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How to create social buzz at a learning event

Jane Hart

In Jeff Bullas’s recent post, 9 ways to create and share social media content at an event , he described how you might use the following 9 social tools to encourage participation in an event (in this case a fashion show). Pictures and images. Slideshare. Digital media aggregator. Oh, and remember!

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Part 2: Using Facebook as a learning platform (videos)

eFront

Social networking sites have educational benefits: University of Minnesota researcher Christine Greenhow breaks down how her research has found that social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace can have an impact for learning and educational growth for high school students.

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Employee Spotlight : Kat Bajno-Atkinson

OpenSesame

I had my first taste of programming in fifth grade when I taught myself how to modify HTML & CSS to make MySpace layouts. Each month a different department plans a fun event. How did you get into the field you’re in? Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve always loved computers. It makes you feel a sense of community.

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Engaging the digital generation

Learning with e's

The conference is entitled: Engaging the Digital Generation in Academic Literacy , and looks like it's going to be a very interesting event. Facebook, Myspace) and video/photo sharing sites (e.g. Tags: MySpace YouTube digital tribes virtual clan social web Flickr cultural capital FaceBook digital identity.

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Networked noughties 2003-2005

Learning with e's

Yesterday I mapped the significant technological events of the years 2000-2002. Myspace was to become the trend setter - within 3 years it had signed up an astounding 100 million users. The history of both Myspace and Facebook are very well documented on their respective Wikipedia entries. It was later to be renamed Facebook.

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Virtual presence

Moodle Journal

After some thought on the subject of on-line presence for participating staff, I have decided to use Myspace as the medium, its popular, easy to use and most will have heard of it already. I completed the presentations, five in all for this coming Thursday, which not surprisingly has changed the agenda a tad.

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NCTT Summer Workshop

Kapp Notes

I was fortunate enough to keynote the event and lead with a presentation on the topic of."The The stat that I found most interesting was that land line use is actually declining by 9.7% Soon young people will be asking "Mom, Dad, is it true you had something called a 'Land Line' that is so old fashion." The Gamer Generation."

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