50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom. Twitter has caught fire across many professional fields as well as personally, but it seems to be in the beginning stages in the realm of higher education.
The creative ways Twitter users have incorporated microblogging has become inspirational, so the recent trend of using Twitter at college, including at online colleges, is sure to keep evolving into an ever more impressive tool. Make sure you don’t get left behind by incorporating some of these educational and fun ways that Twitter can be used in the college classroom. Communication Twitter offers new and exciting ways to open up the lines of communication in the classroom. Find out some of the ways it can work with this list. SclipoLive Uses Webcam for Online Tutoring Network. Sclipo, the European, how-to video network, has launched a new service for online teaching and learning.
The new service is called SclipoLive, and it connects students and teachers via webcam. You don't need a webcam as a student in order to utilize this new offering from Sclipo, but it could enhance the teaching/learning experience if both parties can see each other "face to face. " The purpose of this new service is to take the aspect of how-to and instructional videos one step further, creating an opportunity for more hands-on tutoring, if you will, as long as opportunities for teachers to earn money from the one-on-one time they spend with students. Teachers can set up lessons for students to choose from. This aspect of the service is free, and teachers can set up as many lessons as they'd like. How One Teacher Uses Twitter in the Classroom. Teachers are always trying to combat student apathy and University of Texas at Dallas History Professor, Monica Rankin, has found an interesting way to do it using Twitter in the classroom.
Rankin uses a weekly hashtag to organize comments, questions and feedback posted by students to Twitter during class. Some of the students have downloaded Tweetdeck to their computers, others post by SMS or by writing questions on a piece of paper. Rankin then projects a giant image of live Tweets in the front of the class for discussion and suggests that students refer back to the messages later when studying. The Professor's results so far have been mixed but it is clear that more students are participating in classroom discussions than they used to. A video about Rankin's classroom experiment follows.