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My eyes have been opened on how important it is that we help our students establish good digital footprints. We as educators have to prepare our students for a digitally social world, one that can no longer be ignored or we will simply be doing them a disservice. My digital footprint mattered. It helped me to become a finalist for a position that, in the past, I would never have even been considered for. 
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Peer assessment may lead to better learning outcomes. In his Human Computer Interface course, Scott Klemmer of th HCI Group found that students can be put to work reviewing their cohorts.
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Social media posts and videos are cropping up in academic publications more and more. This chart shows just how to cite social media with ease. Via John Evans
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Through the focused deployment of evolving social technologies, Going On enriches the academic life by providing a private, secure academic engagement network where student, faculty and broader constituents can connect, collaborate and learn in...
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via The Guardian Two academics discuss the pros and cons of using Twitter as a learning tool to encourage instinctive thinking in higher education
At the end of 2011, a few geeks in Sweden set up the Swedish Twitter University, which brought lectures in a series of tweets to a class of around 500 followers. It may have been the first time Twitter was used to deliver higher education, and given recent debate about massive open online courses (MOOCs), it seems apt that we reflect on what Twitter might do to transform the classroom and open up a new space for public education?
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Blackboard Learn's social learning tools enable you to connect, communicate, and collaborate with a global learning network of Blackboard Learn users.
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Social media and digital learning environments are now combined. As part of the MOOC experience, students are requested to join debates and course’s topics on social networks, such as Facebook, Twi... Via Dr. Susan Bainbridge
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As a final observation: I have learnt that the immediacy and range of digital publishing is a feature that no academic should discount. If you want your research findings and ideas to stay behind paywalls, accessed largely only by the relatively small number of academics in your field, and wait for months or even years for even these readers to be able to do so while your material proceeds through the publication process, then avoid using social and other digital forms of publishing. If you would like to see your findings and ideas instantly available to a wide range of readers, then using digital media is the way to go.
Helen Pallett's curator insight,
October 8, 2013 9:21 AM
Thoughts from another early career researcher
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Community, more than any other factor, will transform the role of leaders and influence the development of workplace culture. The power of online learning communities is more visible in lean-running start-ups where skills must shift quickly, but I think their effect will be more profound in established companies on a global scale.
Candice Kramer's curator insight,
December 30, 2012 8:46 PM
, as soon as they stop seeing it as one-way communication.... 
AlGonzalezinfo's curator insight,
January 5, 2013 11:54 AM
"Online learning social communities exist which cater to all learning styles, all skill sets and personalities, native abilities and educational needs.
Available to employees on-demand as well as via mobile devices and tablets, online learning communities remove barriers dear to the hearts of brick-and-mortar universities and companies."
~I completey agree!
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"These platforms are all evolving towards a more traditional broadcast media model, because it's more palatable to late adopters and because that's the environment in which brands know how to communicate and, more importantly, spend."...
...brands (you know, the $$$) don’t know how to join small group conversations. They do, however, know how to shout at large groups of passive media consumers.
Kim Flintoff's insight:
Another exercise in co-opting more of the "public sphere" as marketing land... typically a colonising exercise... think of early-adopters as the explorers and pathfinders... the late comers are the colonists wanting to overlay their comfortable complacency on the new landcape... why does this still happen??
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First the medical centre changed our relationship with the local GP, now it's the internet.
'Consumers can make informed decisions about who they will see, and can decide if it is even in their best interest to see someone at all,'' she says.
''The health sector needs to grasp this and, slowly, it is. Just this week an app was launched that allows people to go online, search for a doctor and have a Skype consultation with them. Some people just need a quick consult or a script filled.''
Kim Flintoff's insight:
This sort of development radically transforms the existing servcie delivery and professional coinsultation moidels for health prpofessionals and needs to be reflected in both undergraduate/postgraduate education and ongoing professional education.
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It’ll come as no surprise that this approach has numerous applications. For example, using sensor groups to monitor public mood could give important insight into factors that influence economic growth, elections and even political revolutions.
Public health monitoring may also be an important application. “Google or other companies that monitor flu-related search terms might be able to get high-quality, real-time information about a real-world epidemic with greater lead time, giving public health officials even more time to plan a response,” say Garcia-Herranz and co.
In other world, your friends could act as an early warning system, not just for gossip, but for civil unrest and even outbreaks of disease.
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LocaModa is a place-based social media company. LocaModa uses Social media as a way of building value inside of digital place-based advertising networks and signage platforms. LocaModa is licensed by the worlds largest and most well respected networks. These networks use LocaModa to turn their media communication into interactive dialogues, as well as monetize this value in the form of LocaModa advertising revenue.
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Be gone, irritating chain email about a fake virus scare that your head of HR sent out! Away, pictures of a random offsite meeting that no one actually cares about!
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This infographic provides a visual guide and a brief synopsis of different uses for Twitter. It includes information about how Twitter can be used as a tool for information, customer service, networking, business management and website management. Via Lauren Moss
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Accuracy is fundamental to journalism, but it’s a challenge to verify information when it flows at digital warp speed from so many sources. This presentation Via Robin Good, Kim Flintoff
Joitske Hulsebosch's curator insight,
May 9, 2013 4:19 AM
Useful tips on how to evaluate information on the internet - mostly from a news verification perspective but can be useful in other situations as well 
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
May 9, 2013 5:09 AM
Some useful tips on how to rebalance the Timeliness vs. Accuracy and Quality equation for information dissemination. A must-read for any user of social media! 
Ruveanna Hambrick's curator insight,
October 2, 2014 10:30 AM
This is a good source for knowing how to "crap detect" not only for news websites and blog posts but also for social media claims as well.
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Before the advent of Twitter, most educators I know had limited opportunities to collaborate with colleagues outside their building. Some subscribed to listservs or participated in online forums, but these outlets lacked critical mass; teachers also networked at in-person conferences and training sessions, but these isolated events didn't provide ongoing support.
Enter Twitter. I've heard many educators say that Twitter is the most effective way to collaborate and that they've learned more with Twitter than they have from years of formal professional development. Via Steven Engravalle
Ruth Vilmi's curator insight,
April 16, 2013 6:09 AM
I've made many more meaningful contacts through LinkedIn and Facebook. 
Andreas Kuswara's curator insight,
April 17, 2013 9:22 PM
twitter alone might not be sufficient, as we (or most of us) not 'always online', we have to do other things. combining twitter with a mechanism to comb through the # and compile personalized feed, would be useful. 
Catherine Smyth's comment,
April 23, 2013 9:20 PM
I'm a fledgling tweeter but love the way Twitter ignites discussion and ideas within a professional community.
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With the support of an Ontario College and University Library Association’s New Librarian Residency Award, in September 2011, Eva Stepanian became the Social Media Librarian, tasked with developing and implementing a social media strategy for the library, as well as creating tools to measure the impact of the project.
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For the past several years, Pearson has been researching faculty use of social media. Pearson's collaboration with other thought leaders, including Babson Survey Research Group and Converseon, is one of the ways we're gaining that understanding. As a reflection of our commitment to sharing our knowledge with the higher education community, the following pages contain the findings of our most recent social media survey.
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Mobile and social apps can address a range of instructional challenges, if faculty can be persuaded to adopt them.
Is using an app (like Passport) to provide badges--as additional evidence of learning beyond a letter grade in a course--helpful mainly to employers?
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If compared to the majority of businesses out there, universities and colleges have an advantage when it comes to social media: the student community.
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The dominant story in higher education for 2012 was clearly the rise of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), particularly the xMOOCs such as Coursera, Udacity, and edX. There has been a lot of deba...
Kim Flintoff's insight:
More and more MOOCs appear to be the wolf in sheep's clothing. The social media impetus that drove the creation of the early MOOC has been co-opted by the establishment and gutted. Disembowelled , the xMOOC is a hollow shell of a system espousing quality education but never intending to delivery on those expectations.
Kim Flintoff's curator insight,
December 20, 2012 9:11 PM
More and more xMOOCs appear to be the wolf in sheep's clothing. The social media impetus that drove the creation of the early MOOC has been co-opted by the establishment and gutted. Disembowelled , the xMOOC is a hollow shell of a system espousing quality education but never intending to delivery on those expectations.
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Social media has become an essential part of most people’s everyday lives, from checking Facebook and Twitter to posting blogs, Pinterest listings, and uploading YouTube videos. However, and with smartphones making it easier than ever to spend time on social media networks, in what ways can these networks be leveraged to engage and build a foundation for future student learning? While the potential of distraction is there, the right social media teaching strategies can lead to creative learning, and a productive approach to making social media part of ongoing professional development.
Read more, a MUST:
Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Gust MEES, Lynnette Van Dyke, Kim Flintoff
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Recently, Kaplan Test Prep released data from a survey showing how college admissions officers check applicant profiles in order to make admissions decisions. This isn’t a new phenomenon: since 200...
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