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Tweet: #CSUFTIP13
Tweeting and Learning = Twearning
the Day Away!
Ida M. Jones
Tweet: #CSUFTIP13
What is Twitter and Who Uses it?What is Twitter?• Microblog with postings
of 140 characters or less• Hashtag (e.g. #CSUF-
TIP13)to organize and search
• Can include links to videos, images & websites
To listen to the webinar that is the source of this information, go to: http://www.mybschoolcommunity.com/community-events/webinar-teaching-twitter/
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Abstract & Objective• According to Chickering and Gamson’s Seven
Principles for Good Practices in Higher Education, three of the effective practices that promote student learning in undergraduate education. – Student engagement, – feedback and – time on task
• Faculty can use Twitter effectively in class as a tool to accomplish the 3 noted practices.
Objective: • Promoting deeper learning through effective use of
Twitter.
Description of Seven Principles: http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/seven.html
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Disruptive Change in Education
“You can’t take on twenty-first century tasks with twentieth century tools and hope to get the job done.”FROM NOW YOU SEE IT: HOW THE BRAIN SCIENCE OF ATTENTION WILL TRANSFORM THE WAY WE LIVE, WORK, AND LEARN by Cathy N. Davidson (2011)
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Tweeting and Twearning Class
• Sports Marketing Law class• Required for Sports Marketing majors• 18 students• Most hadn’t used much technology in
their marketing classes previously• Survey: 50% created a Twitter
account for the first time in this class
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Twitter Assignment-Part 1
• Take notes and ask questions during class
• My Goal: More involvement with and knowledge of course content
C & G-more time on task and hopefully more feedback!
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Twitter Assignment-Part 2--Group Summary
• Weekly summary; 5 minute presentation– Immediate
feedback– Reinforcement of
learning• Post for other
students to use
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Expectations from First Two Assignments
• Substantive Questions about reading (in and outside of class)
• Reflection about reading &class discussion
• Substantive comment about a current event
• Substantive comment or question about the tweets of someone the student is following
C & G-more time on task and hopefully more feedback!
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ASSESSMENTHow do you assess accomplishment of objectives?
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Student Perceptions of Twitter Use
• Contribute to Knowledge of Content?– Pre: 56% Agreed/Strongly
Agreed – Post 64% Agreed/Strongly
Agreed• Would Make No
Difference– Pre: 25% – Post:17%
• Would Not Contribute– Pre: 19% Agreed/Strongly
Agreed – Post: 17% Disagreed it
would make a difference
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Course Grades: Spring 2011/Spring 2012
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Twitter Assignment-Part 3—Follow a Professional Athlete; Develop a Social Media Policy
• Evaluate Twitter use and legal implications by 3 sports figures and develop a proposed policy– Favorite sport– Identify 3 professional athletes who
have twitter accounts– End of proposed policy on athletes’
use of social media
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Expectations
• Identify legal implications of using social media– Role of sports governing bodies– Contracts– Torts– Labor law/collective bargaining
• Develop, read and analyze policies
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ASSESSMENTHow do you assess accomplishment of objectives?
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Impact
• Evaluation of policies submitted• Student comments
– High level of involvement (100% agreed or strongly agreed)
– High level of satisfaction (72% agree or strongly agreed/27% neither agreed nor disagreed)
• Good start on policies
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Questions and Comments
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