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Best content in SFI2011 | Diigo - Groups - 0 views

  • Diigo group for the 2011 University of Delaware's Summer Faculty Institute to share bookmarks, web annotations, and more...
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Professors Spy on College Students to Study In-Class Laptop Use - 0 views

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    "The study also revealed a significant deviation between student survey results and actual computer-use practices. Students tend to under-report the amount of time they spend on distracting activities in class."
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The Twitter Experiment at UT Dallas - Monica Rankin - 0 views

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    Dr. Rankin, professor of History at UT Dallas, wanted to know how to reach more students and involve more people in class discussions both in and out of the classroom. She had heard of Twitter... She collaborated with the UT Dallas, Arts and Technology - Emerging Media and Communications (EMAC) http://www.emac.utdallas.edu faculty and as a Graduate student in EMAC I assisted her in her experiment.
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Social Software Building Blocks - honeycomb diagram - 0 views

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    While doing research for a recent workshop, I came across a useful list of seven social software elements. These seven building blocks--identity, presence, relationships, conversations, groups, reputation and sharing--provide a good functional definition for social software. They're also a solid foundation for thinking about how social software works.
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TwHistory - Twitter reenactments - 0 views

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    The TwHistory project began in early 2009 with the first Twitter reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg over a period of several weeks. TwHistory is based on the idea that historical reenactments can take place online and have positive effects for all involved.
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100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom - 0 views

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    "Facebook isn't just a great way for you to find old friends or learn about what's happening this weekend, it is also an incredible learning tool. Teachers can utilize Facebook for class projects, for enhancing communication, and for engaging students in a manner that might not be entirely possible in traditional classroom settings. Read on to learn how you can be using Facebook in your classroom, no matter if you are a professor, student, working online, or showing up in person for class."
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Professors and Social Media - 0 views

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    "The data suggest that 80 percent of professors, with little variance by age, have at least one account with either Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Skype, LinkedIn, MySpace, Flickr, Slideshare, or Google Wave. Nearly 60 percent kept accounts with more than one, and a quarter used at least four."
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Teaching with Social Networks: Establishing a Social Contract - 0 views

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    "This ECAR research bulletin discusses the use of student-developed social contracts to support a vital online community of inquiry. In blended classes-which combine co-present and web-mediated interaction-contracts that address both settings are particularly effective. This bulletin provides examples of successful student social contracts and describes students' views on the impact of the social contract on their learning."
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YC EDU 255 - 0 views

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    A course on a blog.
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Murder Madness and Mayhem (UBC student project) - 0 views

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    "The University of British Columbia's class SPAN312 ("Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation") contributed to Wikipedia during Spring 2008. Our collective goals were to bring a selection of articles on Latin American literature to featured article status (or as near as possible). By project's end, we had contributed three featured articles and eight good articles. None of these articles was a good article at the outset; two did not even exist."
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30 Social Media Definitions - 0 views

  • Social media is a reflection of conversations happening every day, whether at the supermarket, a bar, the train, the watercooler or the playground. It just allows for those conversations to reach a broader audience due to digital being a megaphone for scale
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    "In their own words, here are thirty social media definitions from active participants. "
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The Twitter Trap - 0 views

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    "Basically, we are outsourcing our brains to the cloud. The upside is that this frees a lot of gray matter for important pursuits like FarmVille and "Real Housewives.""
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"Success is measured in how often your followers p - 0 views

@keyinfluencer "Success is measured in how often your followers push your content out" #socialmediabootcamp #growfollowers

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5 Unique Uses of Twitter in the Classroom - 0 views

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    "While some platforms, such as YouTube, have been widely accepted in the classroom, Twitter has been slower to catch on as a teaching tool. In the same survey, only 2 percent of professors reported using the microblogging site-which limits posts to 140 characters-in class."
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Facebook Groups vs. LinkedIn Groups - 0 views

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    I use both a Facebook group and a LinkedIn group as community engagement tools. I like them both, but for very different reasons, and what I really wish I could do was combine my favorite features of each and get the best of both worlds.
Mathieu Plourde

Use of Blogs in Anu Sivaraman's Marketing Classes - 0 views

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    "Short interview with Anu Sivaraman, Professor, Business Administration, about her use of blogs for her IT in Marketing class. In addition to providing students a platform to express themselves and collaborate, blogs have proven to be a gateway to helping marketing student develop a very important entry-level skill."
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