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Twitter Tips: for Teachers & Educators

Enhance the classroom experience. Yes, that even means letting your students online with laptops and other devices when they’re in your classroom. Use a hashtag and ask your students to use it on each tweet; this means you can easily collate tweets together at the end of the alloted task/activity/time. Read this: Twitterati in the academy Read this: Professors experiment with Twitter as teaching tool Read this: Twitter Conference Ideas : eLearning Technology Bring student ideas, reading, emotions, etc into your world. Whether Twitter is used in the classroom or just around each timetabled seminar/lecture time, Twitter and it’s use can add value to the contents or your teaching, and you’ll end up learning from your learners.

我曾撰写过一篇《保护大学生态》，因为忍不住要向人们提醒：决不可只顾兜售经济学的“丛林原则”，而毒化了校园里超越功利的研讨氛围。

还是那位哈佛大学前校长德里克·博克，他曾经当做黑色幽默构想出来一串噩梦：     当我请求至少可以解决我们的财政困难的方案时，我的金融家校友带回给我一个大胆的想法。他说，我应当允许各公司（出价）在哈佛做广告，将公司的标识打上教学大纲和教材，在教室里张贴广告，在商学院的工作日程中向入学学生进行推销，并把经商活动囊括到我们所有的电视或网络课程中。我由于害怕引起资深教授造反而回绝了这项建议，我的财务顾问对此显然很恼怒。不过，第二天夜里他又回来了，带来了一个最终的建议，以免我由于未能及时还贷而在公众面前丢脸。他说，我只需这么做——同意取消最后100名哈佛本科生的入学资格，改把它们拍卖给出价最高的人。

尤其在所谓“大学理念”的问题上，情况更加严重。大家早已见惯不怪的是，一旦谈论起大学来，即使是那些自称从没把自由主义价值放在眼里的学者，也马上要祭起所谓liberal education 的大旗，而忘了无论借着它的历史语境而把这个英文表达发挥成“博雅教育”还是“通识教育”，其实都掩盖不了它最原初最结实的本意——“自由教育”。

WikiEducator

The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative: planning of education projects linked with the development of free content; development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning; work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs. networking on funding proposals developed as free content.

What is GlobalCampus? GlobalCampus connects young people with universities around the world to help them find the best opportunities for their future, wherever located.

How does it work? GlobalCampus is an online community: students and institutions can create a profile and connect. Student profiles work like CVs. Students can indicate the schools they have attended, their personal achievements, their aspirations and their preferred destinations to study. They can also add sample works and videos to present themselves and their interests. University profiles are generated directly by a university’s community - staff, faculty, current students and alumni. They feature both subjective information, like articles and presentation videos, and objective information, like admission requirements and course synopses. On GlobalCampus students can express their talent to receive offers from universities around the world, while universities can communicate their best assets to tudents in any country.

What are the next steps? We are now working on adding scholarship providers, so that once registered a student will know also where there are funds available for her. (Did you know that every year hundreds of millions of dollars worth of scholarships go unclaimed? Thousands of people are eligible to receive financial aid to study somewhere in the world right now, but they simply don’t know about it. We would like to change that).