Forget E-Mail: New Messaging Service Has Students and Profess...
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- Rgarns on 2008-04-06 - Tags twitter , education , for:nkupod
- Mcgiddin on 2008-03-30 - Tags blackboard , education , sakai , twitter
- Riptide on 2008-03-28 - Tags atwitter , chronicle.com , education , teaching , twitter
- Philmiller on 2008-03-28 - Tags communication , education , for:jfadden , twitter
- Lthumann on 2008-03-27 - Tags twitter
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some professors, librarians, and administrators have begun using Twitter, a service that can blast very short notes (up to 140 characters) to select users' cellphones or computer screens.
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The practice is often called microblogging because people use it to send out pithy updates about their daily lives
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it seems that some form of Twitter-like service may become part of student and faculty life.
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Mr. Parry's first instinct was that Twittering would encourage students to speak in sound bites and self-obsess. But now he calls it "the single thing that changed the classroom dynamics more than anything I've ever done teaching."
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He also invited his students to follow his own Twitter feed, in which he sometimes writes several short thoughts — not necessarily profound ones — each day
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The immediacy of the messages helped the students feel more like a community, Mr. Parry says. "It really broke down that barrier between inside the classroom walls and outside the classroom walls.
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Blackboard plans to add a Twitter-like messaging tool to its course-management system, which is used at hundreds of colleges around the country. The company recently announced plans to acquire NTI Group, a company that sells text-message notification systems to colleges for use in emergencies. NTI's systems don't have all the features of Twitter, but they could be used in similar ways.
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Twittering also creates a public record of every message sent — at least on the service's default settings — because all Twitter users get Web pages where archives of their messages are posted. So students and professors should be careful what thoughts they share.
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on 2008-03-30 by mcgiddin