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A Librarian And A Hashtag: Embedded Virtually In A Classroom Via Twitter, Ellen Hampton Filgo Jan 2012

A Librarian And A Hashtag: Embedded Virtually In A Classroom Via Twitter, Ellen Hampton Filgo

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Tweeting in the classroom has started to take off, with some notable examples such as Monica Rankin's history class experiment at UT-Dallas and Cole W. Camplese's classroom backchannel at Penn State-University Park. Taking these experiments one step further, Dr. Gardner Campbell, Baylor University's Director of the Academy for Teaching and Learning and Associate Professor of Literature and Media in the Honors College, invited Ellen Filgo, Baylor Libraries' E-Learning Librarian to participate in his First Year Seminar's Twitter experiment by becoming the class' Twitter-based reference librarian.

The students in Dr. Campbell's class were required to blog faithfully on the class readings …