HARNESSING TWITTER FOR LEARNING PURPOSE

Avijit PaulMultimedia University, Malaysia

DEMOGRAPHICS &OBJECTIVE

SELF LEARNING

ACTIVE LEARNING

INCREASING ENGAGEMENT

CREATE KNOWLEDGE

CLASSROOM OF 100 STUDENTS

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT

HOW TO USE TWITTERBrief history of twitter &

TWITTER101

Hashtag (#) is used to mark a keyword or a topic

Sharing another person’s tweet

With 140 characters we need to say what we want to share

A reply is update posted by clicking the "Reply" button on another Tweet

TWEET

HASHTAG

RETWEET (RT)

@REPLIES GEO LOCATION

From where we are tweeting from

REVISITINGDEMOGRAPHICS & OBJECTIVE

SELF LEARNING

ACTIVE LEARNING

CREATE KNOWLEDGE

CREATE KNOWLEDGE

CLASSROOM OF 100 STUDENTS

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT

INCREASING ENGAGEMENT

EXCITING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTWhat do students want for an

have fun in the class

USING TWITTER IN ACADEMIAWhat can we use it for

CREATING KNOWLEDGELOCK HAVEN UNIVERSITY, LOCK HAVEN, USA

Faculty: How has reading MBM changed your ideas about responsibility or obligations toward people who are poorer than you are?

Student01: @Faculty Reading mbm has made me less self centered. I realized alot of ppl need help and you can help them by doing simple things:)

Student02: @Faculty It made me realize how selfless I need to be, just like how Farmer put his dedication toward helping others before his own needs.

Student03: I’ve realized that helping the less fortunate is a social and moral responsibility that nobody is exempt from to help make the world better.

INSTANT FEEDBACKLOCK HAVEN UNIVERSITY, LOCK HAVEN, USA

Faculty: 3 min paper option for the 21st is to tweet questions you have for upper-class pre-health professional students. Due 12pm 10/21.

Student01: @Faculty I have a psych class at noon. How am I supposed to attend?

Faculty: @Student01 If you can’t attend because of scheduling conflict, please complete 3 min paper about last class.

ORGANIZATIONSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY, BROOKINGS, USA

Faculty: Anyone interested in forming a study group?

Student01: @Faculty for what class

Student02: @Faculty For what class?

Student03: @Faculty study group for what?

Faculty: @Student01 @Student02 @Student03 What class would you like to form a study group for? Chem?

Student05: Both Chemistry and Biology would be nice. OK how about a Chem and Bio study group? Who is in?

Student06: Anyone that wants to have a study group for Bio or Chem. Let me know and I’m in!

ASK A QUESTIONTHE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY PARK, USA

Student02: @Faculty Why are you training to become a health professional? is what I would ask them, could I go to the discussion. Alas, Bio lab.

Student03: @Faculty My question is, How many of you are planning to go into radiology and why?

Student04: @Faculty My question is – What made you decide the specific career in the health field you want to pursue?

Student05: @Faculty My question is: How many Medical schools did you apply to and how did you choose which ones to apply to?

LEARNING ENVIRONMENTAnd there is one more thing about

Hole in the wall project in 1999

LONG PERIODSo do the students really do it over

Number of tweets sent each week of the semester. Note: Twitter use began on the second week.

WHAT DO WE NEEDIn order to apply and test

MILLION DOLLAR GRANT? - NOAnother

Just tweetdeck will do for students

WHY USETWEETDECK

Everything is in one place

Can track the hashtag, DM, message etc in real time

Add facebook update so that students don’t need to leave facebook (very

important to students)

WHAT ELSE DO WE NEEDFor the educators

Everyone is well connected in #altc2011

No one is connected for #tweetdrive

Track a specific person, say @FieryRed1 173

TWITTERALYTICS @HAWKSEYAll you need is free and open source tools such as

OVERALL USAGE

CLASSROOM COMMUNITY

CLASS CHATTER

SELF LEARNING

WRITING ASSIGNMENTS

INSTANT FEEDBACK

FOLLOW A PROFESSIONAL

KNOWLEDGE CREATION

THANKYOU

Avijit Paul@cdtavijit

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