Sue Beckingham

Reach would-be students via made-in-China sites

The Future Journalism Project is a multiplatform documentary exploring the present state, current disruption and future possibilities of American journalism. It's being produced by ScribeLabs/ScribeMedia and will launch formally in Winter 2011 soon. In the meantime, we're posting clips and notes on this site about our explorations through the current digital landscape.

This Blended Learning Toolkit is a free, open resource for educational institutions interested in developing or expanding their blended learning initiatives.

One year on (June 2011) and what changes there have been in newspaper acceptance of social media as news plus what needs to be considered for journalism courses

Welcome to #TfN. Inside, you'll find resources to help you and your organization at every step of the reporting and publishing process.

Journalists have roles to play in collaborating with and organising communities - and the article is just part of the mix

A recent study of college students

Teaching is not the be-all and end-all of higher education but it does make the single biggest contribution to the student learning experience and student success. The way institutions use their resources make the biggest difference to educational outcomes. He picks out class size, the level of student effort and engagement, who does the teaching, and quality of feedback to students on their work as the significant and valid process indicators

How to teach contemporary learners who refuse to be pruned into "nice shapes" like some bonsai tree? What can social media bring to education? Who will be the first to excel in converting social networks into education networks - students or teachers?

How to Mesh In-Person and Online Networking

Video of the discussion between Jeremy Davenport, Paul Lowe, Etienne Wenger and Brian McCaul chaired by the JISC BCE Programme Manager Simon Whittemore.

Abstract Blogs, mailing lists and networking sites are much in the news, but how effective are they for business users? David Thew is Joint MD of an executive search and recruitment consultancy with an active need to identify and contact people on a targeted basis. In this article he profiles LinkedIn, the business networking membership site that has become a key channel for him and his staff. David looks at key features and benefits and also discusses areas where he feels there is room for improvement

Online journal

This paper delivers a new Twitter content classification framework based 16 existing Twitter studies and a grounded theory analysis of a personal Twitter history. It expands the existing understanding of Twitter as a multifunction tool for personal, profession, commercial and phatic communications with a split level classification scheme that offers broad categorization and specific sub categories for deeper insight into the real world application of the service.

Post on social technographics - adding conversationalists to creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators, inactives

Examples of social media faux pas....

Called the "Pied Piper of Educational Technology" by The School Library Journal, Tim has worked in the field of education for nearly 30 years as a teacher (on the middle school, high school, and college levels) and an administrator. He served the students in the Cobb County School District for about 20 years, where, before his retirement, he was the principal of Mabry Middle School. He was named one of Georgia's High Performance Principals by Governor Sonny Purdue.
Tim has a passion for meaningful, authentic student engagement, and technology is seen as a centerpiece for irresistible academic achievement through creative, global, project-based learning activities. He has now turned his attention to supporting the profession on a national and international level by sharing his passion and practical expertise for integrating technology into the entire school plan-a proven vision that works.

The Institute of Educational Technology (IET) at the Open University connects innovation and expertise in learning and teaching and uses this collective power to change the face of education.
IET's programme of work is at the heart of the Open University's mission to be a world leader in the design, content and delivery of supported open and distance learning through the innovative use of technology.

Social software, software that supports group communications

The concept of web 2.0