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What’s happening? Twitter for Assessment, Feedback and Communication

Martin 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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Pioneers

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Love hate

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Twitter for me is about …

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Stats

Started 2006 105 million registered users. 180 million unique visitors every month. 75% of Twitter traffic comes from outside Twitter.com

(i.e. via third party applications.) Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55

million tweets a day. Of Twitter's active users, 37% use their phone to tweet. Over half of all tweets (60%) come from third party

applications.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/14/twitter-user-statistics-r_n_537992.html

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Objectives

Introduction to Twitter

Educational uses

Educational examples

Why/Why not's

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Interface

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Finding people

Find on Twitter (includes ‘Suggestions for you’ and ‘Find Friends’ by email/Linkedln) https://twitter.com/invitations/find_on_twitter

Look at who else is following who

Directories like http://wefollow.com/ and http://www.twellow.com/

Also find people with http://twitter.com/{username} e.g. http://twitter.com/mhawksey

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Example tweets - update

Find out more about EvidenceNet the HEA's free service which supports use of evidence in HE @ webinar http://bit.ly/clbAa8 via@PhysSciCentre

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Example tweets - reply

@alextronic haven't published one yet but we were going to go for #eport10

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Example tweets - direct

d briankelly Are you able to send a screenshot - looks okay here (we have our #eas10 event fri) btw have you seen lanyrd.com everyone is taking about

it[Important: to send a direct message the recipient must be following you]

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Example tweets - retweet

RT @helenrf: @mhawksey what happens if you create a tweet that is a result to the search? can you

delete the saved search? < very clever!!!

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Searching Twitter

http://search.twitter.com

or http://search.twitter.com/

advanced

Words, from/to people, location and more

Limited to last 7 days

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Ways to interact with twitter

Web (Twitter.com, Seesmic Web)

Desktop clients (Twhirl, TweetDeck, Seesmic Desktop)

Browser (Firefox/Chrome plugins)

3rd party services (TwitPic - photos, twaud.io -audio, Screenr - webcasts)

Mobile (SMS updates, official Twitter apps for iPhone/Android, lots of others)

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Mobile

Users on Vodafone, Orange, O2 and ‘3’ can receive free status updates via SMS

You can choose who to receive updates from

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Twitter Adoption Matrix

  Mark Sample’s Twitter Adoption Matrixhttp://chronicle.com/blogPost/A-Framework-for-Teaching-with/26223/

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Things to think about

Organisation– Structure– Archiving (Twapper Keeper, The Archivist – Desktop)

Purpose– Administration– Evaluation– Sharing– Assessment – All of the above

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Automated communication

Instructor communication (syllabus announcements)

Pedagogical communication (sharing links)

Using http://dlvr.it/ or http://twitterfeed.com/ to turn RSS feeds into tweets

FREE PowerPoint Twitter Tools – auto tweet on slide transition

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Using Twitter for electronic voting (EVS)

Question: Have you heard of ‘Who wants to be a millionaire: ask the audience’ style voting being used in the classroom?

For yes tweet ‘#eas10q1 yes’ No tweet ‘#eas10q1 no’

Option to provide context if you like with message + hashtag + response e.g. ‘I already use voting in my class #eas10q1 yes’

Result

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Alternatively polleverywhere.com

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Why use twitter for voting

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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Feedback tweet with hashtag #eas10tw

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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

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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

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Image attribution

West End pioneers by IMLS DCChttp://www.flickr.com/photos/imlsdcc/4647377747/

marmite love by chotda http://www.flickr.com/photos/santos/2448422626/

Noticeboard by mikecoghhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecogh/4367160881/

Burien Community Center by Michael @ NW Lenshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/aboyandhisbike/4615846709/

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Resources

Event amplification http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/on-friday-amplified-seminar-on-what-can-we-learn-from-amplified-events/

Social networking policy http://socialmediatoolkit.wikispaces.com/Policies+and+Guidelines

Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitterhttp://chronicle.com/blogPost/Practical-Advice-for-Teaching/26416/

Griffiths University journalism students to be marked on Tweets http://www.news.com.au/technology/griffiths-university-journalism-students-to-be-marked-on-tweets/story-e6frfro0-1225786329286#ixzz0yN7eCOa5

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@mhawksey

RSC MASHe http://bit.ly/mashe

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