EDUC 439/639 Social Networking - Fall 2012

"If your LinkedIn headline is like most, it's actually doing your personal brand more harm than good. Here are 4 ways your LinkedIn headline can destroy your perceived value:"

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"These children have grown up with digital technologies, but in a very limited way. They know a few things quite deeply, but they - as we did at their age - have no great appreciation of the subtleties of the tools. The expanse and use of the tools. The possibilities for tools that don't yet exist. They can push buttons, but they can't make them."

I checked out RateMyProfessors.com, even knowing all the reasons why it's not reliable. Turns out I still warrant a smiley face, but, unsurprisingly, I'm not a red-pepper hottie. Does being a hottie say anything about possible assessments of one's teaching effectiveness? Indirectly, it may: At my college, almost all the hotties are in their 30s and 40s, and my browsing revealed that 90 percent of the hotties got smiley faces, while only 75 percent of the nonhotties did.

"I've Storified a few of the videos, blog posts, interviews about my 2012 book, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online"

"Suppose instead students were rewarded for cooperation. Not collaboration; this is just the school-level emulation of the creation of cliques and corporations. Cooperation, which is a common and ad hoc creation of interactions and exchanges for mutual value.  Cooperative behaviours include exchanges of goods and services, agreement on open standards and protocols, sharing of resources in common (and open) pools, and similar behaviours. "

" I thought I would outline that range of public and private interactions in my classes, starting with the very most public and then progressing step by step to the most private: email. Although I have made a lot of changes to the content and procedures and technology in my courses over the past ten years, I have really not changed this balance of public and private - somehow or other, I blundered into a configuration of public and private that worked perfectly for me right from the start of my online teaching career."

In college classrooms where innovations like smart phones and Facebook are getting in the way of learning, some tech-savvy professors are taking an "if you can't beat 'em join 'em" approach. They're asking students to bring their web-enabled mobile devices to class and keep them turned on.

" Try one or all of these seven apps ff you have students that prefer to handwrite their notes or if you prefer to handwrite your notes, but you're worried about those notes getting lost."

"Teachers see themselves as consumers, putting lawmakers, publishers, and administration in control. However, teacher are designers. Teachers hold an incredible amount of decision-making power. According to Marzano's work, teachers are the number one school-level factor relative to student achievement. So, stop choosing off the shelf. Design-- with your end users in mind."

"Meet new people, discover new cultures and connect with classes from around the world, all without leaving the classroom. "

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"Colon's legitimate expectation of privacy ended when he disseminated posts to his 'friends' because those 'friends' were free to use the information however they wanted -- including sharing it with the government," the judge wrote.

" we present to you yet another great infographic from Online Colleges. Here they make the connection between apps and education in ways you may not have considered before."

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Wolfram Alpha, the "computational knowledge engine" that quietly handles a large number of queries from Apple's Siri, launched a new feature today that allows you to quickly get an overview of all your data on Facebook. The new report, says Wolfram CEO Stephen Wolfram, expands Wolfram Alpha's "powers of analysis to give you all sorts of personal analytics." The company plans to expand these reports with new features over time, but they already give you a pretty deep look at your Facebook habits.