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Nice graphic. Unfortunately I can't find an "N" value for overall twitter accounts. I always find it interesting to compare this to some of the popular Zynga data. For instance: 20.6 million US adults access twitter once a month 59 million zynga players access a zynga game at least once a day Last I heard, the total Zynga account tally was at 277m (if viewed as a country, Zynga would be the fourth largest behind the US). At one point, more people were playing farmville than there were twitter accounts, but that stat is 2 years old so I'm sure that's changed quite a bit (but in what direction, I have no idea).

Agreed - I like the way this is presented, especially the 8% on the U.S. map. I might have to steal that one.

While I agree to a degree, there are lots if people I still subscribe to b/c they choose to not be a part of twitter or fb. That and quite a bit of what I read is related to the joys of HE administration and no one links to that stuff!

A collection of examples of rubrics used for assessing Web 2.0-based assignments (Twitter, Blogs, Wiki, Podcasts, multimedia, gaming, etc...)

This is a good starting point to share with faculty and IDs who are looking for ways to assess assignments in new media. It should only be a starting point though. Not every blog/twitter/multimedia assignment is created equally.

"But my inner worrywart wonders whether the new technologies overtaking us may be eroding characteristics that are essentially human: our ability to reflect, our pursuit of meaning, genuine empathy, a sense of community connected by something deeper than snark or political affinity. " "Genuine Empathy" is the one that really concerns me, and I see it in how my nieces, and others, use facebook. The FB birthday thing comes to mind...now people get as many "Happy birthday!" notes as they have friends...but are the well-wishers even thinking about my birthday? Probably not, it's just FB reminding them "Hey, it's bart's bday" and now the norm is to stop by and say "happy birthday" without even thinking about it. The end of the article has a nice quote from a novel as well: "The generation that had information, but no context. "

This is a well written piece. The author does a great job at tugging on our emotions. However, I believe he possesses only a superficial understanding of the medium.

A lot to think about here - How the practice of so many disciplines are changing due to changes in media How open Education doesn't just mean some pages put up on the web - Actually open people, not just open content. How the existing communications systems out there are the fertile ground that communities of practice sprout from, not institutional management systems. The future will be found at the confluence of these trends.

As social media become nearly inescapable on college campuses, a pair of recently published studies supports what many professors already have concluded: Students using Facebook or text messaging during a lecture tend to do worse when quizzed later. But wait: Faculty who build Twitter into classwork may be helping students learn better, a 2010 study suggests.

Very interesting - especially the higher use by African Americans.

Not only does tech allow disperse communities to communicate, but it can also involve and motivate a younger generation to get involved in a minority language.

Nothing earth shattering, but I do find the "zombie" section extremely accurate. Getting people to keep the social spaces alive with content seems to be a big issue (at least with SITE, likely with others as well).

This is quite the rant. I know World Campus had a social media expert and Liberal Arts has a Curator...is this trend on the upswing of the downswing in terms of hiring personnel specifically for this at PSU?

There are some good points in this article. It seems that as social media has become the norm for online interaction, it has ceased to become something that people can specialize in. I was talking to some students and they asked what Web 2.0 was and I explained that it was everything they use online: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google Docs, blogs, user forums, etc... So while "social media expert" used to be a label of innovation, it has almost become a limiting label - just part of the picture. In contrast, I see people like Robin Smail who are moving beyond "just" social media and into areas like community engagement. Sure, some of that involves social media, but it's more about building relationships, ownership, and buy-in through openness and transparency. The other points of the article - like knowing your audience and not having inflated expectations about social media's impact on your business and customer relationships are right on target.

Shades of the Shirky Symposium Keynote? At first glance this might seem frightening to the layman, but think about it: knowledgeable, trained doctors using an additional but social source to find information that augments peer reviewed journals.

I wonder how much time doctors have to devote to research in peer reviewed journals. Maybe they get to read JAMA. When Andrew needs to look up something medical, he often starts with Wikipedia or PubMed and then digs deeper from there.

Textbook app offers access to a catalog of 70,000 college- and university-level electronic textbooks from major textbook publishers. Kno reported it will offer books at 30 percent to 50 percent off list prices through the Kno Store. Other e-learning features of the Textbooks for iPad app include: A social networking feature called Words to Friends that connects students via Facebook and Twitter; Text highlighting; Sticky notes; Chapter previews; and Support for downloading and reading PDFs from the Web.

John Dolan sent me a note about this as well. He said that Stuart is interested in the Kno, but may not have a lot of time to examine it. John said that he would contact the other people involved with the Digital Research group in Liberal Arts. I have downloaded the app, but haven't used it yet.

I'd like to play around with it a bit to see what is has to offer... was thinking for Stuart's projects in particular. Maybe I'll bring it up with Stuart and Michael at our meeting next week. I guess the next step is seeing if the texts we use are even available.

another ipad app for screencasting. as far as I know, this is the first example of an app from one of the big established screen capture software companies.

I downloaded it (for free). It's very nice. I tried ShowMe before, which also lets you write and record what you're saying, but there is too much of a time delay between your drawing and it showing up on the iPad. ScreenChomp is much faster. Another advantage is that you can see your recording before posting it.

we had the same delay complaint with showme. also didn't like that there were no export options outside of posting to their site.

Desire2Learn adds Google+ to its list of profile linking tools that already includes Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Smart.

If I really have to get stuff done, I'll basically self-impose email 'blackouts' for 2-4 hours. Helps with document and report writing at least. One thing I still haven't figured out...I personally don't mind if people don't respond to my emails if it's just an FYI or an info-dump. But some colleagues seem to *always* want a response from me regarding these emails, even if it's just a "thanks" email. Don't get it :/ Last thing we all need are more emails with a single word in the body.