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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 [...]

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Here are some resources that might be of interest to those who attend Life By Design NW’s Coffee & Conversation session about social media.
First, a quick video from Common Craft called Social Networking in Plain English:

Other Resources:
Social Media in Plain English – also from Common Craft
HOW TO: Leverage Social Media for [...]

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Here is Disney’s official description of Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride:
Keep your eyes peeled because Mr. Toad certainly isn’t watching where he’s going! Climb into your buggy and hang on, because the wacky characters from the Disney classic “The Wind in the Willows” are going to take you on a road trip you won’t soon forget! [...]

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That’s a picture of me, my husband, my father-in-law, and my kid on Halloween last year. There’s nothing horrific about it (unless you are not a Packer’s fan, which is a different issue entirely), but it’s not a picture that I posted to Facebook. My neighbor, who took the picture in her living room, posted [...]

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Today begins Week 2 of a course I am co- teaching called Introduction to Social Media Communications. (If you are so inclined, please feel free to visit our course blog, Marylhurst 2.0)
“Teaching” the course is a complete overstatement really — my colleague Art and I have structured the course around a set of questions (“points [...]

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Where’s Waldo?

Why am I not blogging here right now?
Because I am blogging HERE – a few times a day!
This week I have learned that two blogs are one too many for this blogger.

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I’ve been studying various educational uses of social media tools lately, trying to learn how my colleagues are using them educationally, how they are affecting learning and teaching, what the possible implications are, and why we should care.
I’ve learned that one colleague is using Twitter as a formative assessment tool; another is using Facebook as [...]

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June 15, 2009
From: Adult Higher Education Alliance (AHEA)
Dear Melanie and Harriet:
On behalf of the 2009 conference planning committee, I am pleased to inform you that your conference proposal , “Facebook, Blogs, & Friendly Treehouses: Mentoring Adult Learners Using Social Media,” has been accepted for inclusion in the 2009 program. We were absolutely delighted with the [...]

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Howard Rheingold is someone I’ve started paying careful attention to (one of my earlier posts includes a video from Rheingold in which he highlights his ideas about Learning to Inquire). He almost always challenges my thinking or at least provides me with a new way of thinking, and lord knows I need new ways of [...]

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Given that I am a big fan of  our own student bloggers, I wanted to post this scholarship news:
Student blogs can win cash for college

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