[Air-L] Research on Incorporating Web 2.0 Technologies(Especially SNSs) in Teaching

Tina Matuchniak @UCI tmatuchn at uci.edu
Tue Feb 17 13:42:59 PST 2009


Dear Christine,

Thank you for your leads. I, too, am a doctoral student interested in this 
area and would be very interested to read your literature review when it is 
ready. I hope you will keep me in mind when you  are finally ready to 
circulate a draft.

Thank you very much,

Tina

Tina Matuchniak
Graduate Student
University of California, Irvine

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From: "Chris Greenhow" <greenhow at umn.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:28 PM
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>; <hu at tcnj.edu>
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Research on Incorporating Web 2.0 
Technologies(Especially SNSs) in Teaching

>
> Hi Yifeng,
>
> We have done a fairly extensive review of the educational research
> literature databases and table of contents scans in a dozen leading
> educational research journals looking for published empirical work on the
> incorporation of Web 2.0 technologies, especially SNSs into teaching and
> learning. In our experience, most of the current scholarship focuses on 
> the
> integration of blogs and wikis and, to a lesser extent, podcasting.  There
> are few studies that focus on the integration of SNSs in education or 
> study
> SNSs from educational perspectives; that said, there are some studies that
> focus on SNSs as they are being used on college campuses. See for example
> this latest ECAR study 2008 with chapter on SNSs:
> http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/TheECARStudyofUndergradua/47485
>
> In addition, the Digital Youth Project focuses on young people's use of 
> SNSs
> and other digital media outside of schools --
> http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/
>
> You might also be interested in Aleman & Wartman (2009) Online Social
> Networking on Campus: Understanding What Matters in Student Culture. New
> York: Routledge -- came out Jan, 09
>
> Finally, my colleagues and I have a few articles coming out that you may 
> be
> interested in that deal with high school students' learning with
> SNSs/development of 21st century competencies. Moreover, we will have a
> draft of the literature review I mention this spring, if you're 
> interested.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Christine
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Yifeng Hu
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:56 PM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-L] Research on Incorporating Web 2.0 Technologies 
> (Especially
> SNSs) in Teaching
>
> Hi All,
>
> This is my first time posting an inquiry to this list.
>
> I am wondering if anyone knows any literature/research about
> incorporating Web 2.0 technologies (especially Social Networking Sites)
> in teaching. Any relevant references/sources would be appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Yifeng
>
> -- 
> Yifeng Hu, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Communication Studies
> Kendall Hall 244
> The College of New Jersey
> 2000 Pennington Rd.
> Ewing, NJ 08628
> Telephone: 609-771-2373
> Fax: 609-637-5187
> Email: hu at tcnj.edu
> Homepage: http://www.tcnj.edu/~hu/
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