- last-minute class announcements (a couple of weeks ago another class I'm in at SFSU was cancelled on short notice by email and not all students received the message on time)
- a last-minute way for students to notify the instructor or other students that they won't be at class or are running late
- a way for students to clarify assignments. eg. are we to read chapter 3?
- a way to for students to ask each other about resources. e.g. does anyone know of a research paper on elearning attrition rates? (or text message lingo equivalent)
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Educational Uses for Twitter
Thursday evening Rowena made a presentation about Twitter. I have some sense of how it might be used socially, but have been struggling to find educational uses. So I compiled a list:
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I guess students could use it during class to try and clarify concepts from the lecture (i.e. Does anyone know what the teacher just said? Does anyone else not understand that assignment?)
I hope students don't use it during the exam time to cheat.
students could also use it to post about exciting new things they're reading/learning about that may be of interest to fellow classmates.
Hey Gord!
Did you know Cisco uses it to relay service information? NASA used it to break the news of water on the surface of Mars! Activists use it to co-ordinate protests. And "Twitter Church" actually does exist. It's all just "Twitterriffic," (a MAC platform Twitter blogging client).
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