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The Educational Uses of Facebook by Amy Brown, Director of eLearning - 3 views

cit.ceu.edu/t26.pdf

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shared by anonymous on 30 Aug 10 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 30 Aug 10
     
    As an online 9-12 teacher and parent of three teenagers, I know that the majority of students have Facebook accounts and spend time each day socializing through this technology median. I have often accused Facebook as being a distraction from homework and "real socializing". This article helps me rethink the use of Facebook. The old adage comes to mind, "If you can't beat them, join them". I loved the practical suggestions this paper brings forth, such as making my own "Teacher Profile" that they can keep as a friend. Through this means, students will be able to chat with me about homework whenever we are online, as well as visit my page for useful resources. Sure we can introduce other software programs to provide these teacher interaction services to students such as e-mail, Moodle and Pronto, but why not work with a program they already know and love...In addition, the topic of Facebook profiles and postings can also provide "meaningful" classroom discussions about ethics and self dignity. Thank you, Amy Brown for putting this resource together.
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  • glorihinck on 30 Aug 10
     
    Tina- this is a great summary of both Facebook and how to use Facebook for education. I have seen the YouTube video that it presents before but I still laugh every time I view it. It is so true!
  • Lora Evanouski on 01 Sep 10
     
    Hi Tina and Glori, I found a blog about how the schools in Lee County, Florida have banned the practice of using Facebook to stay connected with current students. "One Florida school district, Lee County, is the first in the state and possibly the nation to ban teachers from communicating with current students through the social networking sites "regardless of the reason." I found this article very interesting. I will post the links for everyone to read. Thanks for the great article, it was very informative and could be a great discussion starter in a class.
  • glorihinck on 01 Sep 10
     
    Lora, my University has an informal policy discouraging friending of students on Facebook. I really need to explore this issue more. To be honest, I wouldn't want students on my personal Facebook page as I have a rather large eclectic group of friends who might not always post appropriately.
  • anonymous on 02 Sep 10
     
    I would have to totally agree with you! I would not want my students to have access to my personal FB page. I do think there are ways to social network using Facebook without having to use personal pages, such as setting up a group page that requires permission to join the group and all discussions will be kept there and not put on personal pages. The only downfall to this would be that everyone in the class would have to set up new, alternate profiles to do so and I am not sure that FB will let you have multiple profiles. I guess that would be something to look into. I do like Facebook and the ease of use that is has and since most kids know how to use it nowadays, they would probably be quite interactive on it. This is something to reasearch more on, though.
  • glorihinck on 02 Sep 10
     
    Something for us to explore this term! Perhaps a final project?
  • johnericshelton on 02 Sep 10
     
    When I first started using Facebook, I was determined to keep it exclusively made up of my real friends. I was living abroad at the time so it was a great way to stay in touch with friends. As it gained in popularity I started getting requests from students which, even though I primarily teach adults, I ignored out of a sense of professionalism. Eventually I did friend a few students who I considered actual friends and that opened the floodgates to friend requests from every student. I felt obligated to accept them and before long I couldn't use Facebook without second-guessing everything I posted and worrying about what my friends might post. I only used Facebook as an email alternative for a few years before I became confident in the privacy settings and once again felt comfortable that I really was only socializing with my friends and not also every student, distant relative and elementary school classmate I had ever had. I think the moral of the story is that instead of using Facebook as the One True Social Network, it's better to have smaller, more specialized social networks for different purposes, such as an EduBlog set up for one individual class.
  • glorihinck on 04 Sep 10
     
    John you bring up really good points. I share the same concerns and try not to accept every friend request I receive or offer friendship just because I recognize a name.
Justin Reeve

BBC News - Facebook 'likes' predict personality - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...technology-21699305

facebook research study marketing personality psychology privacy news

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  • Justin Reeve on 12 Mar 13
     
    Sexuality, political leanings and even intelligence can be gleaned from the things you choose to "like" on Facebook, a study suggests. Researchers at Cambridge University used algorithms to predict religion, politics, race and sexual orientation. The research, published in the journal PNAS, forms surprisingly accurate personal portraits, researchers said.
glorihinck

Facebook as a Tool for Learning Engagement - 1 views

chimprawk.blogspot.com/...book-as-tool-for-learning.html

shared by glorihinck on 28 Aug 10 - Cached
  • glorihinck on 28 Aug 10
     
    Learn more about how to effectively use Facebook as a learning tool. Most importantly, learn what Facebook isn't in terms of educational use.
Lisa Dawley

Suggestions? - 16 views

GREAT questions! OK, so if you are 1) contributing to YouTube, that means you are uploading your own videos, yes? and if you are 2) responding to YouTube contributions of others, it means you wil...

started by josh worsham on 21 Sep 10 3 follow-ups, last by Lisa Dawley on 23 Sep 10
Lisa Dawley

Facebook | Messages - Twitter List for Virtual World Educators - 4 views

www.facebook.com/?sk=messages&tid=1405060853104

twitter facebook messages virtual worlds

shared by Lisa Dawley on 08 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Lisa Dawley on 08 Oct 10
     
    I thought this was an interesting example of how to use the "list" functionality of Twitter to create a professional learning community for people interested in virtual worlds. Note they recommend Hootsuite and Tweetdeck for organizing your Twitter account. I use both of these and find they help.
anonymous

Which social network should I use as a librarian? - 0 views

www.philb.com/...whichsocialnetwork2.htm

social network librarian

shared by anonymous on 24 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Which social network should I use as a librarian?
  • I've already hinted at this, but it's time to be more specific. My online contacts are now the way in which I get my information. They (or probably you) are constantly sending me a stream of useful stuff, which is personalized to my interests, based on my choices of who to follow, and who to pay attention to. So this isn't 'social' in the way that we're used to thinking of it, it's a hugely influential stream of data. If I follow you, you influence me, and if you follow me, I'm influencing you. It may be simply because the tweets or links are funny or interesting, or they match my personal interests.
  • My RSS feeds are similarly hugely important to me. My feeds and the information there, drawn from blogs, searches, profile pages and the like are not there for me to read every single one - that way would lie insanity. They are there to alert me to news that I'm likely to find important. Any one of those blogs or posts or tweets are saying 'this is happening, go check it out' with the important link. I don't need to read everything that each of my contacts has said (although sometimes I do, if I want lots of different views and opinions), because they're all pointing me to the source, and I can go off there and read what I need.
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  • The amount of data that's flooding out is truly daunting, and if I didn't have a social network - or rather, several of them, I simply wouldn't be able to cope. My filters are no longer based on the magazines that I read, or the evening news, they're based on the people that I follow. Now, this is really important I think, because what it does is links me into particular communities. The data I am served is important, but the community is increasingly valuable.
  • This is why - as librarians - we need to be involved in as many social networks as we possibly can. By doing this we're absolutely doing our professional job - we're helping to create and maintain communities - and it doesn't matter if that's a workplace community, a community based on geography or one that's based on specific content. We have to consider how to curate data within this social media environment, and I'll look at that in more detail later. Secondly, we're acting as authority filters. I know that when I get a tweet about a subject it's going to be good quality. I don't have the same trust with something like Google, or pretty much any other search engine. There are exceptions to this rule, since search engines are beginning to inject Facebook data into the SERPs, but in general, I'll trust people a lot more than I'll trust a computer. And - when it comes down to it, I'm going to trust a librarian more than just about anyone else.
  • By using social media it's much easier to get the information that you need quickly and effectively by asking a question in the right format. I couldn't remember who wrote the piece which I've now attributed to Woodsiegirl, but I had the answer within seconds from several different sources by tweeting the question.
  • The point however is that often we don't know we're in specific groups, but we can nonetheless play very important roles. Just because you don't think you're important doesn't actually mean that you're not. I really want to push this point once more before moving on. In my experience librarians do not often think they are that important, and they don't value their skills as highly as they should. Please do consider the value that you can give to others within your social networks - even when you're doubtful that you do give value!
  • The more that librarians do - NOW - with social media, the more that we're going to already be embedded into the social medium. The more contacts, friends, links, tweets, photographs, likes, +1's that we have, the more influential we can become. The more influential we are, the more people will link to what we're doing, the more we'll be working in networks of influence and the more useful we can be to people."
  • This can all be neatly summarized with the phrase that I use all the time 'go to where the conversations are'. We all know that users of library services are physically using them less, so we need to really utilise social to keep in contact with them. But it's more than that. We need to show them - by using social media how valuable contact with us can be. The more value we can provide, the more likely our work is going to filter up and down the information chain. People are increasingly taking the view that if news is important, it will find them. For many people - particularly younger users, 'checking the news' means looking on Facebook because for them, the 'news' is what they see, read have shared with them, and share with others. Similiarly, I share my information via Facebook, Twitter, Google+, my blog, LinkedIn and so on. It doesn't just get posted onto my site. We can't do that any longer. At the end of this article I've put up a quick poll - I'm really interested to see how YOU found this article. It's one question, and will take about 5 seconds to answer.
  • This new way of providing content and added value is not going to sit happily with traditional users of media - even if they think that they have made the leap into the internet. The traditional CEO, publishers of books, magazines and other print material, traditional authors, advertisers, press and publicity directors are not going to flourish. If we, as librarians think that we've got it bad, it's as nothing in comparison to those folks.
  • The main difference is that we know we have to change and adapt or we'll die.
Lora Evanouski

Kapp Notes: Advice to Teachers in Florida: Don't use Facebook with Students - 0 views

karlkapp.blogspot.com/...chers-in-florida-dont-use.html

Learning social Network Networking

shared by Lora Evanouski on 01 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Lora Evanouski on 01 Sep 10
     
    This blog is in response to the Lee County School District and their policy of use on Facebook with teachers and current students. The blog is well thought out with various views. The author, Karl, is a professor, consultant, speaker, scholar, and expert on the convergence of learning, technology and business operations. He seems to have a good knowledge base to make his argument.
Lora Evanouski

Florida schools set guidelines about Facebook - 1 views

www.firstcoastnews.com/...news-article.aspx

Learning social Network Networking

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  • Lora Evanouski on 01 Sep 10
     
    This article in the First Coast News is about how the Lee County School District is limiting teachers use of Facebook with current students. It is a very interesting take on how to use a social network site and learning.
Justin Reeve

dlvr.it - 1 views

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social network networking facebook twitter rss

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  • Justin Reeve on 11 Dec 12
     
    Automatically post stuff from one social network to others.
Deana Braden

Social Network Learning - 1 views

I am posting an article regarding social networking learning. Social networking is not new to our students. They have been doing this for years through chats, email, texting, and social networks,...

social network learning collaboration creativity networking

started by Deana Braden on 02 Aug 13 no follow-up yet
Dennis Lecker

Virtual Englightenment - 2 views

www.informaworld.com/...content~db=all

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  • Dennis Lecker on 01 Sep 10
     
    This excellent article examined the manner in which students of the 18th century enlightenment constructed a virtual reconstruction of various discussion venues in 18th century London. Having completed such a project allowed the students to gain insight into the manner in which social networking has been with us for quite some time and has been responsible for revolutionary associations. The authors suggest that the current climate of social networks may stimulate a similar dynamism in that the previous coffee shops, chocolate shops, pubs and taverns where great ideas were exchanged are now being replaced by chatrooms, Wikis and social websites, such as Facebook or Twitter.
Libby Cody

Interesting Blog with many relevant topics - 0 views

www.pbs.org/...social_networking

learning social Network education knowledge

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  • Libby Cody on 09 Sep 10
     
    Andy Carvin is the host of this PBS blog that covers everything from the extent to which teachers are obligated to police the social networks to a student nearly being expelled for administering a facebook study group for his college course. The posts were thought provoking as were some of the responses.
glorihinck

Online Social Networks course - 2 views

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  • glorihinck on 28 Aug 10
     
    Check out this course described as a primer on the study of online social networks that is taught using a wiki and a Facebook group.
Brenda Janot

Personal Learning Networks, Dissertation, Robert Miller, Northcentral University - 6 views

http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1904879031&sid=1&Fmt=6&clientId=8813&RQT=309&VName=PQD This dissertation is a research study conducted by Robert Miller at Northcentr...

Online Social Networking Aggregator Digital Body Diigo Network Public Connectivism Theory

started by Brenda Janot on 10 Sep 10 no follow-up yet
Stephen Lazowski

Viigo for Blackberry (RSS reader) - 8 views

It say Highlight a key point...This is not an article resource, it is an application review resource. I did not have a key point just features.

viigo technology RSS PLC

started by anonymous on 06 Oct 10 2 follow-ups, last by Stephen Lazowski on 07 Oct 10
anonymous

Librarians Who Lead - 0 views

www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx

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shared by anonymous on 15 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Instead of investing in scads of state-of-the-art computers and expensive commercially produced courseware, she says, the school district has made a remarkable investment in the high school’s human resources.
  • there was an improvement on the annual Connecticut Academic Performance Test.”
  • We have six years’ worth of analysis of annotated bibliographies, which we consider the hallmark of higher-order thinking— evaluation of reading, as opposed to regurgitation.
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  • Luhtala and other members of the high school’s Information and Communication Technology team have woven Moodle, the free, open-source, online course management software, into the curriculum.
  • “We work with a fair amount of data to measure student learning in information and communication technology. We also rely on emerging technology to communicate and collaborate with students and teachers.”
  • The library media center’s home page entices students, teachers and parents to click on a colorful lineup of icons familiar to everyone who enjoys connecting via social media: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google, and VoiceThread, which the library has been using to promote book chats and reading for pleasure. Luhtala also regularly posts instructional videos on the Web for students and teachers.
  • “A librarian today is a facilitator and a leader for the teachers, for curricular learning, for interdisciplinary instruction, and is also a professional development person,” Luhtala says. “But we’re still school-based teachers. And it’s actually kind of beautiful. We like it just that way.”
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