Share Paper: Best Practices: Students Engaging in Global Micro-Blogging about Literacy Education

  1. Peggy Semingson, University of Texas at Arlington, United States
  2. Simone Smala, The University of Queensland, Australia
  3. Shelley MacDonald , The University of Queensland, Australia
Friday, March 21 11:50 AM-12:10 PM City Terrace 6

Abstract: This best practices session will provide demonstration and tips for the integration of an online asynchronous global micro-blogging experience using Edmodo (http://edmodo.com/) within two teacher education courses in the USA and Australia during fall semester, 2013. One of the courses took place in the Southwest part of the USA (with a focus on literacy instruction) and was taught entirely online with an enrollment of 57 students; the second course, an undergraduate literacy and education methods course, was a large on-campus course (94 students) and took place in Australia and was in a face-to-face setting. A primary goal of the micro-blogging ...