Emerging peer support networks on twitter
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Emerging peer support networks on twitter
Alan Cann, Jo Badge, Stuart Johnson, Alex Moseley
www.le.ac.uk
10 iPod Touches
• Mobile phones/ SMS• Dedicated iTouch apps• Browser based• Staff members resident
Two groups of students
1. Biological Sciences first yr undergraduates (7)
2. Museum studies postgraduates (8)
Using the iPod touches was easy
Listening to music
playing games
watching youtube/iPlayer
surfing the web
posting messages to twitter
looking at photos
taking notes
using the calendar
maps and directions
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Microblogging using Twitter
• doing metabolism questions over msn, testing each other is a fab way to learn! If only I knew any answers.
• is rather worried about the assessment tomorrow and is preparing herself for failure
• Got up at 7 and look the black sky out of my window. Just browsing the website of National Sports Museum http://www.nsm.org.au/
• Reading about kandinsky and art and music. How apt on an iPod
Comparing undergraduate and postgraduate activity
Average number of tweets per
day
Number of interfaces
used 1
% of @ tweets
Following : Followers (taken from twitter
homepages)u/g min 4 3 2 13/12u/g max 10 7 58 60/29p/g min 1 2 0 5/15p/g max 4 4 39 34/25
Twitter was used in other ways
web
hahlo
mobile web
twitterific
natsuliphone
twhirl
twitterfontweetdeck
Undergraduate tweets
Networks
Postgraduate tweets
Networks
Acknowledgements
This project was supported by
JISC TechDis Heat 3 scheme