11 Tips for Using Images on Twitter
http://smallbiztrends.com/2014/05/tips-using-images-on-twitter.html
1) Take Advantage of the Larger Header Image on Your Profile
2) Humanize Your Profile
3) Share Images Directly to Twitter
4) Put Words on Your Images to Convey Meaning at a Glance
5) Tweet a Video
6) Bright Colors in Images Get Attention
7) Horizontal Images Are Best
8) Tag People or Companies in Images
9) Share Selfies
10) Use Twitter Cards
11) Add Pizzazz to Your Live Tweeting at Events
SETTING UP SOCIAL MEDIA
http://www.haikudeck.com/setting-up-social-media-inspiration-presentation-GyOZZL3QTZ
1. SETTING UP SOCIAL MEDIA
2. WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS?
3. HOW WILL YOU MEASURE?
4. WHO WILL BE YOUR CHAMPION?
5. WHO’S RUNNING THE SHOW?
6. WHO IS YOUR AUDIENCE?
7. WHAT CONTENT WILL YOU POST?
8. HOW OFTEN WILL YOU POST?
9. WHO WILL MONITOR?
10. WHO WILL RESPOND?
4 Blog Tools to Get Your Articles In Front of More Blog Readers
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/4-blogging-tools-to-get-more-blog-readers/
#1: Reveal Content After Shares
Social Locker is a clever WordPress plugin that allows you to show part of a post, and then ask your readers for a social share in order to see the rest. It’s a win-win exchange. Your reader gets access to additional content and you get the social shares you need to reach more people.
#2: Make It Easy for Readers to Share
SumoMe (a WordPress plugin) helps streamline that process for your readers. When a reader highlights a sentence in your article, SumoMe opens a window that’s pre-populated with the highlighted passage—along with Twitter and Facebook share icons. You let your visitors share the most interesting bits of your post with a single click.
#3: Automatically Distribute Articles
Dlvr.it offers a number of ways to automatically publish your blog posts to popular social platforms. But did you know it can publish Google Alerts in your RSS feed?
#4: Share Evergreen Content
The Evergreen Post Tweeter WordPress plugin selects older articles from your archives and tweets them to your audience for renewed exposure.
A backchannel — a digital conversation that runs concurrently with a face-to-face activity — provides students with an outlet to engage in conversation.
In a recent article by Edutopia:
The Backchannel: Giving Every Student a Voice in the Blended Mobile Classroom. (n.d.). Edutopia. Retrieved May 28, 2014, from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/backchannel-student-voice-blended-classroom-beth-holland
the author brings yet another argument in support of using the BYOD movement in K12 to promote usage of mobile devices and social media FOR the learning process, rather then seeking ways to shut them off.
It seems that Higher Ed is lagging behind in their paradigm shift toward Backchanneling.
What do you think must be done at SCSU to seek the usage of mobile devices and/or social media to involved students in the learning process?
Pollard, E. A. (2014). Tweeting on the Backchannel of the Jumbo-Sized Lecture Hall: Maximizing Collective Learning in a World History Survey. History Teacher, 47(3), 329-354.
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Cronin, J. J. (2011). The Classroom as a Virtual Community: An Experience with Student Backchannel Discourse. Business Education Innovation Journal, 3(2), 56-65.
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Pohl, A., Gehlen-Baum, V., & Bry, F. (2012). Enhancing the Digital Backchannel Backstage on the Basis of a Formative User Study. International Journal Of Emerging Technologies In Learning, 7(1), 33.
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Jarrett, K., & Devine, M. A. (2010). How to use backchanneling in your classroom. Education Digest, (1), 41.
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Reid, A. (2011). Social media assemblages in digital humanities: From backchannel to buzz. doi:10.1108/S2044-9968(2011)0000003019
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Blended Learning: Resource Roundup
http://www.edutopia.org/blended-learning-resources
4 Tips for Getting to Know the Blended Instructional Model
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/getting-to-know-blended-learning-victor-small
Tip #1: Kids Aren’t as Tech Savvy as You Think
Tip #2: Be Wary of Online Textbooks and Online Classes
Tip #3: PowerPoint is for Planning Lessons, Not Delivering Lectures
Tip #4: Get Your Students to Communicate with Each Other
DIGITAL STORYTELLING
https://www.haikudeck.com/digital-storytelling-education-presentation-n0NDoOpqsc
Digital Storytelling – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Increase Instagram Visibility
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/increased-instagram-visibility/
#1: Highlight User-Generated Content
#2: Keep Your Online Personality Intact
#3: Use Hashtags for Listening and Reach
#4: Show Off Your Talents
#5: Combine Your Social Channels
SPREAD THE WORD
Please join us for our May meeting to discuss mobile devices, we use at work and privately.
We will meet this coming Tuesday, May 27, 10 AM in MC 205.
Please share your topic/issues preferences, if you have any.
Plamen Miltenoff and Tom Hergert
InforMedia Services
informedia@stcloudstate.edu
pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu
trhergert@stcloudstate.edu
Contact us and contribute via social media:
IMS blog: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/ (keyword: mobile devices)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SCSUtechinstruc
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InforMediaServices?ref=hl
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/scsutechnology/
Instagram: http://instagram.com/scsutechinstruct
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_UMIE5r6YB8KzTF5nZJFyA
Google +: https://plus.google.com/u/0/115966710162153290760/posts/p/pub
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scsuinstructionaltechnology
The Myth Of Student Engagement
http://inservice.ascd.org/education-resources/the-myth-of-student-engagement/
Teaching and Learning: The Chicken and the Egg
the heart of the student engagement myth: that adding or changing classroom elements, doing a new project, or exposing a student to a new technology or method of instruction will magically transform apathy into a white-hot fire of curiosity.
True engagement comes when a teacher knows a student’s strengths and interests beyond the classroom and uses that knowledge to deepen relationships. If we go into our rooms each day to teach but not connect, we can’t expect students to care beyond a test score, if that.
Can you answer these questions about your students? If you can, how do you apply that knowledge to connect with them?
*What home issues are affecting their work?
*Do they have a non-academic passion?
*What are their favorite shows, games, songs, or books?
*Do they have a preferred learning style?
*What is their hidden talent?
*What goals do they have for themselves in the future?
My note: easily said then done; if the instructor is overloaded with 4 classes 100 students per class, the suggestion above is rendered useless.