Bit.ly : Shorten and Share Long URLs

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Bit.ly is a great utility that  allows its users to shorten  long URLs and then share them with others . In education , tools such as Bit.ly , Sendoid , and Short Text are really very helpful and i think we must be aware of them and use them with our students . They can ease your online work and save us so much time . If you want to learn about the previous tools i mentioned here you can check these posts :


Some features of Bit.ly

Here are the main features that Bit.ly offers to its users :
  • It is free
  • It requires a sign up , you can use your Twitter account to access it .
  • It allows you to shorten many links and bundle them together in one package to share using a single link.
  • It offers a handy extension that you can use in your browser
  • It allows you to track your links and see which one has been clicked on
  • You can search your link history with Bit.ly search engine
  • You can use the recover feature to restore any BIT.LY LINKS YOU HAVE DELETED
  • You can share your links with whomever you like

How can i get started using Bit.ly ?

Here is how Bit.ly works :
  • Head over to Bit.ly main page
  • sign in with your Twitter account OR facebook ONE
  • Paste the URL into the shorten box

  • Click on Shorten button
As you see Bit.ly is very simple to use so why not give it a try .
That’s it about Bit.ly : Shorten and Share Long URLs .
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Storify : Create Compelling stories out of Social Media

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Storify is a great web2.0 tool . It is an application that allows  users to create engaging stories out of tweets . You can also  create stories using social media and turn what people post on social media into compelling stories .



 

Some features of Storify

Storify offers a bunch of free features to its users :
  • It is completely free
  • It requires a sing up but you can use your twitter account to access it
  • You can form , narrate , describe and tell stories
  • You can  find and piece together publicly available content from Twitter, Flickr,Facebook, YouTube and other sites
  • can also add text and embed the resulting collages of content on their own sites
Here is a great article about Storify featured in New York Times under the title : Filtering the Social Web to Present News Items .

How can i get started using Storify ?

Head over to storify main page and sign up for a free account or use your twitter account .
Watch this tutorial video to learn more


Applications of Storify in education

We can use Storify in education to create stories out of the tweets and articles we find online and then present them to students in interactive forms . I really like the concept on which Storify is built and i am quite sure that if you try you would love it too .
That’s it about Storify : Create Compelling stories out of Social Media .
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Snip.ly :Snip and Share Your Favorite Parts of Webpages

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Snip.ly is a cool web2.0 tool . It allows you to capture and share the best snips from your favorite websites . Just highlight a portion of a text in a webpage and clip it . You can then share the clipped portion with your friends or colleagues or use the generated URL to embed in an email for others to see . I love this tool because it lets me share my favorite parts of websites with my colleagues . You can try it too and see by yourself .


Some features of Snip.ly

Here are the main features that Snip.ly offers to its users :
  • It is free
  • No registration is required
  • It lets you snip portions of a webpage
  • You can add comments to the snipped parts
  • You can share these snipped portions with others using a generated URL



Application of Snip.ly in education

Snip.ly is a very important tool that we can use in education . You can use it to share important parts of a page you think will help students in their learning . what is great about Snip.ly is that it enables you to add comments to the snipped text and in this way teachers can share not only portions of a webpage but add comments ,instructions or even reading questions . I like Snip.ly so much and i am quite sure you would love it too .
That’s it about Snip.ly :Snip and Share Your Favorite Parts of Webpages.
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