The Twitter Experiment at UT Dallas
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Saved by 32 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2009-05-20
- Calendula28 on 2009-08-17 - Tags twitter , microblogging , web2.0 , pedagogy , gw20t
- Furchner on 2009-07-29 - Tags twitter , microblogging , web2.0 , pedagogy , gw20t
- Summercore on 2009-07-14 - Tags research , social_networking , twitter , microblogging , socialmedia
- Toocurly on 2009-06-23 - Tags twitter , webquests
- Sheri42 on 2009-06-19 - Tags twitter , education , teaching , backchannel , research , web2.0 , learning
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At the beginning of the semester, there were
90 students enrolled in my class. The
class met in a large auditorium-style classroom on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
from 11:30-12:20. I had one graduate
student teaching assistant to help with grading and other administrative duties
for the class.
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Fridays were reserved for the
“twitter experiment.” The idea was to set up all of the students on twitter
while they were in class and have them post discussion ideas/questions and
respond to each other using twitter. Students were required to complete a reading
assignment prior to class every Friday.
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I also found that it was best to give them discussion topics so that
most of the comments were based on a common them or at least related to the
same reading. Depending on the topic,
they would tweet for ten minutes or so and then I would suggest a change of
topic. Students would have
mini-discussions in their small groups and each student could tweet the most
relevant comments being circulated in the group. They could respond to comments being posted
by other students or suggest an interesting perspective on one of the
readings. Many students also tweeted comments on how they might use the readings on the
exams.
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