TwEVS – Twitter as a student owned
clicker system (and more)
Martin Hawksey
e-Learning Advisor (Higher Education)
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http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.ac.uk/
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@mhawksey
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Overview
 How you can use twitter for voting
 The bigger picture – an educational twitter
ecosystem
 Some ‘whys’
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Twitter 101
 Twitter is a social networking and microblogging
service that enables its users to send and read
messages known as tweets. Tweets are textbased posts of up to 140 characters displayed on
the author's profile page and delivered to the
author's subscribers who are known as followers.
Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle
of friends or, by default, allow open access.
Wikipedia [bD8]
 Tweets can be a searched and collated using a
hashtag
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The big idea
It occurred to me that
since I already have
aTwitter backchannel
going in many of my
presentations, it might be
possible to use Twitter to
collect student votes … I
thought you could ask a
question and give a
unique hashtag for each
possible answer.
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 Question text
A. Option 1
B. Option 2
C. Option 3
D. Option 4
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Alternatively …
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Also MASHe Review: Electronic voting systems (clickers) [bGo]
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Benefits of using twitter for voting
 Even most basic phone can be used to vote via
SMS [multi device]
 Very low cost [no handsets, no batteries, no
software licence]
 Opportunity to extend the pedagogy [pre/post
questions, response can be prefixed with reason
why]
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Other ideas of how twitter can be used to
support education (an ecosystem)
 Free SMS broadcast [bGp]
– Users on Vodafone, Orange, O2 and ‘3’ can receive free
status updates via SMS
– As well as administration could be used to send
questions pre class
 Lecture capture enhancement [bGq]
– Using the backchannel communication as a source of
data to enhance navigation and opportunities for
vicarious learning
– http://www.rsc-ne-scotland.org.uk/mashe/ititle/seek.html
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How I see life
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The ‘why not’
 …
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Funding opportunity
 Grant 05/10: Flexible service delivery programme:
Call for projects
– Shared Service and Cloud Computing Pilots Up to
10 months duration between £50,000 and £150,000
available per project.
– Deadline: 12:00 noon Wednesday 19 May 2010
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