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" Social Media Classroom Using social media to learn about social media issues Today's students live in a world in which all of the traditional elements of their education-texts, lectures, connections with the world outside the campus-have been transformed by the ubiquitous presence of laptops and Wi-Fi. In their lives outside the classroom, and in the lives of their families, communities, and fellow citizens, important questions arise about the effects of using digital media-questions about identity, relationships, community, collective action, public sphere, social capital"

"Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action, a new policy paper by Renee Hobbs, Professor at the School of Communications and the College of Education at Temple University and founder of its Media Education Lab, proposes a detailed plan that positions digital and media literacy as an essential life skill and outlines steps that policymakers, educators, and community advocates can take to help Americans thrive in the digital age."

"Social media is an important technological trend that has big implications for how researchers (and people in general) communicate and collaborate. Researchers have a huge amount to gain from engaging with social media in various aspects of their work."

"Storify provides endless possibilities for combining media to tell more comprehensive narratives that include multiple perspectives. And while the tool has largely received attention for its journalistic uses, it's not a big leap to see how Storify might be used in classrooms for research and presentations. It's also a valuable tool for teaching media literacy and digital skills, including collaboration."

Great options for classroom use

Interesting article on search results being affected by social media

interesting article about SEO (search engine optimization). Good to know how search results are affected by social media.

post about teaching students about media literacy.

Some good ideas here.

"Project Look Sharp is a media literacy initiative of Ithaca College to provide materials, training and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels."

Curriculum Kits and Lessons

"85+ Resources: Educator Guide for Integrating Social Media"

"Global Voices is an international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world"

"Global Voices is an international community of bloggers who report on blogs and citizen media from around the world."

Another resources to access as events in the Middle East unfold

From Richard Byrne: "a website that features collections of images, books, essays, audio recordings, and films that are in the public domain. Choose any of the collections to search for materials according to date, style, genre, and rights. Directions for downloading and saving media is included along with each collection of media. "

Excellent post on research process.

Excellent post on improving the research process.

Ways educators can help students understand, create and preserve liberty by pursuing a connected 'general knowledge' as described by John Adams.

"A research project focusing on reading behavior going on at Johannes Gutenberg University (go figure) asks the question of whether or not we actually read in a completely different way using our ereaders, and if the effects are undesirable. Has technology developed its own significant physical procession of human motor movements for consuming info and entertainment on today's digital media? Sure it has, and according to this study at least, it's harmless-just different. posted by Ian Jukes Nov 10, 2011"

"Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps."

Collaborative way to create a digital timeline

Student Reporting labs connect students with a network of public broadcasting mentors, an innovative journalism curriculum and an online collaborative space to develop digital media, critical thinking and communication skills while producing original news reports

Open Culture- best free cultural and educational media on the web

Ideas for using the uprising in Egypt in a lesson. Lots of resourc materials included.

Part of the CHOICES Program for History and Current Events in the Classroom

Very good post on searching from the UK

good overview of the search process that goes way beyond searching on google.

Takes a word in the news and posts articles that use the word. Very good site for analyzing the news and how it is reported. This site would be a great tool in the social studies classroom but would be an excellent way to study vocabulary.

Really interesting site which studies how the media uses certain words. Great way to study and analyze how the news is reported.

"Convert media files online from one format into another." This free online file converter lets you convert media easy and fast from one format to another.

convert any type of file. This could be very handy at times.