Exploring the Professional Development Value of Twitter

bit.ly/profdevtAisha Jackson@aishaivette

aisha.jackson@colorado.edu

Mark Gammon@markgammonmark.gammon@colorado.edu

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• Twitter basics

• About our study

• Initial results

• Using Twitter for professional development

• Recommendations

• Questions

Session Plan

Twitter Basics

Twitter?

Did you see Vader joined

Twitter?

Got it

About Our Study

What is the professional development value of Twitter?

What are the trade offs? If any?

How might our findings inform Twitter’s use in Faculty Development?

Surveys

Interviews

Initial Survey Results

Initial Interviews

Professional Use

Hyper-Personalization

Information Repository

Self-Direction

Recommendations

Filtering

Tools

Questions?

Mark Gammon@markgammon

mark.gammon@colorado.edu

Aisha Jackson@aishaivetteaisha.jackson@colorado.edu