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Twitter Is Broad-Casty, Facebook Is More Conversational
We already had mentioned Danah Boyd in other posts. She is a a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. In this opportunity, Danah begins a conversation about practices and inte...
The So Expected Change in the New School Year
I was inspired by this post written by a Philly Teacher, Mary Beth Hertz. School year just started and all Summer fun we had is vanishing to embrace a new collective of new faces, challenges and work. All that time we've spent on Twitter, learning an...
What Do You Believe to Be the Most Effective Methods for Delivering Professional Development to Teachers?
Despite what many still think about professional development for teachers, workshops and seminars ranked highest in a recent survey referenced by Alfred Thompson in his blog. Even though, the survey was exclusively used to measure the Computer Scienc...
Undertsanding a PLN to Build a Strong Learning Community
Almost never we talk about what Twitter means in our daily life. This is due to the short periods of time we have to spend online and where we have the great opportunity to talk and share about common interests with other professionals in education.T...
Guidelines: How to Protect Your Children Online
Typically we keep reading online and offline on a daily basis. This week we started reading What Every 21st-Century Parent Needs to Know by Debra W. Haffner. While she isn't afraid to tackle the big questions, including drinking, drugs and teen sex, ...
Dumb Generation? Teens Are Just as Smart as They Ever Were
The USA Today commented on two books related to the digital age of Gen Y (ages 16-29). The first book is The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future by Mark Bauerlein.Bauerlein an English professor...
Self-representation And Self-exposure Through Online Networks
During May, Kerry Mallan, a Professor in the School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, published an article at the Digital Culture & Education online journal. The author has published wide...
Social Media in Improving Education
Much has been said and discussed about the potential business benefits that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social networking sites offer; they’re not just social media any more, but also marketing tools for your products and services. The que...
Facebook: Pros and Cons of Using it in the Classroom
Facebook can be used poorly or incorrectly.Being an adult doesn't mean you can always manage your time responsibly and always be aware of what's is or is not convenient for yourself. Not to mention the molding conduct and personality of young people ...
Twitter Guide: Job Search And Personal Branding
This post appeared originally at The Bamboo Project and it is reproduced under Creative Commons license.Twitter--the 140 character social networking site--is becoming increasingly useful for job seekers. It doesn't work for everyone, ofcourse, but it...
Teenagers: Inequality Being Reproduced by Social Media
Teens are using social network sites as a social hangout with their pre-existing network.Researcher Danah Boyd over the weeken was participating at Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology. There she spoke about Living and Lea...
'Tweeting' Between Students, Faculty Gains Popularity at Princeton
Twitter is an interesting and deeply human phenomenon. -David Robinson You all know what it means to be enrolled in one the Ivy Leagues. Fox News ran a story last week where clearly students and faculty from well respected Princeton University, show...
You Are a "Social Media Snob" if You Do Not Follow Many People on Twitter
I've discovered (and subscribed) to a blog about Educational Technology, written by Mike Arsenault in Maine. Today, he brings up an interesting discussion about twitters in the educational field. He builds a chart where you can easily spot great fig...
The Asymmetry of Using Twitter
David Weinberger (@dweinberger) has liberated contents in his JOHO, the Blog. Taking advantage of his Creative Commons license to reproduce one of his posts, we want to share with our readers the idea of why Twitter has such a success and how it hand...
Great Quoting of the 2009 NAIS Annual Conference
We haven't had that opportunity yet but thanks to attendants like Liz Davis, we are able to enjoy the gems and Gr8T Quotes from #NAIS09BTW, are you participating into the #gr8t hashtag? If you don't know what is this about, read Davis Truss invitatio...
Using Twitter to Communicate With Students' Parents
The following is the continuation of Twitter is just like high school and we took one out of the four recommendations, Ron Bronson posted in his Reading, Writing & Big Ideas:1. For teachers to share general classroom information about parents: When I...
Facebook: Students Are Going From Sexting...Sextortion?
On December we wrote about the good reasons of not becoming friends with your student in Facebook. Before, we've also asked how social networks such as Facebook can be used in Education?We've also referred to the dual chances that social networks cou...
PhD Research on Teens and Online Social Networks
Blogger, speaker researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Danah Boyd recently finished her PhD. at University of California, Berkeley, and for those interested in youth culture...
Social Networks Are for Adults Too, Says a PEW Survey
The Pew Internet and American Life Project have just released a very interesting report about adults and social networks websites. What the track survey made on December 2008 found is that, "The share of adult internet users who have a profile on a...
