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Back again to Twitter but this time with a wonderful collection of more than 50 ideas and tips on how to put this popular social networking and microblogging tool to work in your classroom.

Back again to Twitter but this time with a wonderful collection of more than 50 ideas and tips on how to put this popular social networking and microblogging tool to work in your classroom.

This article provides a synopsis of the impacts of social media on learners and learning.

Let us see how utilizing social media has worked in other educational settings!

Great tools for history teachers! I especially like Docs Teach from the National Archives.

Scroll down to the part of the article that discusses Pinterest. Pinterest can be great for creating a digital portfolio. I like this idea.

It's no surprise that high school and college students spend a bulk of their time texting and tweeting. But who would have thought that social media would make its way into the classroom -- as an invited guest, no less? Developing community Forget the "no cell phones rule" -- these days, laptops and iPhones are a mainstay of the classroom.

Social Networking in Education Ning Community

Have you ever used a flipped classroom model?

Hi, it is interesting that this article talks about alternate ways to teach a flipped classroom compared to creating video lectures which is the most popular way of delivering content in flipped classes.

Isra Garcia writes: In the past, I've written about how I use LinkedIn and also offered 13 fast tips to optimize your profile. But there's still so much more to learn about the platform. Below, you will find eight tips for making the most of your time on LinkedIn. Getting the most out of LinkedIn

LinkedIn is offering courses one of the courses is Social media in the classroom

Social Media and Web 2.0 for learning is a presentation created by a Malaysian educator.

This site discusses improving education through the use of social media. The site contains helpful ideas, infographics, news and videos.

Are we providing as 21st century education if we don't teach how to use these new forms of communication?

I think it depends on the course and the course learning objectives. Social networking may not be a tool that aids in encoding course content and thus, would be inappropriate to include.

I enjoyed this video. It was very helpful in learning to organize my electronic life.

Teaching students in the 21st century has new implications for today's classroom at all educational levels. Accompanying these implications are expectations that faculty must engage students through instructional strategies and activities of value to students. Twenty-first century learners live in an age of new technologies and information sharing. Cell phones, laptops, handheld PCs, electronic devices, and social online communities are a few examples of students' constant immersion in technology (see Figure 1). The exception to this constant exposure can be found in the classroom. One might reasonably ask, "How are faculty integrating technology into the curriculum to enhance learning?"

This article provides a good global study of faculty, and addresses the needs, technology needs in particular, that are essential to faculty effectiveness as we transition to the 21st century classroom.

From this article: Presence is the most important best practice for an online course (Boettcher & Conrad, 2010, p. 53) Research has shown that an important component in students 'performance in and satisfaction with their online course is the active participation of the instructor within their course (Picciano, 2002; Rovai, 2002; Swan & Shih, 2005). ***Because online presence is such a pivotal part of our role as facilitators, social media certainly assists us in actively participating in each course.

A couple of years ago the optimistic view on virtual schools prevailed. For several students this learning environment provided the safety they had lacked in traditional schools either because emotional, social or other reasons. Contrary to the original enthusiasm, however, today more and more analyses refer to the problems of these schools. The Virtual Schools in U.S 2019 - among others - describes this problem in detail.