User:NetGenStudent

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Links

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Google Trends
• Google Scholar
• Wikipedia
• Youtube
• Blogger
• http://matthewschultzdig4526.blogspot.com/

A Day in the Life (of a Net Gen Student)

Description

Students share how technologies and online information sharing resources have become an integral part of their academic and social development.This will be conveyed through a demonstration of the tools used in students' daily lives.

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Students share how technology and online information resources have become inextricably integrated into their daily academic and social lives—often in ways incomprehensible to the academy.

Key Points

• Introduction to the life of a Net Gen student and tools used.
• Introduce blogs.
• Overall impact on student lives.

Recreation

• Facebook
  • Popularity
  • Not socially network.
  • Stats. ratio of students:facebook addicts.
  • Refer to Google Trends

Education

• Google Scholar
  • Introduce it & what it is.
  • Helps sort out the reputable sources.

• Rate My Professor
  • Everyone & their mom uses it.
  • Students base course selections on ratings of professors
  • Get some numbas.

• Wikis (Google Scholarly-ness of it)
  • What are wikis?
  • Wikipedia for research
  • Great interactive tool
  • Used in many online classes
  • Group work

• Blogs
  • Sure you've heard of blogs but only recently have my professors been incorporated them into the classroom.

Both

• Twitter
  • What is Twitter & what does it do?
  • How can it be useful in an educational way?
  • Advantages of updating friends/family/co-workers on what you're doing at any given time. For example, if ever needing to escape from an Egyptian prison.
  • User statistics
  • You update your friends, family, and co-workers on what you are doing throughout your day.
  • Collaborating about conferences
  • Update friends on your daily acitivites
  • News outlets use Twitter in order to update subscribers.
  • Twitters Self Out of Jail
  • We have ICE!!!!

• Youtube
  • Wide range of content (lectures vs. Star Wars rap)
  • M.I.T.-Walter Lewin - Physics

Introduction

• • Net generation students use the internet for schoolwork and... social interaction
  • Some of the following tools are used for both business & pleasure.
  • They integrate with each other. Like calculus.

Content

• Wiki
  • Introduction (M)
  • Outline of presentation
  • Wikipedia - encyclopedia in wiki form

• Google Scholar (M)
  • More reputable sources
  • Published material
  • How is that different from a wiki? Why is it it better or worse? Use them in conjunction with each other.

• Blogs (G)
  • Source of news
  • Online journal (may be public or private)
  • Ways higher ed. can use blogs
  • For example: http://directing3.blogspot.com/

• Youtube (embedded in blog post) (G)
  • Online lectures - educational
  • Other things
  • Stats (73% of all videos watched online are watched on Youtube)

• Facebook (G)
  • Transition to socializing online
  • Scrabulous
  • Categorize & collect friends
  • Events

• Twitter (M)
  • What you are doing. Quickly & frequently.
  • Colleagues, friends, students, blah.
  • Collaboration
  • Useful
  • Cool
  • List
  • Teal

Conclusion (G)