Social Media Course for Science Students
Chronicle post about a course at Cal Tech called “Social Media for Scientists” – a good read. http://chronicle.com/article/Science-Students-Learn-to-Use/237158… Read More
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A good article on getting started with social media for learning
The Learning Systems Team at the UK’s Open University posted a nice overview in medium.com exploring some benefits and reasons for using social media… Read More
The Price of Interruptions
From Shankar Vedantam and NPR’s “The Hidden Brain” podcast series: http://www.npr.org/2015/09/22/442582422/the-cost-of-interruptions-they-waste-more-time-than-you-think… Read More
Padlet
I found a new tool that might solve Jim Patton’s problem! Padlet.com allows users to create a board and then drag and drop links, images,… Read More
Blog post from George Veletsianos: “Is Academic Twitter Egalitarian?”
Our former College of Education colleague, George V. and Royce Kimmons (alumnus) are researching patterns of Twitter use among academics, and they are finding some… Read More
Notes from Feb 17th Meeting
Attending: Michelle Harrison, Lucy Camarillo-May, Jim Patton, Chris McCarthy Discussion Topics: Why use Twitter? What are hashtags? Creating a Google Scholar Account, why have a… Read More