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interesting take by edudemic.com on social networks and what they capture/express through your participation or as they put it: "the questions lying behind social media" Facebook: What are you studying right now? Twitter: What would you recommend studying? LinkedIn: This is what I've studied YouTube: Here is a video lesson that i enjoyed Pinterest: Here are things I've learned and where I learned them Spotify: What do you listen to? Scoop It: What do you want to learn most? Learnist: What are the next steps and resources?

Great blog post by Holly Clark on Edudemic connecting education & technology, September 24, 2014. She suggests: Find another class to do a project, blog or twitter chat with. Change the classroom set up to allow for more student movement & interaction Have students create blogs to foster global interactions Use Skype to promote interaction with the outside world If your class has 1:1, look for other schools to collaborate with Tweet your learning with another class Understand that learning is happening through networks--not textbooks--"Textbooks are a solitary and isolated learning source and their days are numbered. Learning will become about networks. It will be about the people and information you know how to access and create. Your students are not quite savvy enough to do this effectively on their own, so show them how to interact with a network of experts from your subject area. ..."

Edudemic survey of online learning participation, 4/2013

Edudemic blog on online learning, 1.17.13

Incredible infographic on social networking around the world located on Edudemic, 1.26.13 What it raises for me: Does being a member of a social network equal proficiency or satisfaction with use? If we already have this kind of saturation, what is the niche for the Studio for fill?

Neat infographic of things to do on the first day of class including 27 ways for building a team, 27 ways to greet your students, have students set the rules, 27 things to do with students who are not paying attention, and ways to assess prior knowledge. Some of these would work with adults online, too.

whether or not to use Twitter--funny infographic

Twitter as a PLN--the power of lists on Twitter by Colleen Lee, 9/2/13

Interesting assessment of growth, # of users, and ROI in 2012 for Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and LinkedIn and where each is going in 2013. Impact for Studio--looks like Twitter is strong, and LinkedIn is up and coming?

Detailed information on use of Twitter for learning

If you've ever wanted to spice up your presentation with a free web 2.0 tool, you're in luck. Presentation tool Prezi has just unveiled some new information that may cause you to start thinking about trying it out.

People love to learn by examining visual representations of data. That's been proven time and time again by the popularity of both infographics and Pinterest. So what if you could make your own infographics? What would you make it of? It's actually easier than you think... even if you have zero design skills whatsoever.