Pinterest provides a visual way to save your bookmarks, which makes it an excellent tool for educational purposes. This presentation explores how educators can use Pinterest through curating content, organizing ideas, collaborating with others, and allowing students to use the site. It also provides real examples of how teachers and professors are using Pinterest in […]
Read more "Pinterest and Education"It has been interesting this semester to tweet for academic and professional purposes. On my old Twitter account, I mainly tweeted sassy and sarcastic things that really didn’t matter at all. Now, I am proud of the new content I have created, shared, and curated. All data about tweets was pulled from Twitter Analytics. Love […]
Read more "Reflecting on My Best Tweets of the Semester"Beginning follower count: 0 Ending follower count: 70 For this class I decided to start over with a brand new Twitter account. I created my old account in high school and used it primarily to tweet sarcastic things to my friends because it was the only social media site at school that wasn’t blocked. I wasn’t […]
Read more "Influencer Analysis: Starting at Zero"JUST HOW NECESSARY ARE ALL OF THESE TESTS? One issue that can easily get people fired up is the topic of educational reform. Education is such an important issue because it impacts all of our lives in some way. Testing has become a hot topic of discussion within educational reform. People argue that students today are […]
Read more "Examining Educational Reform"Exposure to Diverse Information on Facebook from Juli Whetstone In this presentation we explore the idea of “echo chambers” in relation to social media. This includes examining if our social media feeds are just filled with viewpoints that are similar to our own, or if there is some diversity in what we are exposed to on […]
Read more "Exposure to Diverse Information on Facebook – Journal Article Discussion"In 2008 Barack Obama changed how presidential candidates use social media during what people called the Facebook Election. Now during any campaign, it is assumed that all the candidates will use social media—and that they’ll be active on many platforms. According to Pew Research Center, substantially more Americans are following political candidates on social media. Just […]
Read more "The Social Media Election"As a Media & Education graduate student, I am always looking for the intersections between these two extremely broad fields of “media” and “education.” Through this post my goal is explore how two brands within these spheres can use social media to further their engagement with their audiences. The first brand is the Cook Honors […]
Read more "Education and Social Media"By Pad, Rebecca, and Juli In our presentation we discussed two different theories, the cultivation theory and the gatekeeping theory. The cultivation theory was birthed out of the idea that television shapes the audience view of social reality. The gatekeeping theory is the idea that a social system decides what knowledge a public space will […]
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