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What is a PLN - Marc-André Lalande's take. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: How to Use Twitter From Kindergarten to College. 6.14.12 | As Twitter continues to make more inroads into academic spaces, two recent articles demonstrate its use across the educational spectrum.

Both stories—a New York Times SchoolBook inside-look at a tweeting class of kindergarteners, and a ProfHacker column at The Chronicle of Higher Education on Twitter’s use in college classrooms—show not only how educators are using Twitter and social media for a great variety of tasks, but how educators are very aware of how to use them responsibly. At Public School 150, a technologically sophisticated elementary school in TriBeCa, kindergarten teacher Jennifer Aaron engages her class in a group tweeting effort three times a week. Family members of the 2012 class were encouraged to follow her private account, @JensClass, and to respond to student tweets. In the video above, Aaron explains how it works: 100 Incredibly Inspirational People To Follow On Twitter. Does Twitter Matter? Twitter Tweaks Tweetdeck: New Version Gets Better Column Management & Navigation. The Twitter-owned Tweetdeck application is being refreshed today, following a series of changes to the Twitter platform over the past couple of weeks, which have touched on everything from search and discovery, to a revamped mobile presence, and even included the introduction of a new icon.

The Tweetdeck update, fortunately for Twitter’s power users, hasn’t been so much revamped as it has been tweaked, however. Twitter is promising a “swifter” experience with the new version, available today on Windows, Mac and Chrome. The features first debuted on the web version of Tweetdeck (web.tweetdeck.com), so they’re not entirely new. Columns have now been arranged in a continuous row, so you can scroll through them with the scrollbar, and you can scroll several columns over at a time by clicking arrows on the “Columns” button on the top of the toolbar. You can also click that button to reveal the full list of available columns and switch over immediately. 10 Things You Can Do To Make Yourself an Ed Tech Star This Summer. As I watch Twitter at this time of year I see a mix of sadness, relief, and excitement that the school year is ending for many teachers.

The summer is a great time to tackle some of that personal learning that got pushed to the back burner during the school year. If one of your goals for the summer is to improve your knowledge and skills in educational technology, here are ten things that you can do to work toward that goal. It's Okay If Teachers Don't Blog or Use Twitter. The 50 Best Blogs for Future Teachers.

The Modern Definition Of College Readiness 3.54K Views 0 Likes The modern definition of learning, school, and college is an evolving mix of education and technology jargon. Express 6.16 - Energizing a Collaborative Community. Mary Moeller, Karla Hunter, and Kathy Miller Imagine a service-learning project where preservice teachers empower 440 intermediate-grade students to support a community effort that brings international aid to earthquake-stricken Haiti.

This happened in a place called Camelot, where the Round Table is large enough to include 4th and 5th graders, parents, university students, and community members as partners. Visitors to Camelot Intermediate School, which is a model school in Brookings, S.Dak., that opened in fall 2009, can quickly see that the building and grounds have been specifically designed to serve the learning and developmental needs of 4th and 5th graders.

Soon visitors discover that school policies and practices also work together to promote understanding of global and local citizenship. The Camelot School crest that hangs across from the front doors depicts four attributes students need to be successful: character, achievement, creativity, and service. C for character. Reference. The Power Of The Lurker. Who's Using Pinterest Anyway? [INFOGRAPHIC] Have you ever wanted to know exactly who is using Pinterest?

Here's a quick snapshot: Pinterest users are three times more likely than average Internet users to have visited Disney World in the past year. Their favorite magazine is Good Housekeeping. More than half of them have drank alcohol in the past month. They text and email from mobile phones and use mobile apps more often than average Internet users. They're 11% more likely to use Verizon than other web surfers and 19% have Motorola phones. Digital media agency Modea put together this infographic with findings from a February comScore report.

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PLN. Feed Reading. Twitter Tutorial. How We Made A Twitter Trending Topic. Bernie Goldbach at the Clonmel Chamber | Photo of a past trending event WITH THE HELP of four others under the same roof, I've helped make three events a "trending topic" on Twitter this year.

If you're curious about the inner workings of "trending topics", read on. Now, three disclosures. First, I teach Social Media to third level students in Ireland and each year several of them make some money by knowing how to engender conversations through tactics I'll share in this blog post. Second, because some event organisers have spotted my attendance at trending events, I often get invitations to attend paid events for free. 1. Twitter built its algorithm on hashtags worth trending by referencing real-time natural events such as fires, explosions, attacks or natural disasters. 2.