Comments on: Twitter in the Classroom?

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:56:59 +0000

I think Twitter it is a neat option, especially for students who want to share resources (links, articles, etc.) and to continue out-of-classroom threads. I like the idea of it being packaged with meatier alternatives (e.g. blogs, private or public forum with less word restriction, etc.) in case it drives conversations or discussions that need to expand beyond the twitter word count…

By: Kathie

Kathie — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:39:48 +0000

Looking forward to this session. I’ve used Twitter in my classes for about a year now and have found particular success in distance classrooms. (I have an article currently under review at Kairos about the experience: prezi.com/uphgnhshagbw/tweetagogy-kairos/.)

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:31:14 +0000

Looking forward to this session. I tweet with my students for my Online course. Everyone is nervous at first, but toward the end of the term they like it, and some keep up with it after wards. The key is making it relevant and helping them find relevant content and people to follow for it to start to click. You just can’t tweet for a week and “get it.” It must be on-going throughout the term.

I follow and chat with Rey Junco on this who is an expert in this area. His latest study on Twitter & student engagement has been covered a lot in the past week. mashable.com/2010/11/04/twitter-student-engagement/

By: Marta

Marta — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:47:11 +0000

Great! I tried, and failed, to incorporate twitter this semester, but I’m excited to do it in the future!

By: Libby

Libby — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:17:56 +0000

Hi Amy,

I would be very interested in this session at THATCamp this weekend. I’m also a social tweeter, and have also live tweeted a conference [50th Anniversary Maine Women Writers Collection, 2009]. I have not used twitter live in the classroom [but sounds like a wonderful experiment I’d like to chat more about], but this semester I did experiment with Twitter in my history research methods course. I had my students go into my twitter account, look at the archive of my tweets, and then they had to draw five analytical conclusions [with evidence and explanations] about me based on what I had tweeted. What they came up with was pretty intriguing, and they all really liked the assignment. I’d like to explore more possibilities!

By: Kelli Marshall

Kelli Marshall — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:16:18 +0000

Hi, Amy:

First, thanks for reading and citing my post on Twitter and Facebook in the classroom!

Second, I’m not sure if you’ve returned to my blog since that post, but I have written a bit more on the use of Twitter in the class since then. Unlike last time around, this semester I’m requiring that students tweet a certain amount of times per week (a minimum of 6x in my classes of 30 and 3x in my class of 125+). This has been working out well so far, really well actually. In any event, I’ve recently posted the following on this “experiment,” if you’re interested:

Teaching 200+ Students How to Tweet: The Challenges
kellimarshall.net/unmuzzledthoughts/teaching/teaching-tweeting-challenges/

Teaching 200+ Students How to Tweet: The Rewards
kellimarshall.net/unmuzzledthoughts/teaching/teaching-tweeting-rewards/

Best of luck to you!