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"In one such study, Joanna C. Dunlap and Patrick R. Lowenthal from the University of Colorado at Denver used Twitter as a way to enhance social presence in an online course. In an article that appears in the Journal of Information Systems Education (see reference below) the authors discuss the ease in which Twitter can enable “free-flowing just-in-time interactions” and describe the instructional benefits they discovered in using the micro-blogging service.

Based on their experience using Twitter with their students, the authors also offer five guidelines for using Twitter in the classroom:

1. Make it relevant: Following celebrities on Twitter can be fun, but make sure students understand how Twitter will help them meet certain learning goals for your course. Show them examples of how you have benefitted from using Twitter.
2. Define clear expectations: The authors required students to use Twitter two-three times a day for two weeks. After that time, if the student decides he or she doesn’t see a value in Twitter, then they are not required to keep using it. However, the authors found that most continued participating in the Twitter discussions for the duration of the course and beyond.
3. Model effective and appropriate Twitter use: Demonstrate for your students Twitter best practices by showing them how you use the application to connect with colleagues, share information, and ask and answer questions. It’s also a good idea to remind them that Twitter, like other social networking sites, is a public forum.
4. Build Twitter activity into assessment: To reinforce Twitter as a valuable resource, the authors encouraged students to use information and resources gathered through Twitter participation in their research papers and presentations, and assessed them on the accuracy and relevance of this information.
5. Stay active in Twitter: Continue to participate in the Twitter community you created even after the course ends. The authors found this enabled them to achieve a social presence needed to s

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"I simply used it as a formative activity – asking my students to write down anything and everything they already knew about evolution on post-it notes and place them on the wallwisher wall. Anyone was allowed to write anything, and anyone was allowed to move stickies around to group them with other related comments. It was only a 5 minute activity – but really engaging, and it has some advantages over real stickies, in that (a) everyone can see the comments clearly from wherever they are (on his or her own screen) and (b) the wall can be saved (c) you don’t need to be in the same place at the same time to collaborate on it (although my students were) and (d) A student has the option of being anonymous."

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Collaboration via digital stickies on a digital wall

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"The problem is that “top down” strategies themselves are part of the systemic issue. In the old industrial system, benchmarks and indicators were sufficient to encourage school-level improvements. However, we need to move beyond promoting/demanding innovation from the local schools and teachers (via benchmarks), to engaging each individual learner to innovate their scholarship. This phenomenology examines an innovative use of streaming video, live-blogging, and discussion to create an ecosystem that places the student at the center of the learning, allowing them to use the Internet and freely-available collaborative tools to acquire new information and to work together in discovery."

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A wiki-like document collaboration tool

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"Springnote allows you to create pages, to work on them together with your friends, and to share files. Springnote is also a great tool for group projects as it allows group members to easily collaborate. Advanced search, numerous templates, and 2GB of FREE File Storage are only few examples of how Springnote can help you. Of course, you already know that Springnote is an Internet service, meaning you can access it from anywhere anytime. "

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"Facilitating Online is a course intended for training educators as online facilitators of fully online and mixed mode courses. The Centre for Educational Technology (CET) produced a Course Leader’s Guide as an Open Educational Resource to assist educators and trainers who wish to implement a course on online facilitation within their institution or across several institutions. The course manual was written by Tony Carr, Shaheeda Jaffer and Jeanne Smuts and was published online and in print in early 2009.

The guide contains the course model, week-by-week learning activities, general guidance to the course leader on how to implement and customise the course and specific guidelines on each learning activity. The latest version of the course manual includes several minor corrections and is dedicated to the memory of our co-author Jeanne Smuts who died on 28th July 2009.

See Facilitating Online: A guide for course leaders for the latest pdf version of the course manual as well the specimen course site."

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"Mahara is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework. Mahara, meaning 'think' or 'thought' in Te Reo Māori, is user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. Mahara also features a weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities."

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Free video courses from top universities

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"Our customers have been asking to embed EtherPad in their websites ever since we launched. Today, we're excited to announce a preview release of Embeddable EtherPad for the developer community, which allows EtherPad documents to be embedded in other web pages.

We have big plans for Embeddable EtherPad, and there will be enhancements in the weeks and months to come that make EtherPad embedding easier. In the meantime, if you know a bit about iframe elements, you can get started right away."

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"October 20 was the National Day of Writing. As a way of celebrating, I invited students to spend a few minutes writing a story about a world without writing. The catch was that the students would be writing in groups of 7 or 8. We used a site called Etherpad. Each student could contribute to the story and also have a side discussion about the story they were writing. One of the coolest features of Etherpad is the ability to “replay” student writing. Etherpad doesn’t require registration which was ideal for getting students writing quickly."

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For this activity, we would like for you to take a step back from your role as a participant in some social networks and to take a moment to assume the role of ethnographer. Social networks are texts - let's take a look at them as such. Below is a list of several popular or niche social networking sites. Either log in using an existing account, create an account, or borrow Bud's account (Bud has an account on most of these), and take a tour through the networking site with the following list of questions present in mind.

You might wish to copy and paste this list of questions to wherever it is that you take digital notes and jot some thoughts down while you take your tour. Feel free to skip questions - the goal of this activity is not for you to fill out a worksheet, but to think about how the social networks and networking tools that we use shape the way that we use them. In addition, be mindful of how our students approach these sites, and how we might build our classroom networks to facilitate the bahaviors that we value, rather than using the tools that come along.

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Really great list

85+ Resources: Educator Guide for Integrating Social Media"

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"Hotseat is a software application that captures student comments about a class and allows everyone in the class to view those messages, including the professor and teaching assistants. Students can post messages to Hotseat using their Facebook, MySpace or Twitter accounts, or they can send text messages or simply log into the Hotseat Web site."

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What if we wrote our papers, stories, and poetry the way that we text our friends?

TweetMyPaper allows you to do this by
assembling your documents (line by line) in 140 character bursts.

Beware!
It isn't easy to write when you can't go backwards!

I still don't get it!
OK, look at it this way.
In school they taught you to edit and revise and be very careful to craft the perfect paper.
Real life interpersonal communication has taught you that it's ok to just shout out your ideas line by line. This marries the two.
Can you learn to write your papers the way you talk to your friends?"

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"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. "

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"If all you knew about Twitter was what you heard in the media, you might think it was populated only by chattering celebrities. While intellectually barren corners of Twitter may exist, for us, Twitter is a powerful personal research tool, populated by carefully selected individuals whom we have chosen to 'follow' for their knowledge and insight. Twitter (twitter.com) is a free online service that allows users to post short messages ('tweets') of up to 140 characters describing their current status, and allows them to 'follow' the updates of other selected users. Unlike a Google search, which will only suggest links related to the terms searched, a question posted via Twitter usually yields a range of replies, from shortened URLs containing answers to the question to more intelligent responses. For example, when Professor Martin Weller asked on Twitter "What are the key components of a viral idea?", he received a wide range of replies (summarized here: tinyurl.com/kkqfs6). Similarly, a tweeted remark I made during a seminar on creativity turned into an online discussion on the subject (summarized in this video: vimeo.com/1362359). These examples are hardly characteristic of trivial thought processes, yet when we try to persuade colleagues of the value of building a personal network via Twitter, the most common response is, 'Why do I want to know what someone else had for breakfast?'.
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"For some teachers, the technology revolution of the last 30 years was and is an epiphany, but for most faculty it remains an enigma, at best a fad and at worst a threat. A person responding to one of my recent articles in Web 2.0 told me that, "Come on!, I don’t want to teach my students how to use the technology but just do pure teaching." He missed the point: Adapting to information technology does not necessarily mean using technology at all, but it does require an understanding of how education has been irreversibly altered.

The technology in itself is fascinating, but the fundamental cultural and human truth underlying information technology as a medium is that it is the super-medium, the third medium after spoken language and writing that has most fundamentally molded humanity."

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"A project based at Carnegie Mellon University will study how effective games on cellphones are at teaching English to students in rural India.

Led by a professor at Carnegie Mellon, professors, graduate students and undergraduates have been working on developing games over the last six years. Now, because of financial support from Nokia, the professors will be able to lend 450 cellphones to children in villages in Andhra Pradesh, a region in the south of India. The children with games on the cellphones will be compared with children who will not play the games and will learn English in a traditional classroom setting.

"If it's very difficult for so-called poor children to go to school regularly. You could take mobile devices and make it possible to access learning anytime, anywhere,""

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"Here is the presentation which includes teaching with Twitter examples, links to resources, and teachers/social media experts to follow and learn from. "

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