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George Veletsianos is a faculty member/researcher whose work focuses on online learning, including social media. Perhaps worth a follow.

Reynol Junco is a faculty member/researcher who focuses on social media. This is his blog. 

Good on you for just contacting him! I've yet to meet him, but have (obv.) read his work.

Cool Blog! Thanks for sharing. I wonder why the above link says to his blog says 0 views, I clicked on it and went to the site, so that should be at least one view! I am also assuming Abigail clicked on the link too, although she may be already ready following the blog since she already a fan of him!

Makes you wonder if we really should be using Facebook in education. I've no problem with folks choosing to use it, but if classes pressure students into using it? That can be a real problem.

This does pose a problem because even if you were to use it in education (but not forcing everyone to use it) Facebook could still collect data from non-users by other students in the class who are connected to Facebook, use the find friends feature, and have non-Facebook using student's information in their smart phones. I would like to know more about why Facebook collects this data of non-users, what purpose does it serve them? It also made me realize how Facebook can get my personal information when I post my new address to a friends wall, or share a new cell phone number. I may not have manually uploaded the information on the Facebook account, but writing it on my friends wall may be all the information Facebook needs from me.

This does pose a problem, especially for users like me that are infrequent with posts. I feel like I should be in there everyday "watching" for some weird activity. But I just don't have that kind of time. I am a smart phone user of all of 2 months now and already I have deleted my facebook app from my phone. I am certain I never opted to remain signed in, yet somehow I was. Then, while searching for a phone number in my contacts, I realized that the FB app had attached itself to all of my phone contacts. Too invasive. I like the idea of sharing information over platforms like Collaborate. There is a little more oversight and transparency.

Some very handy tips that can be very useful

Educational researchers share their thoughts on how the Internet is impacting educational research and secondary English instruction.

A different take on why the Internet may be causing some issues in the way that we students learn today.

Survey (audience: higher ed librarians) about emerging technology use among students. [NOTE: Need to be logged in to FSU libraries to access/download full article)

Dr. Dennen--You might be interested in this.

a beautiful example of collaboration...

EdSurge recommended this editorial by the founders of wikispaces. As a teacher and future edtechnologist, I think it's interesting.

You could say there's a universe of ways people measure the ROI from their social media marketing. Some of the more popular methods, like counting Facebook "likes" and re-tweets, have very little meaning to the CFO, while other newly developed formulas around engagement can be, well, rather creative.

This article discusses how Americans use Twitter and relates to our Week 3 discussion about lurking.

I am an invisible learner on Instagram. I have never posted on Instagram, but just like some of the posts. :-)

I'm definitely a lurker when it comes to Twitter.