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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...

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Academic 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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Like if you remember having one of these!

Social media posts from our dystopian future.

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Online 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...

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Learning 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,...

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Using 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...

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Social 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...

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Higher 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...

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College 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...

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Video: 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:...

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Reply 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...

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Teaching 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...

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Taking 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...

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Chess 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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