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mastodon microblogging
categories: Twitter
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Digital Storytelling for EDAD 652
categories: digital storytelling
Community Relations for Administrators EDAD 652
Instructor Kay Worner
A discussion with Kay’s class of school administrators about the use of digital storytelling as a tool for community relations.
discussion based on LIB 490/590
http://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/lib490/
- Introduction (5-10 min)
Plamen: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/faculty/
students: interests and related information - Group assignment (5-10 min)
Effective communication strategies. List 3-5 and discuss the pros and cons (what makes them effective and are there any impediments, limitations) - Class discussion on effective communication strategies: based on the group work findings, how do you think digital storytelling may be [can it be] an effective communication tool
What is Storytelling? How does it differ from Digital Storytelling?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_storytelling
Rossiter & Garcia (2010) consider “digital stories are short vignettes that combine the art of telling stories with multimedia objects including images, audio, and video” (p. 37)
Is Digital Storytelling more then just storytelling on technology steroids?
What is Digital Storytelling (DS) for school leadership? A bibliographic research reveals a plenitude of research on DS in the classroom, for educators, but not much for educational leaders.
Guajardo, Oliver, Rodrigez, Valcez, Cantu, & Guajardo (2011) view digital storytelling for emerging educational leaders as “as a process for data creation, analysis, and synthesis.”
There is information for corporate leaders or community leaders and DS, but not much for ed leaders.
Let’s create our own understanding of digital storytelling for educational leaders.
Basic definitions, concepts and processes.
- Learn about Web 1.0 versus Web 2.0; the Cloud; transliteracy and multiliteracy
Multimodal Literacy refers to meaning-making that occurs through the reading, viewing, understanding, responding to and producing and interacting with multimedia and digital texts. It may include oral and gestural modes of talking, listening and dramatising as well as writing, designing and producing such texts. The processing of modes, such as image, words, sound and movement within texts can occur simultaneously and is often cohesive and synchronous. Sometimes specific modes may dominate.
http://guides.library.stonybrook.edu/digital-storytelling
- Social Media and digital storytelling
which social media tools would you employ to ensure a digital story happening?
When you hear the term, Digital Storytelling, do you immediately consider Social Media?
IT’S A MINDSET – NOT A SKILL
http://turndog.co/2015/06/16/how-to-use-social-media-in-your-digital-storytelling/
Share Your Brand’s (School?) Story
https://www.postplanner.com/digital-storytelling-techniques-secret-sauce-social-media/
- group work (15-20) min
split in groups of 3: an ed leader, a media specialist (or teacher with technology background) and a teacher (to represent a school committee on community relations)
you have 5 min to research (Internet, access to school resources) and 5-10 min to come up with a strategy for use of digital storytelling for expanding and improving community relationship
Base your strategy on existing examples.
E.g.:
Do the following electronic resources regarding this particular educational institution relay digital story:
http://strideacademy.org/
https://www.facebook.com/StrideAcademy/
https://twitter.com/search?q=Stride%20Academy%20Charter%20School&src=tyah
https://youtu.be/eekIUqMQ4v0
What do you like?
What would you do differently? - Digital Storytelling for building, expanding, improving community relations – final thoughts
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literature:
Rossiter, M., & Garcia, P. A. (2010). Digital storytelling: A new player on the narrative field.
New Directions For Adult & Continuing Education, 2010(126), 37-48.
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Guajardo, M., Oliver, J. A., Rodriguez, G., Valadez, M. M., Cantu, Y., & Guajardo, F. (2011). Reframing the Praxis of School Leadership Preparation through Digital Storytelling. Journal Of Research On Leadership Education, 6(5), 145-161.
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more on digital storytelling in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=digital+storytelling
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millennials employees
Want to Keep Your Millennial Employees? You Have To Be Willing to Offer Them This 1 Thing
Pretty soon, this will be the standard.
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14 obsolete trends in 21 century schools
14 things that are obsolete in 21st century schools
- computer rooms
- isolated classrooms
- schools without WiFi
- Banned phones and tablets
- Tech director with an administrator access, instead of technology coordinators in touch with teachers and students
- Teachers not sharing what they do
- Schools without FB and Twitter presence
- Unhealthy cafeteria food
- Teenagers start at 8AM
- Buying poster-, website- and pamphlet design for the school
- traditional libraries
- students same age in same classes
- one-Professional Development-workshop-fits-all for school staff
- standardized tests to measure the quality of education
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more on ISTE news in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=iste
use of laptops in the classroom
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/04/03/use-of-laptops-in-the-classroom/
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use of laptops phones in the classroom
Why I’m Asking You Not to / Use Laptops
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2019/08/27/reading-teenagers-electronic-devices/
Children who use smartphones, tablets, and video games for more than seven hours a day are more likely to experience premature thinning of the cortex, the outermost layer of the brain that processes thought and action, a 2018 study found. https://t.co/OJe6ZTBVkx
— EdWeek Teacher (@EdWeekTeacher) August 1, 2019
research showing how laptops can be more of a distraction than a learning enabler. Purdue University even started blocking streaming websites such as Netflix, HBO, Hulu and Pandora.
But others say banning laptops can be counterproductive, arguing these devices can create opportunity for students to discover more information during class or collaborate. And that certain tools and technologies are necessary for learners who struggle in a traditional lecture format.
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Supiano, B. (2019, April 7). Digital Distraction Is a Problem Far Beyond the Classroom. But Professors Can Still Help. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from https://www.chronicle.com/article/Digital-Distraction-Is-a/246074
Flanigan, who studies self-regulation, or the processes students use to achieve their learning goals, began researching digital distraction after confronting it in the classroom as a graduate instructor.
Digital distraction tempts all of us, almost everywhere. That’s the premise of Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport, an associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University.
The professor is upset. The professor has taken action, by banning laptops.
Bruff, whose next book, Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching, is set to be published this fall, is among the experts who think that’s a mistake. Why? Well, for one thing, he said, students are “going to have to graduate and get jobs and use laptops without being on Facebook all day.” The classroom should help prepare them for that.
When Volk teaches a course with 50 or 60 students, he said, “the idea is to keep them moving.”Shifting the focal point away from the professor can help, too. “If they are in a small group with their colleagues,” Volk said, “very rarely will I see them on their laptops doing things they shouldn’t be.”
Professors may not see themselves as performers, but if they can’t get students’ attention, nothing else they do matters. “Learning doesn’t happen without attention,” said Lang, who is writing a book about digital distraction, Teaching Distracted Minds.
One aspect of distraction Lang plans to cover in his book is its history. It’s possible, he said, to regard our smartphones as either too similar or dissimilar from the distractions of the past. And it’s important, he said, to remember how new this technology really is, and how much we still don’t know about it.
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Study: Use of digital devices in class affects students’ long-term retention of information
- A new study conducted by researchers at Rutgers University reveals that students who are distracted by texts, games, or videos while taking lecture notes on digital devices are far more likely to have their long-term memory affected and to perform more poorly on exams, even if short-term memory is not impacted, EdSurge reports.
- Exam performance was not only poorer for students using the devices, but also for other students in classes that permitted the devices because of the distraction factor, the study found.
- After conducting the study, Arnold Glass, the lead researcher, changed his own policy and no longer allows his students to take notes on digital devices.
A nationally representative Gallup poll conducted in March showed that 42% of K-12 teachers feel that the use of digital devices in the classroom are “mostly helpful” for students, while only 28% feel they are “mostly harmful.” Yet 69% of those same teachers feel the devices have a harmful impact on student mental health and 55% feel they negatively affect student physical health.
According to a 2016 study of college students, student waste about 20% of their class time for “non-class” purposes — texting, emailing, or using social media more than 11 times in a typical day. In K-12, increased dependence on digital devices often interferes with homework completion as well.
Though the new study focused on long-term retention, past studies have also shown that indicate a negative correlation between use of digital devices during class and exam scores. A 2015 study by the London School of Economics revealed that pupils in schools that banned cell phones performed better on exams and that the differences were most notable for low-performing students.
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By Jack Grove Twitter: @jgro_the April 4, 2017
Using laptops in class harms academic performance, study warns. Researchers say students who use computers score half a grade lower than those who write notes
findings, published in the journal Economics of Education Review in a paper, based on an analysis of the grades of about 5,600 students at a private US liberal arts college, found that using a laptop appeared to harm the grades of male and low-performing students most significantly.
While the authors were unable to definitively say why laptop use caused a “significant negative effect in grades”, the authors believe that classroom “cyber-slacking” plays a major role in lower achievement, with wi-fi-enabled computers providing numerous distractions for students.
April 07, 2006
A Law Professor Bans Laptops From the Classroom
http://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Law-Professor-Bans-Laptops/29048
by Anne Curzan http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2014/08/25/why-im-asking-you-not-to-use-laptops/
Laptop multitasking hinders classroom learning for both users and nearby peers
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131512002254
March 13, 2017
The Distracted Classroom
http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Distracted-Classroom/239446
Welcome, Freshmen. Look at Me When I Talk to You.
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Welcome-Freshmen-Look-at-Me/237751
October 28, 2015
Memorization, Cheating, and Technology. What can we do to stem the increased use of phones and laptops to cheat on exams in class?
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Memorization-Cheating-and/233926
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intrinsic motivation:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2019/11/13/intrinsic-motivation-digital-distractions/
The learning experience is different in schools that assign laptops, a survey finds
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Blended Learning – the idea of incorporating technology into the every day experience of education – can save time, raise engagement, and increase student retention.
- Review games like Kahoot and Quizlet Live
- Content delivery from Sutori, Padlet, or ThingLink
- The near endless possibilities of GoogleForms (even making digital escape rooms!)
Lets face it, our students are addicted to their phones. Like…drugs addicted. It is not just a bad habit, it is hard wired in their brains(literally) to have the constant stimulation of their phones.
If you are interested in the research, there is a lot out there to read about how it happens and how bad it is.
a Scientific American article published about a recent study of nomophobia – on adults (yes, many of us are addicted too).
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Best Practices for Laptops in the Classroom
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/best-practices-for-laptops-in-the-classroom/39064
September 11, 2016
No, Banning Laptops Is Not the Answer. And it’s just as pointless to condemn any ban on electronic devices in the classroom
http://www.chronicle.com/article/No-Banning-Laptops-Is-Not-the/237752
Don’t Ban Laptops in the Classroom
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/09/23/dont-ban-laptops-in-the-classroom/
Use of Laptops in the Classroom: Research and Best Practices. Tomorrow’s Teaching and Learning
https://tomprof.stanford.edu/posting/1157
On Not Banning Laptops in the Classroom
http://techist.mcclurken.org/learning/on-not-banning-laptops-in-the-classroom/
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F January 26, 2001
Colleges Differ on Costs and Benefits of ‘Ubiquitous’ Computing
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Differ-on-Costs-and/17848
“Bring Your Own Device” Policies?
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/bring-your-own-device-policies/42732
June 13, 2014, 2:40 pm By Robert Talbert
Three issues with the case for banning laptops
3 Tips for Managing Phone Use in Class
Setting cell phone expectations early is key to accessing the learning potential of these devices and minimizing the distraction factor.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/3-tips-managing-phone-use-class
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more on mobile learning in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=mobile+learning
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fake news
Most students can’t tell fake news from real news, study shows
Posted by Jordan Crook (@jordanrcrook)
Most students can’t tell fake news from real news, study shows
A Stanford study found that the majority of middle school students can’t tell the difference between real news and fake news. In fact, 82 percent couldn’t distinguish between a real news story on a website and a “sponsored content” post.
The WSJ: Of the 8,704 students studied (ranging in age from middle school to college level), four in ten high-school students believed that the region near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant was toxic after seeing an unsourced photo of deformed daisies coupled with a headline about the Japanese area. The photo, keep in mind, had no source or location attribution. Meanwhile, two out of every three middle-schoolers were fooled by an article on financial preparedness penned by a bank executive.
But with 62 percent of U.S. adults getting the majority of their news from social media, the responsibility for this issue also lies with the social media organizations themselves, such as Facebook and Twitter. Both Google and Facebook have made steps toward thwarting the fake news onslaught, including banning fake news organizations from their ad network.
Even in minuscule amounts, fake news has a much greater ability to spread quickly and be consumed by many given the nature of the salacious headlines themselves.
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more on fake news in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=fake+news
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Digital Literacy for Anthropology
categories: Digital literacy, information technology
Upper level anthropology of Native N American class w Kelly Branam Macauley
short link to this presentation: http://bit.ly/lib4anthr
| Plamen Miltenoff: I give you the intersection of technology + library and information science = digital literacy + doctoral studies in education and psychology = educational technology. http://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/faculty/ relevant classes I teach and might be of interest for you: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/lib290/. if you want to survey the class, here is the FB group page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LIB290/ and http://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/lib490/ |
the topic is Social Media and research; research in the digital age
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General issues
#FakeNews
Please pull out your smartphones, go to your Internet browser and and type: kahoot.it or click on the link: https://play.kahoot.it/
Class assignment (you will need a laptop, tablet and/or smart phone. If don’t have one, team up with your peer nearest you): #FakeNews is a very timely and controversial issue. in 2-3 min choose your best source on this issue. 1. Mind the prevalence of resources in the 21st century 2. Mind the necessity to evaluate a) the veracity of your courses b) the quality of your sources (the fact that they are “true” does not mean that they are the best). Be prepared to name your source and defend its quality.
How do you determine your sources? How do you decide the reliability of your sources? Are you sure you can distinguish “good” from “bad?”
Compare this entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fake_news_websites
to this entry: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10eA5-mCZLSS4MQY5QGb5ewC3VAL6pLkT53V_81ZyitM/preview to understand the scope
Do you know any fact checking sites? Can you identify spot sponsored content? Do you understand syndication? What do you understand under “media literacy,” “news literacy,” “information literacy.” https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/03/28/fake-news-resources/
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/03/28/fake-news-resources/
Need more info? https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/03/28/fake-news-3/
Need even more info? https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=fake+news
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Academic research
http://www.stcloudstate.edu/library/:
the online dbases, the subject guides,
https://scholar.google.com/
Class assignment (you will need a laptop, tablet and/or smart phone. If don’t have one, team up with your peer nearest you): Research a topic in your class (keyword) using “heavy duty” (peer-reviewed) literature – 2-3 min.
Please pull out your smartphones, go to your Internet browser and and type: kahoot.it or click on the link: https://play.kahoot.it/
Academic research: https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/e2d6a15f-6361-4e21-96f9-d054f1d8e49b
https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/5e09bb66-4d87-44a5-af21-c8f3d7ce23de
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Research using social media
what is social media (examples). why is called SM? why is so popular? what makes it so popular?
use SM tools for your research and education:
– Determining your topic. How to?
Digg http://digg.com/, Reddit https://www.reddit.com/ , Quora https://www.quora.com
Facebook, Twitter – hashtags (class assignment 2-3 min to search)
LinkedIn Groups
YouTube and Slideshare (class assignment 2-3 min to search)
Flickr, Instagram, Pinterest for visual aids (like YouTube they are media repositories)
Academia.com (https://www.academia.edu/) Academia.edu, a paper-sharing social network that has been informally dubbed “Facebook for academics,” https://www.academia.edu/31942069_Facebook_for_Academics_The_Convergence_of_Self-Branding_and_Social_Media_Logic_on_Academia.edu
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/
– collecting and managing your resources:
Delicious https://del.icio.us/
Diigo: https://www.diigo.com/
Evernote: evernote.com OneNote (Microsoft)
blogs and wikis for collecting data and collaborating
– Managing and sharing your information:
Refworks,
Zotero https://www.zotero.org/,
Mendeley, https://www.mendeley.com/
– Testing your work against your peers (globally):
Wikipedia:
First step:Using Wikipedia.Second step: Contributing to Wikipedia (editing a page). Third step: Contributing to Wikipedia (creating a page) https://www.evernote.com/shard/s101/sh/ef743d1a-4516-47fe-bc5b-408f29a9dcb9/52d79bfa20ee087900764eb6a407ec86
– presenting your information
please use this form to cast your feedback. Please feel free to fill out only the relevant questions:
http://bit.ly/imseval
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more on digital literacy for Anthropology classes in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=anthropology
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social media metrics
categories: social media
10 Metrics to Track for Social Media Success
By Aaron Agius November 8, 2016
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/10-metrics-to-track-for-social-media-success/
FB and Twitter:
#1: Track Follower Growth
#2: Identify Optimal Times for Engagement
#3: Track Likes and Reactions for Your Posts
#4: Monitor Mentions
#5: Delve Into Audience Demographics
#6: Determine Reach
#7: Review Replies and Comments for Your Posts
#8: Find Out What Content Is Being Shared
#9: Track Referral Traffic From Social Media
#10: Examine Click Rates
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more on social media and metrics in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=social+media+metrics
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extend tweets
categories: social media, Twitter
How to extend tweets beyond 140 characters
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more on twitter in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=twitter
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social media research toolkit
categories: social media, YouTube
thank you, Greg Jorgensen, an excellent list of tools for analytics + excellent background info (price, social media tools served, output format
Social Media Research Toolkit – Peer Tested & Peer Reviewed
Gephi, Hootsuite, NodeXL, Sysomos, Gnip, Issuecrawler, Brandwatch, Netvizz, Datasift, Crimson Hexagon, tweepy, streamR, Twitoxmy, Digmind, Twitris, yourTwapperKeeper, DiscoverText, Webometric Analyst, python-twitter, twurl, Tweet Archivist, vtracker, Netlytic, twython, OutWit Hub, Mozdeh, Affinio, Rfacebook, Facepager, Flocker, 140dev, Sodato, Foller.me, Textexture, Hosebird, Websta, followthehashtag, Chorus, VOSON/Uberlink, Info Extractor, twarc, iScience Maps, Social Feed Manager, facebook-sdk, Socioviz, Naoyun, Visibrain Focus, TwitterGoogles, DD-CSS, YouTube Data Tools, SocialMediaMineR, tStreamingArchiver, Twitter Stream Downloader
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more on social media analytics in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=social+media+analytics
more on social media management in this blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=social+media+management
more on altmetrics in this blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=altmetrics