Tag: social networking
My 10 Favorite Learnist Boards Built By Teachers
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When you're perusing Learnist, you come across great things. I wanted to provide a little guidance and share my favorite Learnist boards by teachers.
Squag: A Social Network All About Autism
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Squag is a social networking platform specifically for tweens and teens on the autism spectrum.
COMING SOON: Edudemic Promoting Innovation Through Google+
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At Edudemic, one of our goals is to support learning innovation, and through Google+, we’re set to offer interviews, panel discussions, and content-specific sessions.
5 New Social Networks You Should Know About
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It's a verdant time for social media. Sites are popping up all over the place with innovative alternatives to Internet networking. Whether you're looking to build and protect your reputation, or just get recommendatio...
How Many Teachers Use LinkedIn? The Official Answer Is In.
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LinkedIn is huge with teachers and education professionals. According to today's release from the social network, there are now more than 100 Million users on LinkedIn. Just how many of those are teachers? Turns out a LOT.
The Big Change To Facebook's Like Button
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There's always been a nice option on most websites to either 'Like' an article or 'Share' an article via Facebook. When you liked something, it showed up as a smaller link in your feed. But when you shared something, ...
New Social Networking Platform For Teachers Mixes Google Docs, Ning, Twitter, and Facebook
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You can't swing a tweet these days without hitting a new social networking site. Most are not great but there are a select few that you should keep your eye on. Diipo.com (no relation to Diigo as far as I can tell) i...
Google Wave Cancelled.
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So much for incorporating Google Wave into the classroom. In fact, you won't really be able to use it anywhere. Google has just announced that they are abandoning the project but will leave the code available for open...
Meet The Parents
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[caption id="attachment_4140" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="CC Image from erica_marshall via Flickr"][/caption] Last week on #edchat we discussed the myths of social media and how it gets a bad reputation. T...
For Student Eyes Only: Newest Social Network Creates Secure Online Classroom
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Many teachers and higher ed administrators across the globe rely on Facebook, Ning, blogs, and chat rooms to have an interactive online classroom session. The biggest problem? None of these options are specifically ta...
Why Today's Students Are The Smartest Ever (And Wired Differently)
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According to Don Tapscott, author of Grown Up Digital, today's students are the smartest ever. In the video below, he discusses how students, or the 'net generation,' are growing up digitally and are having their bra...
72 Slides Prove Why Twitter Is Not Very Social
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Don't put all your communication eggs in one basket. At least make sure that one basket isn't Twitter. According to a new study by a group of researchers at Korea's Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Twitt...
NYU Students Building New Secure Social Network, Focusing On Privacy
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It doesn't want to be the new facebook. Heck, the new social networking platform currently under development at NYU has one goal: security. Four students at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sci...
UNH Study: Social Networking Does NOT Hurt Your GPA
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Think all that time spent on facebook is hurting your or your child's GPA? Think again. According to a report by the University of New Hampshire, social networking has no effect on GPA. However, this may be because at...
How To Make Going To Class Exciting With Foursquare
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Whether you're a teacher, student, or administrator, it just got a lot more fun to go to class. Foursquare, the quickly growing social network that lets you 'check-in' to places and get badges and see who else is ther...
