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"After reading our classes popcorn poem I realized that a good portion of the class is amazed by how we were able to construct poetry to social media. I myself am one of those people. We've always considered poetry to be something containing a higher meaning with vocabulary words we wouldn't use on a daily basis, but as of last friday we created poetry where the stanzas were replaced with tweets by different account users, and the theme of the poem was spread through the us of a twitter timeline, and retweets. With using my new definition of a genre of poetry I see these popcorn poems as multiple authors, viewing the potential of poetry in the social media realm, were so used to seeing poem being on paper containing X amount of stanzas, but now we see people's different first impression on what poetry via internet is like. For the most part each student was surprised, and had a good feeling about what this could be going forward with the more assignments we get that involve us doing popcorn poems. "

Key element in instructional design as well. "When I reflected on what I wanted people to understand, what the core thing was, it wasn't a technique. It wasn't a visual style. It wasn't learning a certain program. The core thing was making sure that you never thought about the product from your point of view, but from somebody else's point of view. That's what prompted the [The Paradox of Empathy] post. "

Nice free transcription tool that works well with Google Docs

For consideration h/t Stan

love me some serendipitous learning!

"The emerging digital media ecology is opening/will open indeterminate capacities for thought and action that will shift (again, in a non-determining way) practices of rhetoric/communication, social institutions, the production of knowledge, and our sense of what it means to be human." PONDER THAT FOR A MOMENT...

"Here are my five tips for science artists on Instagram." "Go hashtag crazy."

"Holman also asked students to read "Sermons For Grumpy Campers," by Richard Felder, a graduate level professor who never lectured. In it, Felder describes his students grumbling that they hated group work and that it was his job to teach them, not the other way around. Holman's students said the complaints sounded like they came from kindergarteners or themselves and were amazed to find out the complainers were graduate level engineering students. "

look at these studies more deeply for possible OLE inclusion around community/conversation

"I'm not even looking at my Twitter feed but I am looking at a particular hashtag of interest; someone has linked to a blogpost. I go to the blogpost, which has a link to another blogpost, where there is an interesting string of comments and… I've learned serendipitously. It was not my plan to follow that path, but hyperlinks made it possible"

h/t Stan

This was a nice post. I can see why this is an important platform you are requesting us to use. I just need a tweet tutorial for the uninitiated. :) Much more play time I suppose. Play. Play. Play.

Laura Goglia wrote up a pretty decent intro twitter document but play if always my preferred path. https://www.academia.edu/11977668/A_Little_Bird_Told_Me_Maximizing_Your_Learning_On_Twitter

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Found this via a trackback. An interesting idea and easy to make in WordPress.

""Twitter is really useful for simultaneous monitoring of events in real time," says Witze (who is also on TON's Board of Directors). At another meeting, the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston in March 2015, she went to a session about the MAVEN mission to Mars. She used real-time Twitter feeds to get a sense of what the scientists in the room thought was important, and wrote up this story while the speakers were still talking. The real-time feedback she got from Twitter was "like having a small army of smart people helping out," Witze says. And following the live tweets provides "a whole other level of commentary" that can be valuable for identifying sources to interview for a story. "

Ah, this is so interesting. Over lunch I announced that I love how Twitter is being used in OLE. I can see integrating it in a similar way that OLE is: As a way to announce that assignments (or makes) are complete. Given that 'ah hah' moment with me, and this article, it's pretty clear that there's a lot you can do with it, on many levels. Knowing your audience and making sure it meshes with the parameters and goals of the course are key.

"They were so busy hating Twitter they didn't realize how much they were learning or how much they were thinking critically."