Tag Archives: Social network

Screencast: An introduction to Google Plus

This week’s screen­cast is a brief intro­duc­tion to Google’s Social Net­work known as Google Plus.

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Mobile App and site review: Lightbox

Light­box is a free Android appli­ca­tion that ties tightly into a pho­tog­ra­phy social media site at http://lightbox.com It is described as: “a place to cap­ture, enhance, & share your moments. Your pho­tos are auto­mat­i­cally orga­nized into a time­line of post­cards on … Con­tinue read­ing

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Facebook app that lets you create flashcards

I recently came across a Face­book app called Q-Kards. It’s a sim­ple flash­card app that allows you to cre­ate flash­cards (for any topic like learn­ing a lan­guage or text vocab) to help you mem­o­rize infor­ma­tion. You can share your cards … Con­tinue read­ing

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Lunch and Learn & the Productive Scholar: Sorat Tungkasiri on Child Internet Safety at Home

Child Inter­net Safety This pre­sen­ta­tion is designed for par­ents with chil­dren who have access to the Inter­net to bet­ter under­stand the cur­rent dan­gers that exist in the world today. The talk offers offer back­ground infor­ma­tion about past and cur­rent threats and … Con­tinue read­ing

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Technology Spotlights: RSS and Twitter

Here’s the slideshow pre­sen­ta­tion from our Tech­nol­ogy Spot­light Series on 3/25/2010. The topic was What is RSS and  Twit­ter and How to Get Started. Here’s the link to the hand­outs for this topic: Guide to RSS Feed Read­ers (PDF) Get­ting Started … Con­tinue read­ing

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