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A veritable smorgasbord of ideas and suggestions This text grabbed me right away, and I started flagging all sorts of ideas even in the earliest chapters It is as if Bill Kist met me in the hallway, took me by the hand, and simply said, Come here, I want tshow you something - Sheila M Gragg, Technology Integration Coach Ashbury College, Canada I loved this book I learned a great deal about texts and about how tteach texts tstudents in the digital age But what was scompelling about this book was the genuineness of the author; he cares passionately about his students and passionately about the subject matter As Dewey points out, effective education must have an emotional component; indeed, the books credibility and authority derives from its core emotional energy - Elliot Soloway, Arthur F Thurnau Professor University of Michigan, Ann Arbor This book is totally compelling and geared ta slice of the teaching profession that is in desperate need of the kind of guidance and insight that Kist offers By sharing his creative teaching methods, he points out the openings in teachers practice where shift can happen - Sue Collins, Integration Technology Specialist, Bedford Public Schools, MA Secondary school students are increasingly plugged in tsocial networking sites outside of school, but inside the classroom such functions of the web are often ignored In The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age, William Kist identifies and documents the processes of teaching and learning via social networking in the new-media classroom This book broadens the debate around what constitutes literacy as it tackles practical tasks for educators that include: - Documenting the assignments, assessments, and outcomes of instruction in networked classrooms - Categorizing the classrooms intlevels of Web 20 applications - Illustrating how the new assignments can be used taddress classic classroom questions
