Social Media in Higher Education: Resources

Here are some resources that are available for those interested in incorporating social media into the
curriculum. There are many terms that are floating around that involve some aspect of social media like:
social networking, services (like Twitter, wikis, Facebook, YouTube, blogs), digital media, new media, and
digital humanities. ATDE and the library can help you become familiar and comfortable before
incorporating a social media service into your course.

Examples of Social Media in the Classroom

Wesch’s Mediated Cultures: Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University
http://www.netvibes.com/wesch#Digital_Ethnography

Twitter in the classroom

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_one_teacher_uses_twitter_in_the_classroom.php

Books, Reports and Media

Richardson, Will. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. California:
Corwin Press, 2010

PBS Frontline’s show Digital Nation http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/

PBS Report on Teachers and Digital Media http://www.pbs.org/teachers/_files/pdf/annual-pbs-survey-

report.pdf

Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project http://www.pewinternet.org/topics/Social-

Networking.aspx

Bloggers
ProfHacker http://chronicle.com/blog/ProfHacker/27/

Academichack http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/

Dan Cohen Digital Humanities Blog http://www.dancohen.org/

Edwired http://edwired.org/

Blogs
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus http://chronicle.com/blog/Wired-Campus/5/

Social Networks for Academics to Share/Organize Research, Listserv

Academia.edu http://academia.edu/

Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/

Researchgate http://www.researchgate.net/

Nature Network http://network.nature.com/

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Educause Social Media Listserv http://www.educause.edu/groups/SOCMEDIA

Grants
Digital Media and Learning
http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.946881/k.B85/Domestic_Grantmaking__Digital_Medi
a__Learning.htm

To Learn about Fair Use, Copyright, New Media Literacies

The Center for Social Media http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/ sets standards for “social media-
making”.

New Media Literacies http://newmedialiteracies.org/ would like to equip the youth with social and
cultural literacies.

To keep up with emerging technologies:

The New Media Consortium http://www.nmc.org/ explores new media and new technologies and
authors The Horizon Reports http://www.nmc.org/horizon.

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