Social Media & Social Learning

Do Social Media Benefit College Students by Engaging Them in the Course Material?

May 1, 2013

Yes! This professor’s Twitter trial increased student engagement and improved grades. If you were to walk the halls of The College of Westchester, what would you see? If you were to walk into the student café, what would you see? If you took a ride in the elevator, what would you see? I’ll tell you. [...]

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Applications to Facilitate Synchronous Remote Classroom Participation

April 21, 2013

Remote guest lecturers, students who are unable to travel, panel participants, and even entire remote classrooms can join in the physical classroom with ease thanks to an evolving array of technologies. Post written collaboratively with Curtis Taylor. The ways in which schools are leveraging synchronous virtual classroom technologies are expanding every day. Popular tools like [...]

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Social Media Websites can be a Powerful Aid in Writing Assignment (with 5 Examples)

April 17, 2013

These sites are much more than a place to share comments and content with friends - they can be a useful aid in research and school work. Many of today’s students look to Internet trends when doing research for writing assignments, leveraging user-generated content that’s being shared on the popular social networks, while professionally published [...]

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Takeaways and Recommendations from the Gates Foundation’s ECET2 Conference

April 10, 2013

Part 2 of a look at takeaways from this recent “Elevating and Celebrating … Teaching” Conference On Sunday, we examined part 1 of Lalla Pierce’s insights from the ECET2 conference in the article “Technology as a Powerful Enabler of Teacher Inquiry, Collaboration, and Professional Development“. Today we wrap this article up with further thoughts on [...]

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Preparing Students for the Global Workplace with Collaborative Online International Learning

March 27, 2013

SUNY’s COIL initiative is a powerful program leveraging technology in the pursuit of learning on a global level. This year, thanks to the collaborative efforts of Professors Janet Thompson (The College of Westchester) and Patrice Torcivia (SUNY Empire State College), The College of Westchester participated in a “Collaborative Online International Learning” course. COIL (coil.suny.edu) is [...]

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Why I Love and Use Learnist (and Why You Should Too)

February 3, 2013

This education-focused free media and resource sharing site is a great tool for teachers and students. I love Learnist. I’ve had an account with them since it was in invite-only beta form and now, luckily for everyone, anyone can create an account with their Facebook credentials or with a valid email. What Is Learnist? Learnist [...]

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How Teachers are Using Tumblr in the Classroom

January 23, 2013

The increasingly popular free digital media sharing app offers plenty of possibilities for educators. Tumblr is a web based social media platform that was designed to make it easier for people to share digital media with each other. Unlike Facebook and Twitter, where conversation is a common mode of communication, Tumblr is more about sharing [...]

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Three Ways Pinterest is Getting Used by Teachers

January 16, 2013

The popular content sharing site is getting attention in the classroom. Guest post by Jason Kane. When most of us think of Pinterest, we probably think of young people sharing links to web pages, photos and videos with their friends - just another social network for people to show off things they like, what’s going [...]

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Can Social Media Play A Role in Improving Retention in Higher Education? Research Says it Can.

October 28, 2012

Studies have concluded that social engagement can benefit retention efforts, and schools and teachers are successfully pursuing this tactic with the help of social media applications. Earlier this year, a student working on her Doctorate in Education reached out to ask for insights into the question of how social media influences retention, which she was [...]

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