The best blogs in social media and education in 2010
http://edublogawards.com/announcing-the-2010-edublog-awards-winners/
Best Social Media Mash-ups in Higher Education
A list of high-quality mash-up where colleges and universities wrangle feeds from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and more to create a compelling page that gives a real-time snapshot of all an institution has to offer.
http://patrickpowers.net/2010/12/best-social-media-mash-ups-in-higher-education/
Resources to Help Schools Understand Social Media
One of the reasons why more schools are not using social media is because their leaders don’t understand social media. To help school leaders understand some productive uses of social media, here are some resources to check out.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/12/resources-to-help-schools-understand.html
25 Social Media Resources And Tools That You May Not Know
We all spend so much time on the same sites online that sometimes it can feel like we have blinkers on and that we miss all the good stuff. You may know some or even many of the names on …
25 Mind Blowing Social Media Infographics
With the complexity and explosive growth of social media over the last few years, it’s not hard to see why so many have looked to express this information in a visually appealing manner – not to mention the benefits they
4 Social Media Sites for Teachers
From networking, to group collaboration and class projects, here are 4 tools that teachers can use to jump start the creativity.
http://blog.learningtoday.com/blog/bid/47089/Get-Connected-4-Social-Media-Sites-for- Teachers
Beyond McLuhan: Your New Media Studies Syllabus
A new generation of scholars is trying to come to new understandings of how technology and society shape each other. Christina Dunbar-Hester is among those young lions from her position at Rutgers School of Communication & Information. Here, she walks
List of Social Media Tools That Can be Used in Social Learning
Social media types are being created, identified and defined constantly. With the exception of crowdsourcing, all other social media types can be used in social learning.
http://www.interactyx.com/blog/social-media-types-that-can-be-used-in-social-learning
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Tips for Managing Social Media Information Overload
Useful tips for dealing with the information overload that results from participation in social media.
http://webworkerdaily.com/2010/08/06/tips-for-managing-social-media-information-overload/…
An introduction to social media – for learning and performance enhancement
Pretty nice table-of-contents style post that is in effect a handbook on social media. This is a social resource as it also provides the opportunity for you to provide your own experiences of using social tools for learning.
All of a Twitter … how are social web tools used in University classrooms (Video)
It is the very interactive nature of social web tools that academics are finding so useful in the classroom. What you can do with the Web 2.0 is that you can deliver material gradually and you can allow students to …
A Twitteraholic’s Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter
If you’re still wondering which way is up in the Twitterverse, this post is for you. Sue Waters offers the introductory landscape, spoken with the experience of a Twitter aficionado.
Reflections on Teaching with Social Media
I think there’s a big difference between allowing the use of social media and requiring it. That difference probably explains the ambivalence of students in Brian Croxall’s courses, and he had them bouncing from wikis to Twitter to Wave. You …