District 181 Tech Blog » social.networking http://tech.d181.org/blog Tech Tips, Tricks and News Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:25:26 +0000 en hourly 1 Social Media Counts http://tech.d181.org/blog/2009/11/12/social-media-counts/ http://tech.d181.org/blog/2009/11/12/social-media-counts/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:00:42 +0000 eric http://tech.d181.org/blog/?p=363 Thanks to Nadine Norris for passing this along via her “Life Long Learning” blog.

Social media has transformed the communication landscape, and its use is only continuing to explode. Gary Hayes on his “Personalize Media” blog has created a Social Media Counts tracker which shows the growth of social media over a given time period. Just while writing this blog post facebook has gained 1300 new members, 4 million searches were done on Google, and 40 Billion Text messages were sent. Mind blowing.

I’ve embedded the tracker below:

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A great guide to facebook security from www.MakeUsOf.com. The guide provides 10 easy steps to ensure you are in control of the information available about you appearing on the site.

Check it out.

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Applications for Education
This course could be an excellent professional development resource for anyone that is interested in the roles of social media in education. This may be a course that teachers would want to participate in along with their building administrators. By participating together, administrators and teachers could discuss how social media can be used within the context of their schools.

(Via Free Technology for Teachers.)

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