English: Graph of social media activities (Photo credit: Wikipedia)English: A protester holding a placard in Tahrir Square referring to Facebook and Twitter, acknowledging the role played by social media during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
For those raised in the information age, life without the internet is no life at all. It is often a primary focus of a teen’s day (75% of teens are online several times per day) and an important means by which they communicate with the world and take in new information. While information can be found in various sources across the internet, an overwhelming majority of teens and pre-teens tend to gather their information from social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
A 2015 report by the Media Insights Project found that the majority of surveyed Millennials (aged 18-34) cited Facebook as their sole or primary source of key news and other information.
Unfortunately, Facebook is not known as a credible source for news. The recent outbreak of “fake news” has hit social media sites particularly hard, as these types of platforms are set up to propagate information at record speed regardless of source or content. In addition, teens are particularly bad at discriminating between real and fake news. According to a recent study out of Stanford, 82% of surveyed middle-schoolers couldn’t distinguish between ads and real news on a website, highlighting the need to teach students media literacy and proper research skills.
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English: Infographic on how Social Media are being used, and how everything is changed by them. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
If social media marketing is all about creating powerful, cost-effective method for connecting your brand or company with your customers, why are so many social media analytics platforms and tools so expensive? The price tags for some professional-level social media dashboard systems alone can add hundreds of dollars a month to even the most humble marketing campaigns. What gives?
The reality is that most individuals, small businesses and mid-size brands don’t need the high-powered, enterprise-level tools the big guys use. In fact, many of the best tools and platforms are available for free.
Take a look at the 15 best free social media dashboards and tools that can be used for free, and you just might become top banana in social media marketing.
There are a couple dozen ways to ‘use’ technology in education. There are also a couple dozen ways to integrate technology in education. Think those two things are the same? Think that throwing a few iPads and a few Edudemic blog posts into a classroom is the best way to launch a 1:1 initiative? In case you couldn’t guess, it’s not. So here’s a hypothetical to clear up my rhetorical questions even more:
Should teachers use social media? What are the best practices for flipped classrooms? How are educators in other countries using computers and networks?
These were but a few of the 400 session topics at the 68th annual meeting of the ASCD this past weekend in Chicago, where technology‘s impact on teachers, students and institutions dominated much of the discussion. This year, the nonprofit’s three-day conference and exhibit drew more than 10,000 educators and administrators, as well as hundreds of vendors.
But technology isn’t a panacea, said ASCD speakers and attendees.
“We must think through how to help students use technology as a tool rather than having that tool rule our lives,” Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland, declared during his keynote in the first general session Saturday. Rather than focus on tech skills per se, Hrabowski said, “the key skill every student should have coming to college, other than reading, is the ability to ask good questions.”
Image via CrunchBasePosterous API: We’re a direct replacement for TwitPicPosted by Sachin Agarwal to The Official Posterous PosterousThe Posterous API is a direct replacement for the TwitPic API used indesktop twitter clients and iPhone applicatio…
Posted by Sachin Agarwal to The Official Posterous Posterous
The Posterous API is a direct replacement for the TwitPic API used in desktop twitter clients and iPhone applications. It lets you upload photos to your Posterous site using just Twitter credentials.
Except it’s better. We allow you to upload multiple photos and you get an image gallery. We offer the full size download of the image, or a zip file of multiple images. It posts to *your* Posterous site, which may have a custom domain and Google Analytics. And we autopost not just to Twitter, but also Facebook, Flickr, and many blogs. Oh, and TwitPic is down all the time. That’s no fun.
Michael Arrington, Guy Kawasaki, and Rainn Wilson all use Posterous in place of Twitpic. They email photos to Posterous, and we update their Twitter and Facebook accounts. We’re extending this to the desktop and iPhone apps with this API.
Coming soon: support for audio, video, and other files. We can handle it all.
If you use a Twitter client that has TwitPic support, email them and let them know they can add Posterous support today! We use all the same methods, responses and errors, so integration should be a breeze.
API documentation can be found here.
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Image via CrunchBaseNow this might be useful. Create the e-mail, post to posterous andthen have it forwarded to all my sites. That could be worth using. Posted via email from tonygurney’s posterous Related articles by Zemanta Using Zemanta with Po…
Now this might be useful. Create the e-mail, post to posterous and then have it forwarded to all my sites. That could be worth using. Related articles by Zemanta
Image via CrunchBaseInteresting post over at ZDNet regarding Twitter in education.More than the content of the post I think it’s useful in reminding practitioners (and IT managers) that technology is not, in and of itself, good or bad, it’s how we…
Interesting post over at ZDNet regarding Twitter in education.
More than the content of the post I think it’s useful in reminding practitioners (and IT managers) that technology is not, in and of itself, good or bad, it’s how we use it.
If Twitter can be used to take a quick poll of students without installing any fancy software – why not?
Look, Ma! Twitter’s useful! | Education IT | ZDNet.com
