Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment to explore diversity and innovation, build a network across diverse communities, create, share and develop new ideas, use social media like Facebook and Twitter as an amplifier.
A US study (http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx) has indicated that younger internet users are losing interest in blogging and switching to shorter and more mobile forms of communication. The number of 12 to 17-year-olds in the US who blog has halved to 14% since 2006, according to a survey for the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
It’s a rich, rich source of information and interaction. But it’s doing my head in. That’s why Jim Hendler’s blog post last Friday hit home so well. His piece is about finding the time to blog, which itself is an issue for me. But if I add to that the distraction of Twitter, the problem is compounded. I keep thinking back to Richard Hamming’s remarks about sustaining that 10% extra effort in your science so as to reap long-term benefits in progress and productivity. And I wonder if blogging and twittering has soaked up that time from my schedule. I think it might have.
Edmodo is a microblogging platform and communications tool for use by teachers and students in the classroom. Edmodo provides teachers and students the ability to share notes, links, and files to foster communication inside and outside of the classroom. Teachers also have the ability to post alerts, assignments, and events to share with their students. You may upload any file of 100mb or less to Edmodo. We currently do not render the videos to flash. We strongly encourage users to use an external video sharing service such as Youtube, Vimeo, or Blip.tv and post the embed codes using our link posting feature.