Tag Archives: Social media

Google Plus Puts the Social in Learning with Google Apps for Education

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Ted Curran

With the news that Google Apps for Education will be integrated with Google+ in a few days, it’s time to start thinking about how social media and collaboration can be a reality for schools.

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Secure Your Social Identity Across All Sites with NameChk.com

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Ted Curran

If you are trying to create a branded online identity, it helps to have a consistent username across all of the major sites. With NameChk.com, you can search once and see if your favorite username is available on 159 different … Continue reading →

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Cultivate your Personal Learning Network

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Ted Curran

    This post discusses how to build your own Personal (or Professional) Learning Network. Instead of starting by telling you which tools to use, I want to talk about why you would do this in the first place…. This … Continue reading →

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Is it OK to have student friends on Facebook? What do you think?

Posted on May 18, 2009 by Ted Curran

Image by dan taylor via Flickr What follows is an account of how I amassed a coterie of past and present students as friends on my social networks. I share this in the attempt to find out where other teachers … Continue reading →

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