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The Plugged-In Professor
Tips and Techniques for Teaching with Social Media
- 1st Edition - May 15, 2013
- Editors: Sharmila Ferris, Hilary Wilder
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 8 4 3 3 4 - 6 9 4 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 3 4 2 - 8
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… Read more
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Request a sales quote- 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
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
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Discipline/Academic areas addressed
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Observations and advice
Supplemental materials
Chapter 2: Organizing with Pinterest and Delicious
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Chapter 3: Students’ inadequate exposure to learning technology: overcoming the pedagogical challenge using wikis
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Chapter 4: Collecting and analyzing primary sources
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Instructions for students – sample for class with a single blog
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Chapter 5: Unraveling the research process: social bookmarking and collaborative learning
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Second class session
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Fourth class session
Final assignment
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Part 2: Communication and collaboration
2A: Communication, oral and written
Chapter 6: Using Wimba Voice Board to facilitate foreign language conversation courses
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Chapter 7: Web conferencing and peer feedback
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Chapter 8: Learning through YouTube
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Chapter 9: Wiki-workshopping: using Wikispaces for peer writing workshops
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2B: Collaboration
Chapter 10: Using persistent wikis as a pedagogical resource
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Chapter 11: Social media and public speaking: student-produced multimedia informative presentations
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Chapter 12: Collaborative presentations using Google Docs
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Chapter 13: Cooperative study blog
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Option 1 Make the students responsible (recommended)
Option 2 Do it yourself
Appendix B Tips for posting to the blog
Appendix C Studying with the blog
Part 3: Critical thinking and creativity
3A: Critical thinking
Chapter 14: Using Facebook to apply social learning theory
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Chapter 15: Technology as a tool to develop problem-solving skills in general chemistry
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Chapter 16: Communicating experiential learning through an online portfolio in Tumblr
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Chapter 17: The Biology Taboo Wiktionary: a tool for improving student comprehension of key terminology in introductory biology courses
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3B: Creativity
Chapter 18: Mobile digital storytelling in the second language classroom
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Cultural aha moment
Chapter 19: Creating a video dialogue with streaming video clips
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Chapter 20: Remix as an educational activity
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Chapter 21: Using Twitter to assist students in writing a concise nut graph
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Part 4: Integrative learning
Chapter 22: Using simulation, video sharing, and discussion threads for practice-based skills
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Chapter 23: Using Facebook Mobile as a tool to create a virtual learning community for pre-service teachers
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Chapter 24: Using social software tools to facilitate peer e-mentoring and self-reflection among students on practicum
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Chapter 25: Using opinion leaders on Twitter to amplify PR and marketing messages
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Index
- No. of pages: 376
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 15, 2013
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9781843346944
- eBook ISBN: 9781780633428
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