twitter in education

Twitter in educationHoward Errey (@howard61)

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exercises

• Empty your wallets…• Everyone speak at once...• Physical twitter http://bit.ly/7Uc0VY

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Getting started

• Gmail• Followees and followers• Feeds

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Twitter home page

PLN

• Personal learning network• Start by following 20 to 50 people who are

interesting and or influential in your field• Many of them will follow you back• Ask questions…

Grammar

• @ = public talking to or about someone• RT = retweet• D = direct message (eg d howard61)• #Hastag – themes– Irony & humour– Trending topics

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readers

Intranet tweets

• Yammer• Social text

Curation

Students

• Don’t often like it – despite your enthusiasm• Yet find material that the wouldn’t otherwise

use• Often can seem like a chore on top of already

prescribed work

Research

• Students in the study who were asked to contribute to class discussions and complete assignments using Twitter increased their engagement over a semester more than twice as much as a control group.

• Improved results as well…• http://bit.ly/jqLYsY

Twitter search

• People instead of information• 3rd party APIs• Keep up to date with your field • What’s happening• Who are the leaders.• Accounting example http://bit.ly/jqLYsY

Some possibilities…

• Tell stories, follow trends, collate info with hashtags, include location, share a class or event with others, poll, ask questions, crowdsource, recipes, contact experts (eg NASA), integrate (like RSS) into blogs/Moodle, logbook, share resources, trip tracking, collate multiple related tweeters/topics,

kitchen

Links

• 31 interesting ways to use Twitter in the classroom http://bit.ly/3TwKx4

• Twitter help for educators http://bit.ly/h1TwL• Twitter increases student engagement

http://bit.ly/jqLYsY• Effects of Twitter in an online learning

environment http://bit.ly/fJvKUA

Twitter in educationHoward Errey (@howard61)

eWorksHoward.errey@eworks.edu.au