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Rey Junco, a college professor and researcher who studies how social media use affects college students. I'm particularly interested in using quantitative methods to assess the effects of social media on student development, engagement, and success. Social Media in Higher Education is a place where I'll blog about the research I'm conducting and provide commentary on using technology in educationally-relevant ways.

An efficient way to download entire Twitter timelines to Excel in order to conduct a thematic analysis of Twitter topics for research

Tracking the new media/digital journalism training at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism - and the changing media landscape

Pschology of Learning Dr. C. George Boeree Shippensburg University

Connecting the Digital Dots: Literacy of the 21st Century Literacy today depends on understanding the multiple media that make up our high-tech reality and developing the skills to use them effectively By Barbara R. Jones-Kavalier and Suzanne L. Flannigan

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Policy for linking to other news stories in external sites

Who we are We are an organization of colleagues helping colleagues. We draw together people who teach, research, and use information technologies to inform clients (regardless of academic discipline) to share their knowledge with others. Our mission has components both of production and retroduction. All our publications are available free online to everyone regardless of membership status. Our publications are also available in print at very reasonable prices. We are not a publishing company disguised as a professional organization nor are we a clique of insiders.

This is a leading international journal in the field of open, flexible and distance learning. Open Learning is widely subscribed to and read throughout the world by those in specialist distance education institutions, and also by those using distance, flexible and technology based forms of learning in conventional education and training contexts. Readers are drawn from all levels of education and training both in the private and public sectors and from academic, administrative and technical functions.

Twitoaster threads and archives your twitter conversations, bringing you all the background, context and statistics you need. It's all about improving & optimizing the way you communicate with your followers. Conversation threading Twitoaster groups replies and retweets with the tweets that inspired them, displaying threaded discussions. Analytics charts and statistics Twitoaster provides analytics and statistics, helping you to tweet at the right time. Conversational search engine Twitoaster archives and indexes all your conversations in a conversational search engine.

When reality is labeled unthinkable, it creates a kind of sickness in an industry. Leadership becomes faith-based, while employees who have the temerity to suggest that what seems to be happening is in fact happening are herded into Innovation Departments, where they can be ignored en masse. This shunting aside of the realists in favor of the fabulists has different effects on different industries at different times. One of the effects on the newspapers is that many of their most passionate defenders are unable, even now, to plan for a world in which the industry they knew is visibly going away.

Clay Shirky's work focuses on the rising usefulness of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, wireless networks, social software and open-source development. New technologies are enabling new kinds of cooperative structures to flourish as a way of getting things done in business, science, the arts and elsewhere, as an alternative to centralized and institutional structures, which he sees as self-limiting.

This blog focuses on teaching, learning, and journalism education - with a focus on higher education (ie at university level). These themes reflect my work as a journalism lecturer at City University in London, and my research interests in these areas, including the scholarship of teaching and learning of journalism.

This page is a static permanent web document. It has been written to provide a place to cite the coinage of folksonomy.

This is an update to Bloom's Revised Taxonomy which attempts to account for the new behaviours and actions emerging as technology advances and becomes more ubiquitous. Bloom's Revised Taxonomy accounts for many of the traditional classroom practices, behaviours and actions but does not account for the new processes and actions associated with Web 2.0 technologies and increasing ubiquitous personal and cloud computing.