For Tuesday your primary homework is to use and become familiar with Twitter. (See below for some additional Twitter info, but post (tweet) at least 10 times over the weekend.) You should also read How Twittering Creates a Social Sixth Sense Clive Thompson, from Wired and Friends Swap Twitters and Frustration&Wall Street Journal. These are both short and should only take you 15 minutes to read.
Note that the syllabus lists readings about iJustine, you do not need to read these, as we will not cover them until Thursday.
I have as of 2:30 Thursday added 19?) of you to my following list, so if you are looking for classmates to follow you should go to my Twitter profile and add in some of your classmates. You don’t necessarily need to follow everyone in the class but add in at least ten to get the Twitter experience. You can also choose to follow people who are not in our class. There are several personalities on Twitter if you would like to follow them. Barack Obama or John Edwards for example, if you find others leave them in the comments.
Two other notes on Twitter. To make you Twitter experience better you should get a Twitter client for your computer or perhaps integrate it with your Facebook page. Finally, note that if you want to block people or make your tweets (posts) private Twitter enables this function.
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1 so this is mass communication? » teaching tweets // Feb 11, 2008 at 3:42 pm
[...] David does the same assignment both Karen Miller Russell & I (and many others!) have done: Twitter tweets for 2 days. My experience is that when you throw students into Twitter together as a group, where as a part of the assignment they are required to follow one another, it is an instant community for them that really helps show what the tool is all about. [...]
2 Kenley Neufeld // Mar 4, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Thanks for posting this assignment. I’ve taken some of your ideas and made this an extra credit assignment in my Information Literacy class.
I’m on Twitter as myself and as the library. See
3 Twitter - in the classroom? | Random Thoughts on Technology // Jul 24, 2008 at 11:10 pm
[...] of these ideas are general, and some are specifically from a Twittering assignment I did for a class last semester. When I first added it to the syllabus I had no idea what to [...]
4 simplekaywa - Twitter for Academia // May 24, 2009 at 4:01 pm
[...] Twitter im Unterricht arbeitet. Es begann mit einem erfolgreichen Experiment mit einer Klasse. In Twitter Away Your Weekend können Sie den Arbeitsauftrag an die Studierenden lesen. Seine Einsätze (stichwortartig [...]
5 Utiliser Twitter pour l’education | Edoboard // Jun 24, 2009 at 8:28 am
[...] à la maison: les étudiants devant créer un compte et s’échanger sur un thème précis (voici le devoir). Lui même très sceptique au départ il fut le premier surpris par les résultats. les tweet [...]
6 TechFlash on UWTwitterBook and “Firsts” — UW Twitter Book // Sep 4, 2009 at 11:44 pm
[...] Assignment, UT-Dallas, November 2007 [...]
7 Masters of Media » Educate Me in 140 Characters or Less // Oct 11, 2010 at 4:22 pm
[...] When packing your bag for school, make sure you have your lunch, books, and favorite Twitter client. The social network is making great strides as an academic tool, as more and more educators realize the benefit of fast, transparent messages that are updated in real time. Twitter allows teachers to announce changes in class schedules, homework, or study tips in a safe and friendly environment (EDUCAUSE). In addition to improving student-teacher communication, teachers have found potential for increased student engagement by assigning twitter based homework. Common twitter based assignments include tracking a conference or seminar, researching a professional, learning to write concisely (140 characters or less), and grammar by correcting other people’s twitter posts (AcademHack). To see how the university of Dallas is using Twitter in their Emerging Media Course click here. [...]
8 Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitter - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education // Oct 25, 2010 at 8:31 pm
[...] As often as you want. Or put more seriously, as often as it makes sense for your teaching goals. David Parry has required one weekend of intensive tweeting. Brian Croxall has required one month of tweeting at [...]
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