Tag Archives: social media

Social Media, Digistraction*, To-Do-Lists and Creativity …

16. April 2010 – 10:10

Although this takes another ten minutes from my due tasks I scheduled for today I cannot resist to blog this entry from “Mashable- the Social Media Guide”. Scott Belsky has interviewed and studied a number of networking people to find out how they can still sustain their productivity while at the same time being active in facebook, twitter, blogging etc…..  Does this ring a bell with you ;-) ….

Digistraction is my word for digital distraction ;-)

My decision for this weekend is clear: I will try to follow his advice, start with 2 lists and try to get some pending work done. Will report on twitter tonight whether I succeeded ;-)

Here is the blog entry:

http://mashable.com/2010/04/15/reduce-social-media-distractions/

5 Ways to Reduce Social Media Distractions and Be More Productive via kwout

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Walls and fences for Social Software in schools

21. September 2009 – 11:14

The other day I wrote a blog entry about a digitally organized teacher – René Scheppler and the same day linked to an article of Stuttgarter Zeitung where I had given an interview on the reluctance and problems of using social media in schools. Today I came across an article on how  administration and principals are blocking the use of social media. As this article is in English I put the blog entry in my “internatioinal” blog ;-)

http://www.mguhlin.org/2009/09/social-media-blocked-by-school-culture.html

Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Social Media Blocked by School Culture via kwout

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Yes, we can! Generation YES!

18. September 2009 – 12:40

Free Resources from Generation YES

We are happy to provide these resources to help you empower students to improve technology use in their own schools. The resources on this page are all free, based on lessons learned in our years of working with K-12 schools around the world building successful student-centered, student-led technology programs. Please use, print, and share with colleagues. We ask that you not modify them, sell them, remove our name or copyrights, or use parts without attributing us. Other than that, we hope you link to them, download them, share them, and let us know if they were helpful!

What you’ll find on this page:

And here is an excellent presentation by Sylvia Martinez:

“Into the Next Dimension of Classroom Technology Integration” :

This session focuses on free and inexpensive software and engaging web sites that can be easily incorporated into lessons on language arts, social studies, and math in K-12 classrooms. Emphasis will be on resources that encourage constructive teaching and project-based learning, including blogs, podcasting, multimedia, web design and more.

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Shift happens and Social Media – can we keep pace?

15. September 2009 – 23:00

An updated version of the “Did you Know-Shift Happens ” Video by Karl Fisch on the rapidly changing landscape of social media. People might be reluctant to accept these developments but the facts speak their own language….

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Social Media Guidelines WIKI

19. August 2009 – 10:33

Here is a Wiki where you will find guidelines on the use of Social Media in schools. It is an open WIKI and you may enter your contributions, too. I think this is an excellent project of collaboration and I like the structure of the content. Comes in very handy for all who work with social media in their classes.

http://socialmediaguidelines.pbworks.com/

socialmediaguidelines / FrontPage via kwout

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The CommonCraft show

13. Juni 2008 – 15:07

This is a wonderful site which offers a number of embeddable videos explaining Social Media, Podcasting, Twitter, Photosharing, Social bookmarking etc – in “plain English” – ready to use for education!!! And if you want to use it for your English lessons – there’s the transcript that comes with the video! Fantastic service!!!!-

Here is the video on Social Media:

creative commons

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