Social Media in Education Isn't a Fad, It's a Revolution | InstructureCon 2013

Josh Murdock of Valencia College

Valencia College is supporting students, faculty, and staff in the use of social media through our new "Teaching and Learning with Social Media" course. Though aimed at teachers, this course, in turn, helps prepare students to leverage these emerging tools. Participants will walk away with a understanding of important areas to cover in their own social media courses, such as concepts, tools, ethics, legalities, and teaching. Discussion will take place around...

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From: CanvasLMS

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Journalism Secrets to Social Media Storytelling & News Reporting

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If you want to know how journalists use social media to accelerate their career - This program is a must for you.

Social media tools are being used across all media sources including traditional news outlets and online-based resources. This program focuses on the variety of ways social media is essential to storytelling and news distribution. Each...

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From: TMWMedia

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Facebook for Education!

This video is about using social media, esp; Facebook in teaching. Students as well as educators from UK share their opinions about this issue.

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From: Mohsine Mahraj

Related topics : social media education for students / using social media

Technology and Social Media in Education Promo

Technology and Social Media in Education is a online course on Janux. Learn more at http://janux.ou.edu.

Created by the University of Oklahoma, Janux is an interactive learning community that gives learners direct connections to courses, education resources, faculty, and each other. Janux courses are freely available or may be taken for college credit by enrolled OU students.

Theresa Cullen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Instructional Psychology and Technology

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From: Janux

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From: Aplus Edtech

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Social media policy bans bad conduct

Social media and students: it's another way teachers are getting into trouble with inappropriate relationships. The headlines run rampant with educators who lost their jobs or went to jail.

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From: WUPW

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County to include social media as learning tool

More teachers could be logging on to social media as an educational tool in Anne Arundel County, where the school district is in the early stages of crafting a social media policy for students and teachers. Tim Tooten reports.

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From: WBAL-TV 11 Baltimore

Related topics : social media tools for education / social media policy / social media report

Social Media - An Educator's Perspective

Thoughts about the trends and issues educators face in a world where students are self-directed, self-taught, technology rich, and engaged in social media products at astounding rates. This asks the tough questions educators need to consider when thinking about how to address social media and the new skill sets they need to teach digital-age learners.

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From: Sam Walker

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Student Speech 2.0: Technology, Schools, and the First Amendment

Social media is just that—social. So, when a student takes to a social media platform to defame a classmate or uses profane language to describe a faculty member, what can you, as a school leader, do?

Suzanne Eckes, a lawyer, educator, and author, highlights several cases that have addressed students’ off-campus Internet speech and examines how much authority school officials have in monitoring this type of expression.

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From: NASSPtv

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Area schools now educating students and monitoring social media for safety

Area schools now educating students and monitoring social media for safety

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From: 3 News Now

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