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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

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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

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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