FRONT COVER -- EDUCATING EDUCATORS WITH SOCIAL MEDIA -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PART I: VARIETIES OF SOCIAL MEDIA: PLATFORM, TECHNOLOGY, SPATIAL -- NEW DIRECTIONS IN TEACHING TECHNOLOGIES: INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATING EDUCATORS WITH SOCIAL MEDIA -- THE BIRTH OF A SOCIAL NETWORKING PHENOMENON -- INTRODUCTION -- BLOGS ANNOUNCE THE BIRTH OF MICROBLOGGING -- THE EMERGENCE OF TWITTER -- THE FORMATIVE YEARS - TWITTER EXPERIENCES GROWING PAINS -- TWITTER GOES TO COLLEGE -- THE SOCIAL NETWORKING PROJECT CASE STUDY -- A TWITTER COMPROMISE - THE EDMODO EXPERIMENT -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- FACEBOOK AND EDUCATION: A CLASSROOM CONNECTION? -- INTRODUCTION -- FACEBOOK OVERVIEW -- FACEBOOK AND HIGHER EDUCATION -- THE STUDY -- STUDENT SURVEY DATA -- RESULTS -- FACULTY SURVEY DATA -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- STRATEGIES TO CONNECT FACEBOOK TO EDUCATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SOCIAL MEDIA FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES - AN INTERCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE -- WEB 2.0 IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS -- WEB 2.0 IN HE FOR FOSTERING DISCUSSION AND COLLABORATION TO RESOLVE QUALITY ISSUES -- INTERCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE ON WEB 2.0 IMPLEMENTATION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ALTERATION FRAMEWORK -- RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- PART II: PROCESSES IN LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION WITH SOCIAL MEDIA -- A SOCIAL MEDIA APPROACH TO HIGHER EDUCATION -- INTRODUCTION -- FORSAKING THE TRADITIONAL? -- FORESEEABLE TRENDS AND NEW PEDAGOGIES -- CHALLENGES -- REACHING BEYOND THE CLASSROOM -- SOME POTENTIAL MEDIA TOOLS -- CONCLUSION: THE SOCIAL MEDIA APPROACH -- REFERENCES -- CREATING AN ECOSYSTEM FOR LIFELONG LEARNING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA: A GRADUATE EXPERIENCE -- INTRODUCTION -- USING SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE MDE -- THE ONLINE CLASSROOM -- THE COMMUNITY.

SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE MDE FACULTY -- FINAL REMARKS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE NETWORKED CLASS IN A MASTER'S PROGRAM: PERSONALIZATION AND OPENNESS THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA -- SOCIAL SOFTWARE AND SOCIAL MEDIA -- THE CASE OF A MASTER'S PROGRAM -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- PART III: DESIGN OF INSTRUCTION WITH SOCIAL MEDIA -- FUTURE SOCIAL LEARNING NETWORKS AT UNIVERSITIES - AN EXPLORATORY SEMINAR SETTING -- INTRODUCTION -- SOCIAL MEDIA IN FORMAL LEARNING SETTINGS - AN EXPLORATORY COURSE DESIGN -- SETTING THE SCENE: SOCIAL INTERACTION IN TRADITIONAL SEMINARS -- CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- CONNECTING FUTURE TEACHERS WITH THE TEACHERS OF TODAY -- TEACHERS AND TECHNOLOGY CONNECT -- EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY COURSEWORK -- THE TAKE 2 PROJECT -- STUDENT PERSPECTIVE -- TEACHER PERSPECTIVE -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES -- DEVELOPING A PEDAGOGY: THE ROLE OF THE TUTOR IN ENABLING STUDENT LEARNING THROUGH THE USE OF A WIKI -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS A WIKI? -- WHY USE A WIKI? -- THE CLAT MODEL -- CLAT CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK -- DEVELOPING THE CLAT PEDAGOGY -- THE COMPONENTS OF THE CLAT MODEL -- THE TUTOR ROLES -- PRINCIPLES AND STRATEGIES -- OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE - THE STUDY -- SUMMARY OF RESULTS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION CAN BE DELICIOUS: SOCIAL BOOKMARKING AS A TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION TOOL -- INTRODUCTION -- PEDAGOGICAL FOUNDATION -- TEACHING TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION -- MEETING TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION NEEDS -- LOOKING TO THE FUTURE -- REFERENCES -- PUBLIC ISSUES, PRIVATE CONCERNS: SOCIAL MEDIA AND COURSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN HIGHER EDUCATION -- TECHNOLOGY TODAY: EMPOWERMENT TOMORROW -- OPENING THE SYSTEM -- COLLABORATION AND THE ''PERSONAL BRAND'' -- CMS PLACES AS NO PLACE -- THE THIRD PLACE OF FACEBOOK -- IDENTITY AS THE KEY TO COMMUNITY -- THE PROBLEM WITH CMS.

FACEBOOK: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE CREEPY TREEHOUSE -- STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL MEDIA IN EDUCATION -- OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA ALTERNATIVES -- FREEDOM FOR LEARNING -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- PART IV: DELIVERY OF INSTRUCTION WITH SOCIAL MEDIA -- WEB 2.0: INFORMATION LITERACY, LIBRARIES, AND PEDAGOGIES -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- THEORY -- THE FIRST WEB 2.0 CLASS -- LESSONS LEARNED -- THE SECOND CLASS -- LESSONS LEARNED -- HOW TO CREATE THESE TOOLS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SOCIAL ANNOTATION TO ENHANCE LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION -- DESCRIPTION OF HYLIGHTER -- FACULTY EXPERIENCES -- CRITICAL REVIEW OF SCREENPLAYS -- ONLINE GRADUATE CLASSES IN PHARMACEUTICAL AND FORENSIC SCIENCES -- HYLIGHTER-ENHANCED MULTIPLE-CHOICE TESTING -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- OUR HEAD IN THE CLOUD: TRANSFORMING WORK ON COLLEGE COMPLETION -- CHAPTER OVERVIEW -- INCREASING COLLEGE COMPLETION RATES: AMERICA'S ELUSIVE GOAL -- GLOBAL SKILLS FOR COLLEGE COMPLETION: 80% OR BUST -- DESIGNING THE GUIDED DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT -- IN A FIRE HOSE OF DATA, CONTINUOUS ANALYSIS, AND EVALUATION IS SINE QUA NON -- GETTING TO SCALE WITH THE NEW SOCIAL OF SCIENCE -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- ENHANCING IN-CLASS PARTICIPATION IN A WEB 2.0 WORLD -- OBSTACLES TO PARTICIPATION -- THE COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE TOOL -- PARTICIPATION AS SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE -- MULTITASKING THAT CONTRIBUTES TO LEARNING -- USING COLLABORATIVE SOFTWARE IN THE CLASSROOM -- RESULTS OF OUR STUDY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PART V: EVALUATING INSTRUCTION THAT USES SOCIAL MEDIA SKILLS -- (SOCIAL) MEDIA LITERACY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION -- INTRODUCTION -- EMERGENCE AND HISTORY OF MEDIA LITERACY -- NEW CONTEXTS OF MEDIA LITERACY -- CONTEMPORARY LEARNING PATHS -- STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS -- CREATING AND ENGAGING WITH QUALITY CONTENT -- TEACHING MEDIA LITERACY -- CONCLUSIONS.

REFERENCES -- SOCIAL MEDIA KILLED THE LMS: RE-IMAGINING THE TRADITIONAL LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN THE AGE OF BLOGS AND ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS -- COMMUNITY, TECHNOLOGY, CRITICAL PEDAGOGY, AND STUDENT NEEDS -- RE-INVENTING THE PAST -- DECONSTRUCTING THE IVORY LMS TOWER -- CROSSING OVER FROM TRADITIONAL LMS -- EXPANDING THE SOCIAL MEDIA DCP OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM -- REFERENCES -- TWITTER IN HIGHER EDUCATION -- CONFESSIONS OF THE CONVERTED -- HOW POWERFUL AND IMMEDIATE IS YOUR NETWORK -- HISTORY OF TWITTER -- THE SURVEY SAYS -- THE WHAT - WHAT IS TWITTER EXACTLY -- REACHING BEYOND THE CAMPUS -- REAL-TIME RELEVANCY -- WEB 2.0 AND TWITTER -- TWITTERBITS, TIPS, AND RESOURCES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- SUBJECT INDEX.