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As with other professional groups, many educators have integrated Twitter into their digital lifestream and in some cases, their classrooms. But Paul Hudson’s article in techradar makes a good case (as part of a larger argument urging more thought and caution about ostensibly free web apps) for considering Identi.ca as your microblogging platform. In addition to cloning your Twitter stream, he explains that it operates on the OpenMicroBlogging standard and supports OpenID. Essentially, this openness gives you access to your data whenever you need it.

Like Twitter, you can use Identi.ca through the web or a dedicated client. As a Mac user, I like Nambu.

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Campus Technology recently reported that UC-San Diego has released a free iPhone app for students that they can use to access information such as courses, professors, and various videos that UCSD distributes via its YouTube channel. They also include a rather compelling statistic: 2,100 downloads after only two days of making the app available.

Needless to say, there has been lots of interesting movement on the mobile-campus-computing front and I’m definitely looking forward to seeing the research that comes out of this expanding circle of growth. Geri Gay, the head of Cornell’s HCI Group, appears to be one of the leading researchers in the area and gave a very interesting talk at this year’s Educause ELI. A quick look at her publications shows her work in mobile computing extending back to 1997. Impressive.

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