from "Detiveaux, Georges J" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: use of social media (w. success data)? Date: December 22, 2011 9:23:38 AM EST Happy Holidays, IALLTers! Our college system recently came out with a bizarre policy that pretty much bans the use of social media in teaching & learning. To present a counter-argument, we have to do so in administrator-ese (hey! a language I actually DON'T want to learn!), so my dean has asked me to help find research that shows that the use of social media in instruction improves success rates. Can anyone recommend any articles/links/archived presentations they've come across that include success data in courses that use social media (like Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, etc.)? Thanks in advance, and warmest wishes to all for a great holiday season and a wonderful 2012! Cheers, georges detiveaux manager, teaching & learning center labs & instructional support, http://www.lonestar.edu/TLClabs french, http://faculty.lonestar.edu/gdetiveaux lone star college-cyfair 9191 barker cypress road, lrnc-212a cypress, tx 77433 ph 281.290.5975 fx 281.290.5282 pres, socallt, www.socallt.org ************************************************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning Technologies (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) **************************************************************************