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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.

This is an example of where the UCT CMS system has been used in a much more dynamic way. The colours are a bit dull (but probably fitting for Criminology) but we can make it more exciting. Look at the section under highlights - the Summer School blog and other external sites can go there. We can also investigate using 'follow us on Twitter' or having a live COL Twitter feed, with daily updates, depending on the projects that are running at a particular time e.g. Summer School in Jan, Pace in Fed, Third term around the time of winter and summer school, etc. More importantly, PACE, Summer School, etc can have their own navigation bar (where you see 'MERL', 'Physical Security' and so forth on this site) with more info about them than the current overview from Continuing Ed provides and we can also link to this extended info from there.

not bad but I still find it rather dull, I am afraid. Also I don't think I can live the CHED salmon pink colour coding... Someone told me that UCT ICTS is going over to wordpress???????? but Jenny never mentioned anything?

Getting started... @JJJ John James Jacoby says codex.buddypress.org is the best place to start. Best advice is to use BuddyPress to compliment an existing site/audience. I'm going to try this out with my social media students - going to use BuddyPress as a pilot for GC 

good use of social media, linking them to our topical issues courses

Have a look at this tool and tell me if you think it has any special new uses?

In order for an interactive whiteboard to become more than simply a projection board, a teacher with a SMART Board interactive whiteboard needs to know how to make use of the interactive features of a SMART Board.

Good UCT use of WordPress

As promised - here's episode 1 of 4, interesting comments on video "please bbc, don't call us arabs"

Privacy settings - classify for digital responsible citizens? Bear in mind, these stats are US

Rob Paddock, the Managing Director of GetSmarter, appeared on the morning TV chat show Expresso on 20 June 2012.  Interviewed by celebrity presenter, Liezel van der Westhuizen, Rob spoke about some of the health benefits of continuing education. He pointed out that the brain is just as prone to degeneration as other parts of the body if it is not put to good use. 

You can use it to share a whole lot of different types of media, not just podcasts:)

Write a novel in a month using NaNoWriMo for November National Novel Writing Month

useful ideas some of which we already have tried

creative use of social media for language learning - take note for our 2012 courses!

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