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Twitter is one of the most widely used social media platforms used in our society. This project relies on this wide usage to quickly gather some statistics for a class to examine. For this project, the teacher posed a question on twitter about how likely it was for the person reading the tweet to get snow the next day. The next day students logged onto Twitter and read the responses to the question using its hashtag. Students were then able to respond if they wanted for further information. As a class, they organized the tweets based on how likely it was for the responders to get snow. They also organized the tweets globally to see where the responses were coming from. This is a great activity because it forces students to compare different statistical values and evaluate statistical language. I like this activity because different questions can be posted regularly. This can even be tweaked were questions or polls are tweeted and the class responds for the data. Statistics is one of the most widely used branches of mathematics and this activity gives students great practical exposure. I could see myself using this project with my students during our statistics unit.

Teachers often face the question, "When are we going to use this?" This project is great because it gets students answering that question themselves. Students take a picture of something they see in the world and write their own math problem relating to the picture. This gets students thinking about why math is useful and pushes their problem-solving ability by making them formulate a good question. Once the student okays the project with the teacher, they are free to post with the class Instagram tag where other students can engage in a conversation about the problem. This is a great way to get students to engage in practical mathematics and it is easy to organize because it is almost entirely student-driven. This is a cool project that could be running year round. I could see myself setting this up and building a real-world problem bank with my classes.

This project has students using Instagram to post pictures that are related to the book they are reading. For this project, students were asked to select one line from the first two chapters of the book they were reading. They were asked to find a picture somewhere around their school that related to the line they selected and take a selfie with it as well. The final step was to post their picture with their quote as the caption using the classes hashtag. I like this assignment because students can select whatever part of the reading speaks to them the most and find a way to represent this visually. This pushes students to look deeper into what they are reading. Additionally, time can be spent looking at other posts made by other students and further depth can be added to the novel. This is a quick and easy task that can be done every few chapters for any novel. I could see myself using this project to supplement the reading being done in my class.

This article by Wenger and Snyder in the Harvard Business Review is a great reflection of a community of practice (CoP) by the creators themselves in a well-known publication. While the article is in-depth and covers every aspect of a CoP, the included chart may have been the most helpful part of this article to really break down a CoP and the difference between that and other groups.

In this article the author provides an introduction to the concept of communities of practice, describes benefits and utility for business, and strategies for implementation in that context.

The highlight of this article for me is that CoPs have to be organic in their organization and management.

Project based social media using social media to predict foreign exchange markets, with a 77% success rate.

Dr. Steven Yuen presents on the use of Diigo in classrooms. Notably, faculty members can use Diigo to comment and provide feedback on sticky notes that students have made in Diigo, on both their research and projects.

The Lore project is a LME that was created for use in a regular classroom. Designed to run something like twitter and moodle and facebook, it allows teachers to set up classes, moderate who joins, and add content. Students can help eachother and suddenly the classroom becomes a community.

This class blog project allowed students to share thoughts, experiences, and ideas with each other and with their teacher. They could tell others about their trips and holiday experiences, share thoughts on subjects explored in class, and even greet their new teacher before she arrived.

This website is a collection of projects that anyone can create and use that relate to math. If there is something that is tricky/difficult, maybe one of these projects will help you understand.

After reading a book or covering a topic in class, create a Facebook page for a character or a fan page for a cause that you read about. You can personalize the Facebook page, like other "peoples" pages and participate in "online discussions" that these people could have had if Facebook had been around at that time.

This blog post outlines an assignment in which students must create a Facebook page for a literary character.  This is a great idea.

Gannon University instructors used blogs to have teams document service learning projects.

This blog talks about Larry Liu, who has successfully implemented Facebook into his class as well as mobile technology.

A brief article with three tips on how to integrate technology for ELL students

SocialMedia Students is a great project that was created to be a resources for parents, educators, and students. You can also read their Blog, join their Facebook page, or follow them on Twitter.

This video shows how Canadian teacher Curtis Wagner uses social media to connect students around the world to work on classroom projects.

Facebook used at Niagra County Community College in Intro English. With it students asked & answered each other, studied for tests, and collaborated on group projects. Streamlined approach to compiling links/images/videos which are accessible to classmates. There was simplicity in having class info where students are spending time already

This K-2 project is designed to see if young students can succeed at using global collaboration to learn about others' lifestyles and cultures.

This presentation doesn't follow a specific project, but it has some great ideas for using Twitter in the classroom. I particularly like Twitter book club, and Twitter as a backchannel.

For this activity, students create a Facebook profile for a character in a novel. This project connects social media that students are so familiar with to academic activities such as understanding character development in literature.

Students at Burton High School in San Francisco worked on a project where they Tweeted ideas regarding a current, topical issue. Student involvement and engagement was increased due to the use of social media, and students can participate in discussions with classmates and the teacher on the given topic.