Archive for the ‘social media’ Category
Posted by Marti Weston on May 14, 2012
Check out the May 13, 2012 post, Online Etiquette Lacking, Study Finds, over at the Techlicious blog.
Writer Christina DesMarais describes a study that identifies irritating digital world behaviors such as communicating at inappropriate times, sharing too much information, and highly negative commenting — all related to our increasing use of 21st Century social media.
This article is filled with digital world conversation starters that parents and teachers can use to begin discussions about ethics, privacy, and security.
Also, you can check out my related post, Conversations About Commenting.
Posted in 21st Century Learning, acceptable use, conversations on commenting, digital citizenship, electronic communication, interesting research, parents and technology, social media, social networking, teaching digital kids | Tagged: 21st century learning, digital kids, digital parenting, etiquette, Social media, social networking, Techlicious | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Marti Weston on March 26, 2012
My design with images from the Apple website.
1. Save Facebook, Google+, and other big time social networking experiences for high school.
2. Know your child’s passwords.
3. Keep online computer activities out of the bedroom. Also, plan on no-screen wind-down time during the last half hour before bed. (Yes, even those bedtime friendly Kindles – why not use bedtime-friendly books?)
4. Set up an overnight charging area for cell phones and other gadgets outside of the bedroom, preferably on another floor or part of your home.
5. Consider writing up digital device contracts and using these agreements with your child. Feel free to take away privileges, or even the device, if your expectations are not met.
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Posted in digital parenting, online databases, parent child conversations, parents and technology, social media, supervising kids | Tagged: digital devices, digital kids, digital parenting, online behavior, online databases, parental expectations, supervision | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Marti Weston on March 3, 2012
A view from the convention center.
As an educational technology faculty member attending the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) conference, I enjoy the opportunity to meet with lots of colleagues and friends. More interestingly, at these events I always come face-to-face, for the first time, with a number of people with whom I’ve previously connected via personal learning networks, LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs, and even via old-fashioned listservs.
While it’s always a joy to meet and greet these people, I am always aware that dozens more connected friends and colleagues are probably attending any given conference — I just haven’t met them yet. Today, in fact, I sat down at a table to eat lunch, looked at the woman across the table, noticed how familiar she looked, and realized that she and I are Twitter followers.
It wasn’t always like this! More than 20 years ago, when I received my first email account, I desperately wanted to meet other teachers who were online.
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Posted in cultural changes, networking, parents and technology, social media, technology changes | Tagged: conference, digital learning, Independent School Educator's Listserv, ISED-L, listserv, NAIS, networking, personal learning, teaching | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Marti Weston on January 25, 2012
Politico, a Washington weekly newspaper that meticulously covers all things political, published this nifty Twitter graphic illustrating the tweeting environment during 2012 State of the Union (SOTU) speech. The data collection begins around 9:05 and continues until 10:40 eastern time. President Obama entered the chamber around 9:05 and and the Republican response ended around 10:40.
The infographic includes a huge amount of data, illustrating the times (and issues), when the frequency of #SOTU tweets went up, and other hashtag (#) topics that people included in their tweets.
Twitter’s infographic illustrates an enormous amount of social networking activity. Use it as a classroom or dinner table conversation topic. providing a glimpse into real-time civics and history.
Posted in digital parenting, electronic communication, family conversations, parents and technology, social media, social networking, teaching digital kids | Tagged: civics, digital parenting, digital world, Social media, SOTU, State of the Union address, Twitter | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Marti Weston on December 22, 2011
Common Sense Media recently posted Six Ways to be a Media Savvy Parent in 2012. The December 2011 report suggests all sorts of ideas that can help parents (and other adults) develop stronger media (and media literacy) skills.
Suggestions include downloading a game to play with the kids, trying out a social media site, investigating YouTube, and much more. Some these can ideas will provide great fun for kids and parents over the holiday vacation.
Visit Common Sense Media and try out some of these features.
Thanks to my colleague and friend Renee Hawkins for spotting a good media post (one that I had missed). Renee blogs with another friend and colleague, Susan Davis, at The Flying Trapeze.
Posted in answers to media questions, digital parenting, media literacy, parents and technology, social media, social networking | Tagged: Common Sense Media, digital kids, digital parenting, Flying Trapeze blog, media literacy, social networking | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Marti Weston on December 19, 2011
Tomorrow I’ll write a bit about QR Codes. Here’s the graph from the ComScore Data Mine site.
Posted in digital learning, digital parenting, parents and technology, social media | Tagged: ComScore Data Mine, digital literacy, marketing, QR Code | 1 Comment »
Posted by Marti Weston on December 15, 2011
If you or your children or your aging parents are active Facebook users, take a look at these articles and continue to follow the news on the just introduced Timeline feature. Looks like, despite setting our privacy controls, that our information will be widely shared. We may have some decisions to make.
What to do? Google + is looking awfully good right now. Still, I’ve deleted a few things and set up my timeline.
Read these Articles (I’ll add others as I read them.)
Posted in digital citizenship, digital footprints, digital parenting, online learning, parents and technology, social media, social media friends, social networking, teens and technology | Tagged: Facebook, friends, history, personal history, privacy, Social media, tags, Timeline | 2 Comments »
Online Etiquette Not the Greatest
Posted by Marti Weston on May 14, 2012
Writer Christina DesMarais describes a study that identifies irritating digital world behaviors such as communicating at inappropriate times, sharing too much information, and highly negative commenting — all related to our increasing use of 21st Century social media.
This article is filled with digital world conversation starters that parents and teachers can use to begin discussions about ethics, privacy, and security.
Also, you can check out my related post, Conversations About Commenting.
Posted in 21st Century Learning, acceptable use, conversations on commenting, digital citizenship, electronic communication, interesting research, parents and technology, social media, social networking, teaching digital kids | Tagged: 21st century learning, digital kids, digital parenting, etiquette, Social media, social networking, Techlicious | Leave a Comment »