Sunday, January 10, 2010

Surviving Teaching Online Courses

Are you teaching a class online? Are you pulling your hair out? Well, this article offers seven strategies for professors who teach online, "Surviving Teaching Online Courses".

Millennial Professor/Jennifer T. Edwards

Saturday, January 9, 2010

This Blog's New Focus: COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Hello readers! 

Great news! From this point forward, this blog will focus on service, teaching, and research on COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN HIGHER EDUCATION from a millennial professor's perspective. This topic will be addressed by focuses on the following: social networking (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and human interaction, privacy and online communication, instructional communication, distance education, diversity, leadership, service learning, volunteerism, educational technology, and SOTL.


Give me some feedback on the change! There will be frequent posts!


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Sincerely,


Millennial Professor

Monday, January 4, 2010

Using Tweets in Scholarly Research


In the future, I plan to use twitter in my research endeavors. Since most journals are requiring authors to use the American Psychological Association 6th edition, I had to research the new guidelines for electronic resources.

The Buzz, a School Library Journal, highlights several guidelines for citing Twitter and Facebook in scholarly articles. The Buzz features a quote from Chelsea Lee (bit.ly/jEeAm), a senior manuscript editor of APA Journals. Lee states, "We don't know if these status update pages will still be here in a year, or 5, or 20 years. So if you are writing for publication, it may be prudent to self-archive any social media updates you include in your articles."

Remember that users' accounts can be locked or deleted and all of their tweets will be inaccessible. So, if you plan to use twitter, please save the tweets in PDF format.

Millennial Professor

Friday, January 1, 2010

Twitter: It's What's for Dinner (It's the New Beef!)


Professor Rankin, a History Professor from the University of Texas at Dallas, started using twitter in her classroom last semester. This is a video she created from her experiences:



This year, I plan to write several scholarly articles and blog posts about twitter and its impact in the secondary and post-secondary environments. Today is the first day of the year and I am compiling ideas from several articles on the subject.

If you have any ideas on how to utilize twitter in the classroom environment, please let me know! Send me ideas! I will publish them on the blog! I am motivated for 2010!

Sincerely,

Millennial Professor