50 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom Many critics of Twitter believe that the 140-character microblog offered by the ubiquitous social network can do little for the education industry. They are wrong. K-12 teachers have taken advantage of Twitter’s format to keep their classes engaged and up-to-date on the latest technologies. The following projects provide you and your students with 50 ways to Twitter in the classroom to create important and lasting lessons. 1. One of the simplest ways that teachers can use Twitter in the classroom involves setting up a feed dedicated exclusively to due dates, tests or quizzes. 2. Subscribe to different mainstream and independent news feeds with different biases as a way to compare and contrast how different perspectives interpret current events and issues. 3. Set up an interesting assignment requesting that students set up Twitter for education lists following feeds relevant to their career goals and keep a daily journal on any trends that crop up along the way. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
Creativity Resource for Teachers The 50+ Best Ways to Curate and Share Your Favorite Social Media and News Content There’s so much information online just begging to be curated: news, social media, images, video, websites… the list goes on. Reading great content from my favorite blogs and websites is one of my favorite down-time activities. It’s also an important part of my job as an IT Director because I need to stay on top of the latest trends, announcements and tech news. Just a few years ago, the tools I used to use for reading and consuming content were Google Reader, StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious… you know all the big names. More recently I’ve discovered some great new tools to read and share my favorite content which I’ve included here in this list. Whether you are a person who just likes to stay on top of the latest news, a blogger like me who needs a way to organize the vast amount of information that comes my way or a person who just enjoys sharing what they find with others you’ll love this list. Content Gathering and Personalized Newsfeeds iPad Curation There’s more to this article!
Green School Rummage - The best way to browse eBay Plant Biology Teaching Resources (Higher Education) Visible Thinking Purpose and Goals Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection of practices, Visible Thinking has a double goal: on the one hand, to cultivate students' thinking skills and dispositions, and, on the other, to deepen content learning. By thinking dispositions, we mean curiosity, concern for truth and understanding, a creative mindset, not just being skilled but also alert to thinking and learning opportunities and eager to take them Who is it for? Key Features and Practices At the core of Visible Thinking are practices that help make thinking visible: Thinking Routines loosely guide learners' thought processes and encourage active processing. A key feature of the Visible Thinking approach is the Teacher Study Group as described in the School-Wide Culture of Thinking section. License
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Strategic Creative Development · edwardboches How the semester will go. Guest speakers are confirmed in most cases, but could always cancel on us at the last minute. January 23: The End of Us and Them The transition from Bernbach to Zuckerberg January 30: Strategy in the age of participation What is the brief, what does it look like, what does it inspire? Guest: Kelsey Hodgkins, digital strategist planner, Mullen (confirmed) February 6: Is the big idea dead or alive? Do we need them? Guest: Dave Weist, Tim Vaccarion, ECDs Mullen (VW, Cadillac, Jet Blue, Google) (confirmed) February 13: Social from within Being social vs using social Guest: Daniel Stein, CEO and Founder of EVB, creator of Elf Yourself and Facebook Studio (semi-confirmed) February 22 (Tuesday make up) I am away this whole week: maybe a work session and visiting creative to work with students? Week 27: Transmedia story telling Complex narratives that inspire participation Guest: Helen Klein Ross, Founder Brand Fiction Factory, Betty Draper on Twitter (confirmed) Having a purpose.
Your Social Media Marketing Plan in 5 Easy Steps Jasmine Sandler | December 26, 2012 | 30 Comments inShare151 This solid, measurable plan (along with a commitment to developing consistent and valuable content) will help you drive online brand awareness, customer engagement, and audience growth. Many marketers launch their social media programs because they feel they need to and then scramble to understand both how they will make these work and how they will be managed. Most of them do this with no goal in mind and worse, no understanding of how social media marketing (SMM) works. Many believe that social is the answer to customer acquisition and are short-sided in defining realistic results. Stop chasing your tail in social. SMM Step 1: Create Your Executive Overview Business Plan Spell out your business in a one-pager to realize why you need social: Your Business Mission and HistoryYour Business or Revenue ModelDescriptions of your Products & ServicesDetails of Your Target AudienceReview of Your Current Marketing Efforts Summary