Using Twitter for instructional communities: one teacher reflects
How can instructors use Twitter? One teacher, and author of a book on learning communities, offers this observation: faculty can quickly form peer learning networks.
I could look inside the minds of motivated peers to learn about the new projects they were undertaking, the research reports they were studying, and Web sites they were exploring. As [...]
In: Best Practices, Communications · Tagged with: communities of practice, peer, professional development, Twitter
Medical professionals using Twitter
How can the life sciences use social media? This article explores how oncologists developed Twitter practices.
They include:
Disseminating, correcting, expanding, gathering information
Conference reporting and discussion
Communicating with patients
Advocacy
Monitoring what is said about your institution
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In: Best Practices, Communications · Tagged with: communication, Twitter
Twitter hacked by group claiming to be Iranian
Twitter was hacked last night. The site’s main page replaced by this, a screen claiming the intrusion as a victory for the “Iranian Cyber Army”:
Official Twitter blog post here.
This has several implications. First, it reminds us of the old, persistent problem of relying on Web content: it can always go offline. Relying on Web services [...]
In: Infrastructure Support · Tagged with: hack, Twitter
Facebook friending on the decline?
The importance of friending someone on Facebook has begun to decline, argues a Wall Street Journal article. Facebook’s recent moves to open up user content to the world mean more users are posting not to a closed friends network, but to the world at large, a la public Twitter feed.
If this is true, and happening, [...]
In: Communications · Tagged with: Facebook, social media, social network, Twitter
Twitter in the liberal arts: a Furman example
How can a liberal arts campus class use Twitter? One Furman University class did, and reflections on the experiment are blogged here by the instructor. Advantages, disadvantages, best practices, and pedagogies are covered.
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In: Best Practices, Communications, Pedagogy, Tools · Tagged with: Furman, liberal arts, Twitter
Twittering historical events
How can we teach with Twitter? TwHistory offers one model, where groups tweeted historical events.
For example, volunteers contributed historical microcontent through the personae of historical actors in the battle of Gettysburg.
The TwHistory team recently gave a presentation on their work.
(via Stephen Downes)
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In: Pedagogy · Tagged with: history, Twitter
Digital Humanities Now launches
The Digital Humanities Now project launched this month, and is a significant initiative for anyone interested in digital scholarship and communication, social media, crowdsourcing, open content, Twitter, and, of course, the digital humanities. “DHNow”, created by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, describes itself as
a real-time, crowdsourced publication. It takes [...]
In: Communications, General News · Tagged with: crowdsourcing, digital humanities, digital scholarship, open content, social media, Twitter
Education via Twitter: a financial example
A new project uses Twitter to aggregate and share financial information. The Mint has worked with Twitter to produce a site presenting “live” social media content about economics. The idea is to curate content which teaches different aspects of money, from personal to business uses.
(via Mashable)
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In: Communications · Tagged with: Twitter
Educators driving Twitter use among the young: Associated Press
Some teenagers are exposed to Twitter use by their teachers, according to an Associated Press report. Teachers and employers, already part of the older demographic more likely to be using that microblogging service, assign them to use it.
Many [young adults and teens] are doing it grudgingly, perhaps because a friend pressures them or a teacher [...]
In: General News · Tagged with: net.gen, Twitter
Real-time search goes big-time: Google, Bing, Twitter, Facebook
The world’s leading Web search engines announced plans to search the “real-time Web.” This includes new versions of search tools.
Google will include Twitter updates as part of its search operations. The timeline is unclear.
A pilot version, called Social Search, will appear from Google Labs within a month. This may also allow search across other Web [...]
In: Information Literacy · Tagged with: Bing, Facebook, Google, realtime, Twitter
