5 Steps Toward Hootsuite Twitter Search Mastery « LaRon Carter '
Hootsuite is my social media client of choice. Our relationship was began the day my Apple Power Book G4 wouldn’t properly install the Adobe AIR needed to run Tweetdeck and I haven’t looked back since. Hootsuite is also getting a lot of buzz from iPhone users for being the current client application of choice for integrating multiple accounts with ease and flexibility. Social Media: PLN 7.2 In my blog Social Media: PLN 7.0 and 7.1 I shared a few simple, but valuable tips for jumping into the wave of social media PLN’s (personal learning network).
30 Funny Twitter Comics
As you probably already know, Twitter is hotter than ever. Everyone seems to be tweeting these days about anything and everything that’s on their mind. If you’re still not into Twitter, check out our popular Ultimate Guide for Everything Twitter that we recently posted here.
6 Unique Twitter Visualizations
Art, imagery, graphs, and maps help place context and a visual component to numbers, locations, and data. Twitter, the ultimate collection of 140-character thoughts and data, does not come with image sharing, video embedding, or almost any other visual feature. However, it does come with an API and hundreds of people developing Twitter applications all the time.
Presentation tips from Aristotle
Ethos, pathos, logos—all play a part in conveying your message. Here's advice on implementing them to your best advantage. By Leslie Belknap | Posted: October 11, 2013
Horton Hears a Tweet (EDUCAUSE Quarterly
By Joanna C. Dunlap and Patrick R. Lowenthal Learning takes place in a social context, and encouraging student-student and student-faculty contact and interaction gets at the heart of student engagement in online-education settings.
Do YA Authors Twitter? Why yes, they do.
Here is a list, updated from the one by Mitali Perkins, and thanks to Alessandra Lee for updating! Authors, check out Alessandra's post to add your name to the list.YA Authors: 1.
It’s not about Web 2.0 it’s about learning! « The Thinking Stick
Today I had the pleasure of doing a short presentation for our IB Theory of Knowledge class. I was invited in to give a lesson on how knowledge is changing in the 21st century. My first thought was “How do I tell students knowledge has changed, when they already know that?” I set up 3 Skype accounts for students to login to and keep notes on. I did not want to only talk about how knowledge is changing I wanted them to experience it. To feel the power of collective note taking, the power of multiple perspectives on a subject or theory.
The 10 Minute Rule
So I ask this question in every college course I teach: “Given a class of medium interest, not too boring and not too exciting, when do you start glancing at the clock, wondering when the class will be over?” There is always some nervous shuffling, a few smiles, then a lot of silence. Eventually someone blurts out: “Ten minutes, Dr. Medina.” “Why 10 minutes?”
Reflections on Teaching with Social Media - ProfHacker - The Chr
As I’m a little more than a month out from the semester’s end, I’ve been reflecting on different aspects of the semester: things that worked well, things that didn’t work at all, and things that could be tweaked for the future. In particular, I’ve been musing on how I integrated social media into my classes. My classes tend to be fairly technologically heavy for a number of reasons: my own research revolves around the use of technology within narratives; I believe that teaching humanities students to use different tools in the classroom teaches them transferable skills; and I like to experiment with how technology can change the classroom space. In other words, I use technology in the classroom for thematic, practical, and pedagogical reasons. I even have a technology policy in my syllabus. That being said, I used more social media this semester than I have previously.
Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians)
FEATURE Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians) by Sarah Milstein For many people, the word “twitter” brings to mind birds rather than humans. But information professionals know that Twitter (www.twitter.com) is a fast-growing, free messaging service for people, and it’s one that libraries (and librarians) can make good use of—without spending much time or effort. Twitter lets people send and receive short messages (called Tweets) via the web or via SMS using a mobile phone. Messages on Twitter are limited to a maximum of 140 characters, including spaces, and they’re generally public.
Social Networking in Education
The National School Boards Association in the U.S. has released a research report on the use of online social networking by students, titled Creating and Connecting (caution: it’s a pdf file). While some of the findings are not surprising, some others are. Here’s a quick take on some of the findings. Overall, an astonishing 96 percent of students with online access report that they ever used any social networking technologies, such as chatting, text messaging, blogging and visiting online communities…
Top 10 Webinar Mistakes to Avoid
In today’s world of cost-cutting and relationship-based customer service, webinars have become a popular business tool. Used correctly, they are a low-cost way to provide value-added service and generate sales leads. If used incorrectly or poorly executed, this low-cost tool can lead to lost customers and damaged reputations. Follow these tips to prevent a webinar disaster at your company:
Directors, Screenwriters and Actors on Twitter
Update: You can read a more updated version of this list here. In March, we published the first definitive listing of screenwriters, directors and actors on Twitter. But that posting quickly outgrew our original image-based format. With dozens of new additions per week, I thought we’d completely revamp the list. Directors:
