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Social Media Classroom is scheduled to launch next week. One of the many things I overpromised in my application was a series of videos for educators about social media. Here's one.

No need to go through this if you saw the one I posted under a password. I've updated and tightened this -- down to 8 minutes from 12 minutes.

Robert Emery Smith Director, Technology Services, at Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning, has been making short videos of how teachers use the affordances of Stanford's Wallenberg Hall. Here I talk about WHY I decided to start teaching courses about social media, using social media.

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I'm embedding this in the first post of a blog in the Social Media Collaboratory -- I'm experimenting with the still-under-construction platform with a workshop of educators next week. You can shut me up by hovering your mouse over the video. You can also send a video reply directly through the widget if you have a Seesmic account.

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