Teachers who resist using social media in the classroom are stripping their students of an essential component of their future success. Avoiding – or worse, banning – social media platforms for students prohibits them from being successful professionals in fields like accounting, chemistry, the arts and more. Via Judy O'Connell 
Being involved in social media allows adults, teens and kids connect with each other, learn with each other and grow together. If I live in a small town in Kansas and I am interested in urban planning or engineering or snake research, there might not be anyone in my town that I can connect with. But thanks to the endless connections on social media, I can send a Tweet to someone, post a message on a Facebook page or join a Ning of others with similar interests. I don't have to go to the world anymore, I can bring the world to me.
We live in an age of personalization.
But it isn't just adults who are moving more of their lives to online spaces. In a recent Pew Internet survey, 73 percent of all teens used social networks daily. The most popular of these is Facebook; however, Twitter, Myspace and even LinkedIn are not far behind.
And it isn't just teens. The #1 social network for kids under the age of 13 is Club Penguin. It is visited more times each day than the New York Times.. Via Judy O'Connell 
WebQuests are an online tool for learning. According to Bernie Dodge, WebQuest expert, they are a classroom-based lesson in which most or all of the information that students explore and evaluate c... 
"Curators sort through it, find the wheat in the chaff, and present it in a friendly manner” . I would agree with this definition however would also add that a curator would also share their perspective and perhaps alternative ( or supporting) viewpoint using the posts that they have selected.Why curate? Curation provides another offering for your on-line audience. It also helps reduce the noise of the plethora of information on the internet. Cuation also provides a stream of fresh posts for your site or blog. The whole article (link below) is worth the read - and this is certainly a 'future focus' area for information collection. I use Scoopit and have seen a few Paperli pages - but the rest are new to me!
Read more: http://socialmediapearls.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/40-social-media-curation-sites-and-tools/ Via Shirley Williams (XeeMe.com/ShirleyWilliams), Martin Gysler 
Microsoft offers a collections of materials in its Digital Citizenship in Action: A Guide to Education & Events Toolkit. Via Judy O'Connell 
With mobile technologies increasing - value adding as you go will continue to get easier with apps like this! Blurb Mobile is an app for iPhone and iPad that makes it easy to combine images with text and/or voice narration to create multimedia presentations. Via Baiba Svenca 
Guest post by Gregory Ciotti: "As 2011 comes to a close, now is a better time than ever to evaluate your blog, its performance, and most importantly, what you can do to improve your blog in 2012!
None of the suggested actions are really swift - except maybe to remove the clutter from your sidebar - and most of them are very focused on that (apparently) essential drive to get more 'traffic'. I liked the idea of getting people to 'guest post' for you (not the other way with a view to link-backs) and interviewing someone - both of which need some leadin time.
Via Martin Gysler 
Wikis are a great tool to help a school enrich instruction, and increase communication and collaboration among staff. They are also free (for educators using wikispaces) and provide unlimited storage for digital materials including video, screencasts, presentations, pdfs, etc. Via Jim Lerman 
In her post about social media trends in 2012 Beverly Macy says content curation is important because people want to know what's important and they want to discover interesting and relevant content. Via Judy O'Connell 
"See our Top 50 School Library Blogs for great insights and content from school librarians."
One look at the titles of blogs narrated by school librarians reveals the evolution of a profession within an institution that is at a pivotal point. Charged with the vital duty of promoting digital literacy, today’s librarians are daring, unquiet, sassy and definitely e-literate.."
A 7th grade student gives a tour of her personal learning environment. This project was conducted as part of dissertation research implementing the use of ne... Via Bev Novak 
Knovio.com is a free online application in which you can create video or voice presentations. The procedure is really simple. You only have to upload a PowerPoint file and then start recordin... Via Baiba Svenca 
"Social media has helped in making the world turn an imaginary room into one with more friends than you remember. But its future lies not in the size of this room but in how it can be coupled with emerging future technologies. ... the main question for tomorrow is what should we do with all these relationships we have amassed."
We need to establish how - " the best strategies can be incorportated into your own library services."
"Social media is going to be way more than just reading your friends statuses and flipping through pictures but now interacting with more social applications such as games, video messages, augmented reality experiences and so on." Via Judy O'Connell |
The veteran technology commentator argues that a better understanding of how we connect our attention and intentions online can help individuals and society. Via Dennis T OConnor 
“The future is here,” William Gibson once quipped. “It’s just not evenly distributed.” Gibson, the sci-fi writer who coined the term “cyberspace” back in 1982, could easily have been describing the state of technology in today’s K–12 classrooms. CL: The pace and cost of technology are still limiting factors. "Schools were once seen as the place that offered kids better (if not the only) access to computers and the Internet. But with the rise of personal and now mobile computing and the spread of high-speed Internet connections, that’s changed." 
To find out how you are being seen/read out 'there'! Monitor yor mentions. "So I decided to use a free start page which allows you to create private pages as I wanted to limit viewing to staff. I chose Protopage since I’m a big fan of their start pages. I used their Widgets tool to quickly add RSS Feeds of searches I did on various sites and ended up with a great dashboard that is going to let us watch and participate in conversations that are happening across the Web." Via Stephanie Sandifer, Dennis T OConnor Discover: difference in a blog and wiki; educational benefits; using blogs with students; blogs to examine; blog must-reads; blog resources. Posted by mBuckner@clevelandschools.org at 6:33 PM · Email ThisBlogThis! Glanced at a few of these recommendations - and Kevin's in more detail - he's the one I'm going to follow for a while to see where he takes my thinking. @kvnmcl- Primary Teacher, Google Certified Teacher, Apple Distinguished Educator but it's not all about technology. Why We Think They're Great Discussing education from around the world, @kvnmcl is at the top of the game when it comes to education and Twitter. Covering everything from classroom happenings to teaching techniques, @kvnmcl is ideal to follow if you have any interest in education. Via Ken Morrison 
Think you have a pulse on what works in the digital job market? Check your strategy with these helpful tips. Some reminders about promoting yourself and being seen in the global environment. 
One of, if not the, best ways for a book to build buzz and gain new readers is by word of mouth. Readers have a great deal of power deciding what to buy which leads to what bookstores buy which leads to what publishers buy. 
As I have immersed myself in the process, and have seen my own staff and school use this [social media] themselves along with students, I have seen some tremendous changes in their practice. The ease of connection needs a driver and 'safe online practise' in place to and we'll see some amazing sharing taking place between students and schools. Via pgpete 
For a long time, Mobile Internet was a "baby internet" as Steve Jobs called it, the day the iPhone was launched.... And for many of us if not all, our daily routine and social media experience growingly involves mobile: because we move but also because we live and work in a different way than before, being constantly connected. We want to fill these idle moments to do something meaningful: our days are simply to short if we don’t. Via Judy O'Connell 
This is a guest post by Eliza Morgan. " . . . but it also still holds true for anyone; even though you have a nice, cushy job at the moment, there is no guarantee that it will always be there or that your experience alone will get you a new or better one. Whoever you are, blogging can help your career tremendously for a variety of reasons." Via OsakaSaul, Jose H. Flores 
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