Facebook users have more close friends, says Pew study. Pew Research continues to analyze the impact social networks are having on our lives and its latest study concludes the opposite of what some experts have been feeding us for years; as it turns out, sites like Facebook may actually encourage and strengthen close friendships, not diminish them and isolate users.
According to the study, the average American has 634 social ties in their overall network of friends and contacts (not just on social networks). This breaks down to about 506 ties for non-internet users and 669 ties for those who use the internet. As one might expect, the more someone uses the internet, the more social ties that person tends to have.
The average person who uses the internet at home several times per day has a network of 732 ties, while someone who only goes online about once per day has an average of 616 ties. Likewise, those who have a mobile phone have an average of 664 ties, and those who have a smartphone tend to have about 717 ties. Building and maintaining an online professional learning community. We’ve all been there.
You go to a workshop, excited to have a day away from school and eager to learn new ideas. Throughout the workshop, you explore new resources, see effective strategies being modeled, take notes, and flag pages to refer to once you get back to the classroom. You leave the workshop on a high, excited about what you’ve learned and rejuvenated from a day of professional learning and dialogue. You have high hopes of making instructional changes and using the new resources with your students, and you can’t wait to share what you’ve learned with the teacher down the hall.
The following day, you return to your classroom, put your workshop materials on a shelf for the time being, and pick up where you left off two days ago. PLCs: A lasting impact Even with the best intentions, many teachers never make any real change to their instruction based on what they learn in one-shot workshops. Creating a meaningful online professional learning community Making time Wikispaces Twitter.
How to Find the Top Blogs For Any Topic « Web Startup Lessons. This article has value for anyone using the web, not just readers who are launching startups.
It is especially helpful for anyone doing Internet marketing. I’m going to tell you how to find the best blogs in any subject area. Why? Because blogs are your best source of current information on the web. If you can find the top bloggers for any topic, you’ll be guided to the most relevant and useful information for any area that you’re researching. The top blogs are not easy to identify. As far as I know, the top experts in Internet marketing and search engine optimization don’t know these techniques (or have kept them secret!). What’s a Top Blog? For those who’ve been living under a log, a blog is a web site with articles (or “posts”) that an author adds on a regular basis.
Teacher Training Videos created by Russell Stannard. Collaborative Open Webcasting Community. Schoolz and Toolz. Mewanderings: traversing infowhelm. Twitter. TWiT Live - netcasts. TED: Ideas worth spreading. LeaderTalk. Student Led Conferences (SLC's) might seem to be new but they've been around for awhile, at least 18 years - that's when I first encountered them as a newbie teacher.
Since that beginning, I've had the professional pleasure of working with a number of school staffs and communities in adopting and growing SLC's. In my current position, this was our 3rd year with SLC's. Our school, a newly amalgamated K - 12 facility in a rural community, has an evening conference time and a morning conference when parents and their children can come to the school for the SLC. In my opinion, the best way to facilitate the SLC is to have them in the evenings/after school when both parents will be able to attend - as many families have both parents working. Contrary to what many people seem to believe, SLC's are much more time intensive and require a great deal of preparation on the part of the student and the teacher. SLC's need to be discussed beginning in September. {*style:<i><b> Education.
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