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  • Overview of how Facebook (pages) & Twitter can be used by University Support Services to connect with students

    Using Facebook & Twitter to connect with students from Technology Enhanced Learning

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  • Social Media for Employability

    In an increasingly competitive job-market, using social media effectively can really help our students stand out from the crowd. What is social media? Social media refers to websites and applications where users create and share content, networking across like-minded communities. The most popular in the UK are Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Why should my students […]

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  • Which Social Network is best for collaborative working?

    You want to collaborate on a project, potentially with people from around the world. You want to encourage your students to work together through social networking. You need a platform which is easy to manage. You want it to be user friendly so that partners can contribute easily. You know there are lots of social […]

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  • eGo: make the web work for you!

    ‘eGo’ make the web work for you! (2013) from Flea Palmer This new presentation was created in response to a graduate workshop I ran in collaboration with the Careers Department as part of their ‘Boost Your Confidence’ series of workshops. What attendees, who came from a range of disciplines, wanted to know was: how to […]

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  • eGo: make the web work for You!

    ‘eGo’ make the web work for you! from Flea Palmer Note: Presentation updated Feb. 2013 to reflect LinkedIn Profile changes and include Pinterest as a portfolio tool.. This new presentation was created in response to a graduate workshop I ran in collaboration with the Careers Department as part of their ‘Boost Your Confidence’ series of […]

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  • Facing the Consequences …with Viewbix

    To celebrate Safer Internet Day we present the movie ‘Facing the Consequences’ with added interactivity, enabled by Viewbix. Viewbix allows you to add a links to further information, in this case, Facebook’s Privacy Resources page. You can also add an RSS feed, in this example it points to Dan Schawbel’s ‘Student Branding Blog’; a QR […]

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  • Facing the consequences… a social networking horror story – the movie!

    Here is the final video as described in a previous post, which we hope will remind students how, in the real world, they have many different types of relationships with people and to be aware that this is also the case online. How you present your digital self is crucial, as is being careful about […]

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  • Facing the consequences… a social networking horror story!

    OK – just missed Halloween (doh!) but here’s a cautionary tale about the possible perils of using social networking sites… Open publication – Free publishing – More privacy I was asked by Lee Wright, a Lecturer in Midwifery, to create a resource to advise Health & Midwifery students about using social networking sites. Working with […]

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  • New Facebook Groups

    Facebook recently modified its ‘Groups’ feature to provide a range of functionality that will certainly help make it more useful to those of us using Facebook within our teaching practice, albeit with a few challenges. There is some further description in this post by allfacebook.com.  You will see that now, everyone can post links, photos, videos […]

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  • Overview of how Facebook (pages) & Twitter can be used by University Support Services to connect with students

    Using Facebook & Twitter to connect with students from Technology Enhanced Learning

  • Social Media for Employability

    In an increasingly competitive job-market, using social media effectively can really help our students stand out from the crowd. What is social media? Social media refers to websites and applications where users create and share content, networking across like-minded communities. The most popular in the UK are Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Why should my students […]

  • Which Social Network is best for collaborative working?

    You want to collaborate on a project, potentially with people from around the world. You want to encourage your students to work together through social networking. You need a platform which is easy to manage. You want it to be user friendly so that partners can contribute easily. You know there are lots of social […]

  • eGo: make the web work for you!

    ‘eGo’ make the web work for you! (2013) from Flea Palmer This new presentation was created in response to a graduate workshop I ran in collaboration with the Careers Department as part of their ‘Boost Your Confidence’ series of workshops. What attendees, who came from a range of disciplines, wanted to know was: how to […]

  • eGo: make the web work for You!

    ‘eGo’ make the web work for you! from Flea Palmer Note: Presentation updated Feb. 2013 to reflect LinkedIn Profile changes and include Pinterest as a portfolio tool.. This new presentation was created in response to a graduate workshop I ran in collaboration with the Careers Department as part of their ‘Boost Your Confidence’ series of […]

  • Facing the Consequences …with Viewbix

    To celebrate Safer Internet Day we present the movie ‘Facing the Consequences’ with added interactivity, enabled by Viewbix. Viewbix allows you to add a links to further information, in this case, Facebook’s Privacy Resources page. You can also add an RSS feed, in this example it points to Dan Schawbel’s ‘Student Branding Blog’; a QR […]

  • Facing the consequences… a social networking horror story – the movie!

    Here is the final video as described in a previous post, which we hope will remind students how, in the real world, they have many different types of relationships with people and to be aware that this is also the case online. How you present your digital self is crucial, as is being careful about […]

  • Facing the consequences… a social networking horror story!

    OK – just missed Halloween (doh!) but here’s a cautionary tale about the possible perils of using social networking sites… Open publication – Free publishing – More privacy I was asked by Lee Wright, a Lecturer in Midwifery, to create a resource to advise Health & Midwifery students about using social networking sites. Working with […]

  • New Facebook Groups

    Facebook recently modified its ‘Groups’ feature to provide a range of functionality that will certainly help make it more useful to those of us using Facebook within our teaching practice, albeit with a few challenges. There is some further description in this post by allfacebook.com.  You will see that now, everyone can post links, photos, videos […]