Facebook introduces Groups for Schools

In their 2011 National Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, Educause reported that 90% of undergraduates use Facebook and 58% of undergraduates use the site several times a day.  For those of you familiar with Facebook’s history, this makes sense.  Facebook was created by a few creative college students so that could interact with [...]

BYOD Concerns: Education vs. Prohibition

One innovation that is sweeping American institutions of learning is the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) movement.  The reasons are compelling.  Instead of schools and universities purchasing expensive technology and paying for its upkeep, individual students simply use the devices that they already have.  A recent ECAR survey reports that over half of collegiate students [...]

More communication options with extras in Google Hangouts

Google continues to develop it’s social networking platform (Google+) by adding a bunch of new features to make the tool more social and collaborative.  This week, I thought I’d outline some of the new features and how the features can be used in education.  While some people may be happy to hear that Google has [...]

Social learning with Google Plus?

I need to start by saying that I haven’t been one of the lucky ones.  I haven’t actually received my Google+ invite yet (although I know several people have invited me).  Google has been experiencing tons of issues with meeting the demand of Google+ so they stopped sending invitations last week.  So, most of this [...]

Five ways to avoid Twitter mishaps

Twitter has been in the news a lot lately and I thought I would dedicate some time to the innerworkings of the site.  As many of you know, Twitter is a microblogging site where users can post up to 140 characters describing their thoughts or actions.  Although the site has become popular with celebrities who [...]