by Alisa Gross | Sep 9, 2014 | EdTech, Social Media, Teaching
This is a guest post by Tony J. Reeves. It was originally posted on Tony’s blog on May 17, 2013. Tony is the Program Manager in Digital Pedagogy and a Learning Technologist at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, the United Kingdom. Why would you...
by Alisa Gross | Aug 4, 2014 | EdTech, Social Media, Teaching
Dr. Will Noel is the Director of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and of the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Before coming to UPenn in 2012, Dr. Noel was the Curator of...
by Alisa Gross | Jul 28, 2014 | Social Media, Teaching
Dr. Eric Jarosinski is a former University of Pennsylvania professor of German whose Twitter handle, @NeinQuarterly, and journey away from academia towards social media has attracted attention from the New Yorker, Slate, and the Los Angeles Times. Calling himself a...
by Alisa Gross | May 27, 2014 | EdTech, Social Media, Teaching
More and more professors are finding that Facebook inspires more enthusiasm and interaction than LMSes as a forum for online discussion and class collaboration. Blackboard is difficult to use, and the process of incentivizing students to engage in discussion...
