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Twitter Lessons in 140 Characters or Less
The Twitter feed for Lucas Ames’ class in American history has shown some lively exchanges of ideas and opinions among students at the Flint Hill School. One day this month, 11th graders at the private school in Oakton, Va., shared articles on the separation of church and state, pondered the persistence of racism, and commented on tobacco regulation in Virginia now and during the Colonial period—all in the required Twitter format of 140 or fewer characters.
Today's Question: Should social media be used in education?
Educators find themselves with mixed opinions about the role of social media in higher education and its importance in the classroom. Some see it as the technology of tomorrow, an important piece to the puzzle of connecting with students, while others try it doubtingly in their classrooms, assuming that the traditional face-to-face contact cannot be replaced.
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Educators, however, find themselves with mixed opinions about the role of social media in higher education and its importance in
the classroom. Some see it as the technology of tomorrow, an important piece to the puzzle of connecting with students, while others try it doubtingly in their classrooms, assuming that the traditional face-to-face contact cannot be replaced. -
Some people find social media to be a positive experience for education.
"We’re globally connected,” said Jason Ohler, a former professor of
education technology at the University of Alaska, now a media psychology professor at Fielding Graduate
University in Santa Barbara, Calif. “It only makes sense to be globally
connected when we pursue education."
Twitter Transforms Teaching
Twitter recently tornadoed internet social media platforms, rising to the top. Twitter's now tapped as a teaching and learning tool with opportunities to motivate students and advance achievement.
Screenjelly - Home
Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it as a video via Twitter or email. Use it to quickly share cool apps or software tips, report a bug, or just show stuff you like.
The 15 Minute Guide to Twitter Productivity « ShoutEm
While microblogging has helped free students from jails, as well as raised money for charity, it has also given a lot of us a good reason to procrastinate. This isn’t Twitter’s fault. We’ll always find nice and shiny things to do instead of work, but there’s a point where we have to say – enough is enough. Let’s get productive while staying an active microblogger in five simple steps:
School Districts on Twitter -
Google spreadsheet that shows how (and where) schools are using Twitter.
Interview with Kathy Schrock at NECC
Kathy talks about the highlights of the NECC conference in this UStreamed interview.
Follow the NECC 09 Conference on Twitter
Twitter stream graph of the conference
Meet Your Tweeps at the NECC09 Tweet-up in DC!
Monday, June 29 from 7-9 pm @ Rocket Bar, 714 7th St., NW Washington DC
Putting a Price on Social Connections
Researchers at IBM and MIT have found that certain e-mail connections and patterns at work correlate with higher revenue production
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Researchers at IBM and MIT have found that certain e-mail connections and patterns at work correlate with higher revenue production
Twenty-Two Interesting Ways to use Twitter in the Classroom
Another fine presentation by Tom Barrett
All You Need To Know About Twitter
To the Internet hipsters who discovered Twitter in 2006, Oprah's inaugural tweet - FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY, she typed - was the end of the era, the shark jump. But that's like saying the Beatles were over after they appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show."\nTwittermania has only begun. In the days after Oprah's show, Twitter's traffic growth is accelerating. The ratings service HitWise now ranks twitter.com as America's No. 38 Web site. It's about to rocket past CNN and Wells Fargo.
NEA - Can Tweeting Help Your Teaching?
Before you write off Twitter as just the latest social media "fad," take a look at how some clever educators are using it to enrich their classrooms and even forge informal professional networks.
How Twitter can make history [Video]
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers
The rise of online media has helped raise a new generation of college students who write far more, and in more-diverse forms, than their predecessors did. But the implications of the shift are hotly debated, both for the future of students' writing and for the college curriculum.\n\nSome scholars say that this new writing is more engaged and more connected to an audience, and that colleges should encourage students to bring lessons from that writing into the classroom. Others argue that tweets and blog posts enforce bad writing habits and have little relevance to the kind of sustained, focused argument that academic work demands
Report: Social networking up 83 percent for U.S.
The explosion in social networking may be even greater than imagined. The time that people in the U.S. spend on social network sites is up 83 percent from a year ago, according to a report from market researcher Nielsen Online.
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Former top dog MySpace watched its usage drop nearly one-third to around 4.9 billion minutes, from 7.2 billion in April 2008. MySpace still scored the number one spot for online video among the top 10, thanks to its users streaming more than 120 million videos from the site for April of this year.
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We have seen some major growth in Facebook during the past year, and a subsequent decline in MySpace," Jon Gibs, Nielsen's vice president for online media and agency insights, said in a statement. "Twitter has come on the scene in an explosive way perhaps changing the outlook for the entire space."
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