{"id":152,"date":"2012-01-19T15:12:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T15:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/2012\/01\/19\/teachsoc-me-too\/"},"modified":"2014-07-13T19:01:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T19:01:14","slug":"teachsoc-me-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/2012\/01\/19\/teachsoc-me-too\/","title":{"rendered":"#TeachSoc? Me too."},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you on the Twitter? I am (@SociologySource<\/a> & @NathanPalmer1<\/a>) and I really think you should be too. It’s an essential part of how I teach.<\/p>\n

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve woken up checked Twitter and found a video or news story about the very sociological topic I was preparing to teach that day. Using these in my classes gives the sociological concepts we discuss a sense of immediacy that is priceless. I follow a pretty eclectic bunch of sociologists and educators who feed me the latest news, media, and perspectives on what’s going on right now.<\/p>\n

I’ll stop selling you on Twitter. If you use Twitter than my explanation probably sounds like someone explaining how a rotary phone works and if you don’t use Twitter I’m hoping you are officially sold on it now.<\/p>\n

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#TeachSoc and #LearnSoc<\/h2>\n

The reason I bring all this up is to make a modest suggestion to the sociological Twitter community. What’dya say we create a hashtag[1]<\/a> for resources for teaching sociology (#TeachSoc) and learning sociology (#LearnSoc)? This would help all of us and it would make finding the best resources for your class less dependent on serendipity.<\/p>\n

I’m in the middle of a redesign here on SociologySource and one of the pieces I’m going to add is a feed of all the Tweets marked with a #TeachSoc or #LearnSoc. So I’m putting my money where my mouth is, so to speak. I hope you’ll join me.<\/p>\n

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    A hashtag is a way of sorting posts on twitter. So for instance if all the great resources for teaching sociology were posted on Twitter with a #TeachSoc, then sociologists could do a search on Twitter for the words TeachSoc and a glorious list of resources would emmerge.  \u21a9<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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