Poem Draft: Disconnect
Seek the solace of a moment free from text messages, status updates from a person who used to be your friend but now is reduced to an image, a sentence that slips below the fold. Find the focus to be...
View ArticleAcademic Consultant Doesn’t Know Why Professors Won’t Be His Twitter Friends
Boston—Rookie academic consultant, Nick Sileon, is frustrated. After years of working in higher education and blogging on the topic, academics don’t wants to be his friend since he’s become a...
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Social media posts from our dystopian future.
View ArticleOnline Identities: Being Professional in Public Forums
If you are involved or interested in the tech industry, you may have heard about the incident at PyCon this year. I’m not going to go into the details. You can read about it yourself. However, it...
View ArticleLearning from Facebook’s Blunders: 3 Rules for Confidential Data
Facebook’s atrocious treatment of user privacy isn’t news anymore, but the details are worth studying if you deal in sensitive data. Educational institutions handle a lot of confidential information,...
View ArticleUsing Twitter to Improve Student Learning
For several years now, I have experimented with ways of using social media to improve student learning. While many social networking sites (Facebook, Blogger, Instagram, Vine, etc.) have potential for...
View ArticleSocial Media in the Classroom: Extending the Learning Community
Interested in using Twitter or other social media in the classroom? This semester the Associated Colleges of the South kicked off a series of Google Hangouts related to pedagogy and technology. In the...
View ArticleHigher Ed Social Media Tweetup #HigherEdAR
Do you use social media and work in higher ed? Meet your colleagues over drinks and share your experiences at our first higher education tweetup! There’s no agenda, just an opportunity to connect and...
View ArticleCollege Applicants Find a Spot in the Social Media Graveyard
Welcome to the social media graveyard. Joining the ranks of Gilbert Gottfried, Pax Dickinson, Mike Bacsik, as well as lesser known workers, we can now make room for college applicants. In a New York...
View ArticleVideo: Teaching with Twitter – Pedagogy & Practice
In this video, Dr. Robert Williamson, Jr. (@rwilliamsonjr) of Hendrix College talks about how he teaches with Twitter. The video was created from a Google Hangout, Social Media in the Classroom:...
View ArticleReply All Podcast Explores Racism at Colgate through Yik Yak
If you’re not familiar with Yik Yak, it’s the virtual bathroom stall on your college campus where students can anonymously write whatever they want. Typically, one sees posts or “yaks” about cute...
View ArticleTeaching with Technology Success Stories
Last week, I wrote about technology failures in teaching. This week, let’s look at what went right. I held an event on campus for faculty to share some of their success stories, as well as a few...
View ArticleTaking a Break from Twitter
The onslaught of other people’s unhappiness. The Twitter trends of terribleness. The war in Ukraine. What am I getting out of Twitter anymore? Not much. It adds stress and anxiety. So, it’s time to...
View ArticleChess Over Twitter
Since deactivating my Twitter account my hand want to reach for my phone and check things. But there are no more streams to view. Nothing to refresh. So, I started playing 5-10 chess games at a time....
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