Top 10 word cloud with styles edtools

Nowadays for education 2.0 are many websites where you can make beautiful tag clouds with style . My favorite is tagxedo.Dear friends and etwinners who joined awesome 3C LE organized by
Adil Tuğyan please write your favorite tag cloud and other tag clouds who you used in education 2.0 in comments .
1. Tagxedo -turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text .You can download from here Microsoft Silverlight to see the clouds .

2. Wordle  a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

3. Kumo - Java Word Cloud An open source word cloud generator aimed at replicating Wordle, Tagxedo, and Word Crams features via an easier to use api.
The goal of Kumo is to create a powerful and user friendly Word Cloud library in Java. Kumo can directly generate an image file, or return a BufferedImage. I plan on hosting it on Maven Central soon.
Current Features
1.Draw Rectangle, Circle or Image Overlay word clouds. Image Overlay will draw words over all non-transparent pixels.
2.Linear, Square-Root Font Scalars. Fully extendible.
3.Variable Font Sizes.
4.Word Rotation. Just provide a Start Angle, End Angle, and number of slices.
5.Custom BackGround Color. Fully customizable BackGrounds coming soon.
Word Padding.
6.Load Custom Color Pallettes.
7.Two Modes that of Colision and Padding: PIXEL_PERFECT and RECTANGLE.
8.Polar Word Clouds. Draw two opposing word clouds in one image to easily compare/contrast date sets.
10.Layered Word Clouds. Overlay multiple word clouds.
11. WhiteSpace and Chinese Word Tokenizer. Fully extendible.
Frequency Analyzer to tokenize, filter and compute word counts.

4.WordItOut WordItOut is the word cloud generator that gives you control with many custom settings. Free to use and no sign up required!
Customise more settings than any other word cloud generator
Create word clouds from sentences, whole documents or tables.
Decide how to filter that text, which words to display or remove, and tweak their importance with ease.
Design your word cloud as you like, find that perfect layout, choose your own colours, fonts and sizes (and how to mix them), or let WordItOut find a random look for you!
Keep control of your word clouds
Share your word cloud with the world (or keep it secret!)
Easily embed them on your own website (as big or small as you want)
Download your own copy as an image file

5.WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials.  WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. This function is widely available in various Tag Cloud programs on the web, but we have added the ability to mark and sort different lists of words important to educators. WordSift have also integrated it with a few other functions, such as visualization of word thesaurus relationships (incorporating the amazing Visual Thesaurus that we highly recommend in its own right) and Google searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text. Make Word Mosaic Write a comment or poem in the shape of hearts or other symbols. Send a greeting or post to MySpace or your blog.

6.Tagul - Tagul clouds are not toys and designed to be used on blogs, web pages or any kind of sites as a replacement of ordinary tag clouds. Tagul is a web service that enables you to create gorgeous tag clouds. It is created by Alex, 27 years old entrepreneur and tech geek from Moscow, Russia. Each tag in Tagul cloud is linked with an URL and is “clickable” that enables visitors to use it for navigation. Also Tagul utilizes widely used flash platform (instead of less common java platform in Wordle) that is light weight (~50kb per cloud vs ~150kb) and stores the clouds on aCDN  to deliver clouds to wide audience instanlty. Tagul has some features that Wordle doesn’t, like custom shapes selection and multiply fonts usage in one cloud.
  7.Tweetcloud was  born out of a project to synthesize meaning from a high volume of short  messages. Our goal is to quickly show users "what's being said" across  the Twittersphere or from a specific Twitter user through an intuitive  interface (a cloud)
8.Worditout is the word cloud generator that gives you control with many custom settings. Free to use and no sign up required! * Customise more settings than any other word cloud generator o Create word clouds from sentences, whole documents, web addresses or tables. o Decide how to filter that text, which words to display or remove, and tweak their importance with ease. o Design your word cloud as you like, find that perfect layout, choose your own colours, fonts and sizes (and how to mix them), or let WordItOut find a random look for you

9.Cloudworks, a place to share, find and discuss learning and teaching ideas and experiences.

10.Wordaizer creates word clouds in a shape. You can use any of the built-in shapes, or make your own shape. Or 'masks' as we call them. Not just horizontal or vertical words, also words placed at any angle, or even curved and curled. At any word density. Wordaizer let's you create truly unique word clouds.

PRINT AND SAVE
The result from Wordaizer is a (bitmap) picture: it can be saved on harddisk, and printed. The paper size is (of course) adjustable, allowing the user to save up to 2 x A0 (150 dpi print). You can save, print, post-process, copy, mail and publish it. Whatever you like, you have full control over the end result.
SUPERSIZE WORD CLOUD
You can save the word cloud (we like to call it 'wordlet') in a vector format: as a windows enhanced metafile ('emf' file format). That is a truly unique feature, never seen in any other 'wordle' application before. The 'emf' file wordlet can be enlarged endlessly as large as you want. Like real wallpaper if you like.
SAVE AND RE-USE
With Wordaizer you can save the full settings into a so-called project file. This is a small file that stores all the relevant settings that you used in your favourite word cloud. Simply re-open that file and continue where you left it and make another great word cloud.
LICENSE/COST
The software is free to use, is fully functional during the grace period, after which some restrictions will apply. It's freeware for non-commercial use. Some advanced features are then only available for licensed users.

Top 10 #GAFE that I use since the begining .I recommand to #googlect who joined #bett2015 and #fetc

Dear teachers who joined #bett2015   and #fetc I used many edtools and Google apps for Education, but now I am proud to be selected from 623 teachers in 111 GCT from Romania http://www.jaromania.org/profesori/pagini/training-9 Now I want to write about 10 Google Apps for  Education :  Google Plus, Gmail, Blogger, Google Chrome, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Toolbar, Google Sites, Youtube .

 Google launched also a awesome startup Google Classroom who is designed to help teachers create and collect assignments paperlessly, including time-saving features like the ability to automatically make a copy of a Google Document for each student. It also creates Drive folders for each assignment and for each student to help keep everyone organized.Students can keep track of what’s due on the Assignments page and begin working with just a click. Teachers can quickly see who has or hasn't completed the work, and provide direct, real-time feedback and grades right in Classroom.

1.   Google Plus
Google Plus is like Facebook, but was made to build a PLN in XXI Century Education. Share and discover,all across Google
Features :
Profile
Make a great first impression
Show the world a little about who you are and what makes you tick. Your Google+ profile helps you control how you appear within Google+ and all across Google.
Circles
Control who sees what you share
Easily manage those updates you see and choose who you’d like to share with. You can broadcast to the world, or keep your conversations private.
Communities
Get together with just the right people
Talk about the stuff you're into with people who love it too. Join public communities around shared interests, or create private communities to get together with just the right people.
Photos
Share more beautiful moments
Keep your photos safely backed up online, where they’re accessible from any device. Photos are automatically enhanced to look better than ever, and it’s easy to find highlights from your collection to share.
Hangouts
Bring your conversations to life
Hangouts brings conversations to life with photos, emoji, and even group video calls for free. Connect with friends across computers, Android and Apple devices.
Mobile
Take Google+ with you on the go
The Google+ app lets you stay connected and keep up with the conversation on the go. Automatically back up your pictures, video chat directly from your phone, talk about the stuff you're into with Communities, create events, and much more, all from the palm of your hand.

2. Gmail - Email from Google

Inbox space for everything, and no ads
Google Apps offers up to 30GB of storage per user, powerful spam filtering and a 99.9% uptime SLA. All hosted by Google - there’s no cost, and no ads for students, faculty or staff.
Work fast, save time
Gmail is designed to make everyone more productive. Up to 30GB of storage means no need to delete anything, powerful search means everything is in each reach, and labels and filters help your users stay organized. Gmail is securely powered by the web, so students and faculty can be productive at home, on the road, or on their mobile devices.
Connect with people, according to your rules
The inbox isn't just about messages, it's about people too. Text, voice, and video chat means that students and teachers can see who is online and connect instantly. Don’t want your students using chat? Want to limit who can send emails to whom? It’s all in the administrator’s control.

3. Blogger is a free publishing platform, powerful, that gives you all the tools you need to start and grow your blog. It is completely customizable and packed with advanced features such as HTML editing, support gadget, mobile publishing, and much more. Blogger integrates with other Google products, including Google +, Google Analytics, and YouTube. Latest feature: Expand public and view your blog and comments Google+, all in one place. Easily share your blog post on Google every time you post something new. Every time you post on Blogger, you'll see a Google+ sharebox pre-loaded with your post, which makes it easier to connect with the audience and reach new readers. Manage conversations in one place Bring comments to your posts together in one place. Whether people leave a comment on the blog or share something about one of your blog posts on Google+, you can see and respond to it right from your blog ..Find out which of your posts really pop. Use a counter on blogger dashboard to quickly see which of your posts are most popular with readers. You can also see how your messages have shared on Google+ . Turn blog visitors into fans on Google+. Add Google+ concerned gadget to your blog to turn visitors into fans Google+. Will be able to keep up with all the posts on Google+ and share them with their circles, helping you reach more conversations people.Start to mention Google+ . Include Google+ mentioned in your blog posts to attract someone's attention. Mention will send Google+ page or profile, and you can notice when you share your post to Google+ from Gmail .

 4.Google  Chrome Browser

Share web pages as you surf and never miss an important update
Use Hangouts on the web and computer
Send photos or emoji see when people are involved in the hangout and messaging friends anytime, even if they're connected right now. You can also start or join video calls with up to 10 friends at once. Use Hangouts while browsing the web or directly from the desktop, even if you have Chrome open.
See what your friends are sharing
Never miss an important update Google+ Notifications extension. You can check and respond to Google+ notifications right in the Chrome browser, so to keep up with those in your circles is a breeze.
Discover applications and extensions as your friends
Find new ways to enhance the browsing experience in Chrome Web Store. Discover apps and extensions your friends have + 1d in the "From your circles. Then share your favorites with one button. Reply to posts instantly

5.Google Toolbar 

There are lots of things to see and do on-line. Google Toolbar is designed to help you quickly find what you're looking for and to discover new things along the way.
Search with Google over all
Google Toolbar allows you to search Google from anywhere on the web. Start typing the query and see suggestions for what you might be looking for.
Share website
Google+ Google Toolbar facilitate the distribution of interesting things on the web and contact with people you care about.
Find quickly
With Google Toolbar you can easily find exactly what you're looking at any page. Highlight search terms, find a few words and go to the relevant sections of certain pages, using three convenient tools.
Go all over the web
Different languages ​​should not be obstacles to explore web resources. With Google Toolbar, go to a page written in a foreign language, and the toolbar will automatically give its translation.
Personalize Your Browser
I have all the sites that we cherish and reliable shortcut. Google Toolbar gives you easy access to your favorite sites, offering you access to bookmarks, custom buttons and a layout that displays only the tools we use effectively.

6.Google Maps

Easily schedule lessons and meetings
Overlay multiple calendars to see when people are available - a great way to manage staff schedules, for example. Google Calendar sends invitations and manages RSVPs.
Integrated with your school’s email
Google Calendar is integrated into Gmail and interoperable with popular calendar applications.
Share with classes, teams and clubs
Calendars can be shared school-wide or with select colleagues. A range of sharing permission controls help maintain security and privacy.

7. Vault
Add archiving and e-discovery to Google Apps for Education
Vault is optional and adds archiving, e-discovery and information governance capabilities
Google Apps Vault helps protect your school from legal risks.
Search the archive for relevant email and chat messages.
Preserve messages beyond their standard retention periods.
Export messages for further review and analysis.
Retention policies
Define retention policies that are automatically applied to your email and chat messages based on rules you choose.
Email and chat archiving
Your email and chat messages are archived and retained according to your policies, preventing inadvertent deletions.
E-discovery
Be prepared for internal investigations, litigation, and compliance audits with powerful search tools that help you find and retrieve relevant email and chat messages.
Legal hold
Place legal holds on users as needed. Email and chat messages can't be deleted by users when they're placed on hold.
Export
Export specific email and chat messages to standard formats for additional processing and review.
Audits
Run reports on user activity and actions in the archive. Searches, message views, exports and more are shown.

                                   
8.Google Drive
Access your files anywhere
Google Drive on your Mac, PC, Android or iOS device gives you a single place for up-to-date versions of your files from anywhere.
Bring your files to life
Share individual files or whole folders with specific people or your entire team or even contractors, partners and constituents. Create and reply to comments on files to get feedback or add ideas.
Store everything for next to nothing
Get started with up to 30GB of free space for each user. Need more? Starting at $5/user/month for

100GB, your IT team can provide up to 16TB per user.
Google Docs: google.com/docs
Create rich documents with images, tables, equations, drawings, links and more. Gather input and manage feedback with social commenting.
Google Sheets : google.com/sheets
Keep and share lists, track projects, analyze data and track results with our powerful spreadsheet editor. Use tools like advanced formulas, embedded charts, filters and pivot tables to get new perspectives on your data.
Google Slides: google.com/slides
Create beautiful slides with our presentation editor, which supports things like embedded videos, animations and dynamic slide transitions. Publish your presentations on the web so anyone can view them, or share them privately.

All files are all still stored and available in Google Drive, but creating, viewing, editing and documents, spreadsheets, and presentations is now faster and easier using the new home screen.
Home screens will be rolling slowly over the next few weeks. Until I got the update URLs above will continue to take you to a new document, spreadsheet or presentation

9 Google Sites
Workspaces common classes, colleges and clubs
Easy to build
Students can build the project sites without writing a single line of code. It's as easy as writing a document. And to save even more time, you can offer hundreds of pre-built templates.
Security controls system and site level
Administrators can manage sharing permissions school site and the authors can share and revoke file access at any time.

Works across operating systems
Google Sites works in the browser on PC computers, Mac and Linux. Teachers, students and parents do not need to buy or download software.

10. YouTube was acquired by Google and allows billions of people to discover, watch and share originally created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small.
Get recommendations from people you trust video

Find new videos to watch based on what people and pages you follow are sharing Google+. It's a channel programmed exclusively by people and brands that you are interested in is not available on your home page YouTube.
Video sharing just the right people

Quickly and easily share videos on YouTube with people you love that you will like also. You can also share, private videos, you load up to 5,000 people, using circles.
Watch along, even when you're not

When you see a video you like, you can watch it live up to 10 friends via Hangouts. Start a video call, invite friends, and open the YouTube Hangout try it.
Help people find your channel

Make it easy for people to find your videos and comments using your name and photo on YouTube. Your public YouTube videos will appear in tab "YouTube" in your Google+ profile.
Reach more viewers to your videos

Whenever you upload a video published on YouTube, you can choose to have it automatically posted to Google+ as well. Share your videos in this way can help you find new fans for your work.
Free live video stream

Use Hangouts to broadcast your message to the world. Your stream will be available on YouTube, Google+, and on its website. You will automatically receive a recording broadcast to redistribute afterwards also.
What GAFE IS YOUR FAVORITE ?

I wish you all a Blessed Christmas and a Fruitful year 2014 . My top 10in review this awesome year 2014 .

Dear friends I wish you all a Blessed Christmas with peace in your soul and happiness in your heart . May the coming year to make all your dreams come true and all your wishes to be fulfield .
Now I invite you to sit near fireplace and listening carols with me and my family and also I invite you to read My top 10 in this awesome year 2014 .

imikimi - sharing creativity
My top 10 in this awesome year 2014 - 10 years of teaching 

December:Because I am a proud GlogsterEDU Ambassador I want to share with you next glogs.I launched Nativity4eTwinners project

and

November - I was trainer in Erasmus Plus Course: Curation, Social Media Master Class in Semantic Web 3.0  http://educuration.wikispaces.com/Main+Page .

Overview of courses in school year 2015-2016: http://www.euneos.eu/courses-2015-2016

Please fill in our online preregistration form. Preregistration means that you show interest in Euneos courses, but it is not a final registration and there are no obligations after grant approval.
Link to online preregistration form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2015preregistration We will offer support for filling in the Erasmus+ KA1 application form to schools / teachers who made preregistration. We will also offer online support by organising video conferences in January and February.
Deadline for sending application form to your national agency is 4 March 2015.

October: Honored to be a expert who participate in NMC Horizon Report Europe 2014 Schools Edition hwo was released. My reflections after this awesome experience .

http://bitly.com/LucianreflectionsinHorizonReportEurope

Horizon Report Europe 2014 Schools Edition from LucianeCurator, EUNEOS Social Media Manager and Trainer
September - a new begining like Euneos Social Media Manager

http://www.euneos.eu/people-2
I present my projects in Bruxelles, Belgium ; Prague, Czech Republic, and now I am Euneos Social Media Manager, Curator and Trainer . Also I organized in my eTwinning projects international symposiums, contests and exhibitions in 10 year of teaching http://teacherluciandumaweb20.blogspot.com/p/about-me-and-my-projects.html .
August - I applied and I was accepted as GlogsterEDU official trainer after I was the 1st teacher from Romania GlogsterEDU Ambassador http://dumacornellucian.edu.glogster.com/glogs

GlogsterEDU official trainer is Lucian 1st Romanian Ambassador from LucianeCurator, EUNEOS Social Media Manager and Trainer

July - #ipad in #education to #mlearning after 4 years. Top 100 #notebook #ipad apps to share knowledge after #iste2014 

http://teacherluciandumaweb20.blogspot.ro/2014/07/ipad-in-education-to-mlearning-after-4.html

June - I am #NotAtISTE , but to celebrate #iste2014 from home I launch #startupeuchat . Discover also my Top 100 #edtools from #iste13 http://teacherluciandumaweb20.blogspot.com/2014/06/i-am-notatiste-but-to-celebrate.html
May - I apply and I was accepted Google Trainer in a National Project Google for Education Romania

April - Top 20 #curation #ipad apps to share knowledge and mLearning http://teacherluciandumaweb20.blogspot.com/2014/04/

ipad-in-education-to-mlearning-after-4.html

March - Top 100 #elearning and #mlearning presentation apps to emaze global audience http://teacherluciandumaweb20.

blogspot.com/2014/04/top-100-elearning-and-mlearning.html

January-Top10 #startup apps to keep your files secure in the cloud  Part 2 http://teacherluciandumaweb20.blogspot.com/2014/03/top-10-startup-apps-to-keep-your-files.html

I wish you all a Fruitful year 2014 . 

#ipad in #education to #mlearning after 4 years . Top 20 #curation #ipad apps to share knowledge .

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Since 4 years now, a revolution has been taking place in software development when 1st Ipad by Apple was relased on 3 april 2010 and since then this mobile device evolve and now are more than 1 Milion apps in Apple store, most of them are free and for this reason every day this mounth I will share in my blog  Top 10 ipad apps in all of kind of categories  . With iPad in Education , your classroom materials go way beyond the classroom. Discover over 65,000 apps just for education, interactive books on every subject, and speeches, virtual tours, and videos from experts and institutions around the world. Extending of mobile devices in Europe presents an opportunity for those concerned with education to explore their potential for mobile learning – learning facilitated by mobile technologies ( Learning in hand )– to enhance education. This highlights a missed opportunity for educators and policymakers, as mobile telephones – especially windows phones, iphones, ipads, smartphones, – can be equally powerful learning tools that are significantly less expensive than other devices like laptops and tablets, promoting BYOD ( bring your own device ). According to a September 2013 report from Gartner, over 102 billion apps were downloaded worldwide in 2013; 90% of those apps  free. Simple but useful apps have found their way into almost every form of human endeavour, and a popular app can see millions of downloads in a very short time. The huge market for apps has spawned a flood of creativity that is instantly apparent in the extensive collections available in the app stores.  Online app marketplaces provide an easy and highly efficient way to deliver software that reduces distribution and marketing costs significantly. Mobile apps are particularly useful for learning as they enable people to learn and experience new concepts wherever they are, often across multiple devices. People everywhere, but especially in Europe, increasingly expect to be constantly connected to the Internet and the rich tapestry of knowledge it contains wherever they go. According to the 2013 “ICT Facts and Figures” report, Europe enjoys the highest Internet penetration rate in the world (75%). The mobile penetration rate in Europe is at 1.26, meaning most Europeans carry more than one mobile device — 30% higher than the global rate, and multiple studies document that when people access the Internet they are most likely to do so with their personal device. London-based research firm CONTEXT reported that in the first half of 2013, tablet sales increased by 137% across Europe, with the Central and East European region one of the strongest growing markets worldwide. The unprecedented evolution of these devices and the apps that run on them has opened the door to myriad uses for education. Learning institutions all over the world are adopting apps into their curricula and modifying websites, educational materials, resources, and tools so they are optimised for mobile devices. The significance for teaching and learning is that these devices have the potential to facilitate almost any educational experience, allowing learners to organise virtual video meetings with peers all over the world, use specialised software and tools, and collaborate on shared documents or projects in the cloud, among many other things. In contrast to how mobile devices are used for learning, traditional ICT-based learning seems oddly place-bound. 

Curation iPad apps

1. Learnist
2. Scoop.it
3. Flipboard
4. eduClipper
5. Pinterest
6. Clipix
7. Pulp
8. Pearltrees
9. Feedly
10. SymbalooEdu
11. Taptu
12. Bundlr
13. Vi.sualize.Us
14. Fancy
15. IFTTT
16. Blendspace
17. YourVersion
18. Trove
19. Delicious
20. Everclip

Lucian Duma

What is mean for you Learning in hand using your Ipad ? Please leave comments and feed-back .

Top 10 #startup apps to keep your files secure in the cloud. Part 2

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Dear friends like you notice I don't updated my blog because I don't have so much free time because I was very busy with my school activities/ projects, but dear teachers kindly I invite you to join my Erasmus+ Course developed in partenership with Euneos : ,, Curation Social Media Master Class for education in semantic web 3.0 " Apply http://bitly.com/CurationSocialMediaKingErasmusPlusCourse and discover more http://educuration.wikispaces.com/Main+Page 

Previous post http://bitly.com/top10cloudappsbyLucianeCurator1
I describe why It is verry important for teachers to use in XXI Century Education elearning apps to keep and secure the files ( photos, videos, presentations, documents ) in the cloud . For this reason I curate and describe here my favorite TOP 10 cloud apps . What app you like more and why . Please leave a comment and your feed-back after you read my article and if you enjoy what you read share with your PLN . I also invite you to discover weekly in this blog more TOP 10 edtools who offer gateway through knowledge for teachers and next mounth Top 10 iPad apps to mLearning

Top 10 #elearning apps to keep safe your files in the cloud

View more lists from LucianCurator Lucian Duma

Top 10 #startup tools / projects for teachers from #microsoft research fuse labs #edtech20 #pln

Dear friends Curation is Social Media King like I present here http://bitly.com/LucianeCuratorCO13Presentation , but like I promise you, after I was a FIE Finalist http://bitly.com/fie2012 I will describe here weekly if I will receive to my blog posts many comments and feed-back from my PLN ,  TOP 10 In my previous post I describe my favorite Top 10 tools in #startup #cloud app battle  to keep safe your files in the cloud and in next post I will describe top 10 startup tools google reader alternative and I will use a startup curation tool,you can add new tools to the list .Stay tune!


This blog post is part of my application for Microsoft Innovative Educator MIE and PILTRAINER  and I am proud member of PIL
NETWORK http://www.pil-network.com/Educators . 

                           

FUSE Labs works in partnership with product and research teams to ideate, develop, and deliver new social, real-time, and media-rich experiences for home and work. FUSE Labs experiences give users new ways to create, connect and collaborate with the people, information and ideas that matter to them.Now I will describe in my post 4 startup social media curation tools and other 6 microsoft research projects
What tool do you like more and why ?                                        Please leave your comments and feed-back .
                                     

So.cl lets you create, collect and share stuff you love. Socl is a research project from Microsoft Research FUSE Labs that began as an experiment in social search targeted at students for the purpose of learning. Following the lead of the Socl community, Socl has since evolved to be a service where people connect over shared interests expressed through beautiful post collages which are organized into group or individually curated collections.
Connect over shared interests expressed through beautiful post collages that take seconds to create.
Follow me on So.cl http://www.so.cl/#/profile/Duma-Cornel-Lucian
                              
Montage is a flexible web-based service that makes it fun and easy to create and share a visual album of the web on the topics you care about. You can design your Montage around any topic you can imagine by adding content that pulls information from a variety of sources, including RSS feeds, Twitter, Bing News, and YouTube. Montage is an expression of you and you can see Curation Restart Education Project on Montage http://montagepages.fuselabs.com/public/LucianeCurator/CurationRestartEducationProject/09b80b8b-3cde-437c-864a-3bf30ae85816.htm
                             
Spindex brings you an overview of your entire social world in one page. With Spindex you can connect to Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, RSS, and Bing – with more services on the way. Spindex allows you to access and interact with your social networks, see trends from your friends, and see related info from Bing on literally everything you click on. Spindex proactively finds useful articles and information based on your interest in your friends’ messages and comments. It lets you find out more about the topics that your friends and feeds are talking about in one click - so you can jump into the conversation.Make sense of your social overload, open your personalized Spindex page, and find out at a glance what topics are hot in your social world. You can also keep track of the things you are remembering via Evernote - right inside of your Spindex page. Spindex is not just a social reader – as you browse your friends’ updates, Spindex continually suggests related content from Bing – giving you better insight into the topics and trends 
                                           
Project Emporia turns your votes on stories into your own personal newspaper.Every day we are told about information overflow; how so much data is coming at us through so many channels every day that it is difficult to weed out the gems that are important to us from all the noise. For those who aren’t social media mavens, the whole concept can be intimidating, and for those that are, digesting social streams can become a huge time sink. Project Emporia sifts through ever-evolving news streams to identify hot stories, categorizes them into topic areas and ranks them, and then presents them to you in a friendly UI. Just by opening Project Emporia you get popular stories on topics of your choice without ever having signed up for anything.This is just the starting point however, you can also influence how future stories are chosen for you, one vote at a time. Your votes will improve the relevance of Project Emporia’s news story choices not just for you, but for every other user as well.
                               
Docs.com  Now you can discover, create, and share Microsoft Office documents with your Facebook friends. Built using Microsoft Office 2010 – Docs for Facebook provides the best possible document service for the Facebook environment. Seamless integration with Facebook means that the service is all about sharing documents.Finally docs can be friendly too http://docs.com/QBT3
                                                    
CompanyCrowd automatically collects stories, media, and social content to create a living newspaper about the companies that are most important to you and your business. It’s fast, easy, and crowd-curated.CompanyCrowd makes this easy by first finding all the social data into one search index and then leverages the wisdom of the crowd to curate the right topics, experts, and personalities for the company or product in question
                                       
Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills.
Kodu Teaches more than Programming
Kodu is a rich tool for narrative creation and storytelling
Kodu demonstrates that programming is a creative medium
Kodu helps children with critical thinking, breaking a complex goal into manageable steps, and iterate on the design process – an approach applicable to all academic subjects, business and personal relationships
Kodu introduces the logic and problem solving of programming
Kodu introduces conditions and sequences, which teaches cause and effect
Students learn about cooperation, logic and creativity in addition to programming
                                            
Some say a picture is worth a thousand words. And when analyzing the massive amounts of data generated by Twitter, this adage could not be more appropriate. FUSE Labs’ SocialGadgets are a set of embeddable widgets that visualize Twitter real-time data. Each gadget focuses on a given keyword and displays its volume of usage over time. Mentioned entities such as people, locations, companies and noun phrases are identified and visually represented. The gadgets are interactive, letting users explore the relationships between topics publically shared on Twitter. By focusing on patterns and trends, the gadgets can extrapolate what people find important, and provide a succinct yet effective way to look at events as they are unfolding.Twitter, 'the pulse of the world,' is an incredibly rich data source used by millions across the globe. People post their thoughts, ideas and whereabouts via text-based status updates. Visually displaying trending topics can help readers better understand content and its context. By using any one of the four SocialGadgets, data flowing through the Twitter fire hose is indexed and semantically analyzed in real-time. Within minutes, major entities are identified and their relationships are displayed. The gadgets are easily configured, allowing users to choose a keyword and a template type, then copy and paste an embed code to be displayed on a website of their choice.
                                   
Bing Twitter Maps Find out what topics are hottest on Twitter.
                                    
Bing SocialKeeping up with real-time information that is coming in from millions of users of Twitter is a tough task. Bing Twitter search makes it easier. Keeping up with real-time information that is coming in from millions of users of Twitter is a tough task. Bing Twitter search makes it easier.

Top 10 tools in #startup #cloud app battle #edtech20 #pln part 1

Dear friends Curation is Social Media King like I present here http://bitly.com/LucianeCuratorCO13Presentation , but we must use also in XXI Century Education elearning apps to keep and secure our files ( photos, videos, presentations, documents ) in the cloud . For this reason I curate and describe here my favorite TOP 10 cloud apps . What app you like more and why . Please leave a comment and your feed-back after you read my article and if you enjoy what you read share with your PLN . I also invite you to discover weekly in this blog more TOP 10  edtools who offer gateway through knowledge for teachers . Next post is about top 10 free edtools for researchers so stay tune and subscribe free :)
                           
Skydrive is a Microsoft App in the cloud who offer you 7 GB of free cloud storage . With Sydrive You’ll be able to access your photos and files from almost anywhere, store them, and easily share them .
Features :
Your cloud

 You've got access to everything on your SkyDrive, your personal cloud, wherever you are. Your photos, documents, and other important files are available to you on your phone, tablet, PC, or Mac. In short, your stuff and your info isn't limited to any single PC or device .And, if you're on Windows 8, and signed into a Microsoft account, you can view all your photos and files, edit and share Office documents, or share with whomever you choose. Plus, stuff like your background, your display, and your settings roam with you.
Real Office, in real-timeGet free Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote in your browser with SkyDrive and free Office Web Apps. Multiple people in different places can work on the same document, at the same time. Share only the documents that you choose, with whomever you choose, and set the rest to remain private.
Prefer to use the full-featured, desktop version of Office instead? Don’t worry,SkyDrive works great with that too.

                                 

Justcloud Store All Your Files In The Cloud and access them From Anywhere At Anytime, From Any Device.
Professional Cloud Storage from JustCloud is Simple, Fast and Unlimited.Just Cloud will automatically backup the documents, photos, music and videos stored on your computer, to the cloud so you are never without files again.
Features :
Sync all your files across your computers and devices
Automatically sync files across computers. With Just Cloud, you decide which files and folders you want to sync and where you want to sync them.
Just Cloud works in the background so your most important data is always backed up and available to you. You can start editing a file on your office PC and finish it on your laptop at home.Browse, backup and sync, all from your mobile
Just Cloud's online control panel allows you to access all of your backed up and synced files from any device with an internet connection anywhere in the world.
You can access your files from Tablets, PC's, Smart Phones, Laptops, Desktops at anytime, from any location. Just Cloud completely eliminates the need for flash drives or other storage devices.
Share files and folders anytime, anywhere
Just Cloud gives you the option to share your files and folders between friends and family. You can invite them by email, Facebook, Twitter or giving them your own custom link.
Just Cloud makes file collaboration easy and gives you the option of conveniently sharing large files between users.Your files are top priority, it's security you can count on
Just Cloud takes the safety and security of your files very seriously, your data is constantly encrypted using a 256 bit secured socket layer encryption.Throughout all stages of file transfer your files are extremely secure and are stored in our high tech cloud data centres that are monitored 24 hours a day.

Bitcasa is your external hard drive in the cloud that never runs out of space. Bitcasa allows you to store, access, and share everything you’ve ever owned – every picture, every movie, every document, every song – without limits and without the worry of running out of space. With the Bitcasa Infinite Drive, you are able to access all your files, photos, playlists, videos and docs anytime, anywhere. This is a screen capture that I am the winner of infinite storage for life in the cloud  for my computer, phone, and tablet http://blog.bitcasa.com/2011/10/03/infinite-storage-for-life-winners-lucian-and-john/ . You can use also bitcasa free 10 GB storage / backup or 99 $ / year and 10 $ / month for infinite storage in the cloud . 

Evernote for teachers is ready to collect all of your ideas, experiences, thoughts, and memories into an always-accessible place.Take down your inspirations and ideas as they happen
Capture interesting webpages you see, images and all
Snap photos of everything from whiteboards to wine labelsThen, find it all any time from your computer, phone, or the web!
Keep a lifetime of learning at your fingertips.Evernote is a great tool for teachers and students to capture notes, save research, collaborate on projects, snap photos of whiteboards, record audio and more. Everything you add to your account is automatically synced and made available on all the computers, phones and tablets you use.

        
MEGA is designed both to compete with cloud storage giants like Dropbox, Google Drive, CX , Evernote and RapidShare—and also to insulate itself from future charges. The difference that makes a difference is that all files are encrypted using a 2048-bit RSA key. (See a detailed writeup here for more details.) What this means effectively is that Dotcom cannot be accused of knowingly storing copyrighted materials because he cannot technically know the content of the filesstored on MEGA—only the user who uploaded the files and/or possesses the key can.

Google Drive. Keep everything. Share anything. 

Dear friends do you think that Google Drive star will beat evernote and dropbox in XXI Century Education  ?
Access everywhere
Google Drive is everywhere you are—on the web, in your home, at the office and on the go. So wherever you are, your stuff is just...there. Ready to go, ready to share. Get started with 5 GB free.
                                      
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. This means that any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, phonesand even the Dropbox website.
Dropbox also makes it super easy to share with others, whether you're a student or professional, parent or grandparent. Even if you accidentally spill a latte on your laptop, have no fear! You can relax knowing that Dropbox always has you covered, and none of your stuff will ever be lost.

                                   
Box lets you store all of your content online, so you can access, manage and share it from anywhere
Features :
Get a Hard Drive in the Cloud: Online Storage
What if the files you need are on your laptop – but you're on the road with your iPhone? No worries! With Box, you store files online – then access them anywhere, anytime, on any device.Get 5 GB Free and Organise All Your Files Into Folders Store all kinds of files online, then arrange them into folders just like on your desktop.

CX is a new kind of cloud experience that takes content to the next level with a range of unique features: secure storage, real-time syncing, public and private sharing, interactive group collaboration, and intelligent discovery. Easily organize your content, access it on the go, share it with friends or publish it online — you decide what and when. Want to discuss a file with a team? CX does that too with group functionality and a unique file commenting system.

ZeroPC - Turning Your Browser Into A Desktop in the cloud .
Connect your personal cloud, securely access all your documents, photos, music and videos from many services all under one virtual roof. Drag and Drop any content from one service to another. Search and discover everything in your cloud content across different services. Securely share any content of any size instantly with anyone. ZeroPC is available on Web, iOS & Android.