Since the rise of tools like Facebook and Twitter in the mid‐2000s, there have always been alternatives to the big social networks. Back then, most of the alternatives were me‐too products trying to achieve the same fame and fortune as Twitter a...
Over the years, the big social networks Facebook and Twitter have quietly removed your ability to export your contacts out of their systems. They do this to trap you on their service and make you feel like you’d lose all your friends if you lef...
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 social media sites.
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(This post is part of a series called “The Connected Class Community”).
One essential part of human communities has always been a central meeting place– a location where the community comes to engage in conversations that are bigger than one‐on‐one interactions can offer. I call this space Th...
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“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration!” ‑Thomas Alva Edison
“I discovered the meaning of life but I forgot to write it down.” ‑Hugh Gallagher
You know those times when you are struck with a brilliant, life‐altering, million‐dollar, save‐the‐worl...
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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 draw the line between their offline and online selves. Would you friend stude...