Virtual induction: A novice teacher's use of Twitter to form an informal mentoring network

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 35, Issue , 2013, Pages 25-33

  Smith Risser, H ^a  

^a MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mentoring; Novice teacher; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878947478     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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