twitter in the classroom

TWITTER IN THE CLASSROOMSally Wilson

swilson@ryerson.caJanuary 25, 2012

Overview

Some history Terminology and Twitter basics How Twitter is being used Twitter in Higher Education Examples Best Practices Twitter in the Classroom at Ryerson

Founded 2006 twttr First day 224 tweets

History

What is Twitter?

Twitter Usage Stats

40%

38%

9%

6%4% 4%

Pointless babble

Conversational

Pass-along value

Self-promotion

Spam

News

Content of Tweets

Getting online with Twitterhttp://twitter.com

Get an Account

@DMPRyerson@RyersonLTO@ryersonlibrary@RyersonDMZ

@dhannalto@swilson416@restiandriati@blepharisma

Find people to follow

Twitter Terminology

Tweet – 140 characters

Retweeting

Hashtags

#TTC#Jan25#WEF#Ryerson#RUweb20

By keywords By hashtags #ryerson, #RUweb20,

#ttc, #WEF, #occupyWEF Twitter search (advanced options)

http://twitter.com/search

Twitter outside the classroom Breaking news Customer Service

Job Search

More Twitter Uses

Quick Answers Track Mail Shipments – UPS, FedEx Live Twittering Branding

Twitter in the ClassroomTwitter in the Classroom

Class Discussion

Classroom CommunityBuilding Community

Sense of the World

Twitter Public Timeline https://twitter.com/public_timeline Trending topics

Track A Conference

Be in two places at once Can follow what delegates are saying

about the conference

Conferences to Track

Digital Book World #dbw12 Florida Educational Technology Conference

#EVflori4388 Learning Technologies 2011 #LT12uk New Media Training Institute #NMTI Int’l Conference on Data Mining

#SIAMSDM12 Association of America Colleges &

Universities #aacu12 Wine Bloggers’ Conference #BCWINECHAT

Follow a Professional/Company @Starbucks, @StarbucksJobs @kobo @NewMediaJim, @hrheingold

Twitter Personnas

John Boyer, Virginia Tech

http://www.plaidavenger.com/

Find Some Plaid Personnas

Use Twitter to search for Plaid followed by the name of a world leader

Tweet your findingsEg. Found world leader @Plaid_xxxxx #RUweb20

Tweeting as Characters

Twitter in Hell Project@dante1300, @danteschmante, @hell_o_dante

Recreating Historical Events

Tools to Use with Twitter

Image uploaders url shorteners Poll creators Twitter Dashboards Geospatial visualization apps

Images

Upload images Link from

Twitter www.twitpic.co

m yfrog.com/

URL Shorteners

bitly.com goo.gl

Twitter Dashboards

www.tweetdeck.com www.hootsuite.com twitterfall.com

Twitter Visualization Tools http://twittermap.appspot.com/ http://trendsmap.com

Archiving

Hootsuite Archives http://hootsuite.com

The Archivist http://archivist.visitmix.com/

Twitter Adoption Matrix

Caveats/Best Practices

Not all students familiar with Twitter Digital divide Provide alternatives Privacy issues Make expectations clear

Resources - Examples 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College

Classroom http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/06/08/50-ways-to-use-twitter-in-the-college-classroom/

Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/files/2011/11/Published-Twitter_Guide_Sept_2011.pdf

One Hundred Ways to Teach with Twitterhttp://www.emergingedtech.com/2010/02/100-ways-to-teach-with-twitter/

Delicious http://www.delicious.com/swilson416/twitter

Resources - Pedagogy

The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and gradeshttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00387.x/pdf

Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitterhttp://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/practical-advice-for-teaching-with-twitter/26416

A Framework for teaching with Twitterhttp://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/a-framework-for-teaching-with-twitter/26223

Twitter in the Classroom at Ryerson @lbeckste