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Social Media Distancing with students

So as cool as I am, and as much as I am on social media, I don’t want to hotbox with my students in their social media spaces.

April 2, 2020

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Albert Fong, Dr. Anders Norberg, Dr. Bryan P. Sanders, Dr. Verena Roberts, emergency responsive teaching, Ontario education, social distancing, social media
Social LEADia by Jennifer Casa-Todd

Social LEADia: Moving Students from Digital Citizenship to Digital Leadership by Jennifer Casa-Todd My rating: 4 of 5 stars Jennifer Casa-Todd has set a high bar for herself in tackling this multi-faceted concept of leveraging social media to engage students in digital leadership. Her book is densely-packed with examples of how teachers and students negotiate…

December 4, 2017

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digital citizenship, Jennifer Casa-Todd, professional development, social media, student leadership, TeachOntario
#BIT15Reads: Interview with author Clive Veroni

Today at 5:00 pm ET Clive Veroni joins me to discuss his book Spin Veroni’s book Spin revolves around the idea that modern media marketing has completely changed politics and business practices from autocratic to democratic….much the same way that education is moving. There are so many things that Clive said that both reaffirm and…

October 29, 2015

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#BIT15Reads, author interview, book club, book reviews, business, Clive Veroni, marketing, politics, social media, Spin
Revisiting Treasure Mountain 2014

I need to start off this blog post by once again speaking to the imbalance I experience in blogging itself. Try as I might, I sometimes take years to process an experience or a reading and I find it really challenging to write regularly. Today is no exception and I’d like to revisit an experience…

January 30, 2015

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Anita Brooks-Kirkland, blogging, Carol Koechlin, Change agent, Daniel Beylerian, David Loertscher, definition of literacy, digital identity, educational research, Google Hangout, Heather Leatham, Kathy Inglis, Kevin Greenshields, Kimberley Flood, Peter McAsh, risk-taking, Robin Feick, social media, Tim King, transliteracy, Treasure Mountain Canada
Is it possible to be proactive when technology and the use of social media sites changes so quickly?

A colleague of mine asked me this question today. Here’s my reply: I think it is possible to be proactive with technology and social media, because I think the growth of social networking is plateauing. In preparation for our group assignment on games, I have come across this business researcher, Seth Priebatsch, who says: For those of…

July 22, 2014

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decade of games, digital footprint, digital literacy, educational research, educational technology, Facebook’s Open Graph, game layer, information literacy, Jian Ghomeshi, library leadership, Seth Priebatsch, social layer, social media, Vancouver riots
It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens by danah boyd

It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by Danah Boyd My rating: 4 of 5 stars Throughout danah boyd’s “It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens”, I’m very satisfied with the level of sophistication of boyd’s research and unbiased point of view in her writing. Her tone is academic, professional and at the…

July 21, 2014

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Alanna King, book reviews, books, collection development, cyberbullying, danah boyd, definition of literacy, digital divide, digital identity, digital literacy, educational research, educational technology, Elizabeth Bazelon, Henry Jenkins, information literacy, It’s Complicated, literacy, marc prensky, non-fiction, school librarian, secondary school teacher, social media, teacher-librarian, technology, technology integration, transliteracy

social media

Social Media Distancing with students

Social LEADia by Jennifer Casa-Todd

#BIT15Reads: Interview with author Clive Veroni

Revisiting Treasure Mountain 2014

Is it possible to be proactive when technology and the use of social media sites changes so quickly?

It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens by danah boyd