In-Class

Using Twitter in (and out of) the Classroom

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Teacher: Sara Hottinger
Class: Queer Theories – WGS 302
Introduction
Professor Sara Hottinger has been looking for a way to use Twitter in her classes. While Twitter has seen tremendous growth in the past years, its academic use is still considered novel in many ways. Professor Hottinger aims to use Twitter as a means for continuing the conversations [...]

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Why the data source matters

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Teacher: Elizabeth Dolinger
Course:  Many.
This lesson helps students learn to evaluate the usefulness and reliability of information and sources.  It starts with a very funny Colbert report video about an information graphic in USA today:

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Directions
Working in teams, students analyze a news report [...]

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