Archive for September, 2010

Social Media and Secondary Education – As Said by Mashable

From Mashable Today: A year after seventh grade teacher Elizabeth Delmatoff started a pilot social media program in her Portland, Oregon classroom, 20% of students school-wide were completing extra assignments for no credit, grades had gone up more than 50%, and chronic absenteeism was reduced by more than a third. For the first time in [...]

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

The State of the American Media

Reblogged from a friend.  While I’m not too big of a fan of chain mail postings, its important to note in this particular post, the case of what’s going on in today’s media with the wrong people receiving too much attention. Lindsay Lohan, 24, is all over the news because she’s a celebrity drug addict. [...]

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Social Fear Mongering

Do you ever get the feeling that some people are out there on social media trying to instigate fear in the world?  Especially in these times?

Monday, September 27th, 2010

The Demise of the Facebook Group

The Facebook experience has certainly changed from its earlier days.  I remember joining in September 2005 and instantly finding myself associated with a variety of groups and “chapters” of groups on specific networks.  For people who like being associated with others, the concept of Groups was very refreshing. Fast forward to 2010. Everything is now [...]

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

I need to be more active here.

I need to be more active here.

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010