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I’ve been looking into twitter applications which could be used to display tweets live on a large screen.

Twitter Display Applications

1. Twitterfall

Requires a twitter account but can be used for displaying up to the minute tweets from specific accounts, #hashtags or words/phrases. It has a presentation mode which would be useful for displaying on an interactive whiteboard or large screen.

2. Visible Tweets

Very simple. No need to create an account. Just type in the hash tags you want to display and click full screen. The colour of the background changes over time. There are three animation presets for setting how the tweets will be displayed.

3. Wiffiti

You need to sign up and create an account to be able to publish it. Browser Based. You just set the hash tags you want it to display updates about and a few more settings and that’s it.  To be able to display it full screen you need to publish it and copy the movie URL into a web browser and then select full screen mode for whichever web browser the computer is using.

4. Twittercamp

Displays approx 16 tweets in a table grid. Quite neat to look at.

5. Twitter Fountain

An alternative would be to use something like this which pulls live tweets into a powerpoint slide.

Powerpoint Tools

6. Powerpoint Tools

    Powerpoint Tools How to

There are also lots of twitter clients which could potentially be used to display tweets on a large screen but they tend to be tailored more to desktop use.

Twitter Desktop Clients

7. Tweet Deck

Too busy for this purpose unless it’s a huge screen. Can be used to check Facebook updates too.

8. Twhirl

9. Digsby

Keep check of Facebook : Email from one application

10. Tweet Chat

Twitter and Blogs

There are various apps for linking your blog with twitter and the other way round. Wordpress has various plugs ins for this purpose.

Feed your Blog to Twitter

11. Twitter Feed

Twitter for Conferences

12. Twubs

It’s in beta version at the moment, which is free.

Does lots of tasks which could be very useful to display comments, speeches, videos, photos from a conference and tweets.

Found this web-site Aviary offering free software tools.

Had a quick look and both the audio editing software and the image editing software look very good.

There are a few video clips which demonstrate what can be done with the software.

Recently discovered this video clip of Kseniya Simonova.

“Kseniya Simonova is a 24 years old Ukranian artist. She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and “sand painting” skills to interpret Germany’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII. She won Ukraine’s Got Talent 2009, watched by over 13 million people.”

Find out the time at this website

Scroll Clock http://toki-woki.net/p/scroll-clock/

Here’s a youtube video which demonstrates how to use filezilla for FTP. The site manager feature is useful as it saves you re-typing web addresses and passwords in all the time. However you’d need to remember to update it if you change your password!

I found a piece of software which will convert powerpoint presentations into flash video format.

I-Spring Free

I’ve not tried it but it could be useful sometime.

I found this new service.

Indabamusic

It sounds very interesting. It offers a browser based multi track recording and allows musicians across the world to work on the same session.

I wonder though whether bandwidth will be an issue and whether there is a talk-back facility via the web too.

Some of the major music software companies for some time have been keen to integrate some kind of online collaboration within their software. Ableton Live has Live Share. Protools have an online service which may cost extra. And even Garageband apples bundled recording software has an online collaboration angle.

Then I found this website Kompoz which looks interesting as musicians work and record using the software they own at home and then assuming the musicians you collaborate with have the same software they can add tracks to the recording session. Mixmatchmusic offers a similar but slightly different service. So too does Studiotraxx it’s a global musician for hire site where you pay musicians to work on your tracks.

Professional musicians and studios are always a bit suspicious of such web sites but it’s only a matter of time before a company offers a service like this and the technology exists to allow it to take off …

Maybe with the Indabamusic service and the others that time is coming closer.

I wonder who owns the masters though …

I found this post on web 3.0

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/something_new_in_2009.php

I also found this post which is also interesting.

http://www.macworld.com/article/140699/2009/05/socialnetworking.html?lsrc=rss_main

Heather Waddell and myself are in the process of doing Glow training in a number of local Primary schools.

The ‘Introduction to Glow’ session is based around the Glow Portal training guide although the screen-shots have been redone for each school so that the guide reflects the view of Glow that each member of staff sees once they log on.

St Bernadette’s Primary School

Staff have received one ‘Introduction to Glow’  session and have had 3 (1hr) follow up sessions introducing ‘Glow Groups’, each teacher has set up a Glow Group, set the group membership and started the process of putting some information into their glow group. A further training session on Glow Groups is planned before moving on to a series of sessions focusing on Glow Learn.

Claremont Primary

During a recent in-service day, staff received a full morning of Glow training this covered ‘Introduction to Glow’ and an ‘Introduction to Glow Groups’.

Sunnyside Primary School

Staff have received one ‘Introduction to Glow’ training session. A class at Sunnyside is also planning to work with a class from Menstrie Primary school on a ‘Fish go to School’ project via a Glow Group.

Park Primary

In August 2009 we are planning on doing an ‘Introduction to Glow’ training session and a series of ‘Introduction to Glow Groups’ sessions.

Other Work

Using the SCA (Site Content Administrator) log in, work has been started on Strathdevon Primary School, St. Bernadette’s Primary School, Claremont Primary School and Sunnyside Primary School establishment sites.

This work has included customising various areas within each establishment using the ‘Text Editor’ web part and setting up a ‘Glow Groups’ structure, currently though each site is at different stages of development.

Alva Academy have hit number one in the UK Independent Label charts with their ‘Haggis’ CD for Comic Relief.

I picked up the news via a blog post written by Head of Radio, Jeff Zycinski 

Here’s the proof              BBC Official Indies Chart

Well done to Alva Academy …