And that’s just the English version!
This week, we are revisiting some classic Web 2.0 tools, making them more suitable for our purposes, and trying out the self-proclaimed “Best Answer to Any Question” that’s (gasp) not Google! Check it out by following the link!
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This week’s articles focused on social media designed for facilitation of various communities as well as some international perspectives on the Web 2.0 world. Horizon broadening and boundary spanning? You bet! And, if you are into Structural Equation Modeling and / or Hierarchical Linear Modeling studies, you are in for quite a treat!
This week, I got to participate in a webinar with Barry Wellman, co-author of the 2012 book, Networked, which we are using in the EME6414 course. It was certainly an interesting experience and I’d like to share some of my thoughts on it with you!
I don’t even watch GOT.
Brace Yourself – After taking last week off, the Saturday Round-Up is Back!
A tower of used books
This week’s readings focused on instructional design in social media with special attention to learners, environments, language, assessing social media-based assignments, and a theoretical framework to tie it all together. If that sounds like a lot — you’re right! Step inside for breakdown of these topics.
This week, we are doing it by the numbers!
A new week means new Web 2.0 tools! This week, I got to try out some old tools in new ways, new tools that looked a lot like older tools, and two Web 2.0 tools went head-to-head. Get the week’s complete run-down after the jump!
Earlier this week, I participated in the #SAChat Twitter Chat at both 1:00PM (as a participant) with my good friends Craig Beebe and Danielle Morgan Acosta (check them out here and here, respectively) and at 7:00PM (as a lurker). Here are some observations on the experience.
Hello there, everyone! I’m working on a knowledge sharing project, and I thought I’d share it with you. See, in the near future, I’m going to embark on a long, arduous journey to write a dissertation to finish my PhD in Higher Education. I’m more than a little freaked out by it, so I’ve decided to channel my anxiety into something productive. On the Scoop.it page here: http://www.scoop.it/t/helpful-advice-for-first-time-dissertation-writers, I’m staring to collect advice and resources to sustain my efforts. Please take a moment to review what I have curated, and let me know what you think! Feel free to suggest additional resources in the comments below, and / or to follow with a Scoop.it account of your own!
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For those of you that have perused Reddit before, you might be familiar with the abbreviation TIL (“Today I Learned”) which is essentially a tag users can apply to their posts to identify any new-found knowledge that needs to be shared with others. Well, I’m ripping off that idea and using a version of it here! Welcome to the first installment of what I will be calling, “This Week I Read” or “TWIR” for short. Continue reading
My acceptance letter arrived via owl. Didn’t yours?
Florida State University has been dealing with a slew of negative news stories lately, largely due to the off-the-field performance of some members of it’s football team. One FSU professor, Mark Zeigler, has taken to Twitter to try and change the current. Continue reading
Higher Ed Scholar in Training 