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7 Ways Universities Can Effectively Use Social Media The official opening of the Harvard Innovation Lab was shared all over social media channels. Source: Harvard Innovation Lab If compared to the majority of businesses out there, universities and colleges have an advantage when it comes to social media: the student community. For the majority of students, the years spent at university is usually one of the most important and remarkable times. This makes it a good start point for colleges in social media – when you have a happy community of consumers who like what you have to offer, things are much easier. However, for colleges, the benefits of social media go beyond student and community engagement.

Yogile: Easy Group Photo Sharing These days we’re all photographers, whether via cell phone, point & shoot, a more serious DSLR or some other gadget with photo snapping capabilities. We’re a digitally social and sharing society these days, yet it’s still surprisingly difficult to share group photos outside social networks like Facebook. Yogile brings a simple and very usable solution to the table for easy photo sharing for groups. Read on for our look at Yogile’s interface, pricing and usability. Overview For as many photo storage and sharing sites as there are these days, it’s surprising that so many of them lack easy group sharing features. Shaarli You want to share the links you discover ? Shaarli is a minimalist delicious clone you can install on your own website. It is designed to be personal (single-user), fast and handy. Features Minimalist design (simple is beautiful) FAST Dead-simple installation: Drop the files, open the page.

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DokuWiki DokuWiki is a simple to use and highly versatile Open Source wiki software that doesn't require a database. It is loved by users for its clean and readable syntax. The ease of maintenance, backup and integration makes it an administrator's favorite. Built in access controls and authentication connectors make DokuWiki especially useful in the enterprise context and the large number of plugins contributed by its vibrant community allow for a broad range of use cases beyond a traditional wiki. Get started: Why DokuWiki? How Teachers Are Using Social Media Right Now How Teachers Can Best Use Education Technology 4.66K Views 0 Likes Edtech isn't the final solution for education's problems. It's a powerful addition to classrooms though, so it's time to ask: what is the point of education technology?

How to Send RSS Feeds to Twitter and Facebook TwitterFeed is a service that enables you to send RSS feeds to your Twitter, Facebook and many other accounts. You can either use your own website or blog’s RSS feed.. or any other RSS feed.. or both for that matter! So any new content that you (or others) publish will automatically be pushed out to your Twitter or Facebook streams, via an RSS feed. You would have seen the ubiquitous RSS icons around the web? Well, they look like this, RSS is very simple to understand..

Fix Before doing anything : BACKUP YOUR SUBSONIC FOLDER ! This is a custom version so if you don't know what your doing : Stop here. NOTA : I really mean it : DO A BACKUP FIRST ! Using Social Media In The Classroom For Real-World Learning Engaging Students Through Social Media by Rob James first appeared on gettingsmart.com; Using Social Media In The Classroom For Real-World Learning Social media has become an essential part of most people’s everyday lives, from checking Facebook and Twitter to posting blogs, Pinterest listings, and uploading YouTube videos. However, and with smartphones making it easier than ever to spend time on social media networks, in what ways can these networks be leveraged to engage and build a foundation for future student learning? While the potential of distraction is there, the right social media teaching strategies can lead to creative learning, and a productive approach to making social media part of ongoing professional development. For students, social networks arguably provide a mix of creative expression and group work through tasks like contributing to a blog, designing websites, uploading video presentations, and creating Facebook pages for class projects. References and Further Reading

Connected Learning: The Power Of Social Learning Models DML (a “Digital Media and Learning” project), believes in the “the power of participation.” And they’ve created a learning model overview to prove it. We recently published our Inside-Out Learning model, an attempt to return the learning to the families, organizations, and communities authentic to the learner.

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