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Katie Day

Escaping Isolation: Twitter and transparency « Granted, but… - 1 views

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    "What are we afraid of? Would we rather be alone or better? Now that's a pair of essential questions."
Katie Day

Ownshelf - a service to help people share ebooks across devices - 2 views

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    assumes people are sharing only books they have the rights to
Keri-Lee Beasley

My thoughts on a proposed social media policy for school employees (Part 2) | Dangerous... - 1 views

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    Interesting post from Scott McLeod on Social Media Policies.  Worth a read. 
Keri-Lee Beasley

Easily manage all your social network settings - 1 views

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    Change profile pics or settings on all your social media platforms using Bliss Control
Keri-Lee Beasley

Social Media for Administrators - 0 views

  • As I have done a lot of work with school administrators on why they should be using social media and some practical ways to use it within their schools, I wanted to compile some articles together that will help schools/organizations move forward.  They will be listed under two categories; the why and the how.  The articles are listed below:
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    George Couros outlines the Why & How of social media for administrators. Great collection here.
Katie Day

2012 American School of Bombay | Scott McLeod (@mcleod) - 1 views

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    "What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social MediaThis page contains resources from the ASB Unplugged 2012 Leadership Institute in Mumbai, India. These materials are made available under a Creative Commons 3.0 attribution-share alike license, which means that you are both allowed and encouraged to use them! Please contact Drs. Scott McLeod or Jayson Richardson if you have any other questions about these resources."
Keri-Lee Beasley

Pinterest: Everything You Need To Know Is In This Massive Post - SocialMouths - 3 views

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    Apparently the Daddy of all Pinterest posts. 
Keri-Lee Beasley

Lessons learned from social media identity theft - Regina | Globalnews.ca - 0 views

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    This happened to @amichetti too! Something to be aware of and teach with
Keri-Lee Beasley

Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015 | Pew Research Center's Internet & Ameri... - 1 views

  • Boys are more likely than girls to report that they visit Facebook most often (45% of boys vs. 36% of girls). Girls are more likely than boys to say they use Instagram (23% of girls vs. 17% of boys) and Tumblr (6% of girls compared with less than 1% of boys).
  • As American teens adopt smartphones, they have a variety of methods for communication and sharing at their disposal. Texting is an especially important mode of communication for many teens. Some 88% of teens have or have access to cell phones or smartphones and 90% of those teens with phones exchange texts. A typical teen sends and receives 30 texts per day2
  • Teenage girls use social media sites and platforms — particularly visually-oriented ones — for sharing more than their male counterparts do. For their part, boys are more likely than girls to own gaming consoles and play video games.
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    Very interesting statistics on American teens' use of social media and technology.
Katie Day

a Course in Social Media & Open Education - Alec Couros - 0 views

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    "EC&I 831 is an open access, graduate-level course offered at the University of Regina. The instructor is Dr. Alec Couros. This course is open to for-credit students (those taking the course for university credit) and to others, non-credit students, who would like to participate in various, less formal ways. "
Katie Day

Attention, and Other 21st-Century Social Media Literacies (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE ... - 0 views

  • Howard Rheingold (howard@rheingold.com) is the author of Tools For Thought, The Virtual Community, Smart Mobs, and other books and is currently lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.
  • I focus on five social media literacies: Attention Participation Collaboration Network awareness Critical consumption
  • lthough I consider attention to be fundamental to all the other literacies, the one that links together all the others, and although it is the one I will spend the most time discussing in this article, none of these literacies live in isolation.
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  • Multitasking, or "continuous partial attention" as Linda Stone has called another form of attention-splitting, or "hyper attention" as N. Katherine Hayles has called another contemporary variant,2 are not necessarily bad alternatives to focused attention. It depends on what is happening in our own external and internal worlds at the moment.
  • As students become more aware of how they are directing their attention, I begin to emphasize the idea of using blogs and wikis as a means of connecting with their public voice and beginning to act with others in mind. Just because many students today are very good at learning and using online applications and at connecting and participating with friends and classmates via social media, that does not necessarily mean that they understand the implications of their participation within a much larger public.
  • ut how to participate in a way that's valuable to others as well as to yourself, I agree with Yochai Benkler, Henry Jenkins, and others that participating, even if it's no good and nobody cares, gives one a different sense of being in the world. When you participate, you become an active citizen rather than simply a passive consumer of what is sold to you, what is taught to you, and what your government wants you to believe. Simply participating is a start. (Note that I am not guaranteeing that having a sense of agency compels people to perform only true, good, and beautiful actions.)
  • I don't believe in the myth of the digital natives who are magically empowered and fluent in the use of social media simply because they carry laptops, they're never far from their phones, they're gamers, and they know how to use technologies. We are seeing a change in their participation in society—yet this does not mean that they automatically understand the rhetorics of participation, something that is particularly important for citizens.
  • Critical consumption, or what Ernest Hemingway called "crap detection," is the literacy of trying to figure out what and who is trustworthy—and what and who is not trustworthy—online. If you find people, whether you know them or not, who you can trust to be an authority on something or another, add them to your personal network. Consult them personally, consult what they've written, and consult their opinion about the subject.
  • Finally, crap detection takes us back, full circle, to the literacy of attention. When I assign my students to set up an RSS reader or a Twitter account, they panic. They ask how they are supposed to keep up with the overwhelming flood of information. I explain that social media is not a queue; it's a flow. An e-mail inbox is a queue, because we have to deal with each message in one way or another, even if we simply delete them. But no one can catch up on all 5,000 or so unread feeds in their RSS reader; no one can go back through all of the hundreds (or thousands) of tweets that were posted overnight. Using Twitter, one has to ask: "Do I pay attention to this? Do I click through? Do I open a tab and check it out later today? Do I bookmark it because I might be interested in the future?" We have to learn to sample the flow, and doing so involves knowing how to focus our attention.
Katie Day

Twitter intro - a slideshow presentation by Kathy Schrock - 0 views

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    "This presentation provides an in-depth overview of the micro-blogging tool, Twitter. The links to the tips, tricks, tools, research, and other items included in the presentation are listed below."
Katie Day

Schrock_twitter - Kathy Schrock - Picasa Web Albums - 0 views

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    Good intro to Twitter -- a Picasa slideshow by Kathy Schrock
Keri-Lee Beasley

Students Speak Up in Class, Silently, via Social Media - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "The 11th graders in Mrs. Olson's class said the backchannel had widened their appreciation of one another. "Everybody is heard in our class," said Leah Postman, 17. Janae Smith, also 17, said, "It's made me see my peers as more intelligent, seeing their thought process and begin to understand them on a deeper level." "
Katie Day

U W C S E A EAST rocks. - 0 views

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    Facebook Community Organization by grade 6 students
Keri-Lee Beasley

Social media flowchart. - 3 views

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    Funny yet well-put-together infographic on social media. Where/when to post
Keri-Lee Beasley

When Social Media Breaks Bad: Why I STILL Want My Students Using Social Media | Tech Le... - 1 views

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    "@MrSchoenbart"
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