Thanks to "Monk of the TrueSchool" for making this image available on wikimedia.
In this post are several links to resources and examples related to the presentation that Harriet Schwartz (who writes The Encouragement Lounge, a blog for her adult learners) and I gave at this year’s AHEA conference.
First, a must read is Harriet’s article that was published in The Chronicle of Higher Education titled Facebook: The New Classroom Commons? Congratulations Harriet!
And, if you are new to these tools and would like to learn about a variety of them and their uses in general, feel free to browse Marylhurst 2.0, the course blog that I created to support the Introduction to Social Media course I taught this past summer. Topics and resources include Twitter, YouTube, social bookmarking, LinkedIn, RSS, and many more.
- Podcast series: Leading Toward a Just and Merciful World
- A blog for prospective adult students: Inside Carlow
- A Career Services blog for adult learners : Marylhurst University Career Services
RESOURCES:
- Defining Creepy Treehouses
- Social Media Classroom – Teaching & Learning Resources (in a wiki)
- A Complete Guide to Facebook Privacy
- HOW TO: Deal with Social Networking Overload (about time management)
- Available All The Time: Etiquette for the Social Networking Age
- Creative Commons – Copyright
- Faculty Ethics on Facebook – A Facebook Group
- Stock Xchng – The photo site that Harriet gets some of her photos from. You can also use Google Images and do an advanced search for photos that are “labeled for reuse”
