Directory of #highered tweetups, hashtags & twitter chats. Getting the Most Out of Twitter, No Posting Necessary. The truth is, you don’t have to post a message to get the most out of Twitter.
At its best, the social medium is a perpetual, personalized news service about topics of your choosing — whether health care reform, tech news or the latest episode of “Gossip Girl” — filtered and served to you by people who care a lot about what you care a lot about. Even the most prolific users say Twitter has become more useful as a way to tap in to the discussions of the day than to broadcast their own thoughts. And once you get pulled in, you might just find you have something to say after all. Biz Stone, Twitter’s co-founder, suggests that naysayers simply log on to Twitter’s home page and search for a topic they are interested in, whether it’s their favorite sports team, the name of their company or a topic in the news. Within a minute, they understand the appeal, he said. Twitter users write 50 million messages a day. In the year since she joined, she has written only 17 posts. How Your Library May Not Be Using Twitter But Should. I’ve been doing some workshops recently on social networking (especially Twitter) for our library system and thought I would collect some of this information here because I usually can’t cover everything I would like and it may also be useful information for other libraries.
Background Plenty has been said about the banality of many Twitter messages. Enough of you probably realize there’s more going on than meets the eye if you are willing to dig. Hash tags, twitter search, and a true global chat (uh, yes, it is basically, in essence, a “chat”) open up entirely new ways to reach out and touch people. Libraries have always been about books, but what is it about books that you’re there for? What Do We Tweet? When we decided to start a Twitter feed in mid 2008 we started experimenting with different techniques.
This isn’t meant to be an exhaustive list but just a jumping-off point for any libraries trying to get some ideas. Tweet Style 1, or “The Average Library Tweet” But wait! Like this: Twittig - a Digg for Twitter. 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. Direct Tweet. Class Projects and Discovering Content. 6 Examples of Using Twitter in the Classroom.
[NOTE: I have published an update to this post, titled "100 Ways To Teach With Twitter". This newer post contains the links below plus a new set of articles that provide a much more robust set of resources for ideas about teaching with Twitter. I highly advise clicking through to that article. Thanks! - KW Feb 8, 2010] Twitter and Higher Ed. New Ebook: Twitter For Beginners. Wired Campus: Professor Encourages Students to Pass Notes During Class. Cole W.
Camplese, director of education-technology services at Pennsylvania State University at University Park, prefers to teach in classrooms with two screens — one to project his slides, and another to project a Twitter stream of notes from students. He knows he is inviting distraction — after all, he’s essentially asking students to pass notes during class. But he argues that the additional layer of communication will make for richer class discussions. Mr. Camplese first tried out his idea in a course he co-taught last spring to about 20 graduate students at Penn State.
Back then, most of his students were unfamiliar with Twitter, the microblogging service that limits messages to 140 characters. Once students warmed to the idea that their professors actually wanted them to chat during class, students begin floating ideas or posting links to related materials, the professor says. Still, when Mr. 10 High Fliers on Twitter - Chronicle.com. By Jeffrey R.
Young Twitter is quickly becoming a global faculty lounge. Sure, it's easy to waste a lot of time on the Internet-based microblogging service reading mundane details about people's days. But you can also pick up some great higher-education gossip, track down colleagues to collaborate with, or get advice on how to improve your teaching or research. It is difficult to grasp what Twitter does without trying it firsthand. It's a soup made by short-order cooks. The system will not transmit anything longer — forcing even the most long-winded blowhards to boil each point down to its essence. I decided to talk to some of the most active and dedicated Twitter users in higher education to find out what they get out of it.
The final selections are far from scientific, but they do represent a range of disciplines, job titles, and approaches. So here are 10 college Twitterers worth following, beginning with the most active. 1.