EduGeek Journal

To conclude my series on the three C’s of social networking in education, I will now attempt to examine a rather ambiguous concept: context.
Context is pretty ambiguous because I can’t really give you a range of steps on how to determine what the context is in your particular educational situation. Your context is your context, [...]

To continue my series on the three C’s of social networking in education, I will turn my attention next to the one that seems to get overlooked the most: community.
The web has long been dominated by a “Field of Dreams” mentality: if you build it, they will come. Now that we have the ability to [...]

I thought I would start my look at the three C’s of social networking in education by tackling the hardest one: consistency. I know I made that sound like I had a choice on which one of the three to start with. And the truth is, I did – I don’t think these three C’s [...]

Here is a typical scenario in education when an instructor or administrative person decides to explore some online social networking tool. Let’s take micro-blogging for an example. You sign up for Twitter, learn to use it, and then Tweet away for a few days or even weeks. They you get busy and disappear for about [...]