Festive Tweets #jiscwf #s3
Festive TweetsMartin Hawksey or @mhawkseye-Learning Advisor (Higher Education)
http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/ RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning
Festive Tweets #jiscwf #s3
Thinks you need to know
Hashtag for the session ‘#jiscwf #s3’
Tweeting links/resources as I go (bundled at http://bit.ly/jiscwf-s3 you can follow via http://bit.ly/festivetweets )
Slides available from http://slidesha.re/eqTtn6
In-class Backchannel
Uses: ad hoc class discussion, real-time commenting, recording divergent viewpoints
Benefits: engages less vocal students, archives otherwise ephemeral comments
Outside of Class Discussions
Uses: extend class discussions, exchange comments about readings or questions about assignments
Benefits: community building, continuity between class sessions
In-class Directed Discussion
Uses: Open or guided questions with student responses collected for later analysis
Benefits: engages all students in discussions in large lecture classes
Tracking Activities
Uses: find and follow instructor experts in the field, or key topics
Benefits: exposure to the lager cultural conversation about the class material
Lightly Structured Activities
Uses: solicit course feedback, offer ambient office hours, poll class, language or writing practice
Benefits: flexibility, availability, scalability
Metacognitive/Reflective ActivitiesUses: students report on self learning, articulate their difficulties, recap the most valuable lesson of the day
Benefits: fosters critical thinking
Institutional communication
Uses: community outreach, alerts, announcements
Instructor Communication
Uses: announcements, syllabus changes, reminders
Pedagogical Communication
Uses: sharing timely links and resources
Student Activity
Dialogic
Monologic
Passive Active
Mark Sample’s Twitter Adoption MatrixFestive Tweets #jiscwf #s3
Pedagogical Communication: Autotweet
SAP WEB 2.0 FREE PowerPoint Twitter Toolshttp://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/
(other tools including: feedback, voting and more)
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Instructor Communication:Dlvr.it
Using http://dlvr.it/ to turn RSS feeds into tweets
Alternatively http://twitterfeed.com/ there are others
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Instructor Communication:SMS
Free SMS updates (saves 4p/msg from institutional systems)
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In or out of class directed discussions:Electronic voting (EVS)
Question: Are you watching this presentation remotely via Livestream?
For yes tweet ‘#jiscwfq1 yes’ No tweet ‘#jiscwfq1 no’
Option to provide context if you like with message + hashtag + response e.g. ‘I got the train down from Inverness #jiscwfq1 yes’
Result
http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/twevs/tw-evs.php
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In or out of class directed discussions:Electronic voting (EVS)
If you don’t have handsets can vote via mobile
Possibility to get more information (context for answer)
Voting not just restricted to in-class
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In-class Backchannel:Lecture capture enhancement
iTitle – playing back video of live events with what was said in the twitter backchannelhttp://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/ititle/estict.html
More information http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/category/tt-tweets/
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Lightly Structured Activities:inboxq.com
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Why
Mobility – crossing the dived between in and out of class
Festive Tweets #jiscwf #s3
Why
Flexibility – not hard to add functionality and interface with Twitter service
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Why
Learner communities – opportunity to share learning within cohort and further afield
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Why
Light intervention – brevity of 140 characters allows less but more often
Festive Tweets #jiscwf #s3
Why
Lifelong – connections made in the class can support further independent learning
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Why not
Distraction
Reliance on 3rd party services
Privacy
Educational value
Equality
[Facebook]
Cost, Reach and Engagement #jiscwf #n2
Funding Opportunity
Want to develop some of these ideas further?
JISC Grant 04/08: Learning and teaching innovation - £50k 1 year
More info & insider tips http://bit.ly/insideLTIG
Piles of Money by Thomas Hawk
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@mhawksey
RSC MASHe http://bit.ly/mashe
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Feedback tweets
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Using Twitter to augmenting other educational resources
Lecture capture enhancement – iTitle – playing back video of live events with what was
said in the back channelhttp://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/ititle/estict.html
– uTitle – letting students make timeline based comments on video resources http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/utitle/int.php?v=wO9RDEXfnTI
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