Best practices when integrating twitter into the classroom

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Twitter in Academia

• Best practices when integrating twitter into the
  classroom

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Objectives

• Twitter 101
• Benefits
• Integrating
• Best Practices
• Case Study
• Setting up an Account
• Resources

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What is Twitter..?

• 140 character instant messaging service
• Tidbits of information
• 2.5 million -gt 6.1 million users

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Benefits of Using Twitter in the Classroom

• Builds community
• Connect outside world with class discussion..?
• Professional Development
• In a recent article published by Faculty Focus, a
  teacher mentioned.
• I do the same with email and Im familiar with
  it, why should I change..?..
• Its not about comfort level its about
  communicating and reaching the students at their
  comfort level.
• Faculty Focus article Twitter in Higher Education

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How to Integrate Twitter into Classroom

• should supplement student learning
• small chunks
• practice within department

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Best Practices

• Put Value in your tweets
• Be thankful, be nice
• Dont tweet about meaningless information
• Have many accounts professional vs. personal
• Tweet news, articles

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Case Study 1 University of Minnesota

• Twitter in the Classroom

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Twitter in The Classroom _at_ IUPUI

• Dr. Thom Ho
• cit department
• Professor of Computer Information Technology

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Setting Up an Account

• Twitter

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Resources

• Top 100 Educator Twitterers
• List of k-12 IT educators
• Twitter Advice
• Shorten URLs