Comments on: Twitter for Academia

By: Wonen in Duitsland

Wonen in Duitsland — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:20:53 +0000

You might want to take a look at GroupTweet (http://grouptweet.com/). It would work very well in setting up a classroom grouptweet to keep everyone organized in getting each others twitts.

I took a look,

That looks great!

By: David Phillips

David Phillips — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:33:41 +0000

One of the hard things to teach is the nature of Network Theory but try http://www.crazybob.org/twubble/ to get a first class example of how it works.
The reach at two degrees of separation is huge.
It puts mass media and network media into context

By: Ali Daniali

Ali Daniali — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:02:53 +0000

You might want to take a look at GroupTweet (http://grouptweet.com/). It would work very well in setting up a classroom grouptweet to keep everyone organized in getting each others twitts.

BTW great post.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:29:06 +0000

I’ve been looking into academic uses for Twitter as well. I particularly like the idea of using it as a mini-blog to share links to interesting articles with a terse comment (though I haven’t enough academics following me to start doing that too much).

Now, if I can get my thesis supervisor on it, he’ll be able to keep closer tabs on my work. On second thought…

By: Lia

Lia — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:00:52 +0000

I think that this article did a great job rationalizing this program but I don’t see how this is any different than having instant messaging or using any other basic computer program or wiki. I just don’t see the great benefit of twitter.

By: dave

dave — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:27:46 +0000

nibblepig-
Stay tuned for more. But, the class I used for this last time was a Computer Mediated Communication class, essentially a class about how networked forms of writing change our society. So, the connection was pretty transparent. But since there were so many questions about this I am writing a follow-up post or two.

By: nibblepig

nibblepig — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:05:36 +0000

Hi Dave,

How exactly are you using twitter for an assignment? I tried to direct message you on twitter but it wouldn’t let me, so I have posted here instead.

Although I think that twitter is blocked where I work.. but I can always try to change that!

By: Rob Letcher

Rob Letcher — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:26:16 +0000

In the “Wired” article you point to, the author cites: “You have to do it — and, more important, do it with friends. (Monitoring the lives of total strangers is fun but doesn’t have the same addictive effect.)” Here is where I personally am having an issue - I’m outisde the ‘typical’ user age group for twitter (18-27). None of my closest friends understand it - nor care to. So I’ll continue to work at fostering new friendships with those who DO!

By: Richard Byrne

Richard Byrne — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:16:29 +0000

Coincidentally, I wrote about using Twitter in the classroom about six weeks ago. (I honestly just discovered your site, good stuff all around). Last week, I wrote about and made a video about using Pownce in the classroom as it does everything Twitter does and then some. You can read that review at http://freetech4teachers.blogspot.com/2008/01/free-technology-for-teachers-using.html
I actually tried my ideas in the classroom yesterday (I teach 9th grade World Studies) and it worked great!

You can follow my Pownce at http://pownce.com/rbyrnetech/

By: Darin R. McClure

Darin R. McClure — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:13:00 +0000

You don’t have to be a Teacher to use these techniques when tweeting, but you can act like one.
As I see it, Twitter is only a time “waster” if you make it one. If you are following the right people, you can ask a question and have it answered five different ways with real world experience that you can fall back on.

Do You Follow Me?

http://twitter.com/darinrmcclure