a page as spam, etc.
Slide 09
You may also share what you Stumble Upon with friends on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn as well as tell other Stumblers o tell them what you think of a link.
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In the upper-right corner, there are some more options like stumbling through a Specific Interest, Channel, or mode.
You may also start typing a word or phrase in the search box to Stumble through related web pages
For some great social functionality, there is a section where you can accept or decline new Shares, check your messages, or check out new Updates.
This messaging center is definitely a place where you can collaborate with other Stumblers who could also be your classmates that are helping you research or work on a class project.
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Finally, there is a settings section that allows you to browse your Likes and adjust your other settings.
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This is your Interests area. If you haven't selected any Interests, here is where you do that.
You can also add to your Interests here.
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To start our research, let's click on the "Education" Interest icon.
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As we can see here, Education can be identified by the scholarly pencils image and it looks like they already have one million followers contributing to this Interest group.
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This is the page for the Education Interest group.
We're going to focus on a few areas here.
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First, taking a look to the right, you have a mini site navigation area, a "Following" indicator button and other suggested related Interests.
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In the middle is the follower browser.
Here, you can search for others with similar interests.
This is a perfect way to seek out those who you may have heard about or Stumble upon other experts in your specialization or research field.
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Let's click on the "View More" link to try and find that specialist in our area of interest…
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Here is the first page of the 1 million people that share our common interest of Education.
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Well, what do you know. It looks like we found them on the first page. Let's click on "Happy Mind" to find out if they're that long lost expert we've been searching for…
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Now when we go into someone's page, the layout is very much like the Education interest page.
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The difference is that now, we can Stumble that person's likes.
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Or we can take a look at some details about them and copy the code associated with them and post it somewhere.
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However, I am going to Stumble Happy Mind's likes to see what comes up.
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Well, I am glad that I did Stumble his likes because I found a great site about the Zettabyte that I've never seen before.
It actually looks like an infographic. Cool.
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Here is a short summary graphic that says: "The Internet in 5 years will see the dawn of the Zettabyte Era and an overtaking of Web traffic with video consumption at the helm."
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Toward the bottom of the page is actual content that is related to this specific interest.
The great thing about Stumble Upon is that you may just Stumble Upon that perfect article or website that you've been looking for or didn't know existed.
In research, we all know how challenging it can be to kind of know what you're looking for, but not have an exact place to start or those magic keywords that will lead you to the right study or information.
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I'm going to scroll down a bit to see if there are other articles that I might be interested in.
Incidentally, in case you have not noticed, I am in "Grid View" right now.
Let's see what happens when we switch over to "List View."
Slide 29
Well, here is "List View" and it's a little bit different.
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Looks like we're in luck.
The World's Largest Online Library of flash cards is available!
Let's click on it to see what else it says.
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Hmmm… a better way to study.
That's exactly what I need.
I'm going to keep that link handy…
Slide 32
Finally, to the left of the Education interest page, you can click on the "Stumble This" button to get back something of interest.
I know what you're thinking, "What's the difference between that and Google's 'I'm Feeling Lucky' link, right?"
Well, the great thing about Stumble Upon is that the sites and other stuff you Stumble Upon have already been "curated" by someone else with the same interest as you, so feeling lucky with results generated by an algorithm versus an actual human a lot of times can render quite different, if not better results.
The "Stumble This" button returned the following three links of interest within a matter of a few seconds.
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Born to Learn which is a series of animations of how we learn.
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How to find textbooks online by About.com
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And a TED Ed site containing Lessons Worth Sharing.
And with that, it looks like we are done stumbling upon things.
Well, at least for now.
Thanks for listening to my presentation on using the Stumble Upon Web 2.0 tool as a supplement to your Educational Research endeavors.
Good bye and happy researching!
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