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We installed Google Moderator into our Google Apps setup this morning to try a few things out ready for September. Google Moderator is a tool for collecting the opinions of a group, their tagline is ‘helping the world find the best input from an audience of any size’. It’s something we have been talking about ever since we saw mystarbucksidea.com, knew we wanted to try something similar with our stakeholders but hadn’t got a tool to do it.

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Google Moderator

A new tool from Google that helps organisations crowd source their ideas. Potentially a very good thing for schools providing we can create the right culture for suggestions.

This is my contribution to the 7 links challenge post from Darren Rowse at ProBlogger. Read more about this and contribute your own using the #7links hashtag and adding to the thread here.

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7 Link Challenge

My contribution to the 7 Links Challenge at ProBlogger

This is a follow-up to my previous post on our trials using Facebook in school. If you missed that you can read it here.

Yesterday we finished our first set of trials around using the site for education so I wanted to briefly summarise what we found here. One group of our Spanish students had been testing the idea of using a duplicate profile- we felt one of the lowest risk possibilities for allowing staff and students to interact on the network.

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The Big Facebook Experiment Part 2

We've been running some trials on Facebook to try and decide if it has value as a tool for schools. This is part 2 of my blog posts on the work, our first set of findings.