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Integrating Twitter into the classroomDr. Matt J. DuffyBerry College@mattjduffy
Why do this? What I tell my students:
You shouldn’t graduate with a comm degree if you don’t know how to use Twitter
Important to enter workforce with a Twitter presence Consider having two accounts one professional, one for fun
What I’m hoping for: Increased comprehension of laws, concepts Understanding of pervasiveness of law issues
Twitter basics Hashtags allow users to have
conversations about common themes #COM4470
Starting a tweet with a @handle means only people that follow you and that person will be able to see tweet So, you don’t have to clog up your twitter
feed with hashtag-specific comments Very important!!!
Incorporating Twitter hashtag into classroom Twitterfall
Before class Discussion of
Twitter postsat beginningof classes.
Grading Five percent of grade Students required to tweet three times At least one post must be to something
related to media law Other tweets can address other posts Students should show understanding of
some media law issue with posts Open-access Google Docs spreadsheet
records participation
What would I do differently? Increase grade percentage
10 percent instead of 5 percent 40 percent of students didn’t participate
Stress more discussion among themselves Like which way would a case likely go? What evidence would sway case?
The End! Slides and storify available
at www.mattjduffy.com Matt J. Duffy, PhD Berry College
Rome GA Teach journalism, multimedia
storytelling