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Following on from the lists of academic tweeters published earlier this month, we have put together a short guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities, available to download as a PDF. How can Twitter, which limits users to 140 characters per tweet, have any relevance to universities and academia, where journal articles are 3,000 to 8,000 words long, and where books contain 80,000 words? Can anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters? We have put together a short guide answering these questions, showing new users how to get started on Twitter and hone their tweeting style, as well as offering advice to more experienced users on how to use Twitter for research projects, alongside blogging, and for use in teaching.

Great guide, Nicola, thanks for sharing that.

Teaching and Learning conference at UCT Friday 11 November at Grad School of Humanities. 

by Jonathan Jansen

Welcome to the Opening Scholarship blog, a collection of voices from the University of Cape Town engaged in a variety of ways with openness and scholarship in higher education. Our roles include advocacy, policy, technical, legal, research, advice. We are interested in all aspects of openness in teaching, research and community engagement and we bring a southern perspective to the issues.

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I like several things: the dynamic moving changing nature of the site - both with the pictures and text I like the way they have used their students' voices - definitely something we should do I like the levels of detail you can get - summary, more detail on the course, more detail on the lecturers