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Every semester, professor Dr. Josie Ahlquist challenges her Leadership in the Digital Age students at Florida State University with a unique task. "Unplug from social-based platforms for 7 days," she says to a class of hesitant college students. Allowing room for negotiation, Dr. Ahlquist has seen her challenges run for as few as two days and as many as seven, and she requests that students document their experience throughout. The results showcase a facinating journey of self-discovery and reflection as these students shed social media for the duration of the challenge.

inc. optimum timing for social posts ... does this assume everyone in a particular social cloud are in the same time zone?

Online social networking at its best. This Ning page is centered around using online resources in today's classrooms. Excellent group!

web 2,  classroom practice

This is an interesting website with a great collection of tools for use in e-learning, blended classrooms and traditional teaching.

"The group that only saw social tweets ended up rating that professor higher in credibility than the group that saw only scholarly tweets. Researchers also said there was an especially significant difference in ratings when it came to whether a professor was "caring" or not. "These results support previous research that shows revealing personal information can increase a professor's perceived credibility," says the paper. "[I]t was interesting to note that the scholarly tweets did not significantly raise competence ratings in the groups that saw the scholarly posts. This could be an indication that caring, not competence, is the most important dimension when it comes to assessing perceived credibility on social networking sites." Not all students felt good about the social tweets, though. The researchers found that older students tended to rate the professors lower in credibility after having viewed their Twitter accounts. These students were also more likely to think it was a bad idea for profes"

Note the limitation of the study: (fake) professors were all female. Also, younger and older students responded differently.

Information on best practices in fair use in education

Comprehensive website on copyright and fair use of media. Many useful links to resources, information, related news and blogs.

social media

More than three-quarters (76 percent) of K-12 educators say they use digital media, up significantly from 69 percent in 2008.

We've created the Twitter Handbook for Teachers, a brand new, interactive, 13-page guide to Twitter. This guide is for educators who are new to Twitter, or veterans to the social media platform who want to bring Twitter into their classrooms or grow their network. Is that you?

Great annotated mapping tool with social media functionality.

Great new mapping tool from National Goegraphic. It's in BETA, but already very good tool. 

Customize maps and download, share by email, print, share through url or social media.

*Archived tweets Library of Congress - what "say" online does live forever *just another tool to be used, should be taught how to use it well

"I was recently asked how my own use of social media fits onto Harold's PKM framework.  So I came up with this diagram which shows my own daily PKM routine."

These "rules" are aimed at business but many are true for education too.