Social Media Classroom

This Guide looks at how to use Facebook for Social Learning – that is to build a community, communicate, collaborate with others, as well as share information and resources. In addition it looks at how it can be used for more specific formal, social learning events and programmes.

"Finding educational resources on the web can be a time-consuming job.  Once you find the resource, it must be categorized in some way.Bookmarking is one solution but lately there has been a surge of curation tools."

Forgive me for 'preaching to the choir,' but www.scoop.it isn't just for preparing educational resources for the teacher to have.  The reason I selected scoop.it for my main site ('Geography Education') is because I could deliver the content to students naturally and allow them to see my curated information.

For more about population growth and statistics by the National Geographic, visit: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/7-billion This was created to coincide with the arrival of the world's 7 billionth person on October 31, 2011.  

MapMaster is fun and educational geography game for Android where your mission is to pinpoint capitals, state capitals and famous places in countries around ...

Phone apps for educational purposes...for $1.99 it looks like a good bargain.  What are your favorite educational apps?  For the link to Mapmaster in the android market: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.droidplant.mapmaster&hl=en

"Social media is notorious for bringing unnecessary noise into our lives. Meaningless, worthless static that heightens the amount of buzzing in our heads..."

Not that I'm not guilty of any of these, but good practices to tweet more sucessfully. 

“I haven’t changed the content of the class; I’ve changed how I deliver it," teacher says.

Who says that homework has to be done at home and the lectures have to be given in class?  Technology (with a serious amount of accountability) can invert that paradigm. 

Experts say they are essential for the UK to keep pace economically; others worry about their effect on discipline...

This spoof works because it strikes a chord within our 21st century lives.  While the desire to link in gain more followers is one strong impulse, the reaction against new forms of social media is also quite strong.  Teaching with social media also requires a balance, to ensure the we connect with our students in regular mundane ways as well.