Grassroots professional development: How teachers use Twitter

ICWSM 2012 - Proceedings of the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 106-113

  Forte, Andrea ^a   Humphreys, Melissa ^a   Park, Thomas ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CONTENT ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; INSTITUTIONAL POLICIES; LOCAL COMMUNITY; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL MEDIA; STRUCTURAL FEATURE;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

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EID: 84890759607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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