Twitter - Social media for research - LibGuides at Newcastle University. Twitter for Librarians: The Ultimate Guide.
How to live-tweet a conference: A guide for conference organizers and twitter users. Attending scientific conferences is one of my favorite parts of my job.
I get to travel to interesting places (and Mobile, Alabama), catch up with colleagues, learn about what smart people all over the world are up to, and get feedback on my own research from those smart people. Conferences help me to learn about the world, network with people in my field, and become a better scientist.
To date, I’ve attended 13 conferences (including 3 international ones), and I learn something new at each one. There are a lot of non-scientists in the world who care about many of the issues discussed at scientific conferences, issues like climate change, endangered species, overfishing, and cool new discoveries about sharks. The overwhelming majority of these non-scientists lack the resources or the time to attend conferences, and many might not even know that they’re happening. Image courtesy twitter.com, used with permission Provide free Wireless for people who are tweeting the conference.
A Guide to Using Twitter @ Academic Conferences. As more and more academics, particularly those in the healthcare sector, take to Twitter to discuss their work, it seems like a good time to share some guidelines for making the best use of Twitter in that most hectic of intellectual and professional environments: the annual conference. Academic conferences are a great opportunity for networking, catching up on the latest developments in your field, and being exposed to new research and path-breaking ideas, but it can sometimes seem like they just get bigger and bigger and bigger, thousand of attendees, with fifteen sessions going on concurrently at different ends of a freezing cold conference center the size of a small central European nation.
Twitter can be a useful tool for navigating these events – hearing about particularly intriguing sessions, meeting new colleagues, following up discussions after a paper has been given. The Beginner's Guide to Twitter. Update: This post was updated November 2013 to reflect current statistics and tools.
Do you have a parent, friend or colleague ready to ditch his or her digital training wheels and head into Twitter's open wilderness? These pointers should get them started. And even Twitter experts might benefit from a quick refresher on the platform's valuable tools. First, the basics: What is Twitter all about? It's a platform wherein users share their thoughts, news, information and jokes in 140 characters of text or less. On Twitter, following someone is not necessarily an admission of friendship, but nonetheless affords interaction and conversation — at least in short bursts. The first step is to understand and master the vernacular.
Tweet: A 140-character message.Retweet (RT): Re-sharing or giving credit to someone else's tweet.Feed: The stream of tweets you see on your homepage. Twitter has a great online glossary that you can refer back to, should you get mired in a vocab morass. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Third-party services - Social media and Web 2.0 - Digital tools and environments - Educational technology - Academic Development Centre.
Your Twitter tips: using social media to enhance student experience. Where better to canvass views on the use of social media in academia than on Twitter?
There was lots of interest in our recent seminar 'Using social media to enhance student experience' on Twitter. To get those of you that could not be there on the day involved in the discussion, we set a small Twitter challenge and asked you to share your top tips for using social media. We've compiled some of our favourites below. We're planning to do this quite regularly, so let us know if you have any suggestions for further topics by leaving a comment below or, well, tweeting us. And, if you've not had enough Twitter tips already, you can catch up on some of the highlights and discussion from the seminar, as we also curated Twitter updates about the event via Storify. Ernesto Priego, managing editor, The Comics Grid: @ernestopriego In social media, no matter your privacy settings, you're accountable for everything you do.
Published-Twitter_Guide_Sept_2011.pdf. Teaching with Twitter: how the social network can contribute to learning. I am senior lecturer in English at the University of Wolverhampton and have been an advocate for the past few years of teaching using blended learning - integrating online learning activities alongside face-to-face teaching.
Two of my courses on Victorian literature feature a number of assessed online discussion forum activities. They get 100% participation - much of it enthusiastic. Online learning spaces are neutral - just like a 'real' classroom is. It's what you do in them that matters. Pay with a Tweet - The First Social Payment System. #PoweredByTweets: The Challenge. 16 Operator Commands to Help You Search Twitter Like a Pro.