gwen mueller
#iam an IT Professional, Strategist, Creative Thinker, Gamer, Nerd in Secondary Education
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If youre using social media to deliver content to where your audiences are it makes sense to know when theyre actually there.
Over on Mediabistros All Twitter Blog they do some of the legwork by looking at what time of day people most engage with links and content posted to Twitter and Facebook (caveat: US only).
The above is a detail of a much larger infographic that looks at population by time zone, and at what time of day people are most likely to repost your content or click through on your links. The time here is EST and shows percentage of retweets and click through rate.
If you are going to employ social timing be sure to evaluate your success with audiences in each timezone separately. Disproportionately large populations (like in the Eastern Time Zone) can distort results so that you miss trends in key regional markets.
Which is another way of saying: know where your target audience is.
Increased emphasis on reading, devoting more school hours to comprehension of the language no matter what the topic, might give us the skills to develop an interest in public affairs when we are ready for it. Many critics say history has suffered because schools are giving more time to reading and math. How then, asks Wineburg, did the most improvement on the NAEP history test occur in fourth grade, where the concentration on reading and math has been greatest?
Access4ed.net is an online community of practice for innovation in providing access to online environments in education. The access4ed.net community will start with a focus on student-owned devices and bring-your-own-technology (BYOT) initiatives. It will include conversations around key issues, case studies from districts addressing them, discussion of policy issues and how to address them, and opportunities to connect with education leaders in districts similar to and different from yours. From there it will expand to include activities and features requested and even designed by community members themselves.
Great data on data.ed.gov! One of the interactive maps is Broadband Availability, by education level (K-12/College) and speed. Put in your City, State and youll see even more specific data (even down to the school).
