Studying and Researching With Social Media

Wondering what your lecturers are looking for in a blog post? 
Asking yourself how that s different from writing an essay (or a wiki page)?
Unsure if Twitter really can be used to build your online profile as a researcher?
If you want or need to integrate social media tools into your studies and research, this practical book is your one-stop shop.  Megan Poore shares the secrets of how to harness the power of social media tools to improve your academic productivity.
Inside, you ll find out how to:
... write a good blog post
... contribute to a wiki
... maximise your grades when creating an audio-visual presentation
... find and share the latest research via Twitter
... keep safe online.
Featuring handy illustrations and exercises, as well as guidance on broader issues such as copyright, avoiding plagiarism, and cyberbullying, you ll find out all you need to successfully use social media to support your study and research.

Visit the Studying and Researching with Social Media blog which accompanies the book, sharing tips and guidance on using social media to improve your study and research skills.


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List of contents

PART I GETTING STARTED: THE ESSENTIALS
Chapter 1 Why use social media in your studies and research?
Chapter 2 Social media basics
PART II CORE SOCIAL MEDIA FORMATS
Chapter 3 Blogs
Chapter 4 Wikis
Chapter 5 Social networks
Chapter 6 Audio-visual presentations
PART III SOCIAL MEDIA FOR SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 7 Building your online profile
Chapter 9 Using social media for search and research
Chapter 10 Productivity in study and research
PART IV THE SOCIAL AND LEGAL CONTEXTS OF USING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR STUDY AND RESEARCH
Chapter 10 Building your digital literacy
Chapter 11 Handling yourself (and others) online
Chapter 12 Legalities and practicalities of the online environment

About the author

Megan Poore is the PhD Academic and Research Skills Advisor at the ANU's Crawford School of Public Policy. She is known for her best practice approaches to integrating digital technologies into both university and school settings, and this includes developing strong digital pedagogies as well as sound approaches to risk management. She has also held the position of Assistant Professor in Teacher Education at the University of Canberra, and has worked as an educational designer at the Australian Catholic University, giving her a unique understanding of the issues that confront students and teachers in the integration of digital technologies into their everyday study and work practices. Megan holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Australian National University.

Summary

This practical book is a one-stop shop for anyone wanting – or needing – to integrate social media tools into their studies and research.  Megan Poore shares the secrets of how to harness the power of social media tools to improve academic productivity.

Report

'This is an extremely useful publication that fills several gaps in current scholarly teaching and research. Firstly it provides students with a rationale for, and a means of, managing their research tasks in transformative ways, using social media as learning, researching and communicating assets. In this domain, it is both a launching pad and a handbook, easy to engage with and helpful. Secondly, it provides students with some ways of managing up , of supporting their lecturers to make meaningful and appropriate use (and non-use) of social media in their teaching, assessing and communicating. Lastly it provides a rich theoretical rationale and backdrop to the purposes of using social media in scholarly education. Dr Poore has done an excellent job in providing a contemporary meaning to Dewey s conjoint activities . This work is for lecturers as well as their students.' Jim Dellit

Product details

• Authors: Megan Poore
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.06.2014
• EAN: 9781446269725
• ISBN: 978-1-4462-6972-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Student Success
• Subjects: Education and learning > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)