SXSW Edu Panel – Social Media Research and Practice

For those of us both trying to understand how the use of social media in classrooms/libraries impacts student learning, or trying to convince our IT departments or administrators that there is value to students using social media, this SXSW Edu panel presentation “Social Media Research and Practice in Higher Ed” provided a lot of meat to chew on. Presenters Ed Cabellon (Bridgewater State Univ.), Greg Heiberger (South Dakota State Univ.), Liz Gross (University of Wisconsin-Waukesha) and Reynol Junco (Lock Haven University) shared the results of […]

TCEA Presentation–Facebook uses in education

Our school is making efforts to allow teachers to use professional facebook accounts to communicate with their students.  Dustin Windsor, our technology coordinator, and I shared in a session at TCEA how our school embarked on this process.  The slides and notes from our presentation are below. Links to resource materials we used as a district to make this decision. TCEA 2011 on Prezi