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• MediaShift . Who Really Owns Your Photos in Social Media? | PBS

  Who Really Owns Your Photos in Social Media? http://to.pbs.org/mwxPOd via @downes

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• Effective Use of Social Software in Education - link to PDF

  Jisc final report

  tags: social_media higher_education

• Portfolio simulation with social bookmarking in Higher Education - Link to PDF

  The instructional aims of this case study emphasize the use of information technology in learning; the collection, selection, evaluation, and sharing of information; discussions with peers; learning from peer feedback; construction of learning communities; and knowledge construction.

  tags: social_bookmarking higher_education

• Delivering University Curricula: Knowledge, Learning and INnovation Gains — University of Leicester

  Increasing student engagement using podcasts

  tags: pocdcasts teaching learning higher_education

  • The DUCKLING project - funded by JISC - at the University of Leicester develops advanced delivery, presentation and assessment processes to enhance the work-based learning experience for students studying remotely. The project will demonstrate the practical marriage of sound approaches in delivery together with new technologies and work–based pedagogies for learning support, communication and assessment of professional adult learners from commencement to completion of the programme of study.

• Using del.icio.us In Education

  How social book marking can support teaching/learning

  tags: social_bookmarking higher_education teaching learning

  • Editing educational material
  • HOW CAN DEL.ICIO.US SUPPORT TEACHING/LEARNING?
  • Mechanism for informal, formative feedback.
  • Developing content management abilities
  • Support for lectures
  • Mechanism for building learning communities
  • Research.
  • Support for individual or group projects:

• Twitter, Wordle, and ChimeIn as Student Response Pedagogies (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE

  Undergraduate Twitter experiment

  tags: twitter social_media higher_education teaching learning

  • One of the grant's goals was to encourage experimentation that might lead to scalable, sustainable, transformative, technology-enhanced pedagogies that could better serve the entire university community and perhaps the greater education community as well.

• Professors Use Twitter to Increase Student Engagement and Grades | Faculty Focus

  The Impact of Twitter on learning - an experiment. Includes a video "Academic Excellence in 140 Characters".

  tags: social_media twitter higher_education learning teaching

  • In the article The Effect of Twitter on College Student Engagement and Grades, published in November 2010 by the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Junco revealed the findings of the 14-week study by concluding that it “provides the first piece of controlled experimental evidence that using Twitter in educationally relevant ways can increase student engagement and improve grades, and thus, that social media can be used as an educational tool to help students reach desired college outcomes.”

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• BBC - Podcasts - Secret History of Social Networking

  Link to podcasts - Hippies and Hackers (roots of social networking), Friend in High Places (emmergence of Facebook) and Life After Facebook (social networking sites and the future).

  tags: social_media social_networking pod podcasts

• Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory

  tags: learning theory teaching

• Voluntary Sector Network | guardian.co.uk

  Insights, advice and best practice from the community. Includes list of tweets from around the voluntary sector. Offers membership.

  tags: voluntary sector networking

• Diagram.ly – an engaging tool | On an e-Journey with Generation Y

  Example of using Diagramly in the classroom - a free online diagram, mind map and flow chart creator. Highlights features and functions

  tags: tools edtech classroom_example

• The Educator's PLN - The personal learning network for educators

  Active and open Ning for educators. Includes Twitter Edchat content, podcasts and videos.

  tags: PLN education

• 5 Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) for Educators | MindShift

  List of existing PLNs for educators.

  tags: PLN education

• How do I promote student reflection and critical thinking

  Theory to implementation guide - details characteristics of environments and activities to support reflection. How to promt reflection in teenagers. Related links and bibliography.

  tags: reflection critical_thinking

• Do We Have Too Many Filters, Or Not Enough? Tech News and Analysis

  Search filters and the risks of hyper customisation: Single view personalised world; online “echo chambers”, serendipity problem.

  tags: filters data_mining datagathering crap_detection

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