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Josh LePree has a vision for teaching that transcends the classroom: "[I want] to create a seamless environment for class [so that] ... it seems like there's no break between [class and homework]," says LePree.  He is a Sociology PhD student at 91¸£ÀûÉç and has been teaching at the college level for four years now.  Students nominated LePree for an ASSETT Outstanding Teaching with Technology Award last year, and one student wrote: "Technology use was a large part of our classroom and homework discussions in [LePree]'s Race and Ethnicity class."

The Sociology Department awarded LePree for his vision with the Special Topics in Sociology GPTI Fellowship for the Spring 2014 semester.  LePree designed and taught the Spring 2014 Sociological Perspectives on Migration: Gender, Race and the State course (SOCY 2091).  He created a class Twitter page and instructed students to hashtag it in a new tweet each week.  Students needed to hashtag both the class and the week of class (see the screenshot from the class Twitter page, below) to get participation credit for that week.  That way, LePree could just go to the Twitter page #SOCY2091 #WK2 to grade students' participation on the class Twitter page for the week!  If students were concerned about keeping personal and class Twitter Handles (aliases) separate, LePree encouraged them to create new handles just for class with their names and the course name--just like he did (@LePreeSOCY).

To make the out-of-class Twitter threads even more relevant to class discussion, LePree would regularly bring in students' tweets of articles and videos that related to class topics.  Consequently, one student wrote in her nomination of LePree for the ASSETT Teaching with Technology Award that posting original discussion questions on the class Twitter page for homework made her feel less anonymous in class:

Twitter was used for [LePree] and his students to share pertinent videos, ideas, and d