Plugged-in professor : tips and techniques for teaching with social media / [edited by] Sharmila P. Ferris and Hilary A. Wilder.

Includes index.

Part 1: Writing, research, and information fluency;
1. Writing for Wikipedia: co-constructing knowledge and writing for a public audience;
2. Organizing with Pinterest and Delicious;
3. Students' inadequate exposure to learning technology: overcoming the pedagogical challenge using wikis;
4. Collecting and analyzing primary sources;
5. Unraveling the research process: social bookmarking and collaborative learning.

Part 2: Communication and collaboration;
2A Communication, oral and written;
6. Using Wimba Voice Board to facilitate foreign language conversation courses;
7. Web conferencing and peer feedback;
8. Learning through YouTube;
9. Wiki-workshopping: using Wikispaces for peer writing workshops;
2B Collaboration;
10. Using persistent wikis as a pedagogical resource;
11. Social media and public speaking: student-produced multimedia informative presentations;
12. Collaborative presentations using Google Docs
13. Cooperative study blog.

Part 3: Critical thinking and creativity;
3A Critical thinking;
14. Using Facebook to apply social learning theory;
15. Technology as a tool to develop problem-solving skills in general chemistry;
16. Communicating experiential learning through an online portfolio in Tumblr;
17. The Biology Taboo Wiktionary: a tool for improving student comprehension of key terminology in introductory biology courses;
3B Creativity;
18. Mobile digital storytelling in the second language classroom
19. Creating a video dialogue with streaming video clips;
20. Remix as an educational activity;
21. Using Twitter to assist students in writing a concise nut graph.

Part 4: Integrative learning;
22. Using simulation, video sharing, and discussion threads for practice-based skills;
23. Using Facebook Mobile as a tool to create a virtual learning community for pre-service teachers;
24. Using social software tools to facilitate peer e-mentoring and self-reflection among students on practicum
25. Using opinion leaders on Twitter to amplify PR and marketing messages;
Index.

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.