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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 [...]
Social networking guidelines for athletes and schools
The University of Oklahoma has issued new guidelines for student athlete use of social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, according to an article from the Associated Press on Monday.
In the social networking policy, athletes are warned that their postings must comply with a code of conduct and can be punishable with education, counseling, suspension [...]
Join ISTE on Facebook
As Maya Prabhu noted in her October 2008 article for eSchoolnews, “Schools grapple with teachers’ Facebook use,” increasing numbers of educators are creating accounts on and utilizing social networking websites like Facebook. While the issues and questions surrounding teacher to student interactions in these online environments may be somewhat grey and hazy, there are plenty [...]
