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Enhancing Your Classes with Educational Technology

 

Enhancing Your Classes with Educational Technology (edtec4matc) is an introduction to social media and social learning. In this seminar, we will explore and discuss the use of social and open source media and new web 2.0 technologies in order to re-energize our teaching, create a venue for feedback and collaboration as teachers and learners, and develop a personal learning network with educators across the globe. 

 

J. Morgan in his February 13, 2009 article, "Social Media Education, How?" in Social Media Today suggests that

social media is dynamic and that if we are going to use it appropriately, we need to focus on the following:

 

These are some of the issues that will be addressed in this course.  After the class is finished, I hope we can continue to explore new technologies and share together our successes and failures with them, and that we can serve as campus resources to our colleagues as more and more instructors investigate the use of educational technology for enhancing their classes.