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Grading Social Media

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In last week’s #SMCEDU chat, we discussed the issue of grading students in classes that teach social media. What about those classes that aren’t teaching social media, is there a place for social media in those classes too? How should social media fit into the world of academia? And then, how do we grade them?

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Connecting 2 the World: Lessons learned from New Communication Technologies in Organziational Life

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However, I was able to aggregate many of the pieces I had coming into the course as my students worked on the class project: an online conference on nanotechnology. Wikis, on the other hand have controls built into them that allow for different levels of contribution. Group communication and the wiki. and community building.

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Connecting 2 the World: The "soft skills"

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The first was an entry in an MBA students journal (they have a regular series written by MBA students in world class programs). Group communication and the wiki. The Financial Times has had two thought provoking articles this week. Are we becoming afraid to take chances? What we can learn from Linkedin. and community building.

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Ways of assessing organizational learning

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I also thought that a list of the resources I have collected for classes on delicious would be a good example of the types of resources I have found concerning a certain topic such as those for my ACOM 203 class (speech writing and presentation) or work literacy (professional resources).

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Social Media is Scary - How to Address Junior Employees

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Show them how they can use their organization’s internal blogs, wiki, bookmarks, etc. Once we deployed internal blogs, a wiki, and forums, that’s when my work internally with social media really took off. I went in and created dozens of wiki pages on every social media tool I found. I blogged every chance I got.

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Being Lightweight: Tools We Use | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English

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I recently found one of your videos when I was doing a project for a class. Video: Wikis in Plain English 143. Video: RSS in Plain English (491266) Video: Wikis in Plain English (300376) Plenty of Fish and Dating Site Disruption (193068) Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English (150255) Video: Twitter in Plain English (115003).

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Connecting 2 the World: Is constructing knowledge based on analysis a work literacy skill?

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In recent years, I have had to dedicate at least one entire class in how to conduct and analysis, and give a lot of support to students as they do their own analysis. Group communication and the wiki. Depth of learning, communication, and "connecting" Bad Course on Instructional Design : eLearning Tec. and community building.