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John Pearce

The History and Evolution of Social Media | Webdesigner Depot - 0 views

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    "Social media has become an integral part of modern society. There are general social networks with user bases larger than the population of most countries. There are niche sites for virtually every special interest out there. There are sites to share photos, videos, status updates, sites for meeting new people and sites to connect with old friends. It seems there are social solutions to just about every need. In this article, we'll review the history and evolution of social media from its humble beginnings to the present day."
Lynne Crowe

Social Networking Wars // Current - 0 views

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    Video about social networking. Think social networking sites are fun and useful? See what happens when things get a little out of control for one social networker who might just be over the whole social network thing. Let the social networking wars begin!
Rhondda Powling

The Intersection of Digital Literacy and Social Media -- Campus Technology - 2 views

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    "As educators look for new ways to teach digital literacy or the use of digital technology to find, organize, comprehend, evaluate, and create information, some are turning to social media to help advance the concept in the college classroom. BUT.....colleges leveraging social media to improve digital literacy must focus on students' current use of social media and then find ways to interface those activities with the curriculum."
Heather S

How to Create Social Media Guidelines for Your School | Edutopia - 3 views

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    "Get the seven steps (and a roundup of valuable resources) you need to help bring social media in your classroom." BY STEVEN ANDERSON and produced in collaboration with Facebook. Social media is fast becoming as ubiquitous as the air we breathe. In recent months, many schools and districts around the country have taken steps to create social media policies and guidelines for their students and staff. "
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    How to Create Social Media Guidelines for Your School http://t.co/11t78TNg8g
Tania Sheko

Jill Meagher | Trial by Social Media A Worry, Experts Say - 4 views

  • With that anger comes responsibility to social media users, who become content publishers when they post. That may require a knowledge of media law.
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      I mean social media.
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      Is there an current unambiguous social media law?
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    Interesting development with social media and the law.
Rhondda Powling

3 Ways Teachers Are Using Social Media to Engage Students - Brilliant or Insane - 1 views

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    "Post that makes the case for including social media into learning in schools. Taking advantage of social media as a learning platform is an idea that has been met with some great success. There are three ways described here about how teachers are using social media to engage their students."
dean groom

The Web In Numbers: The Rise Of Social Media - 0 views

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    The Web in Numbers: The Rise of Social Media numbers12009 is the year of social media. Once, Twitter (Twitter reviews) was a place where you could read about someone else's cat. Now, it's the first place you go to when there's breaking news. Sites like Digg (Digg reviews), Reddit (reddit.com reviews), and Facebook (Facebook reviews) can now leave a huge impact on the real world; lives are changed, important questions are asked (and answered) there. Many milestones have been reached; the growth of nearly every aspect of social media has and continues to be enormous. We've dug up some amazing statistics and numbers from this realm.
Rhondda Powling

Social Media FOR Schools: Developing Shareable Content for Schools | Langwitches Blog - 1 views

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    An asutue post by Sylvia Rosenthal Tolisano (langwitches) "While social media in schools deals primarily with policies around how to use (or not use) social media in the classroom with students, social media for schools is about storytelling and getting their stakeholders (teachers, students, administrators, parents, community) to spread these stories."
Rhondda Powling

Social Media Enables Genuine Education | Social Media Today - 0 views

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    "Five well-put reasons as to why social media is a great catalyst for education:" Social media has changed, morphing into many different forms  that have great benefits for education when used well. 
Nigel Coutts

Learning in the age of Social Networks - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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    Learning is a social endeavour. Schools need to understand that for our students the social landscape has changed. Rather than turning away from this reality we need to understand what it means and what our children need to know and learn to safely maximise the opportunities it brings.
Rhondda Powling

Policies for Staff use of Social Media and Social Networks - eLearning Blog Dont Waste ... - 3 views

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    Does your employer / Institution have a policy for the accepted use, by staff, for how they can use Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, SlideShare, YouTube, WordPress, etc)? Is it limited to how you can use it for work, or in work, or does it cover your usage outside of work and how you talk/post about what you do at work? Are you allowed to use images/logo of your employer/Institution in your work?
Tania Sheko

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Social Media (Part 1) - guest post by Alexander... - 0 views

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    How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Social Media (Part 1) - guest post by Alexander Sheko http://t.co/pQ0mXYQYrF @jennyluca Remember we spoke about tertiary student perspective on social media. @alexandersheko has posted part 1 http://t.co/rkm4ZJbpwJ
Rhondda Powling

5 Powerful Social Media Tools For Your Classroom | Edudemic - 5 views

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    Social media tools can help break the barriers set by the walls of schools. Learning and communicating outside the school hours with technology aid is a modern adaptation of education that has showed great results. This post looks at some web tools that provide school-specific tools that are just as powerful in facilitating the communication inside the student-teacher-parent triangle as the more famous popular social networking sites..
Rhondda Powling

Discover the 2 keys to implementing a school social media policy that works | Teachers ... - 0 views

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    "...the days of your school social media policy being "we don't have one" are over.  Equally the days of just adopting the districts or states policy in its entirety are also limited (you don't do that for your discipline policy, why would you do that with social media?)  Each school should have their own policy specifically written."
Rhondda Powling

Favorite Tech Tools For Social Studies Classes | MindShift | KQED News - 2 views

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    "Rachel Langenhorst helps teachers in her district find solutions for those issues. She used to teach social studies, but is now the K-12 Technology Integrationist and Instructional Coach at Rock Valley Community Schools in Iowa. "Really be cognizant of the digital tools you're picking and why you are picking them." She put together a list of favorite digital tools for the social studies classroom and shared them during an edWeb webinar. She emphasizes that, as with any classroom technology, teachers need to be careful not to just substitute a tech tool for an analog one. Instead, technology should be used to enhance classroom learning in ways that wouldn't be possible otherwise, including expanding learning beyond the classroom walls."
Rhondda Powling

6 Collaborative Social Tools and Platforms for Better Writing and Collaboration - Emerg... - 1 views

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    "Collaborative, socially-enabled tools can provide excellent opportunities for practice, assessment, better writing, and better communication. In this post are some good collaborative web apps and resources, with social functionality, that can play a valuable role in classroom lessons and assignments:"
Rhondda Powling

DOs and DON'Ts of Social Media Pictures - 0 views

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    "A picture's worth a thousand likes. Or at least more likes than a post without one. Numerous studies have shown that including a profile picture is essential to garnering more page visits, and picture posts are more visible on social media. There's an active online discussion around the perfect avatar or cover photo, but there is no comprehensive guide to visual engagement for your brand's entire social media profile."
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