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The 40,000+ person company makes social media training mandatory for its employees and formalized a policy of "3Rs" - responsibility, respect and representation. Taking things a step further, today the company is trying something about as transparent as it gets - publishing their entire social media training guide online, so that anyone can check it out, learn and critique.

Looking for an introduction to Social Media, this might be it..

Summary of Nielsen Report ID's most used social media: Facebook , Blogger, Tumblr, Twitter, and LinkedIn Does your organization have a presence?

Create your topic-centric media by collecting gems among relevant streams Publish it to your favorite social media or to your blog

Focused on K-12, but this document from edutopia magazine is a great primer for "teaching with new media"

Good suggestions and examples for social media in the classroom (Both K-12 and Higher Ed)

Good talk about issues surrounding digital culture, social media, and virtual worlds.

A very good and simple explanation of social media.

""Will what you're about to share offend, surprise, or shock your current or future Classmates Teacher Friends Boyfriend/girlfriend Family Parents Employer Clients Business partners in a way which critically jeopardizes your relationship? If you answer even one "Yes" for this short list of people, think long and hard before publishing your content.""

great interactive graphic that teaches a lesson about media images and photo retouching.

Do you have ideas that might use this interactive graphic technique?

Excellent Video about using VoiceThread to create an engaging and healthy online learning environment.

The NCLOR is an online library of instructional resources for North Carolina's K-20 educators

The NCLOR (North Carolina Learning Object Repository) is available to all for finding materials to use in your class.

Helpful screencast on how to find images for your presentations. Explains Creative commons searching on compfight.com

This screencast may be useful if you plan an activity that requires students to make presentations. Also useful for your class presentations

Thanks Newman, this is great. Something to keep in mind for students and faculty wanting to publish to iTunes University as well. I have seen several podcasts with blacked out scenes because there wasn't permission to show the content or images that was being presented.

Class digital storytelling example from Virginia Tech

Here is an example of a class using a Digital Storytelling class assignment. You can view the classes YouTube channel and see the student created videos.

"The 2010 Horizon Report is a collaboration between The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative An EDUCAUSE Program"

I agree! Mobile Learning is coming and it should be - has the potential to be so much more than improved access. it can be more than simply having access to recorded lectures in your car or on the bus via an iPod. I'm optimistic about the use of twitter and mobile devices to extend the classroom experience and improve communication. But I think we can do more. These mobile devices ( smart phones, Blackberry, iPad) are powerful computers in their own right. Perhaps we should start looking for and bookmarking mobile learning initiatives.

Absolutely. And as luck would have it, some folks on the IT list forum I am a part of have posted some. I'll log in and take a look. I am excited about the portability of information and would love to see such devices invited into the classroom for the purpose of learning instead of just seeing them turned off. When you think about it, mobile devices are pretty powerful mini computers networked to global information that could be, and should be harnessed. The power of google at my fingertips, whenever I need it.

A new study reveals that nearly all faculty members use social media -- and most use it to teach....

"The goal of providing the handheld device, the school said in a statement, was to improve the learning experience and give students flexible access to health care--related content. The combination media player-camera-video recorder-personal digital assistant with WiFi capabilities was loaded with mobile applications students will need in the classroom as well as an app to help them prepare for the nursing board examination."

What sort of apps would you add to a mobile device for students entering the nursing profession?

A step by step guide to social media

A web service, still under beta, that quickly records your audio, stores it online (public), and allows you to embed it in webpages or link to it in emails.

This cookbook gives instructions when seem straightforward. I plan to use this in the spring 2010 semester as an activity in N6101 Nursing Theory. Activity will be to do a digital story that focuses on a concept, similiar to a concept analysis, however, as a digital media product that captures the essence of a concept or phenomena found in nursing.