37 Blended Learning Resources You Can Use Tomorrow 37 Blended Learning Resources You Can Use Tomorrow by Dr. Justin Marquis Remixing the curriculum – compiling resources from a variety of sources such as free online texts, proprietary information from publishers, and self-created media such as podcasts – is starting to push its way into K-12 and higher education. Gathering the Ingredients Before Remixing Like any course development process, there is a good deal of research that goes into remixing the contents of a new or existing class curriculum. Consider including a small selection of remixed materials at first and expand each time you teach the class. Free Courseware Free Online Texts Video Resources Remember, as will all sources from the Internet, you will want to confirm the validity of each one that you choose to include in a class. 37 Blended Learning Resources You Can Use Tomorrow is a cross-post from onlineuniversities.com and Dr.
sweetprofe | S.o.s. Nuova linfa cercasi! Why Twitter? What's Happening? My twitter story began on the 21st of February 2009. I didn't know too much about the 'website' just that you had 140 characters to say what you wished. Based on it's continuing popularity I felt that there must have been another purpose to twitter, it couldn't be for me to really spread my views - I only had about 7 followers (50% Spam accounts...). Over the last four years I have used twitter to share interests, through that I have met some fantastic people who share similar interests and ideas. So why tweet? - it's simple - short bursts of thoughts/feelings/events - you can promote thoughts and ideas through hash tags and trends - informal - you can reach all types of audiences Developing a professional twitter account.... I now have a second account helping me to build up a PLN (professional learning network) which is supporting my teaching degree. So why do others use twitter? Personal Account Replies Professional Account Replies
Twitter et comment s'en servir Les tweets sont des télégrammes décachetés. Bernard Pivot, 25.05.12, 9h04. note du 21/05/2013 – du « miroir promené au bord de la route » (Stendhal) toujours de nombreuses arrivées sur Twitter, hier par exemple ensemble @MartinWinckler (bravo Marc, plus de 1100 followers en même pas 24 heures), ou le grand chef d’Apple, Tim Cook – et de mon côté plus de 9000 followers désormais (dont probablement les 4/5ème sous pseudo, ce que j’ai un peu de mal à comprendre : on n’a guère l’envie de suivre réciproque si on ne sait rien du nouvel abonné), donc je remets en Une ce billet (sans le modifier, d’ailleurs) ; nous autres, les « vieux » de Twitter, utilisons les différents codes #hashtags RT #ff ou :-) comme des éléments de vocabulaire qui peuvent paraître déroutants, mais est-ce que jongler avec les 140 caractères et leur frontière n’est pas un enjeu qui mérite de se les approprier ? note du 18/05/2013 20 000 visites atteintes pour ce billet, merci ! a – 4 ans déjà... b – choisir son identifiant
Capturing business value with social technologies - McKinsey Quarterly - Strategy - Growth Social technologies, in their relatively brief period of existence, have found favor with consumers faster than previous technologies did. It took 13 years for commercial television to reach 50 million households and 3 years for Internet service providers to sign their 50 millionth subscriber. Facebook hit the 50 million–user mark in just a year and Twitter in nine months. Sweeping cultural, economic, and social changes have accompanied this accelerated pace of adoption by the world’s consumers. Companies, too, have adopted these technologies but have generated only a small fraction of the potential value they can create. An in-depth analysis of four industry sectors that represent almost 20 percent of global industry sales suggests that social platforms can unlock $900 billion to $1.3 trillion in value in those sectors alone. Of late, some bearish sentiments surround social technologies after disappointments for several companies in the capital markets. Productivity possibilities
Behavior Model - Triggers The third element of the Fogg Behavior Model is Triggers. Without a Trigger, the target behavior will not happen. Sometimes a Trigger can be external, like an alarm sounding. Other times, the Trigger can come from our daily routine: Walking through the kitchen may trigger us to open the fridge. The concept of Trigger has different names: cue, prompt, call to action, request, and so on. Examples of TriggersFacebook uses Triggers effectively to achieve their target behaviors. Here’s one example: I hadn’t used my “BJ-Demo” Facebook account in a while, so Facebook automatically sent me this Trigger to achieve their target behavior: Sign into Facebook. Note how this specific behavior -- signing in -- is the first step of Facebook’s larger goal: reinvolve me in Facebook. Three Types of Triggers My Behavior Model names three types of triggers: Facilitator, Signal, and Spark. Look at the Facebook example above. An effective Trigger for a small behavior can lead people to perform harder behaviors.
ClassDojo Over 100 ideas for using Twitter in the Classroom This handful of resources provide about 100 different ideas for, and examples of, using Twitter in the classroom. It’s been almost 8 months since I published the post, “6 Examples of Using Twitter in the Classroom”, about uses of the popular micro-blogging tool in the instructional setting. This post generated a lot of traffic, and continues to attract hundreds of viewers every week. Since that brief posting, I’ve come across a lot of articles containing examples and suggestions for using Twitter in instructional applications. I’ve combed through many of these and tried to boil down the redundancies to create a rich set of idea-laden resources. While there’s still going to be some overlap in the concepts presented in these articles, they clearly meet the goal of providing a thorough set of ideas and examples for leveraging Twitter in the educational process. Here are the original “6 Examples” from last June’s post: About Kelly Walsh Print This Post
Twitter aide à mieux comprendre l'évolution de la linguistique La diffusion d'un nouveau mot dépendrait de l'influence géographique, mais aussi démographique des villes. Des chercheurs ont réussi à cartographier l'évolution de plusieurs termes grâce à Twitter aux Etats-Unis. Les réseaux sociaux permettraient d'étudier la diffusion des tendances linguistiques dans un pays. C'est ce que démontre une étude menée par des chercheurs*, qui ont cartographié la propagation de nouveaux mots et ont suivi leur évolution dans plusieurs villes américaines. Cela, en se servant de Twitter comme d'un outil. L'évolution de plusieurs termes Pour ce faire, ils ont identifié une dizaine de termes utilisés sur Twitter géolocalisés seulement dans certaines localités, sur une période de deux ans, comprenant l'introduction et la propagation d'un mot. Les facteurs favorisant la diffusion La géographie et la démographie sont les facteurs qui influence le plus la propagation de termes, surtout le second. *J.