Author Archive | Basil Kolani
Keeping It Real
At the beginning of the school year, I thought that the social media class that I do with tenth graders would help me write a constant stream of edSocialMedia articles through the year. It didn’t quite work out that way, but the class has given me a lot to think through. The most surprising thing [...]
Read MoreShouldn’t We All Be Online Community Managers?
Education doesn’t get social media. It’s part of why you’re here at this site reading this article — we wouldn’t need an edSocialMedia if we all knew what needed to be done and just did it. OK, maybe that’s not fair, but I do think it’s a pretty fair statement to say that education tends [...]
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Read MoreThis revolution is already televised…
There’s no such thing as cyberbullying. There’s only the cruelty in all of us, and the cowardice of making words to hide from it. The quote above is from a recent blog post by Anil Dash — a great read, even though I’m not sure where I fall after reading it. I believe in his [...]
Read MoreedSocialMedia at TSETC
Blogger-in-chief Bill Stites is going to get things started in the TSETC Blogger Cafe with a workshop on Transforming an Education Experience with Social Media – if you’re at TSETC, he’s on at 11:15 in room 213. —– I found out that Ustream actually split my recording into three parts. Here they are, in order: [...]
Read MoreSo what if we’re all connected?
For weeks, I’ve been simultaneously excited and full of dread for my first social media class with our tenth graders. Conceived of as an online class, we needed to have an in-person session to get some of the ground rules for this completely-online class. For now, it will be a case study in how social media [...]
Read MoreThe Rules of Engagement
Part 1: It’s Institutional “Social media, I gave you the best years of my life, but never again. I know where I am wanted. Screw you [insert social media service here]. You broke my heart.” I’ve been trying to write a blog reaction to Leo Laporte’s condemnation of social media but struggled to pin down [...]
Read MoreDon’t Make It More Difficult
My school is in the middle of a website redesign, and just this week someone raised the question, “Who is going to manage all of this new content that has to be dynamic?” They’re asking the wrong question — why are we worried about making content dynamic instead of using already dynamic content? It should [...]
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