#Twitter As A Teaching Aid-Some Interesting Figures « The Creative Space. I have blogged in the past about using new media platforms as a learning & teaching resource. The entire content of our BA (Hons) Contemporary Screen Acting Programme at the University of the West of Scotland is delivered using Twitter, Posterous and Youtube at the very core of Teaching , Learning and , crucially Assessement. From it’s inception in September 2010, student engagement with these platforms was developed gradually over the first 15 weeks of the programme. In the second trimester of the programme there is now 100% participation from the students and participating staff across a wide range of New Media . However I had carried out no empirical research on the pace of takeup from the students.
However it has become clear from the level of student engagement and their enthusiastic and positive feedback that the experiment of using the new media in this way been a qualified success. There have been some serendipitous events as a result of this process. Response rate 78% (39/50) Social media in UWS (VIDEO) · dgmcgillivray. Social media group | uwslindawylie. The first of the Social Media support group meetings (SMG) was held in Paisley yesterday and I am delighted with how it went!! A good number of people came for whole or part of the time at all different levels of familiarity with social media. After introducing ourselves we had a general discussion about what we were already using and for what purposes. The bulk of the discussion was however around the use of Twitter.
To this end I have put together a new Twitter account for this group – UWSsmg. For those of you already on Twitter please follow. For those not yet on Twitter, now is the time to start. Go to www.twitter.com and follow the instruction!! So what did we discuss. From a personal perspective, the use of Twitter appears to be very much dependent on the person. Facebook also got a mention but was not explored too much on this occasion. Using social media in the classroom was also discussed briefly. Where next? Like this: Like Loading... Twitter!! | uwslindawylie. Several new faces joined us at the social media group @uwssmg to learn about Twitter. @CarolFerries from @CareersUWS was to lead the session. She started by explaining that she uses Twitter professionally to broadcast links and jobs and any other interesting information that may be useful to students from the employability link at UWS.
Personally for networking and gaining information on a variety of topics. Hints Lots of interesting information about this within the careers service and Carol will get this information to us as soon as possible. Other information Set up a profile with a picture as people tend to take you more seriously. @connect allows you to see who has mentioned you or replied to you # discover will allow you to look for specific tweets. Try searching for #uwssmg. Like this: Like Loading... @UWSInteractive.