Communicating Via Twitter.
I've struggled with how to best communicate with students, but I think Twitter has the greatest potential. Here's why. First off, Twitter can be adapted to fit nearly any other networking site. You can set up a Facebook account that displays your Twitter status for friends to see. If you send a message through Twitter, it will go on your page. Twitter can also cross-post to any blogging software through RSS updates. Those are just the outputs. Twitter also has great potential for flexible inputs. You can set your phone up to send updates to your Twitter account, meaning that you can go to a convention, hear about a book, and post it to an account within a matter of minutes. Any purchases, or new books catalogged, can go through Twitter.
Finally, the short requirements of posts force you to condense what you really need to say. I am currently experimenting with Twitter in my college class. I am having them use it to create micro-reviews of documents that they have to read. I am eagerly anticipating the results.
7 years ago
Twitter - another one of those tools I need to explore and experiment with. How do you keep from getting overwhelmed in Twitter? That's my big struggle. Also, do you have to have certain features on your phone to do this...getting messages sent directly to your phone, etc.?
ReplyDeleteHow is this going Sam? Are you getting good feedback and does it matter for student response to have them be less than 140 characters? Although that could be a good thing if you have a lot of students.
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