Tag: Social Media
Jumo, The Selfless Social Network, Officially Launches
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It’s been months in the making and it’s finally here. Jumo, the social network designed to connect you with benevolent causes, has officially launched the beta version as of a few minutes ago. If you’re part of...
How To Land Hard-To-Find Social Media & Education Jobs
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If you're into social media, education, and awesome things then you're in luck! Edudemic is proud to announce a brand new way to find a job. Not just any jobs mind you. These aren't Monster.com or Careerbuilder jobs. ...
How To Land Hard-To-Find Social Media & Education Jobs
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If you're into social media, education, and awesome things then you're in luck! Edudemic is proud to announce a brand new way to find a job. Not just any jobs mind you. These aren't Monster.com or Careerbuilder jobs. ...
PSA: Social Media Will Ruin Your Life
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If you're like me, you use social media on a daily basis. Sure it's great to connect with other people, keep tabs on friends (and enemies), and even occupy your time when bored. But what about the negative effect it h...
Harvard’s Must-Have Guide To Social Media
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If you're trying to explain what social media is, how it influences the world, or simply want to see a spectacular prezi presentation, look no further. Nicholas Lamphere of the @HarvardSocial (as seen on Edudemic m...
Too Soon? Teacher BANS Pens and Pencils From School
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Wendy Scott, a teacher of at North Brookfield Elementary School in Massachusetts, tried to ban pencils and pens in her classroom for fear that they could be used as weapons. While I'm sure many of us in academia ...
Introducing A Nifty Way To Ask, Answer, and Rate Your Best Education Questions
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There's a tremendous amount of information being passed around the Internet. Whether it's through social media, social networks, e-mail, instant messaging, or social sharing sites... it's hard to keep track of everything. In terms of education, it's even hard to keep track of some of the best answers to the weekly #edchat questions.
That's why I thought it might be fun to develop a question and answer site that lets anyone ask and answer a question but to also vote up and down the best and worst answers. It's like Digg meets Twitter! It's part of EDUdemic and it's called EDUforum.
HowRandom Lets Students Anonymously Chat For Better Or Worse
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Get ready for a whole new way for students to get in trouble. Bringing back the days of the DailyJolt chat rooms, there's a new website being rolled out today that is aiming to make social networking a lot more anonymous. It's called HowRandom and is a simply chatroom where someone with a .edu e-mail address can go and represent their school online. There's very little authentication other than someone having a .edu address. There’s no photo uploading, file sharing or video capabilities, just a text entry line and a chat widget.
Twitter Just Made It Easier To Expand Your Social Network
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It's not easy to consistently find new and interesting people to follow on Twitter. Luckily, Twitter feels your pain. They just rolled out a new "People" tab that is on the top of your screen on Twitter.com. The n...
How To Get Early Access To ‘Skype Education’ Right Now
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Attention early adopter teachers! Did you know Skype is rolling out an education-centric version of their videoconferencing software? The hot new service is now accepting pre-registrations so be sure to hop over there immediately. It's free and could be the beginning of something big for distance education around the world.
Ning Finally Offers Social Network Sign-Ins
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It's about time. Ning is partnering with user management platform for the social web Janrain to offer Ning Creators the ability to add social login and invite friends features to their members Ning will offer c...
Professor Actually Loses Weight By Eating Only Twinkies, Junk Food
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Twinkies. Nutty bars. Powdered donuts. For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets every three hours, instead of meals. To add variety...
25 Important Twitter Guides and Apps For Teachers
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Diving into a rich and overwhelming social network like Twitter can be difficult. I know of many teachers and academic-minded people who are still unsure about the merits of the tool or are simply unsure where to start. The following 10 (+1 bonus!) beginner's guides to Twitter each do a tremendous job at informing without confusing.
If you're not new to Twitter and just want to take a refresher course in why you actually joined the network in the first place, you may want to check out any one of these guides. After all, it can't hurt to check out the 'Twitter Etiquette' guide from time to time :-)
TV vs. Social Media: Who Swears More?
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It's not polite to swear. In fact, you can get in deep doo-doo if you swear in school depending on certain factors. But what about swearing while on social media? Some places' Twitter and Facebook accounts actually ba...
The 'Facebook Web Browser' Has Launched
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If Facebook or Twitter were to build a Web browser, they'd make it like this. Rather than wait for that to happen, a startup company went ahead and built their own browser that has some interesting features. It's cal...
The ‘Facebook Web Browser’ Has Launched
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If Facebook or Twitter were to build a Web browser, they'd make it like this. Rather than wait for that to happen, a startup company went ahead and built their own browser that has some interesting features. It's cal...
