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Maggie Verster

A list of K12 teachers who actively uses twitter in the classroom - 7 views

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    The spreadsheet with explations of how the teacherws uses twitter in the classroom can be found here: http://ow.ly/20TYo This list makes it easy to follow all the teahcers at once or to tiick who you want to follow.
Maggie Verster

Twitter Increases Student Engagement [STUDY] - 2 views

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    I told you sooo :-)
Maggie Verster

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."
Maggie Verster

If teens are confused by Twitter, what's the right SocMed tool in school? - 3 views

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    Maggie, I would suggest http://www.edmodo.com/ which is private - also just spotted https://www.yammer.com/ but seems more business-like.
Maggie Verster

A directory of #hashtags - trends, people #twitter4ed - 0 views

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    Only problem is that it does not quite explain what each hasktag stand for. You ahve to gather it from the tweetsd
Maggie Verster

The Twitter Experiment at UT Dallas - 0 views

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    This write-up is intended as an informal summary of my use of twitter in the classroom. I hope it will help to clarify my experience and I welcome additional questions and commentary, particularly suggestions for how to improve this type of classroom interaction.
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