April 2010
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My new blog is up
I’m transitioning from Tumblr to WordPress. Check out my new blog at : http://blog.reyjunco.com
March 2010
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5 Steps to Choosing a Conference Hashtag
After reading a few tweets today expressing confusion about a conference hashtag, I realized it would be nice to have some guidance as to how to go about choosing a hashtag for an upcoming conference. Here’s a step-by-step:
1. Pick a short hashtag that adequately represents the conference. If your organization is called “National Association of Student Personnel Administrators,”...
January 2010
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Digital Media and Learning Competition Entry
Please check out our entry for the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition: Learning Factory Live: Harnessing digital media to engage pre-college students in engineering capstone design experiences.
I look forward to reading your comments!
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I've been remiss in updating my tumblr
It’s because I’ve been busy with so many other writing projects. Also, I’ve decided that I’m going to move my blogging to a WordPress blog hosted on my own domain. It will be easier for me to maintain it that way. For now, a quick update:
I am happy to report that our Twitter research experiment was a success. I’m staying quiet about it for now because we are...
December 2009
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You can use Facebook for that? Research-supported...
You can use Facebook for that? Research-supported strategies to engage your students.
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October 2009
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How to Export Twitter Updates to Excel
I found myself in need of an efficient way to download entire Twitter timelines to Excel in order to conduct a thematic analysis of Twitter topics for our research. I decided to share what I discovered. Here’s how to do it:
1. Go to http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/userid.xml?count=x 2. Replace “userid” with your Twitter username 3. You’ll also need to replace the...
September 2009
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Getting started with Twitter presentation slides
This past week, I was at South Dakota State University kicking off our experimental study of the effects of Twitter on student engagement. I taught multiple sections of the first year experience course, GS100, how to use Twitter. Overall, I think the week was very productive and I was able to get a lot of uninterrupted work time in (some alongside my co-investigator).
Here are the slides I used...
August 2009
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NYT: Teens not on Twitter. Oh really?
The New York Times published an article citing Twitter usage data to support their notion that teens don’t use Twitter. NYT reported data from comScore that showed that only 11% of Twitter users are between the ages of 12 and 17. To put these figures in a different context, I created this chart based on data from the Pew Internet and American Life Project:
While the researchers at Pew...
July 2009
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Slides from 2009 Brunel eLearning 2.0 Keynote
Brunel eLearning 2.0 Keynote Slides
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