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Twitter + Voxer: Educators’ Complementary Uses of Multiple Social Media
Jeffrey Carpenter; Tim Green
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2236–2244
Social media such as Facebook and Pinterest have become sites of self-directed professional learning and networking for some educators In this paper, we describe how educators combine the use of two specific digital tools, Twitter and Voxer, for...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Mobile Learning, Social Media
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Exploring How and Why Educators Use Pinterest
Jeffrey Carpenter; Amanda Cassaday; Stefania Monti
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2222–2229
This paper reports on a study of educators’ uses of Pinterest We conducted semi-structured interviews with eight educators in order to explore how and why they utilized Pinterest for professional purposes We present findings from our thematic...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Mobile Learning, Social Media
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Exploring Continuity and Change in Educators’ Professional Learning Networks
Jeffrey Carpenter; Daniel Krutka; Torrey Trust
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2680–2685
Recent years have seen many educators leverage social media to develop professional learning networks (PLNs) that extend beyond their individual schools and districts. There is, however, limited knowledge regarding how these PLNs change over time....
Topics: Social Media, Mobile Learning, New Possibilities with Information Technologies
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Advice Seeking and Giving in the Reddit r/Teachers Online Space
Jeffrey Carpenter; Connor McDade; Samantha Childers
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2207–2215
Reddit is a social media platform that allows users to share, vote on, and discuss content In order to understand how educators have taken advantage of Reddit’s affordances, this paper explores the nature of posts to a subreddit focused on teachers, ...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Mobile Learning, Social Media
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Opportunities and Challenges of Using Technology to Teach for Global Readiness in the Global Read Aloud
Jeffrey Carpenter; Sydney Weiss; Julie Justice
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 822–831
Technology can create new opportunities for learning with and from people of other cultures, not just about them The Global Read Aloud (GRA) offers an example of such learning possibilities The GRA is a project that connects classrooms via digital...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, International Education, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Educators on the Front Page of the Internet: Education-Related Subreddits as Learning Spaces
K. Bret Staudt Willet; Jeffrey Carpenter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2787–2795
Accessing and contributing to online spaces have become regular parts of many educators’ professional activities. However, the popular discussion forum website Reddit has received little attention from educational researchers despite the presence of ...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Social Media, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Professional Learning and Collaboration for Teaching with HyperDocs
Torrey Trust; Jeffrey Carpenter; Tim Green
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1886–1893
Social technologies can create new opportunities for teachers to collaborate and share teaching and learning activities. HyperDocs – interactive, digital teaching and learning materials created, disseminated, and remixed by educators – are an...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Social Media
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Exploring the Education Twitter Hashtag Landscape
Jeffrey Carpenter; Tania Tani; Scott Morrison; Julie Keane
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2230–2235
In recent years, Twitter has become an important tool for educator professional learning and community. While education has often proven to be an isolating profession, social media such as Twitter open up opportunities for teachers to collaborate...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Social Media