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Facebook Places in Education
Facebook entered the geo-tagging market last week with a splash when they announced the development of Facebook Places. The social network giant joined the ranks of programs like Yelp, Gowalla, Booyah, and Foursquare, which give users the opportunity to share their physical locations with their virtually connected networks.
eSchoolNews published an article examining the potential and [...]
Ethical Concerns of Teaching with Facebook
For the past week or so, there has been a vibrant conversation occurring on the Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR) listserve regarding the use of Facebook in the classroom. The crux of this conversation relates to the ethical implications of asking students to use Facebook as part of a graded course.
Often the price of some [...]
A Brief Review of Course Management Tools for Educators
As I prepare for fall term, I’ve come to terms with the reality that once again I will probably be using Blackboard as my primary course management system. Certainly it is not without its flaws – difficult to navigate, frequent crashes, a confusing administrator interface – but it’s the established system at the University of [...]
Reaching Out Through the Web: Best Practices for Teacher/Parent Communications
Every Tuesday teachers, educators and ed tech enthusiasts gather on Twitter to debate, evaluate, brainstorm, and discuss topics of interest to the education community. The discussions, which usually take place at 12 p.m. EST and 7 p.m. EST, last about an hour, use the hashtag #edchat, and include participants from all over the globe. Click [...]
A Teaching Moment: This is Twepardy!
I spend Sunday afternoons putting together my lessons for the coming week. On Tuesday I had a lecture and class discussion on microblogging scheduled. About halfway through creating my PowerPoints I realized how incredibly boring a lecture on microblogging would be.
I scrapped the lecture idea and instead spent the next five hours developing Twepardy – [...]
A Teaching Moment: Introducing Students to their Cyber-selves
Every term I struggle with a conversation I have with my students at the start of the class. Because I teach about social media, I have a frank discussion with my undergraduate students about protecting their reputation. This term, I did something a little different.
I have only 17 students in my class, so the weekend [...]
Social Media Engagement: Should Teachers and Students Be Friends?
Recent efforts to make Facebook safer for kids may provide more options to control who sees what postings, but they may not address affect the fundamental conundrum facing educators – whether they can or should engage with students in social media networks like Facebook…
Friend requests from students have caused quite a dilemma for teachers in [...]
Reaching Students: The Evolution of E-Communication
Hello, Everyone. This is Katie Stansberry, your new ISTE Connects community manager and I’m excited and eager to learn from and with you!
I also work with undergraduates at the University of Oregon and am constantly looking for ways to engage them in class material. When up against the lure of Facebook, PerezHilton.com, and fantasy football [...]
Is Facebook As Good As Face-to-Face?
As students begin spending more and more of their socializing time on social networking sites, it seems like they would have to spend less time actually talking face to face. In fact, it seems like they don’t even talk on the phone anymore now that they’ve discovered they can text surreptitiously during class. Add to [...]
Security awareness for Twitter account access
When it comes to granting other people, applications or websites “access” to any online account you maintain, whether the account is on Facebook, Twitter, GMail, or any other site, my advice is to be cautious and proceed slowly. This evening Dean Shareski brought the website HelpIranElection.com to my attention via a tweet. The website exhorts [...]
