social networking
Together Everyone Achieves More: A Team Approach to Student Support
Are social networks making students more narcissistic?
Is it narcissism or "a celebration of individuality"? USA TODAY discusses the results of a recent social networking survey administered to college students.
Taking Notes Beyond the Classroom
Open source note sharing programs continue to grow in popularity for college courses. Starting with MIT's OpenCourseWare in 2001, it continues to gain momentun, despite the controversy surrounding it.
Inside Higher Ed article, Taking Notes Beyond the Classroom, talks about the "questionable factuality," the blurred lines between cheating vs.
sharing, and the rights of professors' intellectual property.
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Beyond Students: Staff use of social networking applications for student services
Time for our talk: 2:00, Salon 17–18. Room holds ~120 and we are about ¾ full.
Good crowd, characterized as many administrators, then tech people and service providers. Even a few faculty. Other questions: Who is convinced that SN has a place in higher education? Pretty much all hands went up. None went up on the flip side of who needs to be convinced?
Phillip got a good response from “How many people are familiar with Twitter? How many are using Twitter? How many are tweeting right now? (Be kind!)” read more »
Mashable talks Higher Education 2.0
Resources for Noel Levitz Presentation - Beyond Students
Beyond Students: Staff Use
of Social Networking Applications for Student Services
July 21, 2009
Holly Rae Bemis-Schurtz
Phillip Johnson
Melody Munson - Mc Gee
Key Assumptions
As our students, thier knowledge, and their needs continue to change, we must continue to seek effective ways to meet their needs. read more »
Online Support
Correia, M. G., & Bleicher, R. E.
(2008).
Making Connections to Teach Reflection.
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning.
14(2), 41-49. read more »
How Social Networking Affects the Student Life Cycle -- From Applicant to Graduate
At last week's The Chronicle's Technology Forum, the talk centered around the how "technology is reshapping college admissions." Beyond just the 'admissions' into college, tools like Twitter and Facebook are completely reshapping the way colleges communicate with students (current and prospective) and alumni. read more »
Social Media for Recruitment and Student Support
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Professor Encourages Students to Pass Notes During Class -- via Twitter
The director of education-technology services at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, Cole W. Camplese, says that by allowing and encouraging his students to 'tweet' during class adds an "additional layer of communication...[which hopefully] will disrupt the old classroom model and allow new kinds of teaching in which students play a greater role and information is pulled in from outside the classroom walls." read more »
