{"id":128,"date":"2011-08-22T14:47:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T14:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/2011\/08\/22\/using-sociologyinfocus-com-in-your-classes\/"},"modified":"2015-08-24T00:40:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T00:40:01","slug":"using-sociologyinfocus-com-in-your-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/2011\/08\/22\/using-sociologyinfocus-com-in-your-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Using SociologyInFocus.com In Your Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"full-image-block ssNonEditable\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sociologyfocus.pearsoncmg.com\/wp-content\/themes\/twentyten\/images\/header_image.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1314026009442\" alt=\"SociologyInFocus\" width=\"550\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Big news!  Today I\u2019m launching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociologyinfocus.com\">SociologyInFocus.com<\/a> a site that uses pop culture, the news, and media to make learning complex sociological concepts simple.  Students will love it because articles are fun, compelling, and relevant to their lives.  Teachers will love it because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociologyinfocus.com\">SociologyInFocus.com<\/a> makes it easy to teach using real time examples of sociology straight from the headlines.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"use_sociologyinfocuscom_in_your_classes\">Use SociologyInFocus.com in Your Classes<\/h2>\n<p>What\u2019s great about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociologyinfocus.com\">SociologyInFocus.com<\/a> is that each post comes with assignable questions.  Assign articles to your students.  Use an article to start a class discussion or as an ice breaker for your lectures.  You can even make articles extra credit.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociologyinfocus.com\">SociologyInFocus.com<\/a> is designed to excite your students and to be an invaluable resource to sociology teachers everywhere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociologyinfocus.com\">SociologyInFocus.com<\/a> uses all the ideas and best practices discussed here on SociologySource to create a site that your students will love.  Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociologyinfocus.com\">the site<\/a>, and follow <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/socinfocus\">@SocInFocus on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news! Today I\u2019m launching SociologyInFocus.com a site that uses pop culture, the news, and media to make learning complex sociological concepts simple. Students will love it because articles are fun, compelling, and relevant to their lives. Teachers will love it because SociologyInFocus.com makes it easy to teach using real time examples of sociology straight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1982,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21328],"tags":[30654],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-sociology-in-focus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}