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Keith Hamon

A Twitteraholic's Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter | The Edublogger - 0 views

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Sue Waters Twitter elearning social networking PLN writing connectivism Web 2.0

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  • Keith Hamon on 05 Aug 10
     
    Here's advice on using Twitter written with assistance from my twitter network and readers comments on this post.
Thomas Clancy

100 Top Twitter Tips for Academics | Home Business, Marketing and PLR Membership Website - 0 views

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  • Thomas Clancy on 29 Sep 10
     
    Anyone using Twitter in classes??
Mary Ann Scott

Twenty Five Interesting Ways To Use Twitter in the Classroom - 6 views

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  • Mary Ann Scott on 09 Mar 12
     
    Some interesting ways to engage students in the content through twitter.
Stephanie Cooper

Web 2.0 Teaching Tools: Twitter Tweets for Higher Education - 0 views

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  • I think Twitter could be ideal for reminding students about homework, trips and such things, especially as they can enter their mobile phone number to be alerted when one of their ‘friends’ updates their account. The advantage is that you don’t need to know the phone numbers of students to get messages onto their device: they are the ones who authorize their mobile phone from the website and they subscribe to your Twitter feed.
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 20 Jun 12
       
      This is a great quote!
Stephanie Cooper

Twitter Fiction. Really! - 1 views

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  • Stephanie Cooper on 07 Jun 10
     
    An interesting way to use Twitter in an English class...
Keith Hamon

How to use Twitter for Social Learning - 0 views

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Twitter eLearning social networking

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  • Keith Hamon on 24 Mar 10
     
    This Guide looks at how to use Twitter for social learning - that is to build a community, communicate, collaborate with others, as well as share information and resources.  In addition it looks at how it can be used for to support formal social learning events and programmes.
Keith Hamon

Lit Bits » Blog Archive » Twitter in the Literature Classroom? Part 1 - 1 views

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Tim Hetland Kelli Marshall Twitter social networking writing elearning Education 2.0 Web 2.0 PLN

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  • Keith Hamon on 02 Nov 11
     
    Kelli Marshall's blog is a candid and detailed post on using Twitter as a discussion tool in some of the film courses Marshall has taught. She explains that while some students have resisted using the site, they have generally produced great comments about the course's content and have participated in thoughtful conversations, even beyond the classroom.
Keith Hamon

12 Expert Twitter Tips for the Classroom: Social Networking Classroom Activities That E... - 1 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 31 Mar 10
     
    Using twitter in the classroom is becoming mainstream in many schools around the country and world. The challenge with any use of online education technology tool is the appropriate engagement of students in a meaningful manner.
Keith Hamon

#PleaseHelp: Learning to Write (Again) on Twitter | Digital Is ... - 0 views

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Keri Franklin writing Twitter

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  • Keith Hamon on 28 Jun 11
     
    My experiences with Twitter made me revisit important lessons as a writer and as a teacher of writing. What I learned through tweeting has applications for each writing teacher and writer.
Keith Hamon

You Can Summarize Your Thesis in a Tweet, but Should You? - Wired Campus - The Chronicl... - 0 views

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Nick DeSantis Twitter writing elearning critical thinking social networking PLN

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  • Keith Hamon on 17 Jan 12
     
    Students across the world are using the Twitter hashtag #tweetyourthesis to shrink their academic thesis work down to single 140-character posts.
Keith Hamon

5 Tools for Building a Next-Generation 'Hybrid' Class Website - ProfHacker - The Chroni... - 0 views

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Web 2.0 LMS elearning Nicholas C. Martin

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  • To build the module, we used a rapid e-learning authoring tool called Adobe Captivate. Some other popular programs for this kind of rapid authoring are Articulate and Lectora. Captivate is great for building interactive self-guided simulations and branching scenarios.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 25 May 11
       
      We should explore how to add external tools to ASU's Moodle so that we can gather info about our students.
  • We created our unit in PearlTrees by adding links to all the web-based readings, videos and articles for the course and then embedded it into our LMS.
  • We decided used Prezi to create a Case Study Library with six categories (Health, Education, etc.) to introduce our students to the tools organizations are using to address different elements of the peacebuilding and international development spectrum.
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  • Our LMS had a built-in functionality for users to submit links and tag them, but other options include setting up a class Diigo account with one class username and password. If the majority of participants are already on Facebook and Twitter, other options include creating a dedicated course Facebook group to share content, or setting up a class hashtag (ex. #AU1234) for Twitter to categorize and easily reference all class tweets. (Read further ProfHacker reflections on teaching with social media.)
  • This course was just the beginning of our attempt at TechChange to go beyond what industry leaders like Blackboard and others currently provide to find and implement the most effective technologies and platforms to support dynamic learning. The feedback from the participants was remarkably positive, and the model is something that can easily scale with the right tools and training.
  • Keith Hamon on 25 May 11
     
    The tools we discuss below can be embedded into any open source LMS and down the road we plan to revisit other platforms.
Keith Hamon

drezac: The Phenomenon Effect - 1 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 01 Apr 10
     
    The collective intelligence of the Internet, blogs, and the sharing of information via Twitter are allowing us to reach an untapped potential in our own minds.
Keith Hamon

Digital Portfolios in the Age of the Read/Write Web (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu | ... - 0 views

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Jonan Donaldson eportfolio writing elearning Education 2.0 PLN

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  • Keith Hamon on 06 Nov 12
     
    Key Takeaways Education built around digital portfolios not only ties together various student-generated artifacts into a coherent whole but also creates an environment in which technology use has a clearly identified purpose. Hundreds of services provide free hosting and website creation tools and are ideal platforms for digital portfolios because they can support just about any type of digital content. Turning consumers of knowledge into producers of knowledge transforms learning into an active experience.
Stephanie Cooper

Seven Bad Writing Habits You Learned in School | Copyblogger - 3 views

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  • Stephanie Cooper on 11 Apr 12
     
    This guy has some very interesting thoughts, but can teachers really afford to follow some of his advice??  
  • Mary Ann Scott on 12 Apr 12
     
    His sense of audience is ridiculous. I'm all about creativity, even in academic writing. My students have a variety of creative opportunities, but the fact remains that they need to learn how to put thoughts together effectively. I just looked at two essays that had absolutely no coherent point, even though they featured personal experiences. He made a comparison between essays and novels. Dude! They are two completely different forms of writing. They have different goals and different parameters. Yes, the 5-paragraph essay is a stilted, inauthentic form of writing and it is largely on its way out, but at the secondary level, it is the training wheels some students need to learn how to organize their thoughts coherently. No matter how they write, they still have to say SOMETHING.
  • Thomas Clancy on 15 Apr 12
     
    He does exaggerate for effect, e.g. his claim that students are told to write in a style similar to classic literature--ridiculous! No one is told to copy any writing style previous to 1950, unless it is graduate students being told to mimic the horrible jargon of academic journals, but I think that's a different "bad" than what he means here. He avoids what should be his real topic--truly bad writing; I mean incompetent, to the point of being an effort to follow, poorly structured writing. We see this writing from the strongest cases of ESL students and from students who seem to have skipped several grades in school or who have never read a great deal in their school years. He leaves off the most important tool for teaching writing, and that is frequency. Anyone who only writes by email, Facebook, and twitter, and only writes something for a class once or twice a semester, will never break into a "conversational" form of writing (with complete sentences and paragraphs) that will be recognized as literate, normal, and natural. We recommend starting with short, non-graded writing and, by writing 2-3 times a week, working up to something more substantial. If teachers can do that, then college student writing will improve, but the plan requires patience and consistency from the teacher.
Keith Hamon

Design Matters « higher education management group - 1 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 07 Nov 11
     
    Digital higher education - both its software and content - has managed to remain untouched by good design. Design is not even on the agenda. The importance of design to digital education starts with this simple fact: by moving the locus of education from the classroom to the digital environment, we necessarily change the factors that determine the quality of the student's experience. In the digital environment, design plays a far more important role as a determinant of quality than it does in the classroom.
Kelly Gardiner

10 Best Books on the Future of Higher Ed - Online Universities - 0 views

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  • Kelly Gardiner on 18 Jul 12
     
    Some great reading here - for those rainy afternoons.
Stephanie Cooper

Collaboration: The Lost Skill? | Dangerously Irrelevant - 2 views

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  • I have seen tweets and blog posts recently about frustration that teachers are having getting their students to collaborate. These were mainly secondary teachers and library media specialists. It was even an #EdChat topic a few weeks ago: "How do we engage students who find participatory learning uncomfortable?" What do you find most difficult when getting students to collaborate? Criticism from their peers? A bad experience with a previous teacher? It seems like there's so many factors that can come into play.
  • How are we fostering this skill beyond kindergarten? What have you found that really is motivating for students to collaborate? What gives them true ownership of their learning? There's awesome digital tools that aid in collaboration, but those tools don't MAKE the collaboration. It's a skill that still has to be fine tuned. It's a skill we should all be modeling effectively if we want our students to do it effectively. If you're looking for some great suggestions on how to foster collaboration in your classroom, I would suggest reading Michelle Bourgeois' post titled:  The Collaborative Classroom: It’s a Juggling Act. In this post Michelle tells a story of teaching students how to juggle and says. "Just like the art of juggling, there are several skills that need to be balanced and constantly monitored in a collaborative classroom to make it all come together." Please be sure to check out Michelle's post on how to monitor and keep balance of some essentials in classroom collaboration.
  • We should be fostering this skill in our classrooms, not hindering it. How often are you allowing students to collaborate? Not to say that awesome things can't come out of individual thinking, but as I always like to say, "We're better together." Sure, one mind can do awesome things, but a collective could really rock someone's world.
Keith Hamon

Students Are Not Products And Teachers Are Not Social Engineers : 13.7: Cosmos And Cult... - 1 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 09 Nov 10
     
    There is a tendency in universities today to think of teachers as, like sales people and politicians, interested in outcomes. And so there is a tendency for teachers to treat their students in the way sales people treat their clients and politicians treat the voters: without respect. Professors these days, as well as our graduate student assistants, are encouraged to approach the classroom as a social engineer might. We are prodded to think about how most effectively to seat the students, to organize them into working groups; journals, wikis, presentations, and such like, are devices we are told to use to restructure the classroom experience. And we are encouraged to get ourselves videotaped and so, in general, to come to think of ourselves as teaching professionals whose main concern is student outcomes. Now there is nothing wrong with working hard to make the classroom the most exciting place it can be. But we are not social engineers and students are not products we are manufacturing. To think of students that way is to insult them and it is to make genuine teaching and learning impossible. Students, like citizens, are free and equal, and they have the power of reason; they can make up their own minds and can discover and enforce their own conceptions of value and truth and meaning. To view them as any less is to view them the way politicians so often view the public, without respect.
Stephanie Cooper

The Importance of Teaching Technology to Teachers - TheApple.com - 0 views

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shared by Stephanie Cooper on 25 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies. These literacies—from reading online newspapers to participating in virtual classrooms—are multiple, dynamic, and malleable. As in the past, they are inextricably linked with particular histories, life possibilities and social trajectories of individuals and groups. Twenty-first century readers and writers need to: > 1. Develop proficiency with the tools of technology > 2. Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally > 3. Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes > 4. Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information > 5. Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts > 6. Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 25 Feb 10
       
      This sounds right on track with our QEP mission!
  • Teachers are hungry to use technology in their classrooms. But they don’t. While part of this lack of usage stems from problems with education reform that emerges from administrators and education boards not fully understanding the technologies themselves, another part of teachers not using technology in the classroom comes from the simple fact that they don’t know how to use the technologies, let alone how to incorporate these technologies into their classrooms. In some cases, the teachers don’t know about the technologies at all.
  • How in god’s name can we talk seriously about 21st Century skills for kids if we’re not talking 21st Century skills for educators first? (URGENT: 21st Century Skills for Educators (and Others) First )
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  • Take a minute and ask yourself what technologies you are well versed in. Have you posted to YouTube? Do you use PowerPoint to aid in your lectures? What other technologies do you use? Do you have a Twitter account? Make a list. When you have your list made, consider your colleagues. Do they know these technologies? Do they know how they can use them in the classroom? Is there a technology that you know one of your colleagues knows that you would like to be familiar with? Now, instead of waiting for somebody to put together a workshop on one of these technologies, consider creating your own workshop. Think about it. You’re a teacher. You know these technologies. Is there really a difference in teaching what you know about Google Earth to your colleagues and teaching it to your students? Within your own school you can create a technology club (much like a book club, except that instead of reading a book a month, you experiment with a technology each month). Get together as a group and discuss the technologies and how you could use these to aid your teachers. This is exactly what I’m doing with the colleagues I know are interested in using the technology but don’t know how. Sure, you may have to wait for education reform to allow you to use these technologies, but if you start using them, you can readily become one of the advocates who aids in getting the reforms to education that we need to teach these technologies to our students.
    • Stephanie Cooper
      Stephanie Cooper on 25 Feb 10
       
      This sounds like something we could incorporate into the QEP classes/workshops that Hugh & Tom conduct. A "tech club" might even appeal to people not currently involved in QEP at this moment.
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