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Mario Armstrong Talks Twitter in Education
I was lucky enough to catch radio and television personality Mario Armstrong in the Social Butterfly Lounge at ISTE 2010 and he gave some great tips on how to use Twitter as a tool in education. Learn how to set up a Twitter account, develop your PLN, and utilize the immediacy of Twitter as a [...]
Live Tweet of Frontline’s Rebroadcast 2008 Report “Growing Up Online”
Live Tweet of Frontline’s Rebroadcast 2008 Report “Growing Up Online”
Two years ago I watched the Frontline special report “Growing Up Online”. At the time, I was pursuing my master’s degree in communication and studying new media from an academic and theoretical perspective. At the time, I remember thinking the report was intriguing but also a [...]
Studying Orwell, Twitter-style
* By Carleigh Romano, Madison Hearney, Victoria DiVilio and Elizabeth O’Sullivan
This is a collaborative article written by the 8th grade students of Saints. Philip and James School in New York about their technology class:
This year we are working on a project that consists of learning while using 21st century technology that we obviously love. You’re [...]
Virtual Collaboration: Finding Your Birds of a Feather
When I meet with educators for professional development around the topic of project-based learning I often ask experts to join us through Skype. Bud Hunt, Terry Smith, Julie Lindsay, Chris Lehmann, Linda Hartley, Jeff Utecht and others have graced my groups with their presence. Teachers are always impressed with their knowledge and passion, and note [...]
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 – [...]
Finding Balance
I have had a post brewing in my head for a very long time and I think this is the perfect forum in which to bring this issue to light. I would like to take this opportunity to discuss a problem that so many of us have, but are unwilling to acknowledge. The issue I [...]
Prepare for the Deluge of Social Media Created at NECC
It’s crunch time at ISTE Connects, which means we are working around the clock to ensure that we are ready to deliver valuable content for on-site and off-site NECC attendees. We realize that there will be an inevitable flood of social media as soon as NECC 2009 kicks-off, so we’ve come up with some ways [...]
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 [...]
Archiving Twitter Nuggets
Twitter can provide an amazing quantity of great ideas and links on a daily basis, if you follow people and organizations who/which both:
Share your interests.
Use Twitter to share links.
With so many outstanding ideas and links being shared daily, it is important to consider how these resources can be efficiently saved for future use.
To date, my [...]
iTouch and iPhone Apps for Education
The power of Twitter and personal learning networks continues to amaze me! Yesterday Oklahoma teacher Christy Paradise tweeted me a question about available workshops or training resources on iTouch and iPhone applications for education / classroom use. After retweeting the question, California educator Sandra McGonagle replied with a link to Tony Vincent’s upcoming live workshop [...]
