NACTA 2010 Conference Keynote
Welcome 2010 NACTA participants! I’m excited to serve as the keynote speaker for this year’s conference. I wrote this blog post and have invited you to comment on it because I have a short amount of time to engage with you during my keynote address. My goals of this blog post are twofold: To learn [...]
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3 Tips for New Social Media Users
1. Be respectful 2. Be helpful 3. Be careful 1. Be respectful Before diving right in and using social media, take a little time to learn about the process. Understand the culture– just like you would notice different beliefs, customs, and mores when you travel to another country, do the same online and get to [...]
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Using Twitter to Support Engagement in the College Classroom
I gave the following talk at the Berkman Center in December 2009 focusing on the preliminary findings of our Twitter study. You can download the slides here. Abstract Recent research has shown that social media use is correlated with indices of student engagement. While a relationship exists, no research has been conducted to elucidate the [...]
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5 Steps to Choosing a Conference Hashtag
After reading a few tweets today expressing confusion about a conference hashtag, I realized it would be nice to have some guidance as to how to go about choosing a hashtag for an upcoming conference. Here’s a step-by-step: 1. Pick a short hashtag that adequately represents the conference. If your organization is called “National Association [...]
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Berkman Center Talk: Twitter in the College Classroom
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How to Export Twitter Updates to Excel
I found myself in need of an efficient way to download entire Twitter timelines to Excel in order to conduct a thematic analysis of Twitter topics for our research. I decided to share what I discovered. Here’s how to do it: 1. Go to http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/userid.xml?count=x 2. Replace “userid” with your Twitter username 3. You’ll also need to [...]
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Getting started with Twitter presentation slides
This past week, I was at South Dakota State University kicking off our experimental study of the effects of Twitter on student engagement. I taught multiple sections of the first year experience course, GS100, how to use Twitter. Overall, I think the week was very productive and I was able to get a lot of [...]
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NYT: Teens not on Twitter. Oh really?
The New York Times published an article citing Twitter usage data to support their notion that teens don’t use Twitter. NYT reported data from comScore that showed that only 11% of Twitter users are between the ages of 12 and 17. To put these figures in a different context, I created this chart based on [...]
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Slides from 2009 Brunel eLearning 2.0 Keynote
Brunel eLearning 2.0 Keynote Slides View more presentations from Rey Junco.
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Academic advising, social media, and student engagement
My research is focused on using emerging technologies to help engage students and enhance their success in higher education. Some people who learn about my research before meeting me, think I’m going to be a digital evangelist. On the contrary, I prefer to be engaged with my students in realspace (i.e., the classroom) and realtime. [...]
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