Educating Educators with Social Media (Cutting-edge Technologies in Higher Education, 1)

Social media are increasingly popular platforms for collaboration and quick information sharing. This volume is a collection of reports on how these technologies are being used to educate educators with social media in creative and effective ways. Social networking technologies enable the integration of students and alumni in co-curricular activities in exciting and still evolving ways. The use of wikis, blogs, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, text messaging, Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, Yahoo Pipes, Diigo, Second Life, Moodle, and other Web 2.0 technologies are shown in vivid examples and insightful critiques. The processes, design, delivery and evaluation of instruction using social media are examined in detail and include such topics as: the use of social media in developing countries for new approaches to teaching as support for individual and peer-based learning; new teaching orientations premised on social media such as focused distraction; enhancing in-class participation; how instructors are increasing the technical expertise that is needed by educators to develop their own 21st century curricula projects; and, creating an ecosystem for life-long learning through social media.ContentsPART 1 VARIETIES OF SOCIAL MEDIA: PLATFORM, TECHNOLOGY, SPATIAL1. New Directions in Teaching Technologies: Introduction to Educating Educators with Social Media2. The Birth of a Social Networking Phenomenon3. Facebook and Education: A Classroom Connection?4. Social Media for Higher Education in Developing Countries: An Intercultural PerspectivePART 2 PROCESSES IN LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION WITH SOCIAL MEDIA5. A Social Media Approach to Higher Education6. Creating an Ecosystem for Life-Long Learning through Social Media: A Graduate Experience7. The Networked Class in a Master Program: Personalization and Openness through Social MediaPART 3 DESIGN OF INSTRUCTION WITH SOCIAL MEDIA8. Future Social Learning Networks at Universities: An Exploratory Seminar Setting9. Connecting Future Teachers with the Teachers of Today10. Role of the Tutor in Enabling Student Learning through the Use of a Wiki11. Technology Integration Can Be Delicious: Social Bookmarking as a Technology Integration Tool12. Public Issues, Private Concerns: Social Media and Course Management Systems in Higher EducationPART 4 DELIVERY OF INSTRUCTION WITH SOCIAL MEDIA13. Web 2.0: Information Literacy, Libraries, and Pedagogies14. Social Annotation to Enhance Learning and Assessment in Higher Education15. Our Head in the Cloud: Transforming Work on College Completion16. Enhancing In-Class Participation in a Web 2.0 WorldPART 5 EVALUATING INSTRUCTION THAT USES SOCIAL MEDIA SKILLS17. (Social) Media Literacy: Challenges and Opportunities for Educators18. Social Media Killed the LMS: Re-imagining the Traditional Learning Management System in the Age of Blogs and Online Social Networks19. Twitter in Higher Education