12:10 Wednesday Using Social Networking in the Class(room)
Wednesday’s 12:10 Conspiracy lunch and learn will share examples of social networking sites and how they can be used within classes and education. They are popular, remember, if MySpace were a country, it would be the 7th largest in the world. But just because they are popular outside of the class, doesn’t mean they work, or are popular inside the class.
That logic hasn’t worked since you said to your mother, “but mom, ALL the kids are doing it.”
There are some blurred boundaries and labels: social networking, web 2.0, digg, technorati, tagging. Some are concepts and some are tools, and the goal of this lunch and learn is to give you the information you need to understand how these work and for you to decide when and where it would be beneficial for students.
Trivia.quiz I hope you’ll join us and I promise to share more proof that there is a true 12/10 Conspiracy based that now extends into college football! Need proof? What was the score of the Iowa - Iowa State football game (the one in 1977) that re-ignited the intra-state rivalry? People who email me the correct answer are placed in a for a drawing for lunch at Palmers! This quiz closes Wednesday December 5 at noon!
Background: The 12/10 conspiracy is a CHS effort to introduce college faculty and staff to 12 new web based tools in 10 months. Some of the tools are described in blogs, others are featured in lunch and learn presentations that begin at 12:10 (coincidence or conspiracy?) on the last Wednesday of each month.
