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Chris Ruether

How Social Networking Helps Teaching (and Worries Some Professors) - Technology - The C... - 1 views

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  • Ask students to do role-playing exercises on Facebook or Twitter. For instance, students in an American-history course could each be required to set up a Facebook page for a historical figure and periodically post "status updates" of things the famous people did. Similarly, Utah State University organized a Civil War re-enactment on Twitter.
  • Some attendees stressed that there is a danger that professors would use
  • new technologies just because they seemed cool, rather than for any specific learning goa
  • Chris Ruether on 03 Oct 13
     
    This article gave specific examples of how social media was used in the class room. Being a History major I especially liked the idea of making pages for certain historical figures and posting status updates about things that person did
Chris Ruether

Education Week: Schools Are Using Social Networking to Involve Parents - 0 views

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  • This school year, the 1.1 million-student New York City system launched a new text-subscription service that notifies parents in English or Spanish of school news and a series of webinars on topics of relevance to parents. The 640,000-student Los Angeles school district hired its first-ever director of social media this past spring, whose main charge is communicating and sharing district information with parents and students via tools such as YouTube, Twitter, and Tumblr.
  • In the 182,000-student Fairfax County school system in Virginia, 84,500 people have subscribed to the district's enhanced news and information email and text service, the district's Facebook page has 26,000 "likes," and its Twitter account has 8,100 followers
  • digital technologies to improve communication between the school and parents
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  • has its teachers use Skype to run parent conferences and airs live and archived video of all parent and teacher association meetings for parents who are unable to attend. Recently, Mr. Mazza and some staff members even brought laptops into a local mosque that a number of the school's families attend, and streamed live footage there of one of the meetings
  • About 2,000 parents have already received training since the start of school this year, according to Kelly Cline, the senior manager of parent engagement for the Houston district.
  • Chris Ruether on 03 Oct 13
     
    This article talks about teaching the parents about how to use social media properly in order for them to stay up to date about many things in their children's lives. one example is using Skype to do parent teacher conferences. Also using high-quality digital content in the homes is allowing parents to once again help their students with homework.
Lia Strong

They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets. - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Lia Strong on 10 Jan 14
     
    How admissions people are looking past GPA's and onto personal lives of prospective students. 
Phil Wilson

Connected, Lurking, and Listening | EdSurge News - 6 views

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  • Phil Wilson on 08 Oct 13
     
    Good read for a DIYPD Tuesday
  • Phil Wilson on 08 Oct 13
     
    Good read for a DIYPD Tuesday
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