Introducing the Web Team Our Contributing Expert: Dr. Chareen Snelson
Greetings from Boise, Idaho, USA . It is my honor and pleasure to join the NSMNSS web team as an contributing expert . In this post I will briefly describe my background as it pertains to this group and the dynamic arena of social media research. I currently work as an Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair in the Educational Technology Program (EDTECH) at Boise State University . The majority of our EDTECH program is graduate level and completely online. I have been teaching online with this program for over a decade. Prior to my work in higher education I was a middle-school science teacher. I have been enamored with video in education ever since those early years teaching science to teens. Video seemed like the best way to introduce these rural Idaho teens to active volcanoes, deep sea life, or experts on topics we were studying. Of course, back then we relied on the now antiquated VCR technology to play video in the classroom. I never knew if it was going to work or no...