Edudemic

Do you ever wonder how schools, universities, colleges, and large groups in general should use social media? Students are often early adopters, frequent users, and overall lovers of technology and social media. Want to help? I'm always looking for fun, creative, and exciting writers to get featured. Get in touch with me at edudemic@gmail.com!

Above all else, TeachThought is interested in supporting the innovation of the learning process–not simply how we learn, but our reasons for learning. It is our position that all learning should result in substantive personal and social change. Our ideas are heavily influenced from a wide variety of thinkers, from Wendell Berry to Edward Wilson, David Hume to Henry David Thoreau, Jean Paul Sarte to Jeremy Bentham, Bena Kallick to Art Costa, Ken Robinson to Daniel Pink, Maria Popova to Grant Wiggins–and countless souls in between. This concept includes, among other ideas, the relationship between culture, communities, and the institutions and curriculum purported to serve them, as well as emerging technology (including, critically, social media). TeachThought was founded by Terry Heick, teacher, educator, and author. After a successful experience in the public education classroom where he forged strong relationships with learners, developed building-wide Literacy Plans, acted as chairperson of the Literacy Committee and Curriculum and Instruction Committee, and developed a cloud-based learning portal for PLC members to seamlessly share data, Terry went on to publish three books, present at the 2010 and 2011 Global Education Conference, and now works with other educators globally to support the innovation of the learning process in the face of staggering technological change. A digital essay of supporting (and admittedly fragmented) ideas can be found here. Terry’s current edu-resume can be found here, while his Amazon Author Page can be found here.

After fifteen years in Corporate America (eight of those years as a trainer), Heather decided to pursue her dream of becoming a teacher. With an MAT in hand from USC (Trojans, fight on!), Heather is now working in the public schools of multiple districts in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania. Heather is self-taught in the technology area, using her assignments as a trainer as an opportunity to scour the Internet and pick the brains of subject matter experts to find the best ways to train her fellow employees. As a student teacher, Heather took full advantage of her time in the classroom to learn about the hardware and software available to teachers and even introduced her colleagues to resources she found in her other career. Now, Heather wants to explore and promote the use of social media in the classroom, school, and district, as she believes that social media promotes community, collaboration, and cooperation among the digital natives - the young adults today. One of her favorite digital natives is her son, Lucas, with whom she enjoys sharing the title "gadget geek" in her household.

Some people call me Ted Occupation: Instructional Technology Employment: Burlington Public Schools, Instructional Technology, Edutopia Education: Eastern University, University of Miami, Villanova University

Alex is a recent graduate from the University of Arkansas (SOOOIE! Go hogs!) and when he's not working to pay the bills, he is foraying into the field of freelance writing. Advertising in trade, a poet in heart, and in reality meeting somewhere in the middle, Alex feels that no matter what you are trying to accomplish, it is certainly worth studying for.

Tanya Gupta has worked on technology and development for the World Bank’s Latin America and the Caribbean Region, and is now working in the Bank's Corporate Finance and Risk Management unit as Senior Resource Management Officer.

Donald Lipham has been on online educator for the past five years, and a brick and mortar educator for over 10 years prior to the integration. With all of the updates and developments both in course development and the integration of social media he tries to stay abreast of the current events on his blog: http://donaldlipham.blogspot.com/

I love LIFE! I am almost done with my Bachelor's at BYU and it's pretty nerve-racking, I am going to be out in the world...on my own!

Elena Vakhromova is a software enthusiast and social media marketing specialist. She writes about popular multimedia apps and takes an active part in their promotion in social media. The last contribution was for YouTube Converter from Freemake.com.

The Internet and networked technologies are changing the ways we learn and how we experience our society. I am interested in studying how media and technology can empower (or possibly disempower) us as students in the networked world. My professional and academic research interests include media literacy, online social spaces, Web/participatory culture, and leadership in higher education IT.

John Lewis works at PriceCollate. You can checkout the blog of website here.

Melissa Spears is a researcher of distance learning. In this content, she focuses on the blend of education with technology in the distance learning courses, which is offering the students a better platform of establishment.

Director of Instructional Technology, Science Department Head, Physics teacher, Physics consultant

My name is Chris Christensen and I am Dad to Emily, Caleb, Noah, and Sophie and husband to the beautiful Kelly (@kellymarie143). I’m also the Technology Director at Addison Community Schools where I have served for the past 4 years. My technology background has taken me from Real Estate to Pharmaceuticals to Education. My passion is making technology more accessible for those that I come in contact with. I’m also an avid runner and Cross Country Coach at Addison. If you are interested in hearing about my running adventures you can head over to http://christensen143.tumblr.com. Find me elsewhere on the web: Twitter: @christensen143 Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/106502143182649776009 Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/christensen143

Network and Communication Specialist for a school district in Central Texas.

Andrew Brusnahan is a freelance writer who, actually, is a full time student himself. He enjoys making the school year a lot easier for other students through his writing. If you would like Andrew to write for you, contact him at abrusnahan@yahoo.com.

I am a passionate blogger and interested in reviewing Mobile applications and I love contributing reviews for websites.

Dr. Dennis A. Trinkle became the first provost and chief academic officer of Harrison College on August 17, 2009. Prior to coming to Harrison College, Dr. Trinkle most recently served as executive director of IHETS, a consortium of Indiana’s higher education institutions, state government agencies, public libraries, public broadcast stations and K-12 schools. Under his leadership, IHETS evolved from a low-impact organization to one with broad national reach and double-digit revenue growth. For his efforts at IHETS, Junior Achievement of Central Indiana recognized Dr. Trinkle as one of Indiana’s 100 Best and Brightest. Dr. Trinkle has held numerous leadership and faculty positions at DePauw University, Valparaiso University, the University of Cincinnati and the University of Indianapolis. He also has led information technology, marketing and venture capital enterprises in Indiana and Ohio.

Jason Warner joined the Cape Town Quirk office as an Education intern late in 2010. Jason naturally gravitated towards a life online after spending many hours on his dad’s computer playing Duke Nukem 3D and he has found himself behind some screen or other ever since. Growing up, Jason wanted to be an astronaut, but he got a little side tracked and ended up studying Journalism instead. He is quite opinionated about current affairs and if he could change just one thing in the world it would be to get rid of lazy people. He would describe his personal motto as being that hard work pays off.

I work, write and tweet for Classroom Aid, we like to help connecting dots to find out what works in teaching and learning. Always learning how to learn in old and new ways. Looking forward to changing education era through technologies and connected minds around the world.

So often, teachers know there are cool tools available; however, many sites and resources fail because they never explain the application for education. Teachers need to know 'how' these tools fit in their existing structure. I'm a teacher and an edtech blogger. My site: http://www.kleinspiration.com

Andrew Clark is the CEO of Bridgepoint Education. He will be a featured speaker on technology’s effects on the landscape of higher education at the HigherEdTECH Summit of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 11, 2012.