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The next big thing in Social Media?

Posted September 01, 2010 by William Stites

When I hear the word diaspora I think of the Irish Studies course I have been teaching, not the next big thing in social media. On September 15th, 2010 that may all change when four students (Daniel Grippi | Maxwell Salzberg | Raphael Sofaer | Ilya Zhitomirskiy) from NYU’s Courant Institute may change the game [...]

Extend Your Learning Beyond the Education Realm

Posted August 30, 2010 by Cassie Dull

I love to learn. And I think it’s safe to say that most people who work in education love to learn. I’m constantly looking for conferences, workshops, seminars and webinars to attend and extend my knowledge. But it’s not necessarily the education conferences that I get the most benefit from. Although I work in the [...]

How to Deal with Social Media “Trolls”

Posted August 28, 2010 by Jennifer Milikien

I left the independent school world nearly one year ago to join an advertising agency. When I made the move, I thought I was leaving behind much of the concern and caution the organization exhibited with regard to getting involved in social media. However, after dealing with clients in the financial services, retail, non-profit, government/military, [...]

edSocialMedia Goes Creative Commons

Posted August 27, 2010 by Ernest Koe

We are pleased to announce that as of Thursday, August 26, 2010, all edSocialMedia content including articles from contributors and except where noted will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. It has been truly exciting to watch the growth of edSocialMedia, and we have the tremendous privilege and honor of hosting [...]

101 People You Should Follow on Twitter

Posted August 26, 2010 by Brendan Schneider

When I started using social media, specifically Twitter, I knew that I needed to listen first. The question was, “Who should I listen too?” Well, with the help of some friends (@cassdull and @wstites), I have compiled a list of 101 people that any person working in an independent school should follow. I hope that [...]

The Rules of Engagement

Posted August 25, 2010 by Basil Kolani

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 [...]

It’s Not a Set of Tools… It’s a Point of View

Posted August 25, 2010 by hmundahl

School home pages are collecting social media buttons faster than I can grab free pens from the vendors at a tech/ed conference. But as organizations sign up for Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Blip.tv, Linkedin, Flickr, Meebo (really guys? really?), Livestream, Blogger and Wikipedia I have some serious questions about what this all means. Does the success [...]

THINK Global School: Traveling the World with Social Media

Posted August 23, 2010 by Elizabeth Allen

My post on EdSocialMedia today is coordinated with an article by Andy Shaindlin of Alumni Futures. Click through to Alumni Futures to read Andy’s look at THINK Global School with insight from our Head of School, Aron Solomon. THINK Global School is an independent secondary school whose students live and learn in a different international [...]

How We Used Twitter to Create our School’s Social Media Guidelines

Posted August 19, 2010 by Stephen Johnson

A lot of folks are wondering how to create social media guidelines for their schools. Heck, even corporations are still wondering how to do this, so it’s nice to know we’re in this together. Here’s one way to use social media to get answers about social media. Last year at Windward, senior admins came [...]

What I learned on my summer vacation

Posted August 16, 2010 by Tim McDonough

Two weeks ago I went on vacation to Newport, Rhode Island, one of my favorite destinations. My wife and I have a 15 month old son so the term “vacation” takes on a new meaning. We decided to try to make this vacation a truly relaxing experience for the family and not pack it with [...]