Time always seems to be an issue when it comes to developing technology tools, especially if it is the first time a person is using it and trying to familiarize themselves with it.
eight barriers
Integrity
submissions
privacy
Separate
accounts
Grading
Inability to measure effectiveness
Lack of integration
Takes too much time
Lack of support
first two worried faculty the mos
student submission integrity as the largest obstacle
authenticity concern
not related solely to teaching with social sites
second largest barrier
privacy concerns
100 percent of the colleges and universities studied are using it.1
using social media for marketing and communication
higher-education professionals
teaching and learning process
faculty
faculty concerns about social media
how those concerns might be mitigated for some of the more common social network sites
female faculty members are more likely to express concerns about privacy than their male counterparts
Could institutions provide professional development in the realm of social media and its incorporation into the classroom to help these individuals tap into the asset of social media?
concerned about removing the "invisible" barrier between instructors and students
what you don't know can hurt you
FERPA
strategies for bringing social media into the teaching and learning process while being mindful of integrity and privacy issues
create a single Twitter account for their class
have the students manage the Twitter account
can't tweet from their own
students learn what content is appropriate or "tweet-worthy"
job postings requiring social media skills rose 87 percent
there is something to be said for being concise where it counts
I didn't realize the lack of privacy controls on Pinterest until I started pinning things for my wedding. I had dozens upon dozens of notifications of people repinning this and liking that - mainly from people I didn't know. I can see where this could be worrisome for educators.
on't add any comments that can be taken out of context
Think before you pin
Don't add any comments that can be taken out of context
better privacy protections
word clouds
see if they've used certain words or phrases too often
faculty can ensure distinct boundaries between students' schoolwork and social lives on these sites.
concerns are decreasing over time
student/alumni community
cannot fully replace face-to-face encounters
not everybody participates
The more that faculty members understand the effective uses of social media for teaching and learning, and the better the industry gets at learning how to balance "privacy" within the social sphere, the faster these new practices will proliferate across higher-education faculty and support student engagement and success.
ADDIE is an instructional design approach for creating the best instruction in an organized, efficient, and effective manner.
As other Instructional System Design (ISD) models, ADDIE provides a step-by-step approach for designing the course or training but it also provides for implementing and improving that instruction.
The 5 components or phases of design give ADDIE its name.
Analysis:Identify needs and constraints
Design:Define learning activities, assessment and media
Development: Produce, perform formative evaluation, and revise
Implementation: Deliver the instruction
Evaluation: Evaluate results
What did one control freak say to another control freak? "Get your hands off my wiki!" If you've heard the word wiki, but are not quite sure what it means or how to use it, then you've come to the right blog! Wikis are webpages created for ongoing editing and revision by one author or multiple authors.
One of the simplest ways that teachers can use Twitter in the classroom involves setting up a feed dedicated exclusively to due dates, tests or quizzes.
Many critics of Twitter believe that the 140-character microblog offered by the ubiquitous social network can do little for the education industry. They are wrong.
K-12 teachers have taken advantage of Twitter’s format to keep their classes engaged and up-to-date on the latest technologies. The following projects provide you and your students with 50 ways to Twitter in the classroom to create important and lasting lessons