eAssessment Scotland 2010: Twitter for Assessment, Feedback and Communication

Twitter Workshop #eas10tw
September 9, 2010| slide 1
What’s happening? Twitter for Assessment, Feedback and Communication
Martin Hawksey or @mhawksey
e-Learning Advisor (Higher Education)
http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/
RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning

Pioneers

Love hate

Twitter for me is about …
Notification
Community

Stats
Started 2006
105 million registered users.
180 million unique visitors every month.
75% of Twitter traffic comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party applications.)
Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day.
Of Twitter's active users, 37% use their phone to tweet.
Over half of all tweets (60%) come from third party applications.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/14/twitter-user-statistics-r_n_537992.html

Objectives
Introduction to Twitter
Educational uses
Educational examples
Why/Why not's

Interface

Finding people
Find on Twitter (includes ‘Suggestions for you’ and ‘Find Friends’ by email/Linkedln) https://twitter.com/invitations/find_on_twitter
Look at who else is following who
Directories like http://wefollow.com/ and http://www.twellow.com/
Also find people with http://twitter.com/{username} e.g. http://twitter.com/mhawksey
Activity: Find the Twitter username eas10tw and follow

Example tweets - update
Find out more about EvidenceNet the HEA's free service which supports use of evidence in HE @ webinar http://bit.ly/clbAa8 via@PhysSciCentre

Example tweets - reply
@alextronic haven't published one yet but we were going to go for #eport10

Example tweets - direct
d briankelly Are you able to send a screenshot - looks okay here (we have our #eas10 event fri) btw have you seen lanyrd.com everyone is taking about it
[Important: to send a direct message the recipient must be following you]

Example tweets - retweet
RT @helenrf: @mhawksey what happens if you create a tweet that is a result to the search? can you delete the saved search? < very clever!!!

Searching Twitter
http://search.twitter.com
or
http://search.twitter.com/advanced
Words, from/to people, location and more
Limited to last 7 days

Ways to interact with twitter
Web (Twitter.com, Seesmic Web)
Desktop clients (Twhirl, TweetDeck, Seesmic Desktop)
Browser (Firefox/Chrome plugins)
3rdparty services (TwitPic - photos, twaud.io -audio, Screenr - webcasts)
Mobile (SMS updates, official Twitter apps for iPhone/Android, lots of others)

Mobile
Users on Vodafone, Orange, O2 and ‘3’ can receive free status updates via SMS
You can choose who to receive updates from

Twitter Adoption Matrix
Mark Sample’s Twitter Adoption Matrixhttp://chronicle.com/blogPost/A-Framework-for-Teaching-with/26223/

Things to think about
Organisation
Structure
Archiving (Twapper Keeper, The Archivist – Desktop)
Purpose
Administration
Evaluation
Sharing
Assessment
All of the above

Automated communication
Instructor communication (syllabus announcements)
Pedagogical communication (sharing links)
Using http://dlvr.it/ or http://twitterfeed.com/ to turn RSS feeds into tweets
FREE PowerPoint Twitter Tools – auto tweet on slide transition

Using Twitter for electronic voting (EVS)
Question: Have you heard of ‘Who wants to be a millionaire: ask the audience’ style voting being used in the classroom?
For yes tweet ‘#eas10q1 yes’
No tweet ‘#eas10q1 no’
Option to provide context if you like with message + hashtag + response e.g. ‘I already use voting in my class #eas10q1 yes’
Result
http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/twevs/tw-evs.php

Alternatively polleverywhere.com

Why use twitter for voting
If you don’t have handsets can vote via mobile
Possibility to get more information (context for answer)
Voting not just restricted to in-class

Feedback tweet with hashtag #eas10tw

Using Twitter to augmenting other educational resources
Lecture capture enhancement
iTitle – playing back video of live events with what was said in the back channelhttp://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/ititle/estict.html
uTitle – letting students make timeline based comments on video resources http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/utitle/int.php?v=wO9RDEXfnTI

Why
Mobility – crossing the dived between in and out of class

Why
Flexibility – not hard to add functionality and interface with Twitter service

Why
Learner communities – opportunity to share learning within cohort and further afield

Why
Light intervention – brevity of 140 characters allows less but more often

Why
Lifelong – connections made in the class can support further independent learning

Why
Mobility – crossing the dived between in and out of class
Flexibility – not hard to add functionality and interface with Twitter service
Learner communities – opportunity to share learning within cohort and further afield
Light intervention – brevity of 140 characters allows less but more often
Lifelong – connections made in the class can support further independent learning

Why not
Distraction
Reliance on 3rd party services
Privacy
Educational value
Equality
[Facebook]

Image attribution
West End pioneers by IMLS DCChttp://www.flickr.com/photos/imlsdcc/4647377747/
marmite love by chotdahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/santos/2448422626/
Noticeboard by mikecoghhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecogh/4367160881/
Burien Community Center by Michael @ NW Lenshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/aboyandhisbike/4615846709/

Resources
Event amplification http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/on-friday-amplified-seminar-on-what-can-we-learn-from-amplified-events/
Social networking policy http://socialmediatoolkit.wikispaces.com/Policies+and+Guidelines
Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitterhttp://chronicle.com/blogPost/Practical-Advice-for-Teaching/26416/
Griffiths University journalism students to be marked on Tweetshttp://www.news.com.au/technology/griffiths-university-journalism-students-to-be-marked-on-tweets/story-e6frfro0-1225786329286#ixzz0yN7eCOa5

@mhawksey
RSC MASHehttp://bit.ly/mashe

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