Teaching with
Daisy Pignetti
University of Wisconsin-Stout
phdaisy@gmail.com

My tweet heard „round
the world

My tweet heard „round
the world

My tweet heard „round
the world

My tweet heard „round
the world

Where did I go?

Learning on a “laptop
campus”
Students receive a laptop computer, backpack
and a variety of cords/accessories as well as
software, wireless and wired connectivity on
campus, a course management system, service
and support, training, network storage, email,
web page space, and multimedia classrooms.
The e-Scholar Program is more than just a laptop
computer!

Digital Native
Born Digital
Palfrey &Gasser define the term:
“Digital Natives” were all born after 1980, when social
digital technologies, such as Usenet and bulletin
board systems, came online. They all have access to
networked digital technologies. And they all have the
skills to use those technologies.
Major aspects of their lives—social interactions,
friendships, civic activities—are mediated by digital
technologies. And they‟ve never known any other way
of life.

How Do You Use
Twitter?

Simply defining Twitter
Journal Writing
Informal Writing
Public Writing

The Focus/ENG 101
The goal was to offer students a place to
think critically about technology‟s ever-
evolving impact on their lives.
Twitter timelines were to be referenced as
students wrote their final exam essays in
order (ideally) to realize that his/her life
on the screen is not necessarily an
alternative life but a space for growth.

What to write about?

Does it help that I'm
twittering too?
YES!!! I have another online class where half the
time it feels like we just have some big computer
and no teacher. By twittering you feel more like a
teacher and less of a server in some basement.
It encourages me to go out and post more Twitters
because I see your Twitters.
I love it that you twitter too. It really lets us know
that you are a real person who runs errands, gets a
cat etc...It also really lets us know when you will be
around for us to ask questions.

Building Community?
For an online class, I think Twitter is a good thing. I kinna feel
like I have classmates. Opens doors for new friends, get to
hear how everyone is doing, just like in a real classroom.
I do feel that “following” fellow students makes it feel like I am
part of a group rather than on a journey through this by myself.
I enjoy using twitter because if there are questions that we have
we can all answer them, not just the instructor. I
If we didn‟t have twitter there wouldn‟t be any form of
connection at all. Other online classes offer the basic
discussion boards on D2L however, they aren‟t utilized in such a
way that you actually get to know each other.

Want to learn more about
these types of projects &
participate in creating an
Annotated Bibliography of
Web 2.0 Research?
Join me and others at the
Emerging Social Software
SIG, Friday from 6:30-7:30 PM