1,001 Staggeringly Helpful Social Media Resources. Using Twitter in the Classroom by Stacy Baker on Prezi. FrontPage. Twitter Handbook for Teachers. ShoutEm - Roll your own Mobile and Location Based Social Network. Twitter - Classroom Technology. 5 Steps Toward Hootsuite Twitter Search Mastery « LaRon Carter ' Hootsuite is my social media client of choice. Our relationship was began the day my Apple Power Book G4 wouldn’t properly install the Adobe AIR needed to run Tweetdeck and I haven’t looked back since. Hootsuite is also getting a lot of buzz from iPhone users for being the current client application of choice for integrating multiple accounts with ease and flexibility.
Social Media: PLN 7.2 In my blog Social Media: PLN 7.0 and 7.1 I shared a few simple, but valuable tips for jumping into the wave of social media PLN’s (personal learning network). Step 1: Create Public or Private Group Twitter List Column Click the Add Column link off to the right side of the window and create a Twitter List (Conference Speakers, example) or choose one already existing in your account. Step 2: Search for Usernames to Follow – New or Existing Type the username right into the search box on the right of window (it’s next to the Add Column slide adjuster). Step 3: Add People to the Column Stay focused. Hotseat at Purdue University. Twitter in Plain English. Bit.ly | Basic | a simple URL shortener.
Edchat / FrontPage. Fur.ly | shorten multiple urls into one. Twitter for Teachers: Home - Twitter for Teachers. Twitter for your PLN Public by Al Rowell on Prezi. How to: Use Twitter Search Effectively - Ask Aaron Lee. TweetDeck. Horton Hears a Tweet (EDUCAUSE Quarterly.
Key Takeaways Learning takes place in a social context, and encouraging student-student and student-faculty contact and interaction gets at the heart of student engagement in online-education settings. Because of their fundamental reliance on social participation and contribution, Web 2.0 tools, specifically social-networking tools, have great potential for enhancing the social context in support of learning, especially in online education. Twitter used as an instructional tool can add value to online and face-to-face university courses that far outweighs its potential drawbacks. "We've GOT to make noises in greater amounts! So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts! " Not long ago, we participated in EDUCAUSE 2009 in Denver. The Challenge of Student Engagement Our path to Twitter as an instructional tool was pretty straightforward.
Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson6 provided a framework for student engagement based on 50 years of research on educational effectiveness. Figure 1. June/July 2010 - Page 14-15. Social Learning: an explanation using Twitter. Monitter : real time, live twitter monitor | free live twitter e. Angela Maiers Educational Services: My Twitter Resources Library. Reflections on Teaching with Social Media - ProfHacker - The Chr. As I’m a little more than a month out from the semester’s end, I’ve been reflecting on different aspects of the semester: things that worked well, things that didn’t work at all, and things that could be tweaked for the future.
In particular, I’ve been musing on how I integrated social media into my classes. My classes tend to be fairly technologically heavy for a number of reasons: my own research revolves around the use of technology within narratives; I believe that teaching humanities students to use different tools in the classroom teaches them transferable skills; and I like to experiment with how technology can change the classroom space. In other words, I use technology in the classroom for thematic, practical, and pedagogical reasons. I even have a technology policy in my syllabus. That being said, I used more social media this semester than I have previously. Twitter In three out of the four classes that I taught this semester, I asked my students to use Twitter.
Wiki Google Wave. Twiducate.com - Social Networking For Schools. Twitter for Teachers.