Comments on: Twitter for Academia

By: Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:46:51 +0000

Very interesting. Is anyone using Twitter for classroom learning games/challenges?

By: Jose Lepervanche

Jose Lepervanche — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:50:45 +0000

I have been using Twitter in our online courses since last summer. I copied the HTML code of my tweets feeds to be able to display the last 10 on my website, blog, Blackboard announcements and finally Blackboard discussion boards. I encourage students to select one tweet from my list, visit the link (if any) and then create a conversation on the discussion board called “Twitter Updates”. When I review the conversation, I may select some of the answers and RT them in Twitter with the hashtag #eCampus and the “Found on our forum” heading to recycle the tweets into the discussion board. Visit my http://www.managementadventures.org to see the feed follow me on Twitter (DrLepervanche).

By: Salvador Sanchez

Salvador Sanchez — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:14:19 +0000

I teach US government and I am trying to use Twitter in the classroom. I know it will be great for me to suggest reading from the daily press and videos on current events for class discussions. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciate it. Please email me at sanches@lacitycollege.edu
Thanks!

By: Paulo Simões

Paulo Simões — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:18:36 +0000

Hi Dave – Could you help me on this assignment about using twitter in Cooprative Learning ? Thanks http://voicethread.com/share/700875/
@psgimoes

By: Paul Left

Paul Left — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:44:37 +0000

Very useful suggestions!

I’ve been gathering some ideas on my wiki on using Twitter with a course.

It’s been interesting to see what uses have arisen organically when Twitter is set up as a sort of informal communication channel.

Thanks for a great post…

Paul

By: Bobby Dale

Bobby Dale — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:32:40 +0000

I found this entry very useful. I was researching Twitter for a class project in order to get a better understanding of Twitter and its possible uses. Your concrete examples such as “Track a Word” or “Class Chatter” further my understanding of Twitter and how it may be use beyond typical personal socialization. Thanks!

By: Elaine Young

Elaine Young — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:56:44 +0000

Dave: Nicely done. I too am using Twitter in the classroom at the college level. I have asked my marketing majors to use it and am finding a great deal of what you stated above to be true — but only for those students who really are willing to jump in. For those who are jumping in, they are creating amazing connections and connecting with big players in the marketing field — something they wouldn’t have been able to do before.

My biggest challenge is getting the students to be willing to play with and explore emerging technology tools so they can then decide how they can (and more importantly, how they should) be used in the Marketing context.

I’m often surprised by those students who are 18 – 22 who just won’t do it. They refuse to try and state that they won’t need to use these tools when they work. They aren’t much different than many of my colleagues (smile). So, once again proof that age has nothing to do with technology acceptance.

I have followed you on twitter. Feel free to follow me @ejyoung67

Dr. Elaine Young
Assoc. Professor, Marketing and e-Business Management
Champlain College

By: Kathryn Ortiz

Kathryn Ortiz — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:10:31 +0000

I’m on the academic job market, and I like Twitter b/c it is another aspect of New Media that I can bring to the classroom.

By: Stefan Martens

Stefan Martens — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:20:51 +0000

Thank you so much for your insights.
I’m currently building an online community for my master’s thesis to foster communication (among other things) between lecturers and students in the field of information science. I’m keen to integrate microblogging to make communication more personal. Twitter is a great tool to achieve that and other important things as well, as you’ve outlined in your blog post.

If you want to clarify the benefits of Twitter to somebody who doesn’t get the gist of this hilarious tool, you could tell them to check out a tiny presentation I’ve given on a webmonday this week called “Get the most out of Twitter”: – it was inspired by the great presentation “How Twitter changed my Life”, although the latter title is a bit too much in my opinion

Keep up the great work!

By: Bruce Spear

Bruce Spear — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:39:33 +0000

Great post, thanks, it got me started! How We Twitter".