Sharing student work on a course blog is an example of what Randall Bass and Heidi Elmendorf, of Georgetown University, call "social pedagogies." They define these as "design approaches for teaching and learning that engage students with what we might call an 'authentic audience' (other than the teacher), where the representation of knowledge for an audience is absolutely central to the construction of knowledge in a course."
"The following 50 online university professors on Twitter worth following have a large number of followers for a reason — they are worth following!"
"Getting people to interact with others and upload content to a community-driven site enough may sound easy, but engagement doesn’t happen automatically. It takes time and work, and much of the right formula is deduced through trial and error. Here are 10 tips for increasing user engagement that work for news community web sites, but can apply to all types of online user-engagement communities."
"In 2010, social media will get even more popular, more mobile, and more exclusive — at least, that's my guess. What are the near-term trends we could see as soon as next year?"
Here are my 10 Golden Rules of Social Media to embrace, debate, pass around and refine. Have at it.
Oh no! Controversy reigns! I will either get a lot of ‘knee-jerk’ reactions to that blog title with people telling me how wrong/uninformed/stoopid and/or ignorant I am. Or people will reflect on what I am about to say and give sugesstions on how we can meet these challenges. If you bear with me to the end of this post you might see where I’m coming from.
With modern technology, you can find new and exciting ways to contrubute to your community and the world right from your computer. These 100 social networks offer the chance to get involved, make a difference and meet people that share your ideals and ambitions. You won’t just be building good karma, but also making a real impact on the world of tomorrow.
This list is not for geeks. It’s for IT professionals of a certain age, who don’t spend every waking hour online but need to keep up with the latest innovations on the Internet.
Sometimes it feels like social media is just not relevant to the people you're trying to reach. That's a common dilemma, but we believe it doesn't have to be that way. In this post we discuss five strategies for using social media to reach people who don't use social media, and we've listed specific tools you can use to do it.
The proliferation of social media technologies -- those networks that allow you to post your thoughts instantly to scores of "friends" and contacts -- has raised an interesting debate throughout the last few months: what's the value of your network?
Psychologists have long studied social networks, and the growing popularity of sites like MySpace and Facebook provide fertile territory for research. Stanford University even has a class called "Psychology of Facebook." What do our online profiles say about us?
Hundreds of internet leaders, activists, builders and commentators were asked about the effect of the internet on social, political and economic life in the year 2020. The views of the 742 respondents who completed this survey were varied; there is general agreement about how technology might evolve, but there is less agreement among these respondents about the impact of this evolution.
Teens write a lot, but they do not think of their emails, instant and text messages as writing. This disconnect matters because teens believe good writing is an essential skill for success and that more writing instruction at school would help them.
More of a linked list of other people's thoughts ... about egos and objects. I quote some pieces below: all of the posts are suggestive and worth reading. The linking theme is that people connect and share themselves through 'social objects', pictures, books, or other shared interests, and that successful social networks are those which form around such social objects.