Developing and Maintaining Your Personal Learning Network: Using Social Media and Other Digital Tools in Education

ISBN-13: 9781138655188 / Angielski / Twarda / 2027 / 176 str.

US Fullerton Timothy D. Green (California State University;Jody Peerless Green

Opis

Developing and Maintaining Your Personal Learning Network is a practical, easy-to-use guide to how social media and other digital tools can be used by teachers to develop and engage their own personal learning network (PLN). Each chapter covers a different tool: Twitter; Blogs; Wikis; Pinterest and other curation tools; Video Creation, Sharing and Conferencing; and Google Apps for Education. This highly useful book will transform the teaching practices of K-12 educators in any discipline as they learn to build a poweful PLN.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Social Media and Personal Learning Networks: An Overview

Chapter 2: Issues Educators Should Consider When Using Social Media and Digital Tools

Chapter 3: Twitter

Chapter 4: Blogging

Chapter 5: Wikis

Chapter 6: Curating (e.g. Pinterest, Diigo)

Chapter 7: Video Creating, Sharing, & Conferencing (e.g. YouTube, Google Hangouts, Skype, Screencasting)

Chapter 8: Google+ and Apps for Education

Chapter 9: Using Social Media in the Classroom

O autorze

Tim Green, Ph.D., a former K12 teacher, has been a professor of educational technology and teacher educator at California State University, Fullerton for the past 15 years. Five of these years he served as the Director of Distance Education at CSUF.

Jody Green is a teacher on special assignment (TOSA) as an Academic Coach focusing on Educational Technology in La Habra, California.