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L Butler

Social Media and Student Engagement | Pearson Blog - 0 views

www.pearsonlearningsolutions.com/...l-media-and-student-engagement

shared by L Butler on 25 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • The article – “Teachers Embrace Social Media in Class” – describes the divide in college faculty perspectives on social media. One side sees social media as a distraction negatively impacting student engagement (and mentions one institution who blocked access to social sites for a week) and the other sees social media as a tool to reach students where they are and focus them in on the learning process.
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 25 Jul 12
       
      Which side are you?
  • In 2011, college faculty shared which social media are most valuable to them in teaching, with online video as most valuable and Twitter as least valuable.
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 25 Jul 12
       
      The survey was for college professors, do you think the data would be the same for teachers in your building?
anonymous

The World of Social Media 2011 - VideoInfographs.com - YouTube - 0 views

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social media

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  • anonymous on 01 Dec 11
     
    Interesting video with some fascinating data about Social Media. Shared today on Twitter (social media) by @amjohnston. (NOTE: The original tweet was in French, but the Translate feature in Tweetdeck allowed me to translate it.)
Lisa Keeley

Podcast323: R U In My Space? Y Have A Social Media Policy Guideline? (NECC09 ... - 0 views

www.speedofcreativity.org/...en-montgomery-and-wesley-fryer

social media guideline

shared by Lisa Keeley on 27 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Teachers who must hide their online activity because of nonexistent social media guidelines risk losing their jobs and reputations. A better approach is to collaboratively develop a policy that is acceptable to administrators, school board members, teachers and parents allowing for involvement in the global conversation in which many are contributing.
    • Vicki Barr
      Vicki Barr on 27 Jul 09
       
      Isn't this what we are talking about in class?
  • Lisa Keeley on 27 Jul 09
     
    Social Media Policy Guidelines
Michelle Krill

ShoutEm - Video - 0 views

shoutem.com/video

MIcroblogging shoutem twitter

shared by Michelle Krill on 06 Aug 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 06 Aug 09
     
    Do you think this service will get past the guards to be able to be used in school? It can be a private setup. Watch the video. Did he say, 'country?'
  • anonymous on 06 Aug 09
     
    Do you think this service will get past the guards to be able to be used in school?
  • Michelle Krill on 06 Jul 10
     
    Shout'Em is platform on which you can easily start co-branded microbloging social networking service. Something simple as Twitter or with more features like attachments, photos, links... It is up to you :) Networks on Shout'Em are "lightweight social networks". They have small set of features: microblogging, links and photo sharing, geo location sharing and mobile browser support. We belive that microblogging concept is more suitable for small comunities loking for simple service to comunicate than existing social networks with tons of features.
Michelle Krill

Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 4 views

www.itdl.org/...article01.htm

Connectivism learningtheory

shared by Michelle Krill on 02 Aug 12 - Cached
  • Over the last twenty years, technology has reorganized how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn.
    • Denise Nichols
      Denise Nichols on 02 Aug 12
       
      What are some of the new theories?  What research will they be based upon?
  • The life of knowledge was measured in decades.
    • Denise Nichols
      Denise Nichols on 02 Aug 12
       
      Our concept of knowledge had definitely changed in this digital age of Google.
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  • Many of the processes previously handled by learning theories (especially in cognitive information processing) can now be off-loaded to, or supported by, technology.
    • Denise Nichols
      Denise Nichols on 02 Aug 12
       
      Conrad Wolfram speaks to this idea in his TED talk about teaching real math with computers.  He states that students spend 80% of their time on calculating rather than applying math to real world problems to learn math concepts.
  • A central tenet of most learning theories is that learning occurs inside a person. Even social constructivist views, which hold that learning is a socially enacted process, promotes the principality of the individual (and her/his physical presence – i.e. brain-based) in learning. These theories do not address learning that occurs outside of people (i.e. learning that is stored and manipulated by technology). They also fail to describe how learning happens within organizations
  • Know-how and know-what is being supplemented with know-where (the understanding of where to find knowledge needed).
    • Denise Nichols
      Denise Nichols on 02 Aug 12
       
      This is one of the most important skills we can give our students in the digital age.  An intelligent person may not know the information but they know where to find the information.
    • Neil Groft
      Neil Groft on 02 Aug 12
       
      Crazy to think how fast the world is changing.
    • Thomas Larkin
      Thomas Larkin on 02 Aug 12
       
      This point was in the Wolfram Talk too
  • Constructivism suggests that learners create knowledge as they attempt to understand their experiences
  • Decision-making is itself a learning process.
    • Deb Sowers
      Deb Sowers on 02 Aug 12
       
      ...and do we (teachers AND parents) really teach this with our kids? ...or facilitate??
  • Learning is a continual process, lasting for a lifetime. Learning and work related activities are no longer separate. In many situations, they are the same.
    • Rich Smith
      Rich Smith on 02 Aug 12
       
      I love this point
  • Experience has long been considered the best teacher of knowledge. Since we cannot experience everything, other people’s experiences, and hence other people, become the surrogate for knowledge. ‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ is an axiom for collecting knowledge through collecting people (undated).”
    • Denise Nichols
      Denise Nichols on 02 Aug 12
       
      This is how social media expands our knowledge.  
  • Connectivism provides insight into learning skills and tasks needed for learners to flourish in a digital era.
    • Deb Sowers
      Deb Sowers on 02 Aug 12
       
      Great summary statement
  • Many learners will move into a variety of different, possibly unrelated fields over the course of their lifetime.
  • Michelle Krill on 02 Aug 12
     
    "Editor's Note: This is a milestone article that deserves careful study. Connectivism should not be con fused with constructivism. George Siemens advances a theory of learning that is consistent with the needs of the twenty first century. His theory takes into account trends in learning, the use of technology and networks, and the diminishing half-life of knowledge. It combines relevant elements of many learning theories, social structures, and technology to create a powerful theoretical construct for learning in the digital age."
Ryan Donnelly

Edudemic | Social Media & Schools | Scoop.it - 1 views

www.scoop.it/...social-media-schools

web2.0 social media schools

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  • Ryan Donnelly on 04 Aug 12
     
    Great compilation of online articles about using social media in the classroom. As an added bonus, it is laid out using a gorgeous Web 2.0 Magazine creator: scoop.it. 
Michelle Krill

Celly - 1 views

cel.ly

texting cellphone social

shared by Michelle Krill on 02 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 02 Sep 11
     
    Mentioned tonight on Twitter by Jimbo Lamb. This site lets you text to a group.
  • Michelle Krill on 18 Jul 12
     
    Celly creates mini social networks called cells that connect you with people and topics that matter most to you. A cell can contain anybody with a cellphone, people from your existing social networks, or any web feed. We let you define filters based on hashtags, location, time, and user identity so you can eliminate noise and get alerted only when relevant messages occur.
anonymous

100 Best Social Sites for Students, Academics and Educators | Associate Degree - Facts ... - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 31 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Educators Social networking has certainly made students’ lives easier. Students share homework, notes and test information before teachers and school administrators even know about it. Grade books and lesson plans have been digital for a while but teachers (much like older people in general) have been slower to visit social sites. These social sites for teachers are going to change some outdated thinking.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 31 Jul 09
       
      A great list of sites designed to connect teachers. Check this out. Don't forget to sign up for Classroom 2.0 ning, too.
Beth Hartranft

9 Tips for Enriching Your Presentations With Social Media - 1 views

mashable.com/...presentations-social-media

socialmedia presentations backchannel twitter

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  • Beth Hartranft on 15 Dec 09
     
    "Pioneer presenters are using social media to engage their audience and extend the reach of their ideas. Twitter, Facebook, and numerous custom online tools allow presenters to create a backchannel for their audience's ideas and feedback. This two-way engagement can enrich the audience's understanding as well as the presenter's effectiveness."
L Butler

Digitally Speaking / Voicethread - 0 views

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web2.0 techtips

shared by L Butler on 14 Oct 09 - Cached
  • School is one of the few times when they can get together with their friends and they use every unscheduled moment to socialize - passing time, when the teacher's back is turned, lunch, bathroom breaks, etc. They are desperately craving an opportunity to connect with their friends; not surprisingly, their use of anything that enables socialization while at school is deeply desired.
  • informal social learning
  • This drive to connect provides a unique opportunity for school teachers:  Incredibly high levels of student motivation paired with a predefined fluency with electronic communication tools.
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  • One tool that can help educators to do just that is Voicethread.
  • Known as a “group audio blog,” Voicethread allows users to record text and audio comments about uploaded images.
  • Voicethread is Asynchronous:
  • Voicethread is Engaging:
  • Begin by carefully selecting a topic that will promote conversation and debate between students—and that can be conveyed through images currently available to you.
  • don’t be afraid to disagree with something
  • Initial comments should be somewhere between 1 and 3 sentences long. 
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 14 Oct 09
       
      As a teacher, this will be a challenge. The brief intro is what makes the difference between presentation and social education dialogue.
  • The best Voicethreads are truly interactive—with users listening and responding to one another. 
  • They come to the conversation with an open mind, willing to reconsider their own positions—and willing to challenge the notions of others. 
  • To be an active Voicethreader, start by carefully working your way through a presentation.   While viewing pictures and listening to the comments that have been added by other users, you should:   Gather Facts:  Jot down things that are interesting and new to you  Make Connections:  Relate and compare things you are viewing and hearing to things that you already know.  Ask Questions:  What about the comments and presentation is confusing to you?  What don’t you understand?  How will you find the answer?  Remember that there will ALWAYS be questions in an active thinker’s mind!  Give Opinions:  Make judgments about what you are viewing and hearing.  Do you agree?  Do you disagree?  Like?  Dislike?  Do you support or oppose anything that you have heard or seen?  Why? Use the following sentence starters to shape your thoughts and comments while viewing or participating in Voicethread presentations.  Comments based on these kinds of statements make Voicethreads interactive and engaging.   This reminds me of… This is similar to… I wonder… I realized… I noticed… You can relate this to… I’d like to know… I’m surprised that… If I were ________, I would  ______________ If __________ then ___________ Although it seems… I’m not sure that…
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 14 Oct 09
       
      These student suggestions are the missing link I was looking for to successfully incorporate into my classroom.
  • help other listeners know what it is that has caught your attention.
  • finish your comment with a question that other listeners can reply to.  Questions help to keep digital conversations going!
  • carefully script out short opening comments for each image that include a question for viewers to consider. 
  • Just be sure to disagree agreeably
  • Assessing Voicethread Participation
  • Essentially mirroring the reflective aspects of Konrad Glogowski's system for pushing reflective blogging, I've decided to ask my students the following four questions while we're working with a new Voicethread:
  • To craft careful answers, they must truly consider the comments of others---an essential skill for promoting collaborative versus competitive dialogue---and compare those comments against their own beliefs and preconceived notions. 
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 14 Oct 09
       
      Competitive dialogue motivates the students, but collaborative dialogue is the life skill they need to learn.
  • Voicethread allows users to upload documents to their strands of conversation as well.  That means that users can create a "Works Cited" page in a word processing application and upload it at the end of their Voicethread presentations. 
    • L Butler
      L Butler on 14 Oct 09
       
      Very useful info - I have been individually citing each picture, and its unsightly.
  • Voicethread Do's and Don'ts
  • Citing Images
  • Voicethread Handouts  
  • This one-page handout is designed to introduce students to some general tips for participating in Voicethread conversations. 
  • L Butler on 14 Oct 09
     
    Detailed guide to creating/using/evaluating VoiceThread in the classroom. There are great examples and guides to download. The question prompts for students to consider when replying are simple, yet perfect.
Beth Hartranft

Camp Martin Travels - 0 views

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blog social studies Martin Jeff

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  • Beth Hartranft on 14 Sep 09
     
    This is a blog by my colleague, Jeff Martin, 8th grade social studies teacher. The entries are a combination of historical day trips, graduate level travel courses, and little stops along the way. He is a great story teller.
  • Beth Hartranft on 14 Sep 09
     
    This is a blog by my colleague, Jeff Martin, 8th grade social studies teacher. The entries are a combination of historical day trips, graduate level travel courses, and little stops along the way. He is a great story teller. His blogs are fun to read and a great example of what is possible.
Mrs Huber

Does Social Networking Breed Social Division? - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/...tworking-breed-social-division

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  • Mrs Huber on 10 Jul 09
     
    Studies suggest that users of Facebook and MySpace are breaking down along class and racial lines. What do you think?
Charles Black

Popular Technology Resources for Social Studies (K-12) - TeacherVision.com - 0 views

www.teachervision.fen.com/...54152.html

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  • Charles Black on 19 Jul 12
     
    Teacher Vision provides free tools for educators, and the website is even divided by discipline. I looked over the Social Studies page as that is my interest. They have lesson plans, Power Pont's, and more.
peguyer

Education Update:Reading the Blueprint:Dawn of the New Literacies - 0 views

www.ascd.org/...awn-of-the-New-Literacies.aspx

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  • desultory
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 22 Jun 15
       
      lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm
  • the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology has upped the technology ante with the release of its National Education Technology Plan in Spring 2010.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 22 Jun 15
  • The plan states, "The challenge for our education system is to leverage the learning sciences and modern technology to create engaging, relevant, and personalized learning experiences for all learners that mirror students' daily lives and the reality of their futures."
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 22 Jun 15
       
      Plan was updated in 2014
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  • August 2010
  • 21st century concept of authorship
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 22 Jun 15
       
      .
  • teachers need to guide students to be critical readers "who can evaluate online information for credibility, timeliness, accuracy, and even hidden agendas,"
  • The new generation, sometimes dubbed "screenagers," does much more with technology outside school. Through social networking sites and wireless gizmos, kids are reading; texting; connecting socially; and making their own digital creations, from music mashups to backyard, YouTube-ready videos.
    • peguyer
      peguyer on 22 Jun 15
       
      I find that "screenagers" know how to use their personal devices for social media, but are unable to problem solve with educational technology.
  • Michelle Krill on 22 Jun 15
     
    "Dawn of the New Literacies"
N Butler

Facebook, Twitter users beware: Crooks are a mouse click away - CNN.com - 1 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html

twitter facebook

shared by N Butler on 19 Oct 09 - Cached
  • more cyberthieves are targeting increasingly popular social networking sites that provide a gold mine of personal information, according to the FBI. Since 2006, nearly 3,200 account hijacking cases have been reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership between the FBI, the National White Collar Cr
  • All you have to do is click.
  • When the message or link is opened, social network users are lured to fake Web sites that trick them into divulging personal details and passwords. The process, known as a phishing attack or malware, can infiltrate users' accounts without their consent.
  • N Butler on 19 Oct 09
     
    Beware!!
Amy Soule

http://www.flock.com/ - 0 views

www.flock.com

browser flock web2.0 software social web firefox flockstart twitter

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  • Amy Soule on 19 Oct 09
     
    Award winning social Web browser powered by Mozilla
anonymous

Mental Health Break: Social Media Addiction - All Tech Considered - Technology News And... - 0 views

www.npr.org/...l_health_break_social_med.html

npr socialstudies twitter

shared by anonymous on 24 Aug 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 24 Aug 09
     
    This is FUNNY! Social Media addiction. ROFL!
anonymous

Education Week: Filtering Fixes - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...02filter_ep.h29.html

shared by anonymous on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Instead of blocking the many exit ramps and side routes on the information superhighway, they have decided that educating students and teachers on how to navigate the Internet’s vast resources responsibly, safely, and productively—and setting clear rules and expectations for doing so—is the best way to head off online collisions.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      This is nothing new, but it seems this is one of the VERY few districts that puts its filter where its mouth is.
  • “We are known in our district for technology, so I don’t see how you can teach kids 21st-century values if you’re not teaching them digital citizenship and appropriate ways of sharing and using everything that’s available on the Web,” said Shawn Nutting, the technology director for the Trussville district. “How can you, in 2009, not use the Internet for everything? It blows me away that all these schools block things out” that are valuable.
  • While schools are required by federal and state laws to block pornography and other content that poses a danger to minors, Internet-filtering software often prevents students from accessing information on legitimate topics that tend to get caught in the censoring process: think breast cancer, sexuality, or even innocuous keywords that sound like blocked terms. One teacher who commented on one of Mr. Fryer’s blog posts, for example, complained that a search for biographical information on a person named Thacker was caught by his school’s Internet filter because the prohibited term “hacker” is included within the spelling of the word.
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  • The K-2 school provides e-mail addresses to each of its 880 students and maintains accounts on the Facebook and Twitter networking sites. Children can also interact with peers in other schools and across the country through protected wiki spaces and blogs the school has set up.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      We find it hard to even imagine this, don't we?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      the entire approach to filtering is based on this sentence, isn't it?
  • “Rather than saying this is a scary tool and something bad could happen, instead we believe it’s an incredible tool that connects you with the entire world out there. ... [L]et’s show you the best way to use it.”
  • As Trussville students move through the grades and encounter more-complex educational content and expectations, their Internet access is incrementally expanded.
  • In 2001, the Children’s Internet Protection Act instituted new requirements for schools to establish policies and safeguards for Internet use as a condition of receiving federal E-rate funding. Many districts have responded by restricting any potentially troublesome sites. But many educators and media specialists complain that the filters are set too broadly and cannot discriminate between good and bad content. Drawing the line between what material is acceptable and what’s not is a local decision that has to take into account each district’s comfort level with using Internet content
  • The American Civil Liberties Union sued Tennesee’s Knox County and Nashville school districts on behalf of several students and a school librarian for blocking Internet sites related to gay and lesbian issues. While the districts’ filtering software prohibited students from accessing sites that provided information and resources on the subject, it did not block sites run by organizations that promoted the controversial view that homosexuals can be “rehabilitated” and become heterosexuals. Last month, a federal court dismissed the lawsuit after school officials agreed to unblock the sites.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      Hmmm - a lawsuit? And the Assistant Sec of Education didn't understand what I meant when I suggested that lawsuits control decisions and guide curriculum.
  • Students are using personal technology tools more readily to study subject matter, collaborate with classmates, and complete assignments than they were several years ago, but they are generally asked to “power down” at school and abandon the electronic resources they rely on for learning outside of class, the survey found. Administrators generally cite safety issues and concerns that students will misuse such tools to dawdle, cheat, or view inappropriate content in school as reasons for not offering more open online access to students. ("Students See Schools Inhibiting Their Use of New Technologies,", April 1, 2009.)
  • A report commissioned by the NSBA found that social networking can be beneficial to students, and urged school board members to “find ways to harness the educational value” of so-called Web 2.0 tools, such as setting up chat rooms or online journals that allow students to collaborate on their classwork. The 2007 report also told school boards to re-evaluate policies that ban or tightly restrict the use of the Internet or social-networking sites.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      YES!! What do you think?
  • Federal Requirements for Schools on Internet Safety The Children’s Internet Protection Act, or CIPA, is a federal law intended to block access to offensive Web content on school and library computers. Under CIPA, schools and libraries that receive funding through the federal E-rate program for Internet access must: • Have an Internet-safety policy and technology-protection measures in place. The policy must include measures to block or filter Internet access to obscene photos, child pornography, and other images that can be harmful to minors; • Educate minors about appropriate and inappropriate online behavior, including activities like cyberbullying and social networking; • Adopt and enforce a policy to monitor online activities of minors; and • Adopt and implement policies related to Internet use by minors that address access to inappropriate online materials, student safety and privacy issues, and the hacking of unauthorized sites. Source: Federal Communications Commission
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      This is the Act that schools cite when giving reasons for blocking what they do. Can you justify it from this? Granted, it's not the coplete law, but they sure do use this to justify everything.
  • “We believe that you can’t have goals about kids’ collaborating globally and then block their ability to do that,” said Becky Fisher, the Virginia district’s technology coordinator.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 15 Sep 09
       
      Hear! Hear!
diane foose

26 Learning Games for Change | Serious Games for Social Change - 0 views

www.missiontolearn.com/...learning-games-for-change

learning_games global_learning

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  • diane foose on 17 Sep 09
     
    Here's a list of links and descriptions for a wide range of serious games aimed at sparking social change.
anonymous

Twiducate.com - Social Networking For Schools - 0 views

www.twiducate.com

socialnetworking

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  • anonymous on 25 Oct 11
     
    Social network for classes, controlled by the teacher.
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