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Teaching with Twitter
NCC ERC Day 2014Prof. Emily Hegarty, English Dept.
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What is Twitter?
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www.twitter.com
• 200 million registered users; 400 million tweets per day
• 10 most popular accounts (30-50 million followers): Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Barack Obama, Lady Gaga, YouTube, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Instagram, Justin Timberlake (source: Wikipedia)
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2 bits of advice
• It’s a stream - don’t try to read it all.
• Use a client.
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Ways to use twitterConversation
Publicity
News
Networking
Personal learning network
Political activism
The backchannel
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Teaching with twitter increases student engagement*
*R. Junco et al., “The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades.” Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2010.
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Creepy Treehouse
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Why bother?
Student community that lasts beyond the semester
Ambient awareness of course
Digital literacy
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Possible assignments• Tweet about class readings or continue class discussion or ask questions
• Share resources (great websites, etc.)
• Follow experts in course subject matter (PLN)
More suggestions in resource page:
http://emilyhegarty.commons.mla.org/twitter-resources/
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Issues and concerns• Twitter no longer allows scraping; archiving
(for preservation or assessment) is difficult
• FERPA gray area
• Twitter’s data-mining
• Privacy from students
• Student resistance; compartmentalized education