The focus of my presentation is the conference behaviours of academic users of Twitter.
Twitter is being used to create a ‘backchannel’ to sustain commentary and dialogue amongst conference participants who send tweets during live presentations. The tweets are commentary of the presentations as they unfold, but also involve questions, critical remarks, banter and socialising etc..
We created a Twitter account for the module.
We created a group using TweepML enabling all students to follow one another.
About me
Tony McNeill
Principal Lecturer in Educational Technology
Academic Development Centre
Kingston University
Twitter
anthonymcneill
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My Twitter experiment
Using Twitter
to promote
student engagement
English Literature
Media and Cultural Studies
Engineering
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why Twitter?
What is reflection?
• Dewey • Schön • Kolb • Boud
• having an experience
• recording the experience
• thinking about the experience
(in the light of existing knowledge)
• integrating into a new conceptual
framework
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Twitter and the ‘nearly now’
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Weekly Twitter activities
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Student reflections
Resource sharing
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What’s Twitter good for?
• announcements/notifications
• ice-breaking activities
• resource sharing
• banter/socialising
• posting problems and queries
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Twitter is being used to create a ‘backchannel’ to sustain commentary and dialogue amongst conference participants who send tweets during live presentations. The tweets are commentary of the presentations as they unfold, but also involve questions, critical remarks, banter and socialising etc..