"The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a \nConnectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall \n2008."
a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.\n
Ffynnonweb is owned and managed by Julia, a Technology Enhanced Learning Co-ordinator who believes passionately in the effective and imaginative use of social media in education. She also enjoys sharing and discussing interesting content with friends online.
Research into The Challenges, Usage and Benefits of Social Media within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) has recently been carried out by Jadu. The findings represent feedback from 60 respondents across the UK, from 44 HEIs in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.
This blog is co-created by the students and the prof in FILM345, part of the Film & Media Department at Queen's University. coordinator: Sidney Eve Matrix inquiries: film345@gmail.com
The web2practice guides explain how emergent web technologies like RSS, microblogging, podcasting and social media can enhance your working practice. Each guide consists of a short animated video explaining the key concepts (such as microblogging in the example below), supported by a more in-depth guide covering potential uses, risks and how to get started.
Tips, tools and technology for educators. Although focused on elementary education there are some useful resources.
Is social media the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Eric Qualman from Socialnomics thinks so! This is another great visualisation of the latest social media statistics that always makes for a few minutes well spent watching! It provides a range of great stats like these…
By 2010 Gen Y will outnumber Baby Boomers
96% of them have joined a social network
1 out of 8 couples married in the US last year have met via social media
Facebook added 100 million users in 9 months
If Facebook would be a country, it would be the world?s 4th largest
80% of companies are using LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees
80% of Twitter usage is on mobile devices. People update anywhere, anytime. Imagine what that means for bad customer experiences?
In 2009 Boston College stopped distributing e-mail addresses to incoming freshmen
YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world
There are over 200.000.000 Blogs. 54% of bloggers post content or tweet daily.
This page is a static permanent web document. It has been written to provide a place to cite the coinage of folksonomy.
Social media allow users to share information about themselves and their interests. Sarah Cunnane examines their role in the academy
Intro to social media tools and survey of use in HE 2008