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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Pinterest"”.
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My pins are my dreams : Pinterest, collective daydreams, and the aspirational gap
… of visually-driven social commerce sites like Pinterest.com provides a platform on which both businesses and consumer-collectors publish, collect, and circulate images en masse. This thesis examines historical scrapbooks as well as a variety of Pinterest collections through the theoretical lens …
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Culture, l2 self, and emotion in the digital realm: developing learners’ interest in continuing to study Spanish
… of social media in learners’ lives, I used Pinterest as a means of exploring real-world cultural topics and leading learners to visualize themselves interacting in the target culture. To evaluate learners’ subjective experiences, I adopted a qualitative approach and collected data through …
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Use of Images on Social Media and How That Effects Consumer Engagement for Online-Only Clothing Brands: Lulu's, Nasty Gal, and Tobi
… Nasty Gal, and Tobi's social media accounts, Pinterest andInstagram. The three companies chosen are online-only clothing brands that targetfashionable young women. How do Tobi, Nasty Gal, and Lulu's visual communicationstrategies on Instagram and Pinterest affect consumer engagement on the …
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Photo engagement: how presentation and content of images impact their engagement and diffusion
… image sharing communities, Flickr, Instagram and Pinterest, using quantitative and qualitative methods. First, I show how colors -- a fundamental property of an image -- could impact the virality of an image on Pinterest. I consider three dimensions of color: hue, saturation and brightness and …
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DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND TEACHER PREPARATION: THE INSTRUCTIONAL ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AMONG PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS
… social media platforms—Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest—and how pre-service teachers plan to apply them to classroom education. Previous studies focused on only one social media platform, usually Twitter or Facebook. This study surveyed 113 pre-service teachers in their 3rd or 4th year of …
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A Project Plan for Software that Advances Museums' Prospect Research Effectiveness
… as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest. The plan in this paper outlines opportunities and challenges, as well as three different phases that a museum and its chosen vendor would hypothetically follow to build the software. A request for proposal also follows in the plan. Last …
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A qualitative study of agricultural lessons used by Texas teachers in elementary classrooms
… and several non-agricultural resources such as Pinterest and Teachers Pay Teachers. Based on data gathered from the study, it is recommended that further study should be conducted to determine why certain resources are being used more frequently, how to increase use of agriculture-based lessons, …
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Microbloguing e presença social no ensino aberto, a distância e em rede : estudo de caso
… e compartilhar conteúdo têm aparecido, como Pinterest, Vine (6 segundos) ou vídeos Tumblr. A vantagem que estas ferramentas ou serviços fornecem tem a ver, por um lado, com o relativo baixo investimento de tempo e de esforço em termos de produção e de publicação, por outro lado, com a sua boa …
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#Socialsupport for Diet and Physical Activity via Web 2.0: A Qualitative Study of College Women
… activity via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest were collected the first three weeks, and interviews were conducted the fourth week. Qualitative analysis was conducted at both the participant and group level, and results inform how the women engage with the topics of diet and physical …
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Information-seeking behaviour of grade R practitioners in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality
… sources are Google, social media, especially Pinterest, and their colleagues. The major barriers to information access are time restraints and language. The nature of information needed to perform their tasks ranges from curriculum-related information, various child development oriented …
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Hashtags and Pins in Education: Digital Native Educators in Digital Habitats.
<p>As technology becomes more ubiquitous in society, education cannot ignore the impact it is having on education. This research seeks to understand how Digital Native educators are using Digital Habitats in their professional practice. By gaining a deeper understanding of how educators use Digital …