CI593B:Social Media in Education

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While this blog post isn't "new", I thought it was relevant to our discussion with John Carver today.

~ By Joyce Valenza ~ This is the best time in history to be a teacher-librarian. Major shifts in our information and communication landscapes present new

Students in the University of Maryland research were asked to give up all media for a day .For the research, titled "24 Hours: Unplugged," 200 students at the University of Maryland's College Park Campus blogged about their experiences after a day of giving up all social media. The project director Susan Moeller noticed that what they wrote at length about was how they hated losing their personal connections. Going without media meant, in their world, going without their friends and family." The students missed not much of the media but the social connections that it facilitates. Social media seems inevitable in this 21 century

Ezy, this is a great example and shows how connected we are with the social media. I wonder if they have some demographic information in the research. How do their responses change based on age, gender etc.

I can relate to that article. I sat in my camper last nite and didn't feel very good. Maybe that was related to the fact that my cell phone was my only means of communicating with others? :-) I realize things are changing, but its crazy to me how accessible people are these days. I find at work that there is a tipping work on the other extreme where being contacted too much has a negative effect.

Some key stats: 75% of Internet users visit a social networking site when they go online. People are spending 66% more time on social networking sites than they did a year ago. There's more interesting stuff in there. Check it out.

Youtube has just released a new video editor that lets you create video mashups and edit down clips from your library of existing video uploads.

Where was this 2 days ago for my presentation? :P This is exactly what Dr. Correia was asking about.

Interesting article that brings up some good points. Personally I think that technology can be a distraction... but only if you let it. It seems to me that increasingly generation y demands flexibility, and technology allows people to be connected anywhere anytime.

This is a tool used to foster group communication. I've used this quite a bit in past MEd classes. It's really easy to setup, but was a little lacking in some of the functionality last time I used it. It worked pretty well for keeping a group organized and fostering communication.

I can cover Wiggio. I've used it a few times and works pretty well for small group interactions.

Great. You can design a small group activity for the class. Thanks Brent.

Interesting way of adhoc polling (without clickers). Its effective and easy (some of my faculty are using it), however I see some privacy concerns (mostly perception) that if I txt a response it is coming from my mobile number which is generally seen as identifiable (Even if its blocked in the poll.

im not sure.. to be honest... would be fun to try it! Too bad I dont get coverage in n061 :/

I really like this idea, but I do share some of your same concerns Ken.

great ideas on how to create a successful business blog. Tips are also applicable to education!

A website with news of all sorts, mostly focused on various aspects of education. Not necessarily related to social media, though there have been a lot of articles about that.

An interesting article by the same guy (Nicholas Carr) that someone posted a "negative" article from earlier. He does raise some good questions, though.

Interesting points, not sure if I agree one way or the other.

Have any of you tried out diaspora? I just read about this open-source social network and it sounds pretty cool. Will it overtake Facebook? Probably not, but it will be real interesting to see what comes out of it.

Interesting new way of printing... mostly consumer stuff, but I can see how useful a "education laser model" might be.

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Interesting to think beyond what basic searching google does. I think sometimes we "Cripple" our searches by just checking google. Of course I always remind students that "web" is not peer reviewed journal, there is no quality control.

I was using google scholar to search for scholarly papers. I will check these out to see if I can do my literature search using some of them.

Google scholar has probably more advantages in that you can see who the preeminent author (most cited but other pubs) is. Its great for that. Interesting discussion on pros and cons of indexing such as google scholar. I guess it misses a bit.... even so I find it a very useful tool. http://blogs.ubc.ca/dean/2007/11/top-five-5-problems-with-google-scholar-three-years-later/ (ive spoken to ref librarians that are not crazy about it either). I think like all the search tools, they are good but not good enough to be "the" exclusive tool.

looks like it will be a great tool having video - especially being able to edit and upload content directly into social media tools

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This blogger (one from Evrim's list) had an interesting post about a survey he did and the responses he got. The question was: "What should they (administrators) see as evidence of Technology Integration in classrooms?" He wrote up a full article on it, but I think his blog is better with some snippets of responses.

I've seen virtual worlds used successfully in business and heard some interesting ways Second Life could be used in high school history type courses. This page had some good links to videos, etc.