Top 10 Uses for Twitter (That Aren't Self-Indulgent) In the last 6 months the city I live in (Christchurch, New Zealand) has had two major earthquakes. Both times Twitter has been a fantastic tool. The first one was 4.30am local time, so all of my family in the UK and USA found out about the earthquake about the same time it happened - the mobile network was unstable and calls and texts weren't getting through, but data was OK - so using selective tweets to update my facebook status (for those not on twitter) meant I could let my family and friends around the world know we were alive. The second earthquake was in the middle of the day - so this time Twitter let me tell my family and friends in other parts of NZ that I was alive.
All of a sudden people in Christchurch are becoming very interested in the Cloud…) Worksheet: Social Media Listening for Nonprofits. The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades - Junco - 2010 - Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. Live session - introducing media enhanced feedback. Use Twitter #Hashtags to Amplify Your Learning!
Today, I don't spend much learning time following people or particular lists on Twitter, but I do spend time following, reflecting and interacting with relevant learning hashtag conversations (streams) taking place around the world. If you are confused about what Twitter hashtags are, you have come to the right place to understand the power and possibilities that these learning conversations can do to amplify your learning! "The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages" - Source For example, #edchat is a well-known and influential hashtag used by many to discuss educational or learning related issues on Twitter. Also, please keep in mind that Twitter hashtags can occur anywhere in the tweet, and that they are not case sensitive, as shown in the example below (#cck11 or #CCK11 = No difference): WHERE DO I FIND JUICY HASHTAGS?
HOW DO I FOLLOW (SAVE) A HASHTAG? eLearn: Feature Article - The Effects of Twitter in an Online Learning Environment. Study connects Twitter and Engagement. A new study found that students who used Twitter over the course of a semester to contribute to class discussion and complete assignments became more than twice as engaged in class as a control group. Reynol Junco, who conducted the research at Lock Haven University, has spent years exploring student use of technology. The results the current study will soon be published in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.
I am not a regular “tweeter,” but many of my colleagues use Twitter effectively to share ideas, websites, articles, and products they like. You may remember an article here a year ago about Digital Humanities Now, an excellent website that merges and distills thousands of tweets into a meta-blog. As with any tool, Twitter can be used well or poorly. A few years ago at a conference I attended, some of the leaders were tweeting snarky comments about a keynote speaker during his Q&A time – rather than confronting him with their criticisms.
Learn more: Like this: Like Loading... World University Rankings, education news and university jobs - Tara Brabazon: Networking opportunities. Now is a fertile time to be conducting research among the proliferating forms of social media, writes Tara Brabazon Doctoral students are so terrified of failure that they embrace mediocrity, predictability and banality. They jump through supervisory hoops and hope that a slither of originality will get them through. By contrast, MA dissertations encourage passion, intensity and interest. Two dissertations I supervised in the first semester of this academic year confirm this thesis. One candidate, Matt Ingram, is an academic colleague working in pharmacy. He studied a media MA as part of a professional development programme to build an interest in photography into expertise in visual communication.
His dissertation was framed by the current economic conditions of British higher education. The second candidate, Nick Dunn, is a musician and writer. These two postgraduates created a semester filled with productive discussions about options and alternatives when using social media. Social networking affects job-searching students - The West Georgian. Tara Brabazon: Networking opportunities. 'Twitter messages not private' rules PCC. 8 February 2011Last updated at 13:15 The PCC said it was increasingly being asked to make judgements about the use of social media Material that is published on Twitter should be considered public and can be published, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has ruled.
The decision follows a complaint by a Department of Transport official that the use of her tweets by newspapers constituted an invasion of privacy. Sarah Baskerville complained to the PCC about articles in the Daily Mail and Independent on Sunday. The messages included remarks about being hungover at work. She complained that this information was private and was only meant to be seen by her 700 followers. Ms Baskerville said she had a clear disclaimer that the views expressed by her on Twitter were personal and not representative of her employer. The disclaimer currently reads: "Scottish & Sober-ish.. As a result, the commission ruled that the articles did not constitute a breach of privacy. Twitter.
Twitpanto 2010. Who's reading your Twitter DMs? | Technology. Anyone with access to your Twitter application could be reading your private messages. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian "What will we do," asked Bill Thompson recently, "when the next WikiLeaks hoard is every Twitter DM [direct message] or Facebook chat transcript? " That's unlikely to happen, of course. Julian Assange's team are more concerned with international affairs than bothering the millions of casual Twitterers. If you're not on the public stage, the chances are that you're just not notable enough for Wikileaks. Of course, there are still plenty of folks that would cause chaos in suburbia if they could, just for the laughs. Well, maybe not yours, specifically. A few months ago, after Twitter had implemented its OAuth authorisation system, I was hired to put together a Twitter toy application – one of those little web pages that offers some sort-of-interesting statistic about your tweets, as long as you log in with your Twitter account.
Academic Excellence in 140 Characters. Study connects Twitter and Engagement. A new study found that students who used Twitter over the course of a semester to contribute to class discussion and complete assignments became more than twice as engaged in class as a control group. Reynol Junco, who conducted the research at Lock Haven University, has spent years exploring student use of technology. The results the current study will soon be published in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. I am not a regular “tweeter,” but many of my colleagues use Twitter effectively to share ideas, websites, articles, and products they like. You may remember an article here a year ago about Digital Humanities Now, an excellent website that merges and distills thousands of tweets into a meta-blog.
As with any tool, Twitter can be used well or poorly. A few years ago at a conference I attended, some of the leaders were tweeting snarky comments about a keynote speaker during his Q&A time – rather than confronting him with their criticisms. Learn more: Like this: Like Loading... Helen Whitehead: "In future willhere an ..." « Deck.ly.