personal learning network

Pay it Forward! We’re Replacing Final Presentations with Workshops open to the Public

by corinnew April 18, 2012

It’s that time of year: in college classrooms all over the nation, students are getting ready to put together final presentations to demonstrate what they’ve learned in their classes. This semester, I decided to raise the bar a little and to turn the traditional final presentations into free workshops open to the Austin community! I […]

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What the Bible can teach us about Personal Learning Networks: Spermalogos & Twitter birds

by corinnew August 1, 2011

Yesterday, while reading Acts 17:18, I stumbled upon the rather intriguing term “spermalogos.”If you’re not up on your New Testament Bible stories, let me briefly set the scene for you. In this verse, the apostle Paul has just arrived in Athens and finds himself in the Greek agora preaching the gospel of Christ to a bunch […]

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Incorporating Personal Learning Networks into Course Projects

by corinnew August 28, 2010

Last semester I introduced a brand new project into my social media class which I’ve been meaning to report on for a while now. I decided to set 25% of the final grade aside for an assignment the students were allowed to design themselves (the project is described in detail here). The idea was to help […]

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You don’t need to tweet to get value out of Twitter

by corinnew October 13, 2009

Yes, you heard me right: You don’t necessarily need to tweet in order to get value from Twitter! Let me explain why I say this. For the last few semesters I have been encouraging my PR students to get on Twitter. I’ve explained the necessity to be Twitter literate (twitterate?) and discussed examples of corporate, non-profit, […]

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