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This study examines student-teacher interaction on Facebook and how teachers manage ethical concerns arising from pupils' actions and their appearance on Facebook.

Thank you for the reply! What struck me as valid about the article is that for some relationships, there is no self-disclosure on one side, and maximun self-disclosure on the other. The article talked about psychotherapists. Typically, the individual in therapy knows nothing or very little about the therapist, while the therapist gets to know the person in theapy quite well - one supposes. While I personally would like to know something about the "personness" of a therapist, prevailing opinion is that, should the person in therapy gain knowledge of the therapist through social media, it would damage the theraputic relationship. Same thing with doctors. Perhaps the same thing with priests. I'm a bit paranoid about too much self-disclosure, except for the ADHD thing, so if I where a therapist, I would be OK. However, if I blogged on my struggles with Therapy School, thoughts about patients, etc... I would be more worried. Actually,blogging about patients might cause you to lose your license... and it should! I know all this because my husband is a psychologist. It's almost impossible to have a conversation about his work without violating some ethical code or another. :-)

I think I agree with you in the idea that in some relationships there is no mutual disclosure because we expect and accept a level of certain patterns of behavior or let's say self-disclosure. As you have mentioned, while we do not anticipate a therapist to self-disclose 'personal' aspects, the same goes with the person. S/he is expected to self-disclose. I am not familiar with the therapist/person interaction, but I can make connections from my personal experiences. They both have 'preferred, expected' rights and duties in relation to each other. While a therapist may be legitimate to know whether the person is ADHD or not or whatsoever, it sounds reasonable. However, when it comes to the person whether the therapist is an ADHD or whatsoever, wait! A therapist and ADHD??? No way. I wish I read about an expert's perspectives in a blog form that may potentially heal my wounds or others. But at the same time, it is not easy to establish. One of the tensions that I need to resolve, in the end. I am glad that you shared your experiences. Such a nurturing conversation. :-)

I like the idea of a "teacher tech smackdown" -- would love to have IS faculty do this, although we're probably too small in number to have it be meaningful.

Just one of many sites that share knowledge on free tools.

if you're off campus, you can access this article via the FSU library -- just log in there first.

As I see the word 'categorizing' I just wanted to read the article. The author states that expert ICT teachers engage in social media activities in different ways based on their conceptualization of 'professional learning.' I think this article requires careful, slow reading. It is a little bit intense for me! :-)

Couldn't reply to Vanessa's Post, created new one....It makes sense that researchers are taking steps to understand the role of the educator when considering Web 2.0 tools. I don't think this is a simple task for an educator to incorporate these tools into their cirriculum. In addition, I think great thought is needed to make sure that the tools are not just being used for the sake of using them but that they add/enhance learning. While the article suggests that the burden has fallen on the teacher to make use of this, I think it would be wise for institutions to develop a support system that works with the educators. After all, the institution provides them with a chalk board, a classroom, an overhead projector, etc. Why not provide them with proper training and course design suggestions using Web 2.0 technology?

A fantastic site for teachers and educators. There are several tools that are listed by category including presentation tools, mobile tools, video tools, community tools, and related tools.

The site is fantastic. So many good tools to use, all in one place. This is worth checking out. While I am not a teacher, I think the way its organized and the tools it offers can be used in our field of ISD. Thanks once again for digging up some good stuff. :)

Here is the description from Edmodo: "Edmodo provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner." Is it another Blackboard? Or not? A feature for this tool is that you can choose to get mobile notifications of updates from the teacher.

I have a user profile on Edmodo, and I am now being asked to use it by my administration team at my school. It kind of reminds me of Facebook in a professional sense.

This looks really promising. I'm going to look into this more and perhaps use this as my portal for the produsage assignment. Thanks for sharing Shuang!

100 Ways to Use VoiceThread in EDU is the title of a collaborative effort to gather educators' ideas for using VoiceThread in the classroom. This site has a live Voice Thread where you can listen to educators as well as leave your own VT comment. It looks interesting. I just liked the idea of leaving a comment for others to listen to if they're interested.

So I guess its time for me to jump on the VoiceThread bandwagon. This is officially my next "exploration" project.

Jennifer, Warning! Once you get on the bandwagon, you'll never want to get off....lol. :)

Diigo shared annotation directions for teachers

Lots of tools we've already discussed, plus some others (not all Web 2.0).

I have not looked at this list in awhile and I imagine some items listed are out of date, but we may be able to scrape some other Web 2.0 tools from this list. This is a crowdsourced list from different cohorts of the Master Technology Teacher (MTT) certificate I did in TX.

This study examines how a group of language teachers use Twitter (#MFLtwitterati) as a continuous professional development tool. The author uses Communities of Practice to identify the elements of CoP and asks whether #MFLtwitterati is a CoP, and if so, how? :-)

Since we are talking about crowdsourcing, this article explains how a teacher/trainer could use a Wiki with their students and some great ideas.

I see that it mentions pbworks and that is the wiki that I learned on which just happens to be the link I just shared to the EME6414 group and involved students from various cohorts crowdsourcing to create a list of various Web2.0 tools. I have now used the word "crowdsourcing" several times today. :)

I am intrigued by Wikis, and look forward to working with them. I was particularly interested in the suggestion, for math classes, to post word problems and have student work on them together. I am currenly helping to build a statistics class, and would - given more development time and more knowledge on my part - recommend a wiki to him for that very activity.

At the start of this class, I thought Twitter was too much trouble, why bother. In the article you bookmarked, I would think that all one has to do was just call someone, or speak to another person. However, after emailing you and others today about things, I realized how valuable it is to be able to respond to someone with just a quick answer. This eliminates the formality of face to face conversations which usually take a lot of extra time ("hi, how are you? I'm fine, how is the family, etc....waiting for the right moment to get to the real reason why one called). I am all for f2f get togethers and phone conversations, either socially or professionally, but when it comes to things like finding out educational policies that could be answered by knowledgeable people within a few seconds, why not just cut to the chase and get a quick short answer, unless of course, one is fortunate to have an abundance of time...cough....cough.. This has awakened me to the power of Twitter and its role in education. Thanks.

This study examines world language teachers' activities on Twitter. The author uses communities of practice (CoP) as a theoretical framework. I try to focus on membership, trajectories, norms, moderation, knowledge sharing, privacy, and ethics as part of my assignment.

"As well as learning from those who have made their name online, students will gain valuable insight into what it means to have a digital identity and how to market ideas to your target audience. Among the topics included in the programme are the psychology of memes, brand building and how to tell your story online....The teaching panel includes award winning teacher and expert in pop culture, Dr Eleanor O'Leary; Marketing Lecturer of the Year, Dorothy Keane; and brand planning professional Ciaran O'Loan."