new year resolutions

Hello everyone,

One of my new year resolution is to learn something new, so here is a good start.

15 Fascinating Academic Studies Done on Twitter

"Three hundred million users, one billion tweets each week, and three thousand tweets per second. This thing called Twitter is blowing up. It's been five years since Jack Dorsey released the blue bird of social connectedness onto the scene, but it's only been fairly recently that tweeting has caught fire. The soaring popularity of the microblogging service has attracted the attention of researchers who have come up with some pretty rad data through fascinating studies like these."

If you are interested the rest of the article can be found on the link below.

15 Fascinating Academic Studies Done on Twitter | Online College Tips - Online Colleges

The article was kindly forwarded by Helene Schmidt - Thank you.

2011

Seminar Feedback

Hello everyone,

Thank you very much for coming to my seminar today. Gerald (BBC Scotland) and I would like to ask you few questions. If you have the time we would be most grateful if you could note your thoughts down on the survey below.

I had a brilliant day! thank you very much for your kind words and enthusiasm.

Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world's leading questionnaire tool.

QR

If you want to have a go at making your own QR code: http://www.qrcodemaker.co.uk/

Here is a brillian link to: "50 Great Ways to Use QR Codes in the College Classroom" http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2011/10/17/50-great-ways-to-use-qr-codes-in-the-college-classroom/

Lino

infographics

http://www.good.is/infographics






Graphics from: http://maps.grida.no/

Delicious

http://www.delicious.com/MissTomitaka

Other places:

Things to do with your photos

http://www.dumpr.net/ - great function called "Photo to sketch"

http://bighugelabs.com/ - nice functions like making your own "motivator" and ID cards.

Store your pictures at: http://www.flickr.com/ or http://picasa.google.com/

Random name picker

Click here for larger version

And lots of other useful things for your classroom: http://classtools.net/

BBC

BBC Class Clips are very useful if you can short clips as part of your lesson.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/Secondary/Geography/all/page-2?pagesize=12&format=list


Here is just one example of clip you can find on the site:

BBC learning sagt presentation oct 11 by gerald strother

View more presentations from Akiko Tomitaka

7Billion News

http://paper.li/MissTomitaka/1319791136


iTunes: 7Billion App - National Geographic -

download it from iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/7-billion/id473524096?ls=1&mt=8

Scribd

Full screen version of the document, they can also be downloaded.

The J8 Group Booklet

http://www.scribd.com

Calameo

Booklets and magazines.., the world is your Ostrich

Work-booklet

Publish at Calaméo or browse others.

http://en.calameo.com/

or

http://www.scribd.com/

http://s3morocco.blogspot.com/

Animoto

Quick and easy way to make slide show set to music.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Promoting Geography:
Used "Pinnacle" to make the video

BBC school report:
Used "windows movie maker"

Survey Monkey

Multiple choice homework? Course evaluation?

Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world's leading questionnaire tool.

The Survey can also be found at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DNZK6NX

Death by PowerPoint.

Your new best friend

"Print-Screen" is the most useful key, EVER.

Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 11th March 2011

Plenty of pictures, maps, graphics and storied related to the earthquake.

http://www.facebook.com/AJW.Asahi

If you teach "Japan" as a topic and want to know more about Japan- please get in touch!
My pictures from Japan:


Found this really funky Video of Tokyo by Alex Lee.

TOKYO SLO-MODE from alex lee on Vimeo.

Video can be found at: http://vimeo.com/29186408

Mini Card from Moo Print

If you fancy making your own mini card follow the link: http://www.moo.com/share/rnd9zp
I think you get 10% discount for your first order! yay:)

SAGT conference 2011

Hi Everyone!

This blog is for the seminar called "ask Akiko?" for SAGT annual conference 2011.

See you soon :)