Effective Use Of Technology
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Objectives
Identify what technology is used
Learn how to best use social networking
Learn how to best use texting
Identify the difference between a formal message and a
Facebook message
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Advances in computer technology and the
Internet
President Bill Clinton made this observation:
“Advances in computer technology and the Internet have
changed the way America works, learns, and communicates.
The Internet has become an integral part of America's
economic, political, and social life.”
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Generations Explained
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Today’s Technology
Write some of your
Individual Observations and Uses
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Use of Today’s Technology
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Assumption With Communication
The word Communication carries with it the assumption that
it actually took place.
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Use of Social Networks
Teens 12-17 spent an average of 1,233 minutes online during February
2006 (+19% from 2005) more than 20 ½ hours -YPulse.com
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How Best to Market a Facebook Event
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How Best to Market a Facebook Event
Select your guest list
Don´t go event crazy!
Use a catchy headline
Include an eye-catching picture that is connected to the
event
Have some compelling content
Invite, invite, invite
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Section Conclave Event
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A Powerful Tool
Are you connected?
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Texting – Best Use?
Texting – Are we using them as best we can?
Here are some thoughts on uses…
Emergency SMS Alert Systems
Electronic marketing
Text-to-vote polls
Travel and occurrence notices
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Texting – Pro and Con Debate
Pro
Con
Texting is much easier, cheaper and
private. You wouldn't want your mum
listen to what you're talking on the
phone would you?
I love to txt but it's like i'm. You can't ever
tell the meaning or emotion behind
the word.
Texting is better than talking, it saves the
noise and the teachers don't always
catch you when you text
Can be misunderstood
Documents information like an address
or phone number
Distracting and illegal while driving
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Right to Write
Is it right to write?
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Formal or Informal
Alert Warning
Formal
Informal
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Chat, Networking, Text
Policies and Procedures
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Publicity
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Resume
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Sympathy note, Invitation,
Get Well
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Guidelines
Formal
Informal
Using colloquial
words/expressions
Avoid (substitute with
children, man/boy,
wonderful, many, etc.)
May use (kids, guy,
awesome, a lot,
etc.)
Using contractions
Avoid (use full words cannot, will not, should
not, etc.)
May use (can't, won't,
shouldn't, etc.)
Point of View
Write in third person
(business letters may use
first person)
May use first, second,
or third person
Using clichés
Avoid clichés (use many,
was absent, etc.)
May use clichés (loads
of, conspicuous by
absence, etc.)
Using Abbreviations
Avoid using abbreviated
words (use full versions like photograph,
television, etc.)
May use abbreviated
words (photo, TV, etc)
Sentence Structure
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Prefer longer and more
complex sentences (short
May use short and
simple sentences reflects
simple sentences
poorly on the writer)
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Objectives Revisited
Identify what technology is used
Learn how to best use social networking
Learn how to best use texting
Identify the difference between a formal message and a
Facebook message
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Conclusion
If there are no Questions…
BCNU
L8TR
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SOURCE MATERIALS AND RESOURCES
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Web page "Net Generation Learners,"
http://www.educause.edu/NewLearners/5515
Kaiser Family Foundation, Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds
Pew Research Center, 1615 L Street, NW Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036
http://pewresearch.org
The Pew Internet & American Life Project: one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research
Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and
trends shaping America and the world.
http://pewinternet.org/
PEW INTERNET PROJECT DATA MEMO by Sydney Jones, Research Assistant & Susannah Fox,
Associate Director, Generations Online in 2009, January 28, 2009
http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2009/PIP_Generations_2009.pdf
Social Networking Technologies: A "Poke" for Campus Services; © 2007 Joanne Berg, Lori Berquam,
and Kathy Christoph; EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 2 (March/April 2007): 32–44
http://connect.educause.edu/wiki/Social_Computing
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the road less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
-Robert Frost
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