!blether-private group chat for twitter - 0 views
Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitter - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 1 views
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In my own classes I've been deliberately vague about what students should tweet about. I didn’t want overly prescriptive guidelines to constrain what might be possible. Instead, I wanted our integration of Twitter to evolve organically. Given this open-ended invitation, I’ve found students tend to use Twitter for class in three ways: to post news and share resources relevant to the class; to ask questions and respond with clarifications about the readings; and to write sarcastic, irreverent comments about the readings or my teaching. The first two behaviors add to the community spirit of the class and help to sustain student interest across the days and weeks of the semester. The third behavior, when I first noticed it, was an utterly unexpected finding. (And as I've argued elsewhere, it was a good, powerful surprise that legitimated my use of Twitter in and outside of the classroom. I saw students take an oppositional stance in their writing—a welcome reprieve from the majority of student writing, which avoids taking any stance at all.)
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I strongly recommend creating a permanent Twitter archive. A free service such as TwapperKeeper will track a specified hashtag, collecting the tweets 24/7, and you simply return to TwapperKeeper any time to download the archive. It's so easy to use that I've begun creating TwapperKeeper archives for any hashtag there's even the slightest chance I'll be interested in revisiting later. Another useful archiving tool is called, appropriately enough, The Archivist.
Twitterfall- realtime twitter feeds - 2 views
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Whoa! Pretty cool. What do you think this enables us to do in the classroom? Can you envision a twitter research project?
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Meredith, you should look at the 10 Awesome Twitter analytics and visualization tools posted above. I think it would really help create a research project using Twitter. Consider if students used tools to consider their own use or words!!! Here is the link: twittertoolsbook.com/-analytics-visualization-tools