New Media Resources

For more information about using new media technologies, check out the following works.

Books

Educating Educators with Social Media, edited by Charles Wankel, is brimming with case studies demonstrating social and new media implementation into the university classroom.

Web Resources

The Association for Social Media & Higher Education is a community for sharing information, learning, tools and ideas among social media practitioners, scholars and higher education officials.

New Media Literacies, a project headed by USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, is a portal for instructors interested in developing and sharing ideas for media use in the classroom.

The Pew Research Center's Millennials: A Portrait of Generation Next: "A yearlong series of original reports that explore the behaviors, values and opinions of today’s teens and twenty-somethings."

• How much do you have in common with your students? Find out how Millennial you are.

ProfHacker, a blog from The Chronicle for Higher Education, "delivers tips, tutorials, and commentary on pedagogy, productivity, and technology in higher education." Follow ProfHacker on Twitter and Facebook.

Journal and News Articles

Dunlap, J. C., & Lowenthal, P. R. (2009). Tweeting the night away: Using Twitter to enhance social presence. Journal of Information Systems Education, 20(2). 

"The future of higher education: How technology will shape learning." (2008). The Economist Intelligence Unit. Retrieved from The New Media Consortium.

Zhao, D., & Rosson, M. B. (2009). How and why people Twitter: The role that micro-blogging plays in informal communication at work. In Proceedings of the ACM 2009 International Conference on Supporting Group Work.

Please feel free to leave suggestions for additions to this resource list in the comments!