Using Twitter for learning and teaching

Links and ideas for using twitter in education

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Juliette Culver

Juliette Culver
12 August 2009

Use of twitter as a microblogging tool has increased exponentially in the last year or so. Here are some links to the ways in which people are beginning to use twitter in learning and teaching.

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Thanks for the link Rebecca looks really useful!

Gráinne Conole

Gráinne Conole
1:22pm 9 October 2009

Intrigued by new list function on twitter - have added a link. Wonder how this might be used in learning and teaching.

Gráinne Conole

Gráinne Conole
2:49pm 30 October 2009

In the blog post How we twitter a teacher counts and reflects on a twitter  experiment  developed in his English class. He provides interesting hints about the pedagogical approach he adopted and a fascinating narrative of how the Twitter use was co-created. As he concludes:

"What made our use of Twitter interesting and a success, I believe, was both the intense sociability associated with it and the fact that for most it did not come easily and so had to be shown by example and use governed by intelligibility and acceptance among peers".

Antonella Esposito

Antonella Esposito
7:24pm 12 November 2009

Just started using twitter today for our Web 2.0 and working practices project (see my cloudscapes)

If anyone would like to tweet us our ID is "archiemacd"

Please tweet - we're lonely!!!

Donna Cullen

Donna Cullen
3:20pm 3 December 2009

Just found another Twitter type tool for school use - Twiducate.com

Rebecca Galley

Rebecca Galley
7:07pm 17 December 2009

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  • Dunlap, J. C. & Lowenthal, P. R. (2009). Tweeting the night away: Using Twitter to enhance social presence. Journal of Information Systems Education, 20(2). Open Access version at http://www.patricklowenthal.com/publications/Using_Twitter_to_Enhance_Social_Presence.pdf
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  • Rizzuto, T., LeDoux, J., & Hatala, J. (2009, June 1). It's not just what you know, it's who you know: Testing a model of the relative importance of social networks to academic performance. Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 12(2), 175-189.
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  • boyd, d.,Golder, S. and Lotan, G. (Forthcoming, 2010).'Tweet Tweet Retweet: Conversational Aspects of Retweeting on Twitter', in Proceedings of HICSS-42, Persistent Conversation Track. Kauai, HI: IEEE Computer Society. January 5-8, 2010 Draft version available from: http://www.danah.org/papers/TweetTweetRetweet.pdf
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  • Ebner, M. and Maurer, H.(2009), 'Can Weblogs and Microblogs Change Traditional Scientific Writing?', in Future Internet (Online) 2009, 1, 47-58. Available from: http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/1/1/47
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  • Dunlap, J.C. & Lowenthal, P.R. (2009), 'Tweeting the Night Away: Using Twitter to Enhance Social Presence', Journal of Information Systems Education. Available online at: http://www.patricklowenthal.com/publications/Using_Twitter_to_Enhance_Social_Presence.pdf
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  • Martin Ebner, Conrad Lienhardt, Matthias Rohs, Iris Meyer (2010), Microblogs in Higher Education – a chance to facilitate informal and process oriented learning?, Computers & Education, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 4 January 2010, ISSN 0360-1315, DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.12.006. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VCJ-4Y34W8F-1/2/799ab0b1112d5696a251fca84be472c3
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  • Ebner, M., Lienhardt, C., Rohs, M. and Meyer, I. (2010), Microblogs in Higher Education – a chance to facilitate informal and process oriented learning?, Computers & Education, In Press
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  • Kohen, A.(2010), 'Twitter and Political Theory'. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1544632
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  • Ebner, M. (2009), 'Interactive Lecturing by Integrating Mobile Devices and Micro-blogging in Higher Education', in Journal of Computing and Information Technology (online), Volume 17, Number 4, pp.371-381. Available at: http://cit.zesoi.fer.hr/browseIssue.php?issue=42
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