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Festive Tweets #jiscwf #s3 Festive Tweets Martin Hawksey or @mhawksey e-Learning Advisor (Higher Education) http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/ RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning

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Presentation given at the JISC Winter Fayre on 25th February 2011 in Edinburgh.This presentation looks at some of the ways Twitter can be used to support different aspects of teaching and learning

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Festive TweetsMartin Hawksey or @mhawkseye-Learning Advisor (Higher Education)

http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/ RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning

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Thinks you need to know

Hashtag for the session ‘#jiscwf #s3’

Tweeting links/resources as I go (bundled at http://bit.ly/jiscwf-s3 you can follow via http://bit.ly/festivetweets )

Slides available from http://slidesha.re/eqTtn6

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In-class Backchannel

Uses: ad hoc class discussion, real-time commenting, recording divergent viewpoints

Benefits: engages less vocal students, archives otherwise ephemeral comments

Outside of Class Discussions

Uses: extend class discussions, exchange comments about readings or questions about assignments

Benefits: community building, continuity between class sessions

In-class Directed Discussion

Uses: Open or guided questions with student responses collected for later analysis

Benefits: engages all students in discussions in large lecture classes

Tracking Activities

Uses: find and follow instructor experts in the field, or key topics

Benefits: exposure to the lager cultural conversation about the class material

Lightly Structured Activities

Uses: solicit course feedback, offer ambient office hours, poll class, language or writing practice

Benefits: flexibility, availability, scalability

Metacognitive/Reflective ActivitiesUses: students report on self learning, articulate their difficulties, recap the most valuable lesson of the day

Benefits: fosters critical thinking

Institutional communication

Uses: community outreach, alerts, announcements

Instructor Communication

Uses: announcements, syllabus changes, reminders

Pedagogical Communication

Uses: sharing timely links and resources

Student Activity

Dialogic

Monologic

Passive Active

Mark Sample’s Twitter Adoption MatrixFestive Tweets #jiscwf #s3

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Pedagogical Communication: Autotweet

SAP WEB 2.0 FREE PowerPoint Twitter Toolshttp://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/

(other tools including: feedback, voting and more)

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Instructor Communication:Dlvr.it

Using http://dlvr.it/ to turn RSS feeds into tweets

Alternatively http://twitterfeed.com/ there are others

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Instructor Communication:SMS

Free SMS updates (saves 4p/msg from institutional systems)

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In or out of class directed discussions:Electronic voting (EVS)

Question: Are you watching this presentation remotely via Livestream?

For yes tweet ‘#jiscwfq1 yes’ No tweet ‘#jiscwfq1 no’

Option to provide context if you like with message + hashtag + response e.g. ‘I got the train down from Inverness #jiscwfq1 yes’

Result

http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/twevs/tw-evs.php

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In or out of class directed discussions:Electronic voting (EVS)

If you don’t have handsets can vote via mobile

Possibility to get more information (context for answer)

Voting not just restricted to in-class

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In-class Backchannel:Lecture capture enhancement

iTitle – playing back video of live events with what was said in the twitter backchannelhttp://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/ititle/estict.html

More information http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/category/tt-tweets/

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Lightly Structured Activities:inboxq.com

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Why

Mobility – crossing the dived between in and out of class

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Why

Flexibility – not hard to add functionality and interface with Twitter service

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Why

Learner communities – opportunity to share learning within cohort and further afield

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Why

Light intervention – brevity of 140 characters allows less but more often

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Why

Lifelong – connections made in the class can support further independent learning

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Why not

Distraction

Reliance on 3rd party services

Privacy

Educational value

Equality

[Facebook]

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Cost, Reach and Engagement #jiscwf #n2

Funding Opportunity

Want to develop some of these ideas further?

JISC Grant 04/08: Learning and teaching innovation - £50k 1 year

More info & insider tips http://bit.ly/insideLTIG

Piles of Money by Thomas Hawk

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@mhawksey

RSC MASHe http://bit.ly/mashe

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Feedback tweets

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Using Twitter to augmenting other educational resources

Lecture capture enhancement – iTitle – playing back video of live events with what was

said in the back channelhttp://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/ititle/estict.html

– uTitle – letting students make timeline based comments on video resources http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/utitle/int.php?v=wO9RDEXfnTI