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When you’re as big as Facebook, even the smallest misstep can become a massive failure. Remember Facebook Lite? What about the privacy debacle or Facebook Gifts? Each one of these things caused global outrage and have likely slowly slipped out of our memory. Until now.
While use of social networking services in education have been hindered by concerns about how teachers can connect with students without having to worry about privacy issues, Google+ keeps privacy intact. Once teachers know this, they can take the next step to integrating some of Google+’s features into their classrooms.
Contrary to previous research, Facebook usage is not tied to low grades, a new study says. In fact, many students who use Facebook in a particular way actually get higher grades.
Everyone’s ideas seem obvious to them. So much so that you may not think your idea or thought is not worthy of sharing. In fact, this may happen to you every day: you come up with an idea but then think ‘well I’m sure everyone else already know this” so you don’t mention your creative idea to anyone. That’s a problem.
We should ask ourselves if things are moving too quickly to accommodate the variety of needs and learning environments of today’s students. Is there a middle ground between the simplicity of long ago and the powerful presence of technology in our schools today?
Have you ever walked into your classroom, home or apartment and thought ‘I wish there was some way to really show guests how obsessed with technology I am.’ (As if the tablets, laptops, phones, TVs and other gadgets didn’t give it away.)
The Adobe MAX Education Summit has been chock-full of inspirational ideas and exciting real-world technology. In an effort to bring you extensive coverage of the event, I thought it might be helpful to share some of the stand-out quotes from the Adobe executives and guest speakers.
Just how wealthy are Twitter users? How many Twitter users log in every day? How many accounts are inactive? All those questions and more than a few others are answered in a new Mashable Infographic that details the visual history of Twitter.
We’re faced with a serious problem. And acknowledging it shouldn’t depend on one’s political leanings or personal philosophy.
Delicious has been reborn into a lean and sleek social bookmarking service that I love. Will you? The new owners sure hope so.
Facebook’s big announcement about its newest design is only a few hours old. Love it or hate it, you probably want to at least check it out to see what it looks like. Lucky for you, you can activate it right now. It’s risky though.
Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Facebook’s f8 developer’s conference to unveil a totally new kind of profile. Although now it’s actually called a Timeline.
There are thousands of inspirational and educational videos on YouTube right now. Many are perfect for your classroom. Knowing this, YouTube has created a new site that curates these videos and organizes them into an easier-to-find system that’s perfect for teachers.
So there’s a new design to the Facebook News Feed. There are new features and an omnipresent blue bar on the top now. Cue the outrage. Most people, ironically, take to Facebook to voice their frustration. I don’t know about you, but I find that particularly hilarious.
It’s a Tuesday so that must mean it’s time for Facebook to make a change. The social network just announced a few changes that will be noticeable at some point tonight in your news feed.
Schools are pretty slow to adopt technology. That much has been established on Edudemic over the past few months. But why?
Klout has unveiled a new feature: topic pages. Think of it as a list of the top influencers about almost any topic. From education to social media to technology to, well, anything…it’s a great new tool to find influential people to follow online.
Have you ever wanted to text your students their homework assignments? How about have a private discussion about a particular book / assignment that only your classroom could see? That’s the idea behind a new resource that’s being touted as a ‘Twitter for teachers.’
Twitter seems to be here to stay. As one of the most popular ways for teachers, students, and the general public to communicate, it’s becoming a must-have tool in almost every teacher’s toolbox.
Schools are often at the forefront of intellectual thought, but they have sometimes been known to lag behind the rest of society when it comes to learning and adopting new technologies. Such has certainly been the case with social media technologies.