Posts tagged Social Media
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Small Controlled Bursts Of Boredom: A Cure For Contemporary Click-Frenzies?
“The things people do out of sheer boredom! They study out of boredom; they pray out of boredom; they fall in love, get married and reproduce out of boredom; in the end they die out of boredom.” It was the German author Georg Büchner who put these words into the mouth of his protagonist in the comedy Leonce and Lena written…
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Has Content Curation Become A New Creativity For The Masses?
When I first heard the term “digital content curation” I thought of Picasso-peddling online arts merchants, vernissages on Facebook and high heeled iPhone users staggering through Italian designer boutiques. But what does it really mean? Traditionally, the term curator refereed to a person who selects, manages and collects works of art or (cultural artifacts of any…
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4 Quick Ways To Use (Social) Media In Foreign Language Teaching
Sometimes, taking a class to learn a language isn’t quite enough. For people that are moving to a new country and want to learn the native tongue of the land, a class or textbook might leave you in the dark when it comes to slang, idioms or figures of speech. For instance, students learning English…
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How To Stand Out to Capture & Hold Students’ Attention
Capturing a person’s attention is hard to do in this day and age. Between TV, the Internet, advertisements, politics, world hunger, animal rights, general plight and even what to have for dinner, our attention is in a constant state of flux. So, how do you go about capturing the attention of students? With everything going…
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The New Facebook: Your Life Story in Likes Or: The Perfect Surveillance Machine
It was Jeremy Bentham who invented the Panopticon, a circular building with a tower in its center that allows “an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) inmates of an institution without them being able to tell whether or not they are being watched.” (wiki) Although no true Panopticon has ever been built, examples in the…
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What Is StumbleUpon And How Can We Use It To Discover Stuff And Boost Traffic?
All the recent discussions about the alleged “epic battle” of the Social Networks Google+ and Facebook overshadow the fact that there’s a whole gamut of wildly useful tools, platforms and services besides them. StumbleUpon is one of these tools that may not get as much hyped attention and yet the total of traffic it generates…
