This PowerPoint summarizes three articles about using Twitter in education. One article describes a study where a Twitter account was used to provide updates to students, but it only attracted 65 followers and was discontinued. A second article discusses a professor who encouraged students to tweet during class to share thoughts, which worked well. A final article outlines how teachers who were unsure of Twitter learned to use it after participating in a study, such as having students tweet assignments. The PowerPoint concludes that giving Twitter a try can help educators open up more resources.

2.  If You Twitter, Will They Come?
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› Personal reflection
 Professor Encourages Students to Pass Notes
During Class — via Twitter
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 Tweets for Teachers.
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3.  Charles Hodges writes about a study conducted
where Twitter was used to keep students update.
› This information ranged from: lab hours, in class
sessions (for those taking online classes), tutor
sessions for a certain courses and much more.
› The study indicated that only 65 students has
subscribed to the Twitter account. But numbers
show that many of them did indeed use social
networking sites, almost daily.
› The Twitter account ended a semester after it
ended.
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Hodges, C. B. (2010, November 2). If you Twitter, will they come? EDUCAUSE Quarterly (EQ), 33. Retrieved from
http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/ IfYouTwitterWillTheyCome/206544

4.  According to the survey
› 65% received the
Twitter updates
› 6% used the updates to
go to tutor sessions
› 89% use social
networking to talk to
peers about
academics
› 44% would not
welcome faculty
participation in online
social networks
› 50% would not
welcome administrators
in online social
networks
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Hodges, C. B. (2010, November 2). If you Twitter, will they come? EDUCAUSE Quarterly (EQ), 33. Retrieved
from http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/
IfYouTwitterWillTheyCome/206544

5.  I believe that if the Twitter account was used more
often and the students truly knew about it, then it
would have been more successful.
 Using social networking sites are always tricky
because you never know how the students are
going to react to them.
 Like the survey showed, they were not comfortable
sharing their personal sites with faculty and
administrators.
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6.  Jeff Young writes about a professor who
encouraged his students to tweet during
lecture.
 This professor wanted his students to
share their thoughts and ideas on the
topic with everyone else in the class.
 Many people asked “Doesn’t this cause
problems?” or “Don’t your students get
distracted?”
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Young, J. (n.d.). Professor Encourages Students to Pass Notes During Class — via Twitter. Retrieved from
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/ professor-encourages-students-to-pass-notes-during-class-via-
twitter/4619

7.  The professor noted that once students got
the hang of what it was they were suppose
to do, they didn’t abuse their new found
“power”.
 The use of Twitter worked very well in this
professors classroom and he plans to
continue on the use of Twitter. He hopes to
someday have two screens, one to show
lecture notes and the other to broadcast
the live Twitter stream.
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Young, J. (n.d.). Professor Encourages Students to Pass Notes During Class — via Twitter. Retrieved from
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/ professor-encourages-students-to-pass-notes-during-class-via-
twitter/4619

8.  I believe that this professor
gave his students a voice.
Sometimes students don’t
want to speak up in class
and I believe that begin
able to post it on Twitter
allows their voice to be
heard a little more.
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Tweet?

9.  Study results by
ComScore(comscore.com)
› Most users of
microblogging (Twitter)
are over 35.
› College students only
make up 10.6%
 A report in June conducted
by HubSpot (hubspot.com)
showed
› a little over 50 % of
Twitter's millions of users
have never posted a
tweet or followed
anyone.
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Demski, J. (2010, February). Tweets for Teachers. T H E Journal, 37(2). Retrieved from
http://web.ebscohost.com.proxy.ulib.iupui.edu/ehost/ detail?vid=2&hid=14&sid=9895cddd-479f-4122-b7e4-95e8d765079e
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10.  A researcher conducted a study and set up
Twitter accounts for a group of teachers.
› This study showed that many teachers didn’t know
how to use twitter or didn’t know what to use it for.
› After the study was completed many of the teachers
knew how they wanted to use Twitter and
implemented it in their classrooms.
 One teacher had her students tweet their class work.
 Ie. Daily Oral Language( practicing grammar) or posting ideas
they had to discuss in class.
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Demski, J. (2010, February). Tweets for Teachers. T H E Journal, 37(2). Retrieved from
http://web.ebscohost.com.proxy.ulib.iupui.edu/ehost/ detail?vid=2&hid=14&sid=9895cddd-479f-4122-b7e4-95e8d765079e
%40sessionmgr14&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl 2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ehh&AN=48080786

11.  I found this article very interesting. This article showed that
when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. This quote
from the article stuck out to me:
 I agree with what Larkin said. You just have to try in order to
know what Twitter is really about. Like the study showed once
the teachers got used to it they began to implement Twitter
in their classroom.
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"I don't think you can really get a grasp of"I don't think you can really get a grasp of
what Twitter's all about until you go onlinewhat Twitter's all about until you go online
and get immersed in it and take part in aand get immersed in it and take part in a
discussion.“ -Larkindiscussion.“ -Larkin

12.  This PowerPoint has given summaries of three
different articles and they are about the use of
Twitter in education. The two articles that address
the classroom setting specifically showed a great
response to Twitter. The teachers even got involved
by discussing ideas for classes their fellow teacher
on Twitter.
 Like the quote from the last slide said “I don't thinkI don't think
you can really get a grasp of what Twitter's allyou can really get a grasp of what Twitter's all
about until you go online…” By just giving Twitter aabout until you go online…” By just giving Twitter a
try, you are opening your resources up to just moretry, you are opening your resources up to just more
than just the rest of your peers/staff/other teachers.than just the rest of your peers/staff/other teachers.
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