Social Media posting - infographic to download plus useful links

In keeping with some of the discussions this week I was very interested in the post What do I post where? by Sylvia Rosenthal Tolesano (@Langwitches).

It was a great visual representation that I think would help explain social media to a number of the staff at our school.

Sylvia is a leading teacher in the digital educational world and over the past few years have found the posts and articles she writes for her own and other blogs inspirational. She is also a great collaborator and has made this poster available as a download for others to use.

• How to Create Your Own Online Course: 100 Tools, Guides, and Resources | Best Universities  A long list of reviews and references to sites, best practices and tools  for creating content. Also offers tips for students and teachers as they relate to online teaching and learning.
• Copyscape Plagiarism Checker – Duplicate Content Detection Software The free version of this content checker works by seeking out duplicate pages, so it won’t help you much before publishing, but it can help if you need a quick take on what you have already published. Premium versions include copy searches and duplicate alerts.

• Vaughan Memorial Library : Tutorials : Plagiarism The site shows students what plagiarism is and how to avoid accidentally plagiarizing someone’s work.

• Plagiarism Checker – Free Online Software For Plagiarism Detection The website allows you to check copy by either pasting it or uploading a .txt file, then compares it sentence by sentence with Google, Yahoo or MSN search. It works quickly and correctly spotted our duplicate partner article–as well as several unauthorized reprints–but lower on the results page were many articles matching any of the words, not the specific phrases. Since it breaks down the article into sentences for you, it’s much faster than using a search engine on your own. Available in English only.

• Plagiarism Checker Free Online – Plagiarisma This content checker is our top pick for language support and versatility. Sign up for free with your Facebook account and you can paste in text, check a url or upload files in 190 languages. Aside from checking the web, Plagiarisma can also delve into Google Scholar for articles, patents, legal opinions and journals as well as Google Books.

• Sqpad – Easily save and search for notes

• The Intersection of Digital Literacy and Social Media — Campus Technology

  “As educators look for new ways to teach digital literacy or the use of digital technology to find, organize, comprehend, evaluate, and create information, some are turning to social media to help advance the concept in the college classroom. BUT…..colleges leveraging social media to improve digital literacy must focus on students’ current use of social media and then find ways to interface those activities with the curriculum.”

• Solvemall.com – crosswords online A good collection of online crossword puzzles to help improve your English.There are many different levels from beginner with pictures to more advanced.

• There is No Set of Skills for Transliteracy « Libraries and Transliteracy

• Information Literacy: Building Blocks of Research: Overview A good overview by Debbie Abilock

• PresentationTube Recorder PresentationTube Recorder uses a simple and straight forward technique to capture your own PowerPoint presentations from the comfort of your home or office, and without the need to have Internet connection while recording. PresentationTube provides a FREE version and FULL version of PresentationTube Recorder.

• Unused Words – Discover a new word every day Although it is called ‘Unused words’, many of the words are still in use. The site also gives some interesting information about the history and origin of the words as well.

• Beautiful-Libraries.com Home

• https://s3.amazonaws.com/infographics/Social+Media+Education.png Infographic – Pros and cons of social media in education

• What NOT to include in your social media policy A few salient points to remember

• Half an Hour: New Forms of Assessment: measuring what you contribute rather than what you collect  ”This list of three types of assessment is intended only to stimulate thought….These three things – helping others, being cooperative, contributing to the public good – are obviously not easy to assess. To be sure, it’s far easier to ask students simple questions and grade the number of correct responses. But asking students simple questions, far from measuring putative ‘content knowledge’, is really an exercise in counting without any real interest in what is being counted.”

• Why passwords have never been weaker—and crackers have never been stronger | Ars Technica

• The Building Blocks of a Sound Social Media Policy « Radian6 – Social media monitoring tools, social media engagement software and social CRM and marketing from the industry leader in social analytics.

• The rise of e-reading | Pew Internet Libraries ”Summary of findings”

• Association of Research Libraries (ARL) :: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries  ”The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) presents the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who support academic inquiry and higher education. “

• New site offers help with shift to digital education | eSchool News ”Epic-ed (US)  aims to empower digital transitions at all stages of development, including school leaders who are thinking about moving to ubiquitous computing environments, those who wish to implement ed-tech pilot projects, and those who are ready for full-scale implementation.”

• OverlapMaps – Instantly compare any two places on Earth! Overlap Maps is a free service that can be used to quickly compare the size of countries, states, provinces, and some bodies of water. To create a visual comparison of two countries select one country from the “overlap this” menu and select one country from the “onto this” menu. The comparisons you make are displayed on a map. You can make comparisons from different categories.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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