Rick Reo's Twitter Adoption Assessment Tool

Adoption Assessment Tool Twitter as Learning Tool -- Levels of Educational Use Twitter is defined in a course context as a light-weight micro blogging platform used to support micro interactions and social networking in the service of student community building, discussions, tracking & reporting, metacognition and a variety of spontaneous learning activities. [As David Pogue said, “Twitter is whatever you make of it.”] In-class Back Channel for Discussion Active

In-class Directed Discussion (Rankin style)

Used to collate classroom views Used to support ad hoc class discussions or lecture commenting (use hashtags to categorize realtime, on-task chatter/texting (M.Sample)

Good for monitoring key points in a discussion, collating viewpoints

Passiv e

Outside of Class Discussions

Lightly Structured Activities (low threshold) Follow some instruction and Tweet about it • gather course feedback • ambient office hours • poll class (e.g., identify an object (D.Cohen) Institutional communication channel (outreach, alerts etc.)

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Setup topics with separate twitter accounts or hashtags Students initiate and/ or follow topics and participate in discussion per instructor protocols asynchronously.

Good for community building, discussions, assignments

Open question/topical discussion format 1. Use semi-anonymous Twitter stream of comments to lead discussions (requires TweetDeck screen refresh) 2. Twitter aggregates and collates student responses to separate webpage 3. End of class large group processing 4. Optional step to analyze aggregated content (could be used as makeup assignment for missed class)

Feedback Activities • language or writing practice

Good for engaging all students in discussions in large lecture classes (monitoring key points, collating viewpoints) Metacognition/Self-regulation Student activity to share resources and report on self learning events like difficult topics, interesting applications etc. - Muddiest point - One thing I learned most (S.Klein)

Instructor communication channel (e.g., announcements, reminders)

Broadcast course links and share resources

Tracking Activities • find and follow instructor, experts, topics

I n s t r u c t o r T i m e / E f f o r t

Prepared by Rick Reo on behalf of DoIT/LSS, 9/09

(Implement only, assessment not factored in here)

Prepared by Rick Reo on behalf of DoIT/LSS, 9/09