Best Practices Teaching with Twitter. Twitter has become a common tool for communicating and collaborating that is part blog, part social networking site, and part mobile phone/IM tool. During this session at the 2012 SLATE Conference, October 12, 2012, Jason Rhode shared his experiences of incorporating online resource sharing chat activities, via Twitter, for mobile learning in an online course, as well as practical recommendations for those considering utilizing Twitter in teaching and learning. Participants were encouraged to bring their Twitter account to participate and use hashtag #twitterinedu Also, this HootCourse was setup and used as an example of creating a restricted Twitter group for a course. Click here to join our backchannel on HootCourse! Session Goals Foundation Photo courtesy @inju on Flickr Why should educators consider incorporating Twitter in their teaching?
What other reasons come to mind for why educators may want to use Twitter in their teaching? Examples Literature Photo courtesy @rosauraochoa on Flickr. Ultimate Guide to Google Hangouts. With the launch of Google Hangouts, the world just got a lot more social! As +Vic Gundotra puts it, Google is now connecting people in new ways, with one of the new ways being Hangouts. Never heard of Google Plus Hangouts? Read on and discover one of the most useful tools for global socializing and collaboration. What are Google Hangouts? Google Hangouts launched in May 2013 to replace Google Talk, Gchat, what used to be called hangouts but were really ‘Google Plus Video Chat’ without the integration, and Google Messenger. Phew. Using +Vic Gundotra‘s words, a great metaphor is this – hangouts are people sitting on a porch… Think about it this way: Hangouts are like a party on the porch front.
Check out this video and see what they are all about… In the text version you are in a ‘group chat’ with whoever has been invited to that ‘hangout’, whether or not you joined the ‘video call’ aspect. New AWESOME Video on Google Hangouts Thanks John Elstone for this information. iOS – 1. WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT. Black Hat vs. White Hat SEO #infografia #infogr... Bad Content Is Killing Your Social Media Ranking. Today many of business websites and companies are intrested in social media marketing, they are created facebook page, facebook profiles(who dont know the difference b/w page and profile), twitter account, friendfeed account and many more social sites accounts. There are millions user may coonected with you, a user follows you because of your content, updates, products or services. To maintain a good follower list and audience you have to maintain your content quality.
Every time when you post a update or status, its goes to many audience feed page. As they expected a good content or information by the group or pages, your content should be related to your business page. When you post a content which is totaly different from your topic, then there are more chance to refuse that post by your audience and may be you will loose your autience. So, if you are ready to build a good social network, then follow the mention steps. 1# Maintain your post content quality. 2# Do not repeat your post.