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Preservice Teachers’ Microblogging: Professional Development via Twitter
Jeffrey Carpenter
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 15, No. 2 (June 2015) pp. 209–234
Twitter has demonstrated potential to facilitate learning at the university level, and K-12 educators’ use of the microblogging service Twitter to facilitate professional development appears to be on the rise. Research on microblogging as a part of...
Topics: Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Professional Development
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A Tale of Two Backchannels
Jeffrey Carpenter; Scott Morrison
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2016 (Jun 28, 2016) pp. 1010–1015
Digital backchannels are online interaction spaces that run parallel to spoken, live remarks. These communication channels potentially create unique opportunities for participation that can help develop student communication skills, enrich...
Topics: pedagogical issues, interactive learning environments, Teaching/Learning Strategies
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Obstacles, Travails, and Barriers, Oh My! Educators’ Perspectives on Challenges in Professional Social Media Use
Jeffrey Carpenter; Stephen Harvey
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2692–2701
Social media such as Twitter and Facebook have become venues for self-directed professional activity for some educators. Although these professional activities are generally voluntary in nature and thus must provide some benefits and/or...
Topics: Social Media, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Mobile Learning
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Expanding Professional Learning Networks through an Institutional Twitter Hashtag
Jeffrey Carpenter; Scott Morrison
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2216–2221
This paper explores in-progress research on our use of an institutional Twitter hashtag designed to increase interaction and expand professional learning networks (PLNs) among pre-service teachers (PST), alumni teaching across the country, faculty...
Topics: Mobile Learning, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Social Media
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Twitter + Voxer: Educators’ Complementary Uses of Multiple Social Media
Jeffrey Carpenter; Tim Green
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2236–2244
Social media such as Facebook and Pinterest have become sites of self-directed professional learning and networking for some educators In this paper, we describe how educators combine the use of two specific digital tools, Twitter and Voxer, for...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Mobile Learning, Social Media
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Educators’ Professional Uses of Pinterest
Jeffrey Carpenter; Ashley Abrams; Margaret Dunphy
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1925–1930
This paper presents emergent findings from an in-progress study on educators’ uses of Pinterest, a popular website and mobile app. The study is exploring how educators and educational organizations utilize Pinterest. Quantitative and qualitative...
Topics: Workforce Education, Mobile Learning, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Exploring How and Why Educators Use Pinterest
Jeffrey Carpenter; Amanda Cassaday; Stefania Monti
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2222–2229
This paper reports on a study of educators’ uses of Pinterest We conducted semi-structured interviews with eight educators in order to explore how and why they utilized Pinterest for professional purposes We present findings from our thematic...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Mobile Learning, Social Media
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Exploring Continuity and Change in Educators’ Professional Learning Networks
Jeffrey Carpenter; Daniel Krutka; Torrey Trust
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2680–2685
Recent years have seen many educators leverage social media to develop professional learning networks (PLNs) that extend beyond their individual schools and districts. There is, however, limited knowledge regarding how these PLNs change over time....
Topics: Social Media, Mobile Learning, New Possibilities with Information Technologies
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Advice Seeking and Giving in the Reddit r/Teachers Online Space
Jeffrey Carpenter; Connor McDade; Samantha Childers
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2207–2215
Reddit is a social media platform that allows users to share, vote on, and discuss content In order to understand how educators have taken advantage of Reddit’s affordances, this paper explores the nature of posts to a subreddit focused on teachers, ...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Mobile Learning, Social Media
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PK-12 Teachers’ Conceptualizations of Professional Learning Networks
Jeffrey Carpenter; Daniel Krutka; Torrey Trust
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1936–1942
Adapting and responding to the present era’s rapid technological and educational change requires educators to possess new knowledge, skills, and dispositions. With dissatisfaction regarding traditional teacher professional development (PD) well...
Topics: Workforce Education, Research & Evaluation, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Using Twitter in Higher Education in Spain and the USA
Gemma Tur; Victoria I. Marín; Jeffrey Carpenter
Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal Vol. 25, No. 51 (2017) pp. 19–27
This article examines student teachers' use and perceptions of Twitter, based on a mixed-method comparative approach. Participants (n = 153) were education majors who used Twitter as a part of required coursework in their programs at two...
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Perceptions in Higher Education of Professional Learning Networks (PLNs)
Daniel G Krutka; Torrey Trust; Jeffrey Carpenter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 532–535
Many faculty members in higher education have turned to professional learning networks (PLNs) to take advantage of reduced temporal and spatial constraints in an effort to engage with colleagues. While we know that professors have cultivated PLNs,...
Topics: Graduate Education & Faculty Development, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Opportunities and Challenges of Using Technology to Teach for Global Readiness in the Global Read Aloud
Jeffrey Carpenter; Sydney Weiss; Julie Justice
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 822–831
Technology can create new opportunities for learning with and from people of other cultures, not just about them The Global Read Aloud (GRA) offers an example of such learning possibilities The GRA is a project that connects classrooms via digital...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, International Education, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Educators on the Front Page of the Internet: Education-Related Subreddits as Learning Spaces
K. Bret Staudt Willet; Jeffrey Carpenter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2787–2795
Accessing and contributing to online spaces have become regular parts of many educators’ professional activities. However, the popular discussion forum website Reddit has received little attention from educational researchers despite the presence of ...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Social Media, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Professional Learning and Collaboration for Teaching with HyperDocs
Torrey Trust; Jeffrey Carpenter; Tim Green
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1886–1893
Social technologies can create new opportunities for teachers to collaborate and share teaching and learning activities. HyperDocs – interactive, digital teaching and learning materials created, disseminated, and remixed by educators – are an...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Social Media
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Exploring the Education Twitter Hashtag Landscape
Jeffrey Carpenter; Tania Tani; Scott Morrison; Julie Keane
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2230–2235
In recent years, Twitter has become an important tool for educator professional learning and community. While education has often proven to be an isolating profession, social media such as Twitter open up opportunities for teachers to collaborate...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Social Media
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Taking Stock of TeachersPayTeachers.com: Analyzing Four Million Classroom Resources
Catharyn Shelton; Matthew Koehler; Jeffrey Carpenter; Spencer Greenhalgh
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1477–1482
TeachersPayTeachers.com (TpT) is a popular online educational marketplace where educators exchange classroom and instructional materials. Despite indications of significant use of TpT, the existing empirical research on the platform and its users is ...
Topics: Social Media
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Exploring How and Why Educators Use Instagram
Jeffrey Carpenter; Scott Morrison; Madeline Craft; Michalene Lee
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2686–2691
This paper reports on an in-progress study of educators’ professional uses of Instagram. We created an online survey that we disseminated via various social media channels during late fall of 2018. Preliminary analyses of the responses from 841...
Topics: Mobile Learning, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Social Media
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How and Why to Use Social Media in Teacher Education
Jeffrey Carpenter; Lisa Hervey; Daniel Krutka; Jayme Linton; Geoff Price
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1931–1935
The quick ascension of social media in the 21st century has left teacher educators scrambling to understand the implications of networked students and educators, and the associated pedagogical possibilities and challenges. Five teacher educators...
Topics: Distance/Flexible Education, Research & Evaluation, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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A Diagnostic Tool to Help Leaders Develop TPACK Ready Teacher Preparation Programs
Jeffrey Carpenter; Kevin Graziano; Arlene Borthwick; Teresa DeBacker; Elizabeth Finsness
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2802–2805
College administrators must play a key role in the successful transformation of educator preparation. This presentation addresses the development and use of a diagnostic tool designed for leaders and leadership teams implementing initiatives related ...
Topics: Graduate Education & Faculty Development, Technology Leadership, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam: Methodological Considerations and Challenges for Studying Educators’ Twitter Use
Jeffrey Carpenter; Matthew Koehler; K. Bret Staudt Willet; Spencer P. Greenhalgh
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2702–2711
Social media have come to play an important role in the professional lives of many educators. Platforms such as Twitter create new spaces in which collegial contact can occur, opening up various avenues for support and development. These spaces,...
Topics: Mobile Learning, Research & Evaluation, Social Media
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What do Teacher Educators think of Teacher Education Technology Competencies?
Jeffrey Carpenter; Joshua Rosenberg; Tonia Dousay; Enilda Romero-Hall; Torrey Trust; Aaron Kessler; Michael Phillips; Scott Morrison; Christian Fischer; Daniel Krutka
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 796–801
Digital technologies have become commonplace in schools and the effective integration of these technologies places new demands on both teachers and teacher preparation programs. The teaching and modeling of technology use as part of the teaching and ...
Topics: faculty development, Research & Evaluation, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)