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Tweeting with Elementary School Kids - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 20 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Maggie Verster on 20 Jun 10
     
    One teacher's tale of how she moved her class into twitter.
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Admission Officials' Tweets Fall on Deaf Ears - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher ... - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 02 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Rebecca Whitehead, assistant director of campus visits and engagements at Winthrop University, maintains the admissions office’s Twitter account, which currently has 373 followers. She says she uses it largely to connect with other higher-education professionals, to find out about upcoming events or research.
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      Ed Webb on 02 Jul 10
       
      This seems right to me. Twitter is most effective in building and sustaining personal and professional learning networks.
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Study Shows Students Are Addicted to Social Media | News | Communications of the ACM - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • most college students are not just unwilling, but functionally unable to be without their media links to the world. "I clearly am addicted and the dependency is sickening," says one person in the study. "I feel like most people these days are in a similar situation, for between having a Blackberry, a laptop, a television, and an iPod, people have become unable to shed their media skin."
  • what they wrote at length about was how they hated losing their personal connections. Going without media meant, in their world, going without their friends and family
  • they couldn't connect with friends who lived close by, much less those far away
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  • "Texting and IM-ing my friends gives me a constant feeling of comfort," wrote one student. "When I did not have those two luxuries, I felt quite alone and secluded from my life. Although I go to a school with thousands of students, the fact that I was not able to communicate with anyone via technology was almost unbearable."
  • students' lives are wired together in such ways that opting out of that communication pattern would be tantamount to renouncing a social life
  • "Students expressed tremendous anxiety about being cut-off from information,"
  • How did they get the information? In a disaggregated way, and not typically from the news outlet that broke or committed resources to a story.
  • the young adults in this study appeared to be generally oblivious to branded news and information
  • an undifferentiated wave to them via social media
  • 43.3 percent of the students reported that they had a "smart phone"
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Seven Things that Influence Whether or Not I Engage with Someone on Twitter at Scott Porad - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 14 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 14 Oct 09
     
    Reasonable advice
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