Do you know your school's social media policy?

Metro school districts have different electronic use and social media policies for students and teachers connected to the districts' networks.

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From: 41 Action News

Related topics : schools social networking policy / social media policy / using social media

Kabrina Chang: All Up in Your Facebook

Abstract: You can be fired for off-duty posts to social networking sites. But now you can be hired in just the same way. The new Facebook Score and a Social Networking Report allow employers to use your social networking activity to make hiring decisions. While more than 50% of responding employers in a recent study reported looking at and basing decisions on an applicant's social networking activity, a newly-devised "Facebook Score" offers employers a five-characteristic checklist for...

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From: BU Questrom

Related topics : new social networking sites like facebook / employment social network / schools using social networking

MIXED-METHOD APPROACHES TO SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS Session A Part 2 of 6

MIXED-METHOD APPROACHES TO SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS Session A: Part 2 of 6

Monday 12 May 2014, Middlesex University School of Law

Chair: Prof. Louise Ryan.

Qualitative network map interviews: Combining egocentric network maps and narrations.

Alice Altissimo, University of Hildesheim, Germany.

Biographical Networks: Whose Network is it anyway?

Dr. Neil Armitage, University of Canterbury.

Lessons from understanding social capital: Using the interpretation of hand-drawn network maps to trace the...

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From: School of Law, Middlesex University London

Related topics : university social network analysis / analysis social networks / schools using social networking / economic and social networking

Social Media Metrics: A ROI-al Pain

From the 2010 CALI Conference for Law School Computing

It sounds great: start a blog, create a twitter account, or a Facebook page and you're successfully using social networking, right? Not quite. Many organizations don't think about how they're going to populate these accounts with content. Furthermore, measuring the success of these social networking initiatives is often an afterthought—if a thought at all.

This presentation will discuss how librarians from the Lillian Goldman...

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From: caliorg

Related topics : schools using social networking / measuring social media success / social media roi metrics / social network measures / organizations using social media

Mission to help poor school children through social network

TV host Henry Golding and former beauty queen Andrea Fonseka help raised funds for the My Kasih Foundation through the use of social network to meet their target of RM30,000 in three days.

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From: The Star Online

Related topics : schools using social networking / social network hosting

Students encouraged to surf social media during class in US

While some schools disagree with students surfing social media during class hours, one teacher in the United States is actively encouraging it, considering it as a useful learning tool.

Students at Wauwatosa West High School are encouraged to use their smart phones to communicate with the teachers and peers via social media. Chris Lazarski uses Twitter in classroom conversations about current events. Some schools say social networks like Twitter can enhance learning by expanding classroom...

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From: PressTV Videos

Related topics : schools using social networking / social class media

The Wall Clone Social Networking Script Demo v2.0

Wall clone is a social network software which is built in PHP, Jquery, RESTful, Oembed, PDO and OAuth. This helps you to understand social networking concepts and build your own social network website.

It is very lightweight, powerful, secure(token based APIs) and easy way to understand the concepts, this comes with a responsive and user friendly interface. With Wall clone you can create your own social network website for your business, your university, your school, your sports club or support...

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From: Marshall Unduemi

Related topics : build your own social networking website / build your own social networking site / creating a social networking website / open source software for social networking sites / creating a social networking site using php

Social Networking: An Evolution in Communication Media

Most public schools block social networking websites. I put this video together to get a little perspective. It is an attempt to see the forest from the trees. Basically, my thesis is that the internet is a social network and a communication medium. Communication media are only fully used to their potential if it is a two-way medium. Teaching students how to use the internet without letting them publish, blog, tweet, etc. is like teaching them how to read without allowing them to...

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From: Carl Anderson

Related topics : social media networking websites / social media network / schools using social networking

New Free Kids Social networking website www.KidzSocial.com Social Networking for Children 7-13

Kids Social Networking Free Website. No Parents allowed. KidzSocial.com is a free kids social networking site where kids can be kids and enjoy talking with friends. Sharing homework projects, sharing photos and playing games.KidzSocial.com sends an email of what their child is emailing others so that the parents and monitor conversations. We ask that parents help set up their children's accounts and using their email address. This will help the parents follow what is being said and what friends...

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From: Deanna Statton

Related topics : free social network website / new social networking websites / schools social networking sites

Web 2.0 in education

How "web 2.0" technologies and social networking are used by young people outside school compared with their learning experiences in school.

Every year we conduct research to find out how the power of technology is being harnessed to support learning. Find out more about our research on the Becta website: http://www.becta.org.uk/research

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From: harnessingtechnology

Related topics : schools using social networking