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SchoolTube: YouTube for Students & Teachers – Private Video Communities

April 10, 2012 by Shaun Hinklein
with 1,096 views

Sharing video content is an essential component of social media and more than often a key factor in assembling an award winning content strategy. Since YouTube paved the way for a public domain where a user can upload a video within seconds from their phone, it’s been tough to compete and stay relevant in such a vast space. This doesn’t... [read more]

Pining for Pinning

February 27, 2012 by Stephanie Gehman
with 292 views

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Before you get started with individual or enterprise pinning, educate yourself on snags that you may run into. Pinterest even offers idiot-proof etiquette recommendations for users. Are there copyright concerns with pinning and socially sharing other people's photographs and work? Of course there are! [read more]

Using Social in Crisis in Higher Education

February 14, 2012 by Chris Syme
with 775 views

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A recent study found that the majority of higher education institutions have had one or more potential reputation-damaging events discussed in traditional and social media channels in the last 12 months. In addition, while 85 percent of reporting schools have crisis communications policies, only 59 percent of those policies address the use of social media in a crisis. [read more]

Social Media Enhances the Learning Experience in Higher Education

February 5, 2012 by Pam Dyer
with 3,388 views

There’s an ongoing debate about the role social media should play in K-12 education. As a result, schools have been especially slow to adopt social technologies. Advocates point to the benefits social media offers students, and critics want to remove social media from classrooms, insisting that there be more regulation. Finding a happy... [read more]

Social Media: It’s About the Relationships!

January 21, 2012 by Brendan J. Schneider
with 3,308 views

This post was written by guest blogger Susan M. Bearden for SchneiderB.comAt a recent Independent Schools conference, I was talking about social media with a Head of School (not my own) who said dismissively, “Oh, we outsource all our social media.” I didn’t say anything, but inside I just cringed.Outside social media consulting firms... [read more]

How Schools Slowly Embraced Social Media

October 19, 2011 by Craig Allen
with 1,095 views

Technology is very important to me, however educational technology holds a completely different standard. I am a father, so it is very crucial that my children are in a school district that holds technology at a high importance. Recently, I have noticed more and more school districts cutting costs on this tool, better yet, this need;... [read more]

5 Cool Ways of Using Twitter In Classrooms

October 13, 2011 by Leo Widrich
with 3,245 views

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Teachers have been taking advantage of Twitter’s format to keep their classes engaged for years now. Taking the time to learn how to use Twitter has proved worth the return for teachers throughout the world. Here is a collection of dozens of projects and ideas to get teachers started using Twitter to build a better learning experience... [read more]

How to End the War over Social Media Marketing Governance

August 18, 2011 by Michael Zimmerman
with 305 views

A great rift has emerged between those who control the technologies of social media and those who possess the wisdom to guide communications. If this war of governance were to end with either side vanquished, then peace would surely come at the expense of prosperity. The answer lies in forging an unlikely alliance. [read more]

Should This Blog Post Have Been Written in Cursive?

July 30, 2011 by Andrew Hanelly
with 1,094 views

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I recently learned that Indiana, my beloved home state, is no longer requiring schools to teach cursive writing, focusing instead on printing and typing.I remember struggling to perfect my cursive writing in Mr. Biltz’s fifth grade class. But I never came close to the beautiful script of my teacher. If there were an Olympics for... [read more]

A PhD in Social Media

June 2, 2011 by Jillian Ney
with 3,006 views

"I recently met an old friend who I hadn’t seen in about five years. He was asking what I was doing and seemed impressed about my doctoral pursuit. When he asked about the topic and I said social media, he laughed. When I asked why he was laughing he said, so you sit on Twitter and Facebook all day. He didn’t seem to believe me that social media was much more dynamic and complex than Facebook and Twitter. " [read more]

How To: Be a Great Blogger When You're Not a Great Writer

March 23, 2011 by Tracy Gold
with 2,066 views

Even if you're not skilled at writing pretty sentences, you can use these tips and tricks to be a successful blogger. [read more]

Reducing Noise in Online Communities

February 11, 2011 by Austen Mayor
with 960 views

Thomas Pisello, in his post at the end of January 2011, hoped that technology and innovation would eventually cut through the inevitable social media noise, or messy web of “strings”. I agree with him on one point, some social media platforms are getting a bit noisy, but that doesn’t mean social media will empty out like a high school on Friday afternoon. [read more]

Gates Foundation Invests in School-Based Social Media Platform

February 9, 2011 by Tabitha Grace Smith
with 1,105 views

Seeking to boost worrisome college graduation rates, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a brand-new, $2 million dollar investment into the education technology firm Inigral to aid development of its Schools App system. [read more]

Expertise in Social Media

December 4, 2010 by Gregory Stringer
with 3,707 views

In his most excellent article, The History and Evolution of Social Media(http://bit.ly/hadhZv), Cameron Chapman states that the precursors of SM started with Usernets (Newsgroups) and BBS's (Bulletin Board Services) as early as 1977. Modern SM started with dating sites and forums 20 years later, including habitats such as Six Degrees and... [read more]

Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century

October 26, 2010 by Derek Baird
with 1,793 views

According to a study from the Pew Internet & American Life project (Lenhardt & Madden, 2005), more than one-half of all teens have created media content, and roughly one-third of teens who use the Internet have shared content they produced. In many cases, these teens are actively involved in what we are calling... [read more]

Social Media U: Making the most of social tools in the classroom

October 13, 2010 by Margaret Sullivan
with 4,450 views

Education and social media are converging in more powerful ways than ever these days. And I’m not talking about Mark Zuckerberg’s recent $100M donation to Newark, NJ schools. Rather, more and more academic circles are recognizing just how much social tools can impact learning. And they’re right. But in their excitement to... [read more]

Trend Watch: Foursquare Graffiti

April 1, 2010 by Derek Baird
with 1,069 views

The Chronicle of Higher Education had an interesting piece about a new trend on campus where students are using mobile geosocial networking platforms like Foursquare to "tag" professors, students and campus facilities with "virtual graffiti." Some universities, like Harvard, are using Foursquare's location-based service as a way to... [read more]

The Dichotomy Between Social Networks and Education

September 8, 2009 by Brian Solis
with 251 views

Einstein Chalkboard: Source Recently, I discussed the validity of whether or not social networking (the verb) and social networks (as a noun) were impairing our ability to learn. A Stanford study suggested that this might be the case. It seems that the initial research and its supporting data is now emerging to help us further analyze... [read more]

What is important today?

February 24, 2009 by Gordon Kraft
with 88 views

Social Media Today, an attempt to quantify the evolution metric of person versus person/product/company relationships will always center on the satisfaction of the person and the item. Who needs to know where you are and what you are doing right now? Why do people dive across the room to answer their cell phone, the... [read more]

Cultural Socialutions — Oxymoron or Logical Thought Process?

May 5, 2008 by carterfsmith
with 219 views

The marketplace is buzzing with the new way of solving problems. Though is hasn't been posted at Dictionary.com or Webster.com (yet) “Socialutions” is defined as people, communities and organizations leveraging technology to interact with people for the purpose of solving problems; the act of working together with others to... [read more]