Case Study Two

During her semester of tweeting as a course requirement, Marina tweeted a total of 29 times. Twenty-one of those tweets included the course hashtag and four to the course hashtag were retweets. Her tweets were evenly divided between course-specific activi

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Building a Professional Teaching Identity on Social Media A Digital Constellation of Selves

Janine S. Davis University of Mary Washington, USA

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ISBN: 978-94-6300-700-9 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-701-6 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-702-3 (e-book)

Published by: Sense Publishers, P.O. Box 21858, 3001 AW Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.sensepublishers.com/

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Thank you to all who made this book possible. This book is for you. For the Schanks and the Davises. For internet friends both close and far-flung. For people I have never met, not even once. For all the students I have ever taught, and who continue to teach me. For my friends, especially Jasmine, Chrissy, and Vicki. For Alex, Ayla, and Lena.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Forewordxi Martha Burtis List of Tables

xv

List of Figures

xvii

Chapter 1: Why Social Media?

1

Using This Text

3

Chapter 2: Research Support and Conceptual Framework

5

Research Support 5 Conceptual Framework 5 Summary9 Extension Activities 10 Chapter 3: Social Media: A Comparison

11

Details about Social Media Use 12 Blurring the Lines 15 Challenges18 Summary20 Extension Activities 20 Chapter 4: Professional Development Opportunities on Social Media

21

Building a Professional Learning Network 22 Summary27 Extension Activities 27 Chapter 5: Social Media in the Classroom

29

Calls for Use of Social Media in Education 30 College-Level Uses 31 K12-Level Uses 32 Summary34 Extension Activities 35 Chapter 6: Developing an Identity on Social Media

37

The Fragmentation of Online Identities Social Media Identities: Not Always a Choice

37 38

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Your Varying Identities 39 Summary42 Extension Activities 42 Chapter 7: Developing a Professional Identity on Social Media

45

Professional Uses 46 Summary49 Extension Activities 50 Chapter 8: Effects of Your Emerging Identity

51

Effects on Oneself 51 Effects on Others 53 Summary54 Extension Activities 55 Chapter 9: Methods of the Study

57

Research Questions 57 Methods: Data Collection 57 Methods: Data Analysis 60 Limitations61 Extension Activities 63 Chapter 10: Findings: The Survey Extension Activities Chapter 11: Case Study One: Nora

65 70 71

Tweets71 Nora’s Story 71 Extension Activities 78 Chapter 12: Case Study Two: Marina

79

Tweets79 Marina’s Story 79 Extension Activities 83 Chapter 13: Case Study Three: Callie

85

Tweets85 Callie’s Story 85 Extensio