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Interesting article regarding mature-age students and Twitter in developing personal learning networks

"Twitter is real. The connections that are forged by communicating, sharing and learning together as teachers are real. Twitter is real. Twitter as a platform to bring educators from around the world together to string their learning and conversations together."

Social media sites barely used in secondary education - barriers.

Web 2.0 applications are changing how educators interact both with each other and with their students. Educators can use these new Web tools daily to create, share, socialize, and collaborate with students, colleagues, and newly developed network contacts. School librarians are finding that Web 2.0 tools are bringing them more ways to embrace and promote new learning environments for the 21st-century learner.

"Admit it. Sometimes, your Twitter life is messy. You follow hundreds of people - maybe thousands. Staring at your timeline is about as intelligible as reading a stock ticker. How do you bring organization to your Twitter life? How do you rise above the confusion, cut through the complexity, and become a superstar on Twitter? You learn these 15 Twitter hacks. Once you pick up on these power user features, you'll become a Twitter ninja in no time."

Abstract: Purpose - Twitter is an important communication tool with college students. This article aims to emphasize that, while Twitter is useful for sharing information about the library, more can be learned from using it as a digital listening post. Design/methodology/approach - This is an essay style viewpoint. Findings - The paper reveals that Twitter is an important vehicle for disseminating information about a library to its community and as a means for maintaining good customer service. Originality/value - The paper provides useful information on an important communication tool for libraries. Keywords Twitter, Social media, Communication, Libraries Paper type Viewpoint

Twitter and mentoring relationships

Personal Learning Network and engaging students..., it works for me, thanks Carole!

Not actually social media but about online courses for LIS students

From the website: "Bright ideas is a blog by the School Libraries Association of Victoria (SLAV) and the State Library of Victoria (SLV). Its aim is to encourage teacher librarians and educators to actively engage with ICT, to share tools and experiences, to network on a global scale, and to embrace dynamic teaching and learning opportunities."

CAUL Learning and Teaching Advisory Committee Bulletin

This policy illustrates the overarching framework that the University of New South Wales use to ensure that all digital media used for online teaching and learning, marketing, recruitment and publicity meet the university's guidelines when created and distributed. Of particular interests is the more formal template used for the police, as well as the visual overview of the policies, procedures and guidelines that relate to all digital media at the university.