TY  - GEN
AU  - Ferris, Sharmila P.,
AU  - Wilder, Hilary A.,
TI  - Plugged-in professor: tips and techniques for teaching with social media 
T2  - Chandos social media series
SN  - 9781843346944
U1  - 378.17344678 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Chandos pub.
KW  - Educational technology.
KW  - Social media.
KW  - Internet in education
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -