Students Ask the Same Questions as Professionals | Student Affairs and Technology. This week I had the chance to give a lecture on digital marketing and social media for a group of business students at a college here in London. Located in a space that looks like it's part start-up and part hipster coffee shop*, the college is a non-traditional higher education institution in the heart of the city. At the beginning of the lecture (it was more of a facilitated conversation, but I digress) I asked the students what they already knew about digital marketing and social media. They're in their second year and it turns out that they know quite a bit. In fact, I had worked with this particular group of students in their first year and it was refreshing to hear how much they've learned/grown.
After we went over the "known knowns," I then followed-up my first question by asking the students what they didn't know about digital marketing and social media. What are the best social media apps/sites for engagement? How do you create content that goes viral? List of Twitter Hashtags for Higher Education Professionals - EdTechReview™ (ETR) About ETR Community EdTechReview (ETR) is a community of and for everyone involved in education technology to connect and collaborate both online and offline to discover, learn, utilize and share about the best ways technology can improve learning, teaching, and leading in the 21st century. EdTechReview spreads awareness on education technology and its role in 21st century education through best research and practices of using technology in education, and by facilitating events, training, professional development, and consultation in its adoption and implementation.
50 Great Twitter Chats in Academia. Twitter chats are a great resource for learning and networking, allowing academics from all over the world to come together on a regular basis to talk about what’s important in education. They’re also ideal for gaining authority and visibility in your field. Better yet, they’re happening all the time. Check out our list to find 50 of the best Twitter chats in academia (shared in no particular ranking), offering a great way to get connected and stay informed in the world of education.
Education These are our picks for excellent education chats on Twitter. #edchat: A busy hashtag with an even busier chat session, #edchat features an educational love chat on Tuesdays. #gtchat: Educating gifted and talented children is a special art. Leadership & Reform Education is at a crossroads these days. #spnchat: This Twitter chat is all about successful practices in education and education reform, every Tuesday at 9 p.m. Higher Education #IOLchat: Every Wednesday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Career Edutech. Twitter Directory for Higher Education. The benefits to scholars of being on Twitter (essay) The benefits to scholars of being on Twitter (essay) Christopher Schaberg The Academic Advantages of Twitter August 2, 2016 - 3:00am Inside Higher Ed Technology Faculty, Technology Being active on the platform can provide scholars with a number of important benefits, writes Christopher Schaberg.
How Higher Ed Uses Twitter | Technology and Learning. How Higher Ed Uses Twitter | Technology and Learning. 5 Settings You Should Know for School or Classroom Facebook Pages. As I mentioned yesterday, maintaining a Facebook fan page for your school or classroom can be a good way to keep parents informed of upcoming events. When you create a Facebook fan page for your school or classroom there are some default settings that you will want to change in order to keep the page as school-friendly as possible. Those five changes are outlined below. You can make all of these changes from the general settings panel of your Facebook page. 1. Profanity filter. This one is self-explanatory. 2. 3. 4. 5. This topic and many like it will be covered in depth in the latest section of Blogs & Social Media for Teachers and School Leaders.
Tagboard Offers New Features for Following Hashtags Across Multiple Networks. Tagboard is a tool that allows you follow a hashtag and see all of the Tweets, Instagram, Facebook, and Google+ posts about it in one place. Last year I created a tutorial video about Tagboard in which I demonstrated its primary features. Today, Tagboard added some new features that teachers will probably appreciate. Tagboard now offers some post moderation tools. You can now block or remove posts and users within a saved Tagboard.
Within a saved Tagboards you can now filter by keyword, post type, and or social network. Applications for EducationTagboard can be a good tool for tracking trending news stories with your students. The new moderation features will be helpful if you are planning to display a Tagboard in your classroom. How to Build a Twitter Following — and Why You Should. Corey Robin, in his recent thought-provoking article, "How Intellectuals Create a Public," argues that "the public intellectual is not simply interested in a wide audience of readers, in shopping her ideas on the op-ed page to sell more books. " Instead, "she sees her writing as a transformative mode of action, a thought-deed in the world.
" Robin is probably right about that. I don’t claim to be a public intellectual. I am, however, an academic interested in attracting a wider audience of readers, and perhaps even selling more books. That’s because I believe I have things to say that are worth saying, I’d like to communicate with people both in and out of academe, and I have no moral objection to being paid for my time and effort. This — being a professor, a writer, a speaker — is how I make my living, after all. If you share those same goals, then you need to be using social media, particularly Twitter, probably more than you are now. First, I am not a social-media expert. Tweeting with Collaborators: Group Tweet vs TweetDeck Teams. Have you ever worked with a team of different people, all of you needing access to the same Twitter account (representing an organization or project you all work on) at different times?
Of course, the intuitive thing to do is to share the password to the account, and to all be logged on to it. However, this is not optimal for several reasons: Recently, one of the multinational teams I work on (Virtually Connecting) grew, and different people needed access to the Twitter account on different days across different timezones. We experimented with two options for sharing the use of the Twitter account without sharing out the password. I thought I would share a quick review of GroupTweet and TweetDeckTeams. (disclaimer: I had several email exchanges with someone from GroupTweet). GroupTweet GroupTweet allows you to give a team access to using your team’s Twitter account; each person could Tweet from the account in any of the following ways: TweetDeck Teams. Skip the "Say Hello" Tweet. Over the years I’ve sat in many presentations about the benefits of being a connected educator. Many of those presentations focus on connecting through Twitter.
The standard demonstration of “the power of Twitter” is for the presenter to Tweet something like “please say hello to teachers learning about Twitter at #awesomeedtechconf.” I’ve done that myself. But lately I’ve been thinking that sending out the “say hello” Tweet really isn’t all that helpful to people attending the presentation. The presenter in this situation has an advantage that the attendees do not have, a network and a following. When stand in front of a room and compose a demonstration Tweet of “say hello to the teachers at #aweseomedtechconf” I’m showing off what my network can do.What I taken to doing instead of showing off what my network can do, is demonstrate how to start building a new network of connected educators. Social Media Management Dashboard - HootSuite.