integrating twitter into the classroom

Integrating Twitter into the classroomDr. Matt J. DuffyBerry College@mattjduffy

Why do this? What I tell my students:

You shouldn’t graduate with a comm degree if you don’t know how to use Twitter

Important to enter workforce with a Twitter presence Consider having two accounts one professional, one for fun

What I’m hoping for: Increased comprehension of laws, concepts Understanding of pervasiveness of law issues

Twitter basics Hashtags allow users to have

conversations about common themes #COM4470

Starting a tweet with a @handle means only people that follow you and that person will be able to see tweet So, you don’t have to clog up your twitter

feed with hashtag-specific comments Very important!!!

Incorporating Twitter hashtag into classroom Twitterfall

Before class Discussion of

Twitter postsat beginningof classes.

Grading Five percent of grade Students required to tweet three times At least one post must be to something

related to media law Other tweets can address other posts Students should show understanding of

some media law issue with posts Open-access Google Docs spreadsheet

records participation

Storify

What would I do differently? Increase grade percentage

10 percent instead of 5 percent 40 percent of students didn’t participate

Stress more discussion among themselves Like which way would a case likely go? What evidence would sway case?

The End! Slides and storify available

at www.mattjduffy.com Matt J. Duffy, PhD Berry College

Rome GA Teach journalism, multimedia

storytelling