Comments on: Twitter as Courseware

By: Mystified, Terrified, or Satisfied: Communication as Motivation in Online Classes #heartlandcon10 « Moving at the Speed of Creativity

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Twitter University « authentic learning — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:12:18 +0000

[...] twitter might be used in the classroom, and it has even been suggested that it could conceivably replace a course management system. Jane Hart at the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies has taken this thinking one [...]

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By: Using Twitter to Teach in 23 Steps « Please Be Quiet

Using Twitter to Teach in 23 Steps « Please Be Quiet — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:44:56 +0000

[...] whether teaching or keeping on top of a subject of interest. Though links to using Twitter as courseware and suggestions on why and what to tweet are compelling enough to get you started thinking about [...]

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Twitter Freaks Weekly Group Update | The Web2Marketer — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:08:57 +0000

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del.icio.us Bookmarks vom 8. März : KOMA medien eLearning Blog & Forum — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:03:47 +0000

[...] Unit Structures – Twitter as CoursewareDavid Silver is using Twitter in his media studies classes. Twitter is the class’ main mode of communication, and he writes that Twitter has replaced three classroom technologies Trackback des Beitrags [...]

By: Stefan Martens

Stefan Martens — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:07:07 +0000

Thanks for the insight. Glad to see that Twitter is used for educational purposes in so many different ways!

Just one question:

Do you all have protected updates or have you created a new twitter-account just for school?

I think some other services such as identi.ca have the advantage that they actually have groups instead of artificial ones in twitter, using tweetdeck, etc. as a client.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Cheers,
Stefan

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School 2.0 Bookmarks (weekly) | School 2.0 in SA — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:46:43 +0000

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By: What educators, educationalists and pundits have said about Twitter « CELT at Goldsmiths

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:39:45 +0000

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By: Cris

Cris — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:38:12 +0000

I definitely agree with your comments about current LMS offerings – they are all cumbersome, difficult to navigate, difficult to deliver course information without assigning rigid categories, and offer only anemic collaboration tools. Personally, if I were going to build a new LMS, I’d base it off Facebook, which already includes an elegant and intuitive navigation system, several ways to collaborate and built-in application store (think learning object repository).

As for Twitter specifically, to me it’s only one more walled-in garden – the information is only available through Twitter, unless you use RSS. That, for me, is the key to effectively using Twitter – RSS. By using something like Yahoo Pipes, you can ingest several different RSS sources (like Twitter, Delicious, Diigo, news feeds, blogs and more), filter the stream down to only what you want, and make that content available to students. Students will collaborate and contribute to the content of the course as they bookmark sites with Delicious, make Twitter comments, and use the other services your course ingests, and the stream represents the class’ entire use of web2.0 tools. Additionally, for courses that are taught every semester or year, you begin to build a permanent warehouse of filtered, searchable content for future students.

Of course, you still have to host that feed somewhere, but at least the content is no longer part of a walled-in garden – use Moodle, set up a wiki, or use a multitude of other open web-based applications that can be configured to not require authentication to view the material (if that’s your cup of tea).