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Who’S Reading Your Wall? The Relationships Among User Characteristics, Usage And Attitudes Regarding Official Academic Facebook Sites, Robert W. Barnwell, Tom Moore, Kelly Price
Who’S Reading Your Wall? The Relationships Among User Characteristics, Usage And Attitudes Regarding Official Academic Facebook Sites, Robert W. Barnwell, Tom Moore, Kelly Price
ETSU Faculty Works
As social networking websites continue to rise in popularity, their role as a communications tool for academic institutions raises intriguing questions. This is especially true of Facebook, which was originally begun as an exclusively college-based social network. Facebook potentially represents an opportunity to cost-effectively communicate with students, faculty and other members of the college community. The goals of this study were to provide descriptive statistics that might aid in better understanding if students currently do or do not visit academic Facebook pages and why they visit those pages, what is most likely to cause them to visit academic Facebook pages, …
Facebook Avatars, Or Doppelgangers, For The Academician: Ementoring Turned Educational Campaign, Jennifer Tang, Sarah Brennan
Facebook Avatars, Or Doppelgangers, For The Academician: Ementoring Turned Educational Campaign, Jennifer Tang, Sarah Brennan
Touchstone
Facebook, an innovative digital communication tool, boasts more than 500 million active users worldwide. Faculty nationwide can testify to the popularity of this social networking site. Ask a group of students in any classroom if they have used Facebook the night before, and teachers observe that most, if not all, hands would go up (Bugeja). Contrast this with the response of students if a professor inquired, “Who completed the reading or assignment I gave last night?” The results would most likely be different, regardless of the level of excellence the faculty member brings to the classroom.
Avatars, Blabberize And Cell Phones: The Abcs Of The Digital Age, Kay S. Gandy, Rebecca Stobaugh
Avatars, Blabberize And Cell Phones: The Abcs Of The Digital Age, Kay S. Gandy, Rebecca Stobaugh
School of Teacher Education Faculty Publications & Presentations
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Can Utilising Social Networking Deter The Learner's Engagement?, Eric Bates
Can Utilising Social Networking Deter The Learner's Engagement?, Eric Bates
Conference papers
The Irish Standards Based Apprenticeship Programme involves a ten week block release course into a Higher Education Institute. Lecturing on such a course provides challenges for both lecturer and student. Working within a very restrictive time period meant looking for innovative ways to facilitate student revision. Online quizzes were decided upon as a means to interest the students in the revision process in their own time. Google Docs was utilized to produce online module quizzes. The production of the quizzes in this format was user friendly and almost intuitive. A platform was needed to host the quiz. Being cognizant of …
Who’S Reading Your Wall? The Relationships Among User Characteristics, Usage And Attitudes Regarding Official Academic Facebook Sites, Tom Moore, Robert W. Barnwell, Kelly Price
Who’S Reading Your Wall? The Relationships Among User Characteristics, Usage And Attitudes Regarding Official Academic Facebook Sites, Tom Moore, Robert W. Barnwell, Kelly Price
ETSU Faculty Works
Abstract is available to download.