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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.

SocialMedia Students is a great project that was created to be a resources for parents, educators, and students. This project is to help them to have a solid foundation of understanding social media. You can also read their Blog, join their Facebook page, or follow them on Twitter.

Elaine Childs, at the University of Tennessee, uses Facebook to bring relevance to abstract English concepts.

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.

Northwest Missouri State University - Jody Staunch uses Pinterest to show positive examples of web design.

Cardiff University in Wales uses Tweprints, a combination of Twitter and scientific papers to allow searching peer-reviewed information.

At the University of Southern Florida, students use Facebook, instead of Blackboard, for assignments and discussions.

There were many great project ideas on this side but to get to the one I want you to look at scroll down to "Social Mobility" audio blogging. The group audio blogging activity had the student compare and then post their results using a VoiceThread. They were able to combine visual and recorded media and they had to think carefully about what they wanted to record.

Hotseat was created by Purdue University to allow students to Twitter and text messages during and after class. The conclusion was that there was more interaction, more engaging, and resulted in higher-performing students.

The Curation Project made students research and step outside of their comfort zone to experiences different types of social media. They were able to learned how to track and were able to see how they can share with other countries as well as "break the walls of the classroom".

Learn to be concise by using Twitter. Daniel Clinghard uses Twitter as a summary tool to help students understand the power of words. Students have to summarize political texts in the 140 character limit and write a good summary.

Daniel Klinghard, a political science professor, uses Twitter to force students to write precisely about a particular reading.

This was a great project introduce students to how to get an internship or full-time job using Klout scores. Students were able engage with other, via social media, and familiarize themselves regarding Klout scores. This was a very enjoyable project and the students were very enthusiastic about the project.

Excellent article about ceating social media guidelines in schools. Has lots of resources both in the article and on the page.

From the Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL), this short handbook provides an overview of social media, with talking points to use with teachers and parents.

This light-hearted TEDtalk, by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, shows how social news and social voting can impact society.

Shirky describes social media tools as enabling "groups that previously couldn't have achieved things together, because the difficulty of doing anything in concert is high" to coordinate. His talk discusses the increase in group action as a result of these tools.

This is our school's Facebook page. It is a good example of using Facebook to communicate with students, parents, and community members. It posts weekly newsletters, event photos, announcements, and allows for comments. 600+ people 'like' this page, which is twice the number of students who attend school.

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List of projects successfully using social media for education at the college level

List of projects successfully using social media for education at the college level