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enza antenos conforti, ph.d.montclair state
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Summer InstituteConnected Community Learning: The Next DecadeAugust
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Tweets are more often than not considered mindless banalities it
is the cocktail party of ones virtual life. Though allowing
students to speak in sound bites and self-obsess
(http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2699/a-professors-tips-for-using-twitter-in-the-classroom)
via Twitter may seem to contradict the concept of higher learning
and the quest for knowledge
How can these self-obsessive sound bites contain transferrable
skills to education?
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twitter in higher edfaculty focus special report 09/09
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twitter in the world
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twitter in the world
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And again in egypt in January 2011Can Barrack Obama get a kill
the net switch approved?5
twitter in higher edfaculty focus special report 09/09
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Wait! What exactly is twitter?Micro-Blogging, Social Networking
Service, a form of social media
Users send updates/tweets via SMS, IM, mobile devices or Web
Light-weight blogging, short posts (140 characters or less)
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Twitter is a microblogging service, a social network site that
enables learning, communication, sharing, collaboration,
community
It is always on, always connectedso are the tweeps 7
http://twitter.com/ivenus
measure of influence?timeline management
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Picture iconLink to picturehashtagretweet
Picture icon
retweetLink to picturehashtagthe timeline140 characters
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Where you tweet in 140 characters or less message size is key to
Twitters successRT tweet worth sharing with your timeline sharing
and crediting resourcesLinks twitpic pictures no separate account
required / links to articles, sites, etc. open in new browser
tab/windowHashtag way to join a conversation about a certain
trending topic useful for conferences (#ACTFL10), current events,
etc. cavaet. #hashtags have a shelflife. If it is not used for a
certain period of time, it is no longer searchable
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@mentions, a.k.a. replies
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At the beginning of a tweet, the conversation is recordablethat
is it is easy to read the thread of the dialogue. In the middle of
a tweet, the thread of the dialogue is lost.
Why is it important to have DMs? Everything on twitter is open,
searchable by Google and other search engines. Conversations maybe
easily followed. So if this openness is an issue, the twitterer
should lock the account, an option offered in the account setup.
Advantages to a private twitter account are that it is exclusive to
friends, no spambots or people who like to friend anyone.
Disadvantages, hard to develop your PLN if people dont cannot read
your tweets on your area of expertise or areas you would like to
develop.
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Twitter is a microblogging service, a social network site that
enables learning, communication, sharing, collaboration,
communitySHARE-Knowledge, ideas, linksFollow-experts/gurus,
learning domains, trendsBuild-groups, courses,
communitiesConverse-questions, reflections, discussionsIt is always
on, always connectedso are the tweeps
Research has been conducted on the content (what we tweet), what
we share and what we learn (students perceptions), the building of
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twitter as a tool
PEDAGOGY FIRST.TECHNOLOGY SECOND.
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It behooves me to stop at this point and state that many
scholars, researchers, teachers, students alike know that
technology doesnt make good pedagogy. So despite twitters
popularity, should you use it in your class? Only if it meets our
goals. Here, I present to you the tool alignment & adoption
model as presented by Sarah Smith roberts aka @intellagirl12
ToolInstructional/User-createdStudent/User-createdStrategicLearning
objectivesCourse completion, grade, employmentTacticalAssignments
and assessmentsConnection of course objectives to personal goals
and gradesOperationalInformation, experiencesAttendance, time
management, understanding requirements
Massive User-to-UserCommunicationGenerate IncomeAllow short
multi-use messages within a flexible networkFollow@DM140
CharactersWeb, App, SMSthe tool
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Strategic activities = Goals to engage in that encourage users
to engage in the tooTactical genres = Communication behaviors that
are stable responses to recurrent communication
situationsOperational mechanics= Abilities that allow users to
engage in genres
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original scholarshipMSc in Politics and Communication
(2007)Foreign language research (2009)Student participation during
class time (2009)College student engagement & grades
(2011)Students perceptions of teacher credibility (2011)
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twitter masters thesis
To acquire a better understanding of why people use Twitter to
disseminate messages, several users participated in a questionnaire
to provide insight into the platform. Based on the content analysis
results, it is possible to conclude that the majority of Twitter
users observed are appropriating the platform beyond What are you
doing?.
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London school of economics - Successfully defended September
2007 @ev and @jack launch twitter in March 2006
The findings are discussed within a theoretical framework
exploring the role of society in shaping technology and the
influence a technologys design may have on how it is used. the
Social Shaping of Technology (SST) and Social Construction of
Technology (SCOT), 3,371 tweets were classifiedTaken together, it
could be argued that Twitters creators established it as a neutral
platform, entirely malleable by its users and therefore affording
them the opportunity to determine its core uses.15
twitter and foreign languages
What are students Twitter habits? With what frequency do
students tweet, what factors affect that frequency, and what topics
do they initiate? How do students evaluate Twitter as a pedagogical
tool for learning the Italian language and learning about Italian
culture?
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CALICO MONOGRAPH SERIES chapter 4 My study research conducted in
Spring of 2008
Dunlap, J. C. & Lowenthal, P. R. (2009). Tweeting the night
away: Using Twitter to enhance social presence. Journal of
Information Systems Education, 20(2). Another study by Lowenthal
and Dunlap, in the fall of 2008 looked at the role of twitter in an
online instructional design and technology courses. We did not
require students to participate, but invited them to join us in our
Twitter adventure as we tested its instructional potential.
Although not everyone chose to participate, most did with positive
results. This was integrated as a mechanism for just-in-time social
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the twitter experimentMonica Rankin (University of Texas at
Dallas) integrated Twitter into her history course, creating her
own set of best practices.Her objective: to pull more of her 90
students in the introductory course into class discussions during a
50 minute period.Student comments:Getting outside of comfort
zonesStudents incorporated in classTo put more history and
knowledge out there through intelligent discussion is really
cool
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Same institution as David Parry, author and persona @AcademHack
who recognized the value of this social networking tool &
commenced a conversation on transforming it to educational
networking (blog posts in early 2007 and 2008)Use of twitter as an
inclass tool that allowed for participation, reflection and further
comments after class too. Twitter stream monitored by graduate TA
and students who didnt have a computer, mobile device, not
comfortable with tweeting, would leave comments with TA who would
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Reynol Junco et al. asked these research questions:What effect
does encouraging the use of Twitter for educationally relevant
purposes have on student engagement?What effect does encouraging
the use of Twitter for educationally relevant purposes have on
semester grades?Findings included:Improved contact between faculty
& studentsEncouraged cooperation between studentsPromoted
active learningFaculty provided prompt feedbackMaximize time on
task & build stronger learning communitysupporting engagement
in the college classroom
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main reason was that there wasnt as much penetration on
TwitterPopularity of Twitter in Education and higher ed determine
if there is any effectFindings to be released in forthcoming issue
of Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (Volume 26, issue 6, nov
2010)
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Kirsten Johnson (Elizabethtown College) replicated a previous
study on Facebook. Is a college teachers perceived credibility is
enhanced by: Social tweetsScholarly tweetsSocial and scholarly
tweetsConclusion: Sharing personal information with students, by
posting updates on the social networking site Twitter, can increase
the perceived credibility of the instructor. supporting engagement
in the college classroom
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main reason was that there wasnt as much penetration on
TwitterPopularity of Twitter in Education and higher ed determine
if there is any effectFindings to be released in forthcoming issue
of Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (Volume 26, issue 6, nov
2010)
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questions? comments? feedback?
twitter: ivenusmail: [email protected]:
chss.montclair.edu/~antenoseAugust 2011
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