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Overcoming Hurdles to Social Media in Education

April 1, 2013

Key Takeaways According to a recent study, 100 percent of colleges and universities surveyed use social media , but instructors use it far less for teaching than they do for per…

Bucknell University Social Media Guidelines

April 26, 2012

These guidelines are intended to help Bucknell University faculty and staff who create and manage social media presences as University representatives, either as individual professionals or on be…

A Dialogue for Engagement

October 7, 2010

© 2010 Malcolm Brown, Mark Auslander, Kelly Gredone, David Green, Bruce Hull, and Walt Jacobs. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs …

7 Things You Should Know About Backchannel Communication

February 9, 2010

Backchannel communication is a secondary conversation that takes place at the same time as a conference session, lecture, or instructor-led learning activity. This might involve students using a …

Twitter Symbiosis: A Librarian, a Hashtag, and a First-Year Seminar (Innovative Practice)

January 19, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010

Tweeting in the classroom has started to take off, with some notable examples such as Monica Rankin's history class experiment at UT-Dallas and Cole W. Camplese's classroom backchannel at…

Text Generation

January 8, 2010

Will the decision of many college libraries to encourage students to text queries from their phones cheapen the research process, or rescue it? …

Horton Hears a Tweet

December 22, 2009

By Joanna C. Dunlap and Patrick R. Lowenthal Learning takes place in a social context, and encouraging student-student and student-faculty contact and interaction gets at the heart of s…

The Social Media Maze

October 9, 2009

Colleges are eager to leverage Facebook and Twitter to boost recruiting and fund raising, but many still don't have a coherent strategy for how to do it. …

Learning Management Technologies: Enterprise System or Consumer Good?

November 5, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference

This session will compare and contrast approaches in the use of learning management technologies in higher education: an enterprise model where a learning management system is centrally provided ve…

7 Things You Should Know About Microblogging

July 7, 2009

Microblogging is the practice of posting small pieces of digital content—which could be text, pictures, links, short videos, or other media—on the Internet. Microblogging offers a portable co…