is twitter a tool for mass-education
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Presentation at this year S-ICT conference, Vienna, University of Technology,TRANSCRIPT
Is Twitter a Tool for Mass-Education?
Martin Ebner
If u cn rd this quickly, gd 4 u, but AFAIK u will have problems - so dw it's just fyi - L3T's start *lol*
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If you can read this quickly, good for you, but as far as I
know you will have problems - so don‘t worry it's just for your
information - Let's start *laughing out loud*
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Mobile Generation
http://flickr.com/photos/thomcochrane/416206133/
Is microblogging a possibility for a specific community to exchange ideas, interests and
information?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vividbreeze/480057824
Microblogging is a small-scale form of blogging, generally made up of short, succinct messages, used by both users and
business to share news, post status updates and carry on conversations Templeton, 2008
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/601808418
Daily Chatter
Templeton, 2008
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/601808418
CommunicatorReporter
Exchanger
Different kind of people using microblogs
Java et al, 2007
http://www.twitter.com
http://www.jaiku.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericrice/1815164756/
http://www.plurk.comhttp://identi.ca/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/1824234195
What can you do on Twitter?
- 140 character- from mobile, client or web interface- Followers- Direct messages- @Replies and Retweets- #Hashtags- Open API
btw, thanks for the last slide to ...
Twitter ...
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for Scientists
for Education
http://www.flickr.com/photos/topgold/4059663939
Twitter ...
@ Conferences
for Scientists
for Education
http://www.flickr.com/photos/topgold/4059663939
Twitter stream at conference (ED - Media 08)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/430523365
before
during
after
Number of Tweets at ED-Media 2009
Who is tweeting (ED-Media 2011)?
http://twitter.tugraz.at
Which keywords did the use (ED-Media 2011)?
http://twitter.tugraz.at
Which # did you use most (ED-Media 2011)?
http://twitter.tugraz.at
„... top trend makers show who is the heartbeat of this online community and
the key terms pointed out, what the community was talking about“
http://www.flickr.com/photos/radekreks/316541927
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nuagedenuit/276092250
„in the background we discussed things more
deeply than the guys on the stage“
„Twitter can be distracting - you pay less attention“
versus
Twitter ...
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for Scientists
for Education
http://www.flickr.com/photos/topgold/4059663939
http://grabeeter.tugraz.at
Archive and
Search OFFLINE
Influence of your
Tweets
Influence of your
Tweets
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Twitter ...
@ Conferences
for Scientists
for Education
http://www.flickr.com/photos/topgold/4059663939
http://flickr.com/photos/nettsu/1365343292/
Step towards digital lecture room
Interactive mass education
Classroom interaction through mobile devices
http://www.flickr.com/photos/karola/4061676461
Problem of Mass Education
Feedback Lack
Single Speaker paradigm
Problem of Huge Lecture Halls
• Interactivity
• Learning Community
• Infrastructure
http://twitterwall.tugraz.at
http://twitterwall.tugraz.at
Twitter increases the interactivity in lecture halls
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/6197677107
Microblogging as potential for the future
http://www.flickr.com/photos/161/
- if we see it as a newcommunication channel ...
Graz University of Technology
SOCIAL LEARNINGComputer and Information Services
Graz University of Technology
Martin Ebner
http://elearning.tugraz.athttp://elearningblog.tugraz.at
Slides available at: http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
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