These are my links for October 21st:

• Internet Resources: Sociology – For Teachers (Library of Congress)-lots of great links
• The Ups and Downs of Teaching Sociology of Religion OnLine-”First, I have flipped the order in which I present material to students and it definitely captured their attention better than before. “
• Kathleen S. Lowney receives Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award-”Bennett helped Lowney learn to tweet and together they came up with a pedagogical strategy. Approximately 65 of her students this semester are tweeting after each class, processing class material and finding video examples which help them to solidify learning the sociological perspective.
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• 28 Creative Ideas for Teaching with Twitter | MindShift-”Map trends: Combine social media and geotracking with Twittermap, which allows users a chance to plug in and track what people are talking about where. For sociology and marketing students, such technology helps them better understand demographic needs and wants.”