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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Educating the Net Generation

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In the month of May we reviewed new and upcoming online courses. We also shared the process of online course development from concept to actualization.  The last course up for review is Educating the Net Generation Online ™.
Educating the Net Generation (ENG) helps educators gain some [...]

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Aloha! from Hawaii!

When is attending a conference in Hawaii an easy travel approval? When the conference is online!
Later this month, April 15-17th, the 13th annual TCC Worldwide Online Conference is being held. The conference is hosted by the University of Hawai’i and the Kapi’olani Community College in association with Osaka Gakuin University (Japan) and LearningTimes. The conference provides [...]

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Learning from the Ning learning community

Ning is a ring of social networks run by participants who start and build the social network. I’ve found that Ning can be a great place to learn from others in your own field who have the same interests as yourself. I’m part of a Ning network called NextGen Teachers. The NextGen Ning network [...]

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