This document summarizes a Twitter workshop presented by Martin Hawksey on using Twitter for assessment, feedback and communication in education. The workshop covered how to set up and use a Twitter account, ways Twitter can be used for educational purposes like sharing links, examples of tweets, searching Twitter, and mobile access. Potential benefits discussed include facilitating learner communities, lightweight interactions, and lifelong learning connections. Potential downsides mentioned include distraction, reliance on third parties, privacy issues, and questions of educational value and equality.

1. Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 1 What’s happening? Twitter for Assessment, Feedback and Communication Martin Hawksey or @mhawksey e-Learning Advisor (Higher Education) http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/ RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning

2. Pioneers Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 2

3. Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 3 Love hate

4. Twitter for me is about … Notification Community Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 4

5. Stats Started 2006 105 million registered users. 180 million unique visitors every month. 75% of Twitter traffic comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party applications.) Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day. Of Twitter's active users, 37% use their phone to tweet. Over half of all tweets (60%) come from third party applications. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/14/twitter-user-statistics-r_n_537992.html Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 5

6. Objectives Introduction to Twitter Educational uses Educational examples Why/Why not's Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 6

7. Interface Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 7

8. Finding people Find on Twitter (includes ‘Suggestions for you’ and ‘Find Friends’ by email/Linkedln) https://twitter.com/invitations/find_on_twitter Look at who else is following who Directories like http://wefollow.com/ and http://www.twellow.com/ Also find people with http://twitter.com/{username} e.g. http://twitter.com/mhawksey Activity: Find the Twitter username eas10tw and follow Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 8

9. Example tweets - update Find out more about EvidenceNet the HEA's free service which supports use of evidence in HE @ webinar http://bit.ly/clbAa8 via@PhysSciCentre Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 9

10. Example tweets - reply @alextronic haven't published one yet but we were going to go for #eport10 Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 10

11. Example tweets - direct d briankelly Are you able to send a screenshot - looks okay here (we have our #eas10 event fri) btw have you seen lanyrd.com everyone is taking about it [Important: to send a direct message the recipient must be following you] Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 11

12. Example tweets - retweet RT @helenrf: @mhawksey what happens if you create a tweet that is a result to the search? can you delete the saved search? < very clever!!! Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 12

13. Searching Twitter http://search.twitter.com or http://search.twitter.com/advanced Words, from/to people, location and more Limited to last 7 days Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 13

16. You can choose who to receive updates fromTwitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 15

17. Twitter Adoption Matrix Mark Sample’s Twitter Adoption Matrixhttp://chronicle.com/blogPost/A-Framework-for-Teaching-with/26223/ Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 16

18. Things to think about Organisation Structure Archiving (Twapper Keeper, The Archivist – Desktop) Purpose Administration Evaluation Sharing Assessment All of the above Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 17

19. Automated communication Instructor communication (syllabus announcements) Pedagogical communication (sharing links) Using http://dlvr.it/ or http://twitterfeed.com/ to turn RSS feeds into tweets FREE PowerPoint Twitter Tools – auto tweet on slide transition Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 18

20. Using Twitter for electronic voting (EVS) Question: Have you heard of ‘Who wants to be a millionaire: ask the audience’ style voting being used in the classroom? For yes tweet ‘#eas10q1 yes’ No tweet ‘#eas10q1 no’ Option to provide context if you like with message + hashtag + response e.g. ‘I already use voting in my class #eas10q1 yes’ Result http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/twevs/tw-evs.php Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 19

21. Alternatively polleverywhere.com Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 20

22. Why use twitter for voting If you don’t have handsets can vote via mobile Possibility to get more information (context for answer) Voting not just restricted to in-class Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 21

23. Feedback tweet with hashtag #eas10tw Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 22

24. Using Twitter to augmenting other educational resources Lecture capture enhancement iTitle – playing back video of live events with what was said in the back channelhttp://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/ititle/estict.html uTitle – letting students make timeline based comments on video resources http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/utitle/int.php?v=wO9RDEXfnTI Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 23

25. Why Mobility – crossing the dived between in and out of class Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 24

26. Why Flexibility – not hard to add functionality and interface with Twitter service Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 25

27. Why Learner communities – opportunity to share learning within cohort and further afield Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 26

28. Why Light intervention – brevity of 140 characters allows less but more often Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 27

29. Why Lifelong – connections made in the class can support further independent learning Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 28

30. Why Mobility – crossing the dived between in and out of class Flexibility – not hard to add functionality and interface with Twitter service Learner communities – opportunity to share learning within cohort and further afield Light intervention – brevity of 140 characters allows less but more often Lifelong – connections made in the class can support further independent learning Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 29

31. Why not Distraction Reliance on 3rd party services Privacy Educational value Equality [Facebook] Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 30

32. Image attribution West End pioneers by IMLS DCChttp://www.flickr.com/photos/imlsdcc/4647377747/ marmite love by chotdahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/santos/2448422626/ Noticeboard by mikecoghhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecogh/4367160881/ Burien Community Center by Michael @ NW Lenshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/aboyandhisbike/4615846709/ Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 31

33. Resources Event amplification http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/on-friday-amplified-seminar-on-what-can-we-learn-from-amplified-events/ Social networking policy http://socialmediatoolkit.wikispaces.com/Policies+and+Guidelines Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitterhttp://chronicle.com/blogPost/Practical-Advice-for-Teaching/26416/ Griffiths University journalism students to be marked on Tweetshttp://www.news.com.au/technology/griffiths-university-journalism-students-to-be-marked-on-tweets/story-e6frfro0-1225786329286#ixzz0yN7eCOa5 Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 32

34. @mhawksey RSC MASHehttp://bit.ly/mashe Twitter Workshop #eas10tw September 9, 2010| slide 33