aect 2009 using twitter to enhance social presence in online learning
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Twitter me timbers!A pirate’s journey for
social networking’s buried treasure
Joni Dunlap | joni.dunlap@ucdenver.edu | Twitter: @jonidunlapPatrick Lowenthal | patrick.lowenthal@ucdenver.edu | Twitter: @plowenthal
Learning is a very human activity.
The more people feel they are beingtreated as human beings
—that their human needs are being taken into account—
the more they are likely to learn and learn to learn.
(Knowles, 1990, pp. 129)
Learning is a very human activity.
The more people feel they are beingtreated as human beings
—that their human needs are being taken into account—
the more they are likely to learn and learn to learn.
(Knowles, 1990, pp. 129)
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Log in Access shell
Locate forum
Post message
Wait for response
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What are you doing?
What are you doing?What are you doing?
Rules of engagement
• 140 characters = tweet
• Following vs. followers
• Public vs. individual
• Public vs. private
• “#6710” “#obama” “#photography”
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Instantaneous
Perpetual
Free-flowing
Organic
JUST IN TIME
Informal
Natural
Real
A student has a question about the chapter on multimodal learning. She immediately tweets her question to the Twitter community, and gets three responses within ten minutes—two responses from classmates, and one from her professor.
This leads to several subsequent posts, including comments from two practicing professionals.
A student working on an assignment is wondering about embedding music into a presentation. He tweets a question and gets a response from his professor and a practicing professional. Both point the student to different resources that explain how to embed music and provide examples to deconstruct. Within a half hour, the student has embedded music in his presentation.
A student sends a private tweet to the professor regarding a difficult situation with a project team member.
While in the middle of a meeting, the professor immediately tweets back, arranging a time to talk with the student outside of Twitter.
A student cannot believe what she has just heard on the news regarding federal funding of higher education and needs to share.
She tweets her comment, and immediately connects with others who cannot believe it either.
A student finds a great video about storyboarding on YouTube and posts the URL to Twitter.
Her find is retweeted three times because others also think the video is great and worth sharing.
While away at a conference, the professor tweets various updates about what she is hearing and seeing at the conference.
A student tweets that he just posted a new entry to his blog on how vision trumps all other senses during instruction and provides the URL.
His classmates, as well as other practicing professionals, read his blog post. He receives three tweets thanking him for sharing his ideas.
As part of a research project on legacy systems, a student poses a question to the Twitter community regarding the prevalent need for COBOL programmers. She receives responses from several IT professionals, some with links to helpful resources and contacts that can help her with research.
A student tweets that she is tired and going off to bed. She receives two tweets back from classmates wishing her a good night.
Other instructional benefits
• Addressing student issues in a timely manner
• Writing concisely
• Writing for an audience
• Connecting with community of practice
• Supporting informal learning
• Maintaining on-going relationships
Guidelines for instructional use
• Establish relevance for students
• Define clear expectations for participation
• Model effective Twitter use
• Recommend people to follow
• Build Twitter-derived results into assessments
• Continue to actively participate in Twitter
Cons of Twitter
• Time
• Control over public-ness
• You get what you put in
“Twitter has been a great way for me to check in with everyone who is using it. I found out how other’s were feeling about school, how life was treating them, how their jobs and families were doing. This is something much more intimate than mandatory weekly discussions...”
“Twitter has been a great way for me to check in with everyone who is using it. I found out how other’s were feeling about school, how life was treating them, how their jobs and families were doing. This is something much more intimate than mandatory weekly discussions...”X
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Patrick Lowenthal | Twitter: @plowenthal
Paper Available http://tinyurl.com/OurTwitterPaper
Presentation Available http://www.slideshare.net/plowenthal
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