festive tweets
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Presentation given at the JISC Winter Fayre on 25th February 2011 in Edinburgh.This presentation looks at some of the ways Twitter can be used to support different aspects of teaching and learningTRANSCRIPT
Festive Tweets #jiscwf #s3
Festive TweetsMartin Hawksey or @mhawkseye-Learning Advisor (Higher Education)
http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/ RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning
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Thinks you need to know
Hashtag for the session ‘#jiscwf #s3’
Tweeting links/resources as I go (bundled at http://bit.ly/jiscwf-s3 you can follow via http://bit.ly/festivetweets )
Slides available from http://slidesha.re/eqTtn6
In-class Backchannel
Uses: ad hoc class discussion, real-time commenting, recording divergent viewpoints
Benefits: engages less vocal students, archives otherwise ephemeral comments
Outside of Class Discussions
Uses: extend class discussions, exchange comments about readings or questions about assignments
Benefits: community building, continuity between class sessions
In-class Directed Discussion
Uses: Open or guided questions with student responses collected for later analysis
Benefits: engages all students in discussions in large lecture classes
Tracking Activities
Uses: find and follow instructor experts in the field, or key topics
Benefits: exposure to the lager cultural conversation about the class material
Lightly Structured Activities
Uses: solicit course feedback, offer ambient office hours, poll class, language or writing practice
Benefits: flexibility, availability, scalability
Metacognitive/Reflective ActivitiesUses: students report on self learning, articulate their difficulties, recap the most valuable lesson of the day
Benefits: fosters critical thinking
Institutional communication
Uses: community outreach, alerts, announcements
Instructor Communication
Uses: announcements, syllabus changes, reminders
Pedagogical Communication
Uses: sharing timely links and resources
Student Activity
Dialogic
Monologic
Passive Active
Mark Sample’s Twitter Adoption MatrixFestive Tweets #jiscwf #s3
Pedagogical Communication: Autotweet
SAP WEB 2.0 FREE PowerPoint Twitter Toolshttp://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/
(other tools including: feedback, voting and more)
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Instructor Communication:Dlvr.it
Using http://dlvr.it/ to turn RSS feeds into tweets
Alternatively http://twitterfeed.com/ there are others
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Instructor Communication:SMS
Free SMS updates (saves 4p/msg from institutional systems)
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In or out of class directed discussions:Electronic voting (EVS)
Question: Are you watching this presentation remotely via Livestream?
For yes tweet ‘#jiscwfq1 yes’ No tweet ‘#jiscwfq1 no’
Option to provide context if you like with message + hashtag + response e.g. ‘I got the train down from Inverness #jiscwfq1 yes’
Result
http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/twevs/tw-evs.php
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In or out of class directed discussions:Electronic voting (EVS)
If you don’t have handsets can vote via mobile
Possibility to get more information (context for answer)
Voting not just restricted to in-class
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In-class Backchannel:Lecture capture enhancement
iTitle – playing back video of live events with what was said in the twitter backchannelhttp://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/ititle/estict.html
More information http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/category/tt-tweets/
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Lightly Structured Activities:inboxq.com
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Why
Mobility – crossing the dived between in and out of class
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Why
Flexibility – not hard to add functionality and interface with Twitter service
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Why
Learner communities – opportunity to share learning within cohort and further afield
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Why
Light intervention – brevity of 140 characters allows less but more often
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Why
Lifelong – connections made in the class can support further independent learning
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Why not
Distraction
Reliance on 3rd party services
Privacy
Educational value
Equality
[Facebook]
Cost, Reach and Engagement #jiscwf #n2
Funding Opportunity
Want to develop some of these ideas further?
JISC Grant 04/08: Learning and teaching innovation - £50k 1 year
More info & insider tips http://bit.ly/insideLTIG
Piles of Money by Thomas Hawk
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@mhawksey
RSC MASHe http://bit.ly/mashe
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Feedback tweets
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Using Twitter to augmenting other educational resources
Lecture capture enhancement – iTitle – playing back video of live events with what was
said in the back channelhttp://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/ititle/estict.html
– uTitle – letting students make timeline based comments on video resources http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/utitle/int.php?v=wO9RDEXfnTI