Teaching and Learning with Twitter

Teaching and Learning with Steve Wheeler University of Plymouth, UK @timbuckteeth

Microblogs and Social Networks
Allows users to send brief text updates or micromedia such as photos or audio clips and publish them
Examples include: Plurk, Jaiku and Twitter
Facebook, Myspace, etc. have microblogging features known as ‘ status updates ’.
What are you doing ?
What’s happening?

People are living their lives online...

Is it really like this...?

140
RT and DM
#ulearn10
@timbuckteeth

Go Global

Twitter in Plain English

Activity : Set up your Twitter account
Go to www.twitter.com
Create an account
Choose a user name
Choose an avatar (picture to represent you)
Start to ‘follow’ other Twitter users

Some facts about
Twitter takes time...
to build up a network
to develop your own Twitter style
to appreciate its full scope
It’s all about the conversation
Large number of associated tools (Mashups)
Twitter is growing fast...

Some views on Twitter...

Why Twitter? Unique worldwide users over 100 million (June 2010)

What to Tweet about?

What to Tweet about?
Conversation is the new currency
Twitter is an amplifier
Tweets can ‘go viral’ if enough RTs
DMs are private conversations
Learn a lot from other people’s tweets

More Twitter views...

Let’s take a brief tour of Twitter...

navigation

navigation user icon user info

navigation user icon user info activities following

navigation user icon user info activities following retweet hashtag hyperlink

update box you choose a background public timeline

mentions DMs trending

Twitter relationships...

More on relationships...

Activity: Disadvantages?
Spend a few moments discussing with someone in your group: What do you think the disadvantages and barriers would be to using Twitter in an educational context?

The downside?
Time consuming
Slow to start
Noise to signal ratio
Distracting
Security issues?
Ban in some schools
Spam followers!

Twitter culture – RTs and the rest...

5 Twitter stages
Denial: I think Twitter sounds stupid. Why would anyone care what other people are doing right now?
Presence: OK, I don’t get why people love it, but I guess I could at least create an account
Dumping: I’m on Twitter and using it for links to my blog posts and pointing people to useful websites
Conversing: I don’t always post useful stuff, but I use Twitter to have useful 1-1 conversations
Microblogging: I’m using Twitter to publish useful information that people read, and I have authentic 1-1 conversations.
(Adapted from Minxuan Lee)

Following and followers

Either Carefully select the people you want to follow based on their interests/background or Go on follow recommendations from people you trust (See TweepML.org ) or Follow the same people your friends are following

Activity : Explore some additional tools
Tweetdeck (dashboard)
Twitpic, Tweetphoto
Twitterpoll
Twitterfall
Mr Tweet
Twitlonger, Woofer
TweepML

Twitter is here to stay.....

Some theory...
Reflection
Amplification
Collaboration and sharing
Interaction and Conversation
Knowledge generation

How can Twitter be used...?

Teaching with Twitter
Discuss – how could you use Twitter ...
in your own teaching?
To extend your own PLN?
To create a community of practice?

Twitter teaching ideas

Activity: Your turn
What are your ideas for using Twitter in your own classroom?

Twittering at Conferences
Try twittering at this conference
Hashtag is: #ulearn10
Be concise
Report on what you think will be interesting to other people
Reply to others
Send useful URLs

Tweet you later!

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Teaching and Learning with Twitter

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