from Information Technology Services
Foursquare is a location-based social networking game. Use your smartphone or SMS (text message) to “check in”, share your location with friends, and collect points and virtual badges.
You can also bookmark information about places (venues) that you want to visit, read tips that others have posted, and post your own tips. You can even become the “mayor” of a location!
See what students are saying about Foursquare.
As college students, we are asked to do a lot of research for papers, discussion boards—you name it. I’ve noticed that sometimes when I find a really good source, the page is either gone when I try to find it again or I just can’t remember how to get back to that particular page. Bookmarking can be helpful but Diigo offers so much more.
By using Diigo, you can highlight text, bookmark, and attach sticky notes to webpages. The highlights and sticky notes are nice because they stay on the original webpage, so when you access the material through your Diigo account, you don’t lose any important information! Also, you can access your account from any computer or iPhone, so you’ll always have your information easily accessible.
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You can also bookmark a page to Diigo by uploading the material to your personal account. Diigo allows you to search your collection of information by tags, highlights, sticky notes, etc. Tags are better for sporadic information while lists are helpful to organize, share, and display your collected material. You can also play with WebSlides and use any list of URLs as a slideshow!
Stop losing important information today – try Diigo!
Location-aware applications deliver online content to users based on their physical location. Various technologies employ GPS, cell phone infrastructure, or wireless access points to identify where electronic devices such as mobile phones or laptops are, and users can choose to share that information with location-aware applications. As mobile devices offer greater amounts of data about the environment through which we move, location-aware systems will become increasingly effective at predicting what users would like to know about in the geographical space around them, offering a layer of knowledge superimposed on the physical world that can be accessed for information and convenience.
Download the Location-Aware Apps PDF from EDUCAUSE’s 7 Things… page.
