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The Plugged-In Professor : Tips and Techniques for Teaching with Social Media.
Title:
The Plugged-In Professor : Tips and Techniques for Teaching with Social Media.
Author:
Ferris, Sharmila.
ISBN:
9781780633428
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (377 pages)
Series:
Chandos Publishing Social Media Series
Contents:
Cover -- The Plugged-In Professor : Tips and techniques for teaching with social media -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of tables and figure -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Part 1: Writing, research, and information fluency -- Chapter 1: Writing for Wikipedia: co-constructing knowledge and writing for a public audience -- Chapter 2: Organizing with Pinterest and Delicious -- Chapter 3: Students' inadequate exposure to learning technology: overcoming the pedagogical challenge using wikis -- Chapter 4: Collecting and analyzing primary sources -- Chapter 5: Unraveling the research process: social bookmarking and collaborative learning -- Part 2: Communication and collaboration -- 2A Communication, oral and written -- Chapter 6: Using Wimba Voice Board to facilitate foreign language conversation courses -- Chapter 7: Web conferencing and peer feedback -- Chapter 8: Learning through YouTube -- Chapter 9: Wiki-workshopping: using Wikispaces for peer writing workshops -- 2B Collaboration -- Chapter 10: Using persistent wikis as a pedagogical resource -- Chapter 11: Social media and public speaking: student-produced multimedia informative presentations -- Chapter 12: Collaborative presentations using Google Docs -- Chapter 13: Cooperative study blog -- Part 3: Critical thinking and creativity -- 3A Critical thinking -- Chapter 14: Using Facebook to apply social learning theory -- Chapter 15: Technology as a tool to develop problem-solving skills in general chemistry -- Chapter 16: Communicating experiential learning through an online portfolio in Tumblr -- Chapter 17: The Biology Taboo Wiktionary: a tool for improving student comprehension of key terminology in introductory biology courses -- 3B Creativity -- Chapter 18: Mobile digital storytelling in the second language classroom.

Chapter 19: Creating a video dialogue with streaming video clips -- Chapter 20: Remix as an educational activity -- Chapter 21: Using Twitter to assist students in writing a concise nut graph -- Part 4: Integrative learning -- Chapter 22: Using simulation, video sharing, and discussion threads for practice-based skills -- Chapter 23: Using Facebook Mobile as a tool to create a virtual learning community for pre-service teachers -- Chapter 24: Using social software tools to facilitate peer e-mentoring and self-reflection among students on practicum -- Chapter 25: Using opinion leaders on Twitter to amplify PR and marketing messages -- Index.
Abstract:
New technologies are transforming the way students work. The Plugged in Professor provides a timely and exceptional resource for using social media and other new technologies to help college students meet both general and discipline-specific objectives. The title covers techniques built around well-known social networking technologies, as well as other emerging technologies such as mobile phone and tablet apps. With a practical focus and reader-friendly format, this book shows educators how to apply techniques in each technology, and includes clear student learning objectives, step-by-step directions, observations and advice, and supplemental readings and resources. Twenty-five chapters by leading contributors cover key aspects of new technologies in education, in four parts: Writing, research and information fluency; Communication and collaboration; Critical thinking and creativity; and Integrative learning. Provides a cutting-edge resource for academics and practitioners in effective ways of reaching today's students through the use of their favourite tool, social media Outlines a range of strategies taking advantage of the unique learning styles and habits of net generation learners Exposes students to ways in which these technologies can be used in their professional and personal lives.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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