Thanks Stephen- good article. I now understand what you meant in my mini-conf about the question of 'why twitter' being a small one. It seems that is it what you want it to be, and how you use it is personal- both professionally and…
That's an interseting comment Debra. We as students can demonstrate our learning through the use of tools, but who's to say which tools? I recall just five years ago when we were advised by our academic quality unit to discourage students…
This isn't aimed at an educational audience, but the article provides a useful overview for starting out on twitter and has quite a few tips and links. There are quite a few ways to search for content and other people. It's from the Guardian newspaper last year."Real-time micro-blogging is gaining in popularity. But if you're wondering what's the point, here's Charles Arthur's guide to the benefits of Twitter - and how to get started"…See More
not sure personally, but possibility of social networking champs not liking the idea of using their favourite fb,twitter for education is high.One of my friend who just moved out from his parents, was trying to avoid accepting his dads friend…
For those that could make the Skype discussion on 20th Nov. thanks very much for attending. We got there in the end, and reached the maximum number of people in a skype call, which was 9- we planned the session as a discussion between ourselves, with the particpants listening and text Q&A so we were pleased that 9 people could talk together (mostly). A few hiccups- one was that Kevin and I tested sharing a desktop during the call, but with a multi-particpant call, we were… Continue
For those that could make the Skype discussion on 20th Nov. thanks very much for attending. We got there in the end, and reached the maximum number of people in a skype call, which was 9- we planned the session as a discussion between ourselves, with the particpants listening and text Q&A so we were pleased that 9 people could talk together (mostly). A few hiccups- one was that Kevin and I tested sharing a desktop during the call, but with a multi-particpant call, we were… Continue
hello - not sure if this ning is still current, but this e-book is really interesting and has ideas that lecturers might find interesting in the classroom.