To those who Twitter, the reporter who investigates a story before offering it to the public must also seem tediously ruminant. On Twitter, the notes become the story, devoid of even five minutes of reflection on the writer's way to the computer. I can see that there are times —an airplane landing in the Hudson, a presidential election in Iran—when this type of impromptu journalism becomes a necessity, and an exciting one at that. Luckily, reporters still exist to make sense of information bytes and expand upon them for readers—but for how much longer?
I worry that microblogging cheats my students out of their trump card: a mindful attention to the subject in front of them, so that they can capture its sights and sounds, its smells and tactile qualities, to share with readers. How can Twittering stories from laptops and phones possibly replace the attentive journalist who tucks a digital recorder artfully under a notepad, pencil behind one ear, and gives full attention to the subject at hand?
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Three Teachers' Answers to Questions on Classroom Microblogging - 1 views
Research on Twitter and Microblogging - 4 views
The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades - 0 views
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"Despite the widespread use of social media by students and its increased use by instructors, very little empirical evidence is available concerning the impact of social media use on student learning and engagement. This paper describes our semester-long experimental study to determine if using Twitter - the microblogging and social networking platform most amenable to ongoing, public dialogue - for educationally relevant purposes can impact college student engagement and grades. A total of 125 students taking a first year seminar course for pre-health professional majors participated in this study (70 in the experimental group and 55 in the control group). With the experimental group, Twitter was used for various types of academic and co-curricular discussions. Engagement was quantified by using a 19-item scale based on the National Survey of Student Engagement. To assess differences in engagement and grades, we used mixed effects analysis of variance (ANOVA) models, with class sections nested within treatment groups. We also conducted content analyses of samples of Twitter exchanges. The ANOVA results showed that the experimental group had a significantly greater increase in engagement than the control group, as well as higher semester grade point averages. Analyses of Twitter communications showed that students and faculty were both highly engaged in the learning process in ways that transcended traditional classroom activities. This study provides experimental evidence that Twitter can be used as an educational tool to help engage students and to mobilize faculty into a more active and participatory role."
Education Week: Twitter Lessons in 140 Characters or Less - 2 views
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Some teachers are experimenting with the popular microblogging tool as an effective way of distributing assignments and engaging students in content and collaborative lessons.
How 'microblogging' sites such as Twitter can be used in education - 0 views
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Compare three mb sites (Twitter, edmodo and shoutem)
iTweet 2 : Web - 0 views
100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics | Best Colleges Online - 0 views
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tweetworks - 0 views
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This twitter application allows you to create a group and ahve threaded discussion there that you can switch off for your public timeline. This will be very useful when you have class discussions or workshops meetings. You can, in the free version only creatre 1 group though.
The Trouble With Twitter - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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I went home after the lecture and—hypocritically, I admit—updated my Facebook status and my blog to declare how much I despise Twitter.
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Twitter serves as a source of links to longer news stories.
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Which is one of its main uses in journalism. As Jay Rosen (@jayrosennyu) and others have put it, through services like Twitter and, indeed, Diigo we edit the web for one another. We can see it as acting as human filters, intelligent gatherers and sifters of information for the various networks in which we are nodes.
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Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians) - 0 views
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A goood overview with some stunning exampoles of how libraries and librarians are using twitter.
If a teacher had designed Twitter..... - 0 views
Microblogging and language learning and teaching - 0 views
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Un article de Fred Dervin
10 High Fliers on Twitter - Chronicle.com - 0 views
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Twitter is quickly becoming a global faculty lounge. Sure, it's easy to waste a lot of time on the Internet-based microblogging service reading mundane details about people's days. But you can also pick up some great higher-education gossip, track down colleagues to collaborate with, or get advice on how to improve your teaching or research.
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a rich soup of thought
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editing the Web in real time
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