Student Microblogging And Recording Timelines (SMART)Alan Cann, Jo Badge, Stuart Johnson, Alex Moseley

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10 iPod Touches

Two groups of students

Two groups of students used the iPod touches for a period of 4 weeks each:

1. Biological Science first year undergraduates (7 students)

2. Museum studies postgraduates (8 students)

Microblogging using Twitter

• doing metabolism questions over msn, testing each other is a fab way to learn! If only I knew any answers.

• is rather worried about the assessment tomorrow and is preparing herself for failure

• Got up at 7 and look the black sky out of my window. Just browsing the website of National Sports Museum http://www.nsm.org.au/

• Reading about kandinsky and art and music. How apt on an iPod

Using the iPod touches was easy

Listening to music

playing games

watching youtube/iPlayer

surfing the web

email

posting messages to twitter

looking at photos

taking notes

using the calendar

maps and directions

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7

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5

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Twitter was used in other ways

web

hahlo

mobile web

twitterific

natsuliphone

twhirl

twitterfontweetdeck

Undergraduate tweets

Postgraduate tweets