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Using Social Media Effectively in the Classroom: Blogs, Wikis, Twitter and More - New York Routledge 2014 - 240p

Part I: Planning a Socially Enriched Learning Environment
1. Analysis in Virtual Worlds: The Influence of Learner Characteristics on Instructional Design /​ Aimee deNoyelles
2. Blurring the Lines: Teacher Insights on the Pitfalls and Possibilities of Incorporating Online Social Media into Instructional Design /​ Kay Kyeong-Ju Seo
3. Analysis of Second Life as a Delivery Mechanism in EFL Education /​ Muruvvet Demiral

Part II: Developing Powerful Instructional Strategies with Social Media
4. Designing Recorded Voice Reflection as a Pedagogical Strategy /​ Dana A. Tindall
5. Live in Your World, Learn in Ours: Virtual Worlds... Engaging the New Generation of Students! /​ Sharon Collins
6. Developing a Wiki for Problem-Based Online Instruction and Web 2.0 Exploration /​ Briju Thankachan
7. Learning and Teaching as Communicative Actions: Social Media as Educational Tool /​ Jenny S. Wakefield

Part III: Teaching Successfully with Social Media
8. Everyone's All a-Twitter about Twitter: Three Operational Perspectives on Using Twitter in the Classroom /​ Tricia M. Farwell
9. Online Videos in the Classroom: Exploring the Opportunities and Barriers to the Use of YouTube in Teaching Introductory Sociology /​ Elaine Tan
10. A Framework to Enrich Student Interaction via Cross-Institutional Microblogging /​ Samar Zutshi

Part IV: Assessing Instructional Effectiveness with Social Media
11. Designing Assessments for Differentiated Instruction Using Social Media Applications /​ Ying Xie
12. VoiceThread® as a Facilitator of Instructional Critique /​ Teresa Franklin
13. Is There (Still) a Place for Blogging in the Classroom?: Using Blogging to Assess Writing, Facilitate Engagement, and Evaluate Student Attitudes /​ Matthew Kruger-Ross

ISBN: 9780415896801

Subjects--Personal Names:
Social Media
Internet in Education

Dewey Class. No.: 371.33​46754 / USI