Social Media and Learning

So far we’ve mostly talked about social media in general, focusing on keeping it professional and preconceptions about Twitter, but this week I’m going to build on April’s post look deeper at how social media can be used in learning.
Why Social Media in Learning?
So why would we use social media in learning? Pedagogically, it fits [...]

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Unlearning my preconceptions about Twitter

Last weekend I attended a family reunion for my husband’s family. A very sharp eighty-eight year old relative noted: “I just don’t understand the point of Twitter. It seems like a bunch of nonsense.”  I laughed because actually a few months ago, I held a similar perception of the social media tool. The idea of [...]

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Social Media and You..and You…and You, too

Twitter. Facebook. YouTube. Social media is all over the place, even on CNN (if you’ve been following the drag-down-knock-out-fight between Ashton Kutcher and CNN on Twitter). Well, that’s good because it means that you, as an instructor, can tap into your students interests and parlay that interest into motivation.

Don’t think its feasible? Or that its [...]

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Keeping it Professional – How To

With all the discussion about Social Networking, specifically Facebook and Twitter, how do you keep your interactions and information sharing professional?
The stories about new college graduates’ Facebook pages coming back to haunt them in their job search, is a topic that we as professionals also need to pay attention to. How much sharing is too [...]

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Ice Cream Social Media

What is social media? The Wikipedia article on social media explains it this way:
Social media is online content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and content. It’s a fusion of sociology and [...]

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