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Forget demographics. It’s all about the socialgraphics By Neicole Crepeau, Contributing {grow} Columnist Traditionally, marketers have researched their customers’ demographics to have a clear idea of their age, gender, income, location, and other traits. Marketers added psychographics to the mix, allowing them to take into account customer’s interests, values, and attitudes. A step up from the very general information that demographics provide, psychographics enable marketers to speak to customers in a way that resonates with them. Socialgraphics capture the attitudes, characteristics, behavior, and, most important, motivations of customers online. Socialgraphics helps move your message The new world of digital marketing requires the kind of research that user experience teams routinely do, but marketers have not always accessed. Demographics and pyschographics may have been enough when marketers were focused simply on online advertising — finding the right keywords to target an audience was enough. Levels of socialgraphics
“We’re Not in Kansas (nor Cambridge) Anymore” - Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Lisa M. Hess, Associate Professor of Practical Theology, United Theological Seminary Arriving onto the campus of my first fulltime teaching job in higher education was not unlike finding myself in a strange land with a little dog under my arm. “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore,” I remember saying aloud, wondering what I had done in accepting this new job I thought I wanted. I was disoriented, to say the least. I’d never expected to land a teaching job—too competitive, options quite scarce, two-career family. Without proceeding to the bemusing images here—the Yellow Brick Road, flying monkeys, the Wicked Witch, or the Wizard—you should know I now spend time regularly between Oz and Kansas. Yes, the realities of teaching are nothing you could have known, nothing you thought you were choosing. The invitation I wish I had known was coming, if you asked me today?
Why Teachers Should Join Twitter…What I have Learned as a Twitter Newbie Adaptivelearnin Profile Okay, I admit that I rebelled against joining Twitter for the longest time. I had friends and family members urging me to join. I often said, “Why should I join another social networking site? I have not used MySpace for a while and am quite happy with Facebook.” Those who were part of the Twitter community kept insisting that I join because in their words it was better than Facebook. Several months ago I finally decided to give Twitter a try. Watch this news video on using Twitter in education and in the classroom…explains Twitter’s professional use in a simple way: To learn more about developing your PLN check out this SlideShare presentation by Bethany Smith: Via SlideShare from Bethany Smith: Creating an Online Personal Learning Network To learn how to set up your new Twitter account and learn how to use Twitter, watch this Youtube video: To learn how to send Tweets, Retweets, Direct Messages, and add Lists watch this Youtube video: Using Twitter as a teacher:
The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Pinterest for Marketing Over the past few months, you may have heard some chatter about a brand new social network called Pinterest. Not surprising. According to Compete, unique visitors to Pinterest.com increased by 429% from September to December 2011, and the social network already boasts a user base of 3.3 million. The short answer? What is Pinterest, and How Does it Work? Pinterest is a social network that allows users to visually share, curate, and discover new interests by posting (AKA 'pinning') images or videos to their own or others' pinboards (i.e. a collection of 'pins,' usually with a common theme) and browsing what other users have pinned. As with most other social networks, users can perform standard social networking functions such as following the boards of their friends, liking and commenting on other users' pins, re-pinning content to their own boards, sharing others' pins on Facebook and Twitter or via email, and even embedding individual pins on their website or blog. Pinterest Etiquette 1.
UDL Guidelines Graphic Organizer This graphic is also available in PDF format. UDL Guidelines graphic organizer text despcription This graphic organizer of the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines depicts the three main principles of UDL in three color-coded columns with numbered explanations and bulleted examples beneath each principle heading. Principle I. 1. 2. 3. Principle II. 4. 5. 6. Principle III. 7. 8. 9. A footer at the bottom of the graphic organizer reads © 2011 by CAST.
Tweeting the future of student journalism Today's reporters need to be skilled in multimedia applications, including Twitter—and student journalism programs are reflecting this need. When the undefeated Patriots football team of Freedom High School in Bethlehem Township, Pa., played the Emmaus Green Hornets on Friday night, Freedom senior Tyler Alicea had his heart in the game—and his mind and hands on his phone. Tyler was using his phone to tweet updates about the game while standing in the student section of the bleachers. But don’t think he was abusing the power of wireless internet access to slam his school’s opponent. “We’re trying to expand our readership and get more people involved within the school,” said Tyler, 17, a senior from Bethlehem Township. The Forum’s fledgling internet initiative—Twitter, Facebook, video links, and polls on the newspaper website—mirrors that of mainstream newspapers, which are trying to harness technology to make money and expand reach without compromising integrity.