5 Reasons We Use Social Media - Edudemic

There are many reasons we use social media. From the basic to the more advanced, the tool is simply ubiquitous and addictive. This infographic sheds some light for us all.

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What's new on TED-Ed...

The TED-Ed website allows you to engage in or create dynamic lessons around the hundreds of thousands of educational videos on YouTube. In this video, the familiar illustration assembled at the beginning of each TED-Ed video finds his [computer generated] voice and gives viewers a tour of ed.ted.com. The features explored include the ability to add multiple choice questions, open answer questions, "dig deeper" materials, and custom discussion topics to any video on YouTube.

See video at: http://youtu.be/ncqVw1sx-04

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Social Media in Education: Resource Roundup

This collection of blogs, articles, and videos from Edutopia aims to help teachers deploy social media tools in the classroom to engage students in 21st-century learning.

Resources by Topic:
- Creating Social Media Guidelines
- Student Engagement with Social Media
- Social Media for Professional Development
- Digital Citizenship and Online Safety
- Additional Resources on the web

More details at: http://www.edutopia.org/social-media-education-resources

The 20 Best Pinterest Boards About Education Technology

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In an effort to help curate the massive amount of Pinterest boards about education technology, you can use this list as a jumping off point to start your Pinterest journey.

The 20 boards are curated by teachers, admins, and other education enthusiasts. You’ll likely find some new blogs, tools, and ideas among them. After all, that’s what Pinterest is all about!

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Gather all your social network addresses together in XeeMe

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My XeeMe helps you find all my social networks and groups on one page http://xeeme.com/Stewart_Marshall. If you would like your own go to:

http://xeeme.com/?r=GqzAqEE3f0kp

It’s free. Plus you get a powerful social address book and much more.

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4 Ideas for Better Social Media Measurement

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Although the social space has rapidly matured over the last decade-plus, social media measurement remains a mystery for many.

This mystery is due to two main factors. One is the fact that understanding off-site social activity, where marketers lack a data set as robust as they receive on their own website, is a challenge. The other is that despite social media itself not being new, it’s still an emerging (and fragmented) marketing channel and frequently lacks clear objectives/conversion goals from brands.



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How to teach tomorrow's doctors about social media privacy

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Social media and health care privacy may not mix well, but telling the trainees who have grown up with social media to simply “abstain – or else!” doesn’t help students structure their behaviours i…

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Zuckerberg Denies the Facebook Phone. What's the Evidence?

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday in the company’s first-ever earnings call that “it wouldn’t really make much sense” for the social networking monolith to build its own smartphone.

While Zuckerberg denied the logic of Facebook building a phone, there are plenty of reasons why doing so would, in fact, make a lot of sense…

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‘They’ve got more choice!’: Technology, social media, the teacher and the higher education learner of today

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“If higher education does not meet the needs of the next generation, then the next generation will go elsewhere for their knowledge. They will learn, authenticate and use it themselves, within their social networks and communities created through and on social media. They will find an authority outside the academy, or they will find or start an academy that will serve their needs. Their own practice will vindicate and realise the learning.”

By Peter Bryant

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