140 Characters and Beyond: Extending Your Use of Twitter
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This document discusses Twitter as a platform for connecting learners and discusses several topics related to using Twitter for learning and education. It mentions sessions on learning to connect in Twitter, digital footprints, and life on screen. It also discusses using Twitter to contribute ideas, meeting people's brains before faces, Twitter as a learning platform for students, digital youth projects, adding dimensions of content, skills and dispositions to learning. Finally, it summarizes that Twitter represents a flexible platform for connecting learners of all ages through hashtags and conversations around interests, friends, and academics which challenges schools to rethink education.
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140 Characters and Beyond: Extending Your Use of Twitter
- 1. @djakes #blc10 140 Characters: Learning to Connect in Twitter
- 3. Thursday: Digital Footprints Friday: Life on the Screen All sessions are here.
- 4. Use #blctwitideasto contribute ideas…
- 5. “This is the first time I have met people’s brains before I have met their faces.” Kevin Honeycutt NECC Atlanta
- 6. Image courtesy of Hugh McLoed, Gaping Void
- 9. Do you see Twitter as a viable learning platformfor our students? Take the survey! tinyurl.com/blcpoll
- 11. Mimi Ito Digital Youth Project
- 12. There are two living channels for learning 1) an institutional channel, and 2) a peer-driven, interest-driven, and unregulated digital media channel. Richard Halverson
- 13. We can add one dimension…
- 14. Content, Skills, and Dispositions
- 15. PowerPoint Twitter Feedback SlideUse Presentation Mode to view, Click this header to give mouse control back to PowerPoint, change slide, etc. Check the “alternate format” to see more tweets! © SAP 2009 / Page 15
- 17. Twitter, and its associated tools, represents a pliable and agile platform for connecting learners.
- 18. Connections made through Twitter can contribute to friendship, interest, and academic-based pursuits.
- 19. These connections are scalable, with students of all ages having the capability to connect.
- 20. The hashtag links people, conversations, and resources.
- 21. Connective, social environments are disruptive for schools, and contribute to the challenge of rethinking of what it means to be well-educated.
Editor's Notes
- [twitter] My resources for my BLC Twitter presentation are at jakes.editme.com/140 [/twitter]
- [twitter] Jakes at BLC: Thursday: Life on the Screeen, Friday: Digital Footprints. Resources at jakes.editme.com [/twitter]
- [twitter] Join in at BLC and @djakes Twitter presentation by adding your ideas on how to use Twitter in education. Use the hastagblctwitideas [/twitter]
- [twitter] Do you see Twitter as a viable learning platform for students. Take the survey here: http://tinyurl.com/blcpoll [/twitter]
- [twitter] Richard Halverson, two channels for learning 1) institutional 2) peer-driven, interest-driven, unregulated digital media channel [/twitter]
- [twitter] Rich Halverson, two channels for learning 1) institutional 2) peer-driven, interest-driven, digital media channel http://tinyurl.com/ycffk44 [/twitter]
- [twitter]What we do in our academic spaces can directly support student interactions in friendship and interest-based spaces. [/twitter]
- [twitter] My PPT slides are tweeting during presentation. To find out how: http://tinyurl.com/tweetfromslides [/twitter]
- [twitter] During your Prezi presentation, collect and display participants tweets in Prezi, http://tinyurl.com/pptprezi [/twitter]
- [twitter]Twitter, and its associated tools, represents a pliable and agile platform for connecting learners. [/twitter]
- [twitter]Connections made through Twitter can contribute to friendship, interest, and academic-based pursuits. See Halverson, See Ito [/twitter]
- [twitter]The ability to connect is scalable, with students of all ages having the capability to connect and interact. Younger students can use Twiducate. [/twitter]
- [twitter]The hashtag is the unifying entity that links people, conversations, and resources. [/twitter]
- [twitter]Connective, social environments are disruptive for schools, and contribute to the challenge of rethinking of what it means to be well-educated. [/twitter]