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edSocialMedia Sponsoring TSETC!

Posted October 02, 2010 by Jesse Bardo

Come join edSocialMedia on 10/2/2010 at the 2010 Tri-State Education Technology Conference!

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

4 Reasons Social Media is Effective

Posted August 18, 2010 by Jesse Bardo

Straight forward and to the point, this article by @mindsprout aka Sarah Hartshorn comes from @socialmedia2day‘s blog which is something I read every day. It is a great source for finding out about social media all over the web and getting connected with those who are already in the know. Sarah’s article does a great [...]

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 [...]

Boarding School to edSocialMedia: Interview with Shane Haggerty

Posted August 16, 2010 by Jesse Bardo

I was recently interviewed by Shane Haggerty (@shanehaggerty) for his blog The Social Learning Lab. Shane and I talked about how I got involved with social media from my time working at Northfield Mount Hermon School to moving into my position as Director here at edSocialMedia. There are two parts the interview which you can [...]

Silverpoint names edSocialMedia as a Top 5 Edtech Blog!

Posted August 13, 2010 by Jesse Bardo

Our friends over at Silverpoint are always on top of what is new and exciting when it comes to schools. Silverpoint has a great pulse on the edtech field as a provider of web solutions to hundreds of schools across the country. It is because of this that we are honored to be #1 on [...]