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Social in Media in Education! It’s Time Has Come

Posted by Shelly Terrell on Thursday, August 23rd 2012 12 Comments

3rd post in a new series: PLN Tips 4 Teachers I read this heartbreaking post from kindergarten teacher, Matt Gomez, today, The End of Facebook in My Class, and I was saddened that yet another battle has been lost between a teacher trying to help support students in the kind of learning that will help them in life because school policy got in Read full article »

category: PLN Tips for Teachers, Tech Tips, Thought-provoking, Upcoming Events

tags: education, social media

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#Edchat Summary: Social Media’s Impact on Professional Development for Educators by @USCTeacher

Posted by Shelly Terrell on Thursday, August 25th 2011 1 Comment

Guest post from @USCTeacher in the #Edchat Category & other 12noon NYC summaries found on Berni Wall's blog! Today's #edchat topic, What effect has social media (SM) had in your development as an educator? Is SM for every educator?, was intriguing. The topic pulled in both personal reflection for participators to think about their usage of social media as an educator as well Read full article »

category: #Edchat, Edchat Summary

tags: #Edchat, Edchat summary, Professional Development, social media

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Why Not Use Social Networks? by Joel Josephson

Posted by Shelly Terrell on Monday, June 20th 2011 11 Comments

by Guest Author, Joel Josephson Why Not Use Social Networks? Educators that are not using Facebook often use the arguments that they are concerned for their: Privacy Time Although there are other arguments used I will try to answer these two in this article. Privacy At the root of Social networks is the personalisation of your online character through your contributions to the networks. This can be Read full article »

category: PLNs, Tech Tips

tags: joel josephson, social media, social media and educators, social media burnout

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What Did They Tweet?

Posted by Shelly Terrell on Thursday, July 8th 2010 1 Comment

July 2010 edition of the What Did They Tweet series! Let's see what our Personal Learning Network (PLN) tweeted about in education and social media these past two weeks. Tweets .bbpBox{background:url(http://s.twimg.com/a/1277506381/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #9AE4E8;padding:20px;}"Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world | Video on TED.com" http://j.mp/bsNyS3baldy7baldy7 .bbpBox{background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/77401546/twilk_background_4b81e5d3be95a.jpg) #050101;padding:20px;}Just uploaded 'Towards Open & Connected Learning' to SlideShare. http://slidesha.re/dfrMGH Alec Couroscourosa Towards Open Read full article »

category: What Did They Tweet

tags: edtech, education, social media, technology

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What Did They Tweet?

Posted by Shelly Terrell on Thursday, April 29th 2010 1 Comment

End of April 2010 edition of the What Did They Tweet weekly series! Let's see what our Personal Learning Network (PLN) tweeted about in education and social media in the past two weeks. Video: Starfish and Students I was deeply touched by this video created by @marynabadenhors, which tells the story of a kid with a starfish. I first encountered the Starfish story Read full article »

category: What Did They Tweet

tags: education, ESL, social media, TED, Twitter, wikis