Tweeting and Learning
= Twearning the Day
Away!
Ida M. Jones
Tweet:
#CSUFTIP13
What is Twitter and Who Uses it?
What is Twitter?
• Microblog with postings of
140 characters or less
• Hashtag (e.g. #CSUFTIP13)to organize and
search
• Can include links to videos,
images & websites
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To listen to the webinar that is the source of this
information,
go to:
http://www.mybschoolcommunity.com/communityevents/webinar-teaching-twitter/
Abstract & Objective
• According to Chickering and Gamson’s Seven Principles
for Good Practices in Higher Education, three of the
effective practices that promote student learning in
undergraduate education.
– Student engagement,
– feedback and
– time on task
• Faculty can use Twitter effectively in class as a tool to
accomplish the 3 noted practices.
Objective:
• Promoting deeper learning through effective use of
Twitter.
Description of Seven Principles: http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/seven.html
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Disruptive Change in Education
“You can’t take on twenty-first
century tasks with twentieth
century tools and hope to get the
job done.”
FROM NOW YOU SEE IT: HOW THE BRAIN SCIENCE OF ATTENTION WILL
TRANSFORM THE WAY WE LIVE, WORK, AND LEARN by Cathy N.
Davidson (2011)
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Tweeting and Twearning Class
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Sports Marketing Law class
Required for Sports Marketing majors
18 students
Most hadn’t used much technology in
their marketing classes previously
• Survey: 50% created a Twitter
account for the first time in this class
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Twitter Assignment-Part 1
• Take notes and ask questions
during class
• My Goal: More involvement with and
knowledge of course content
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C & G-more
time on task
and hopefully
more
feedback!
Twitter Assignment-Part 2--Group
Summary
• Weekly summary; 5
minute presentation
– Immediate feedback
– Reinforcement of
learning
• Post for other
students to use
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Expectations from First Two
Assignments
• Substantive Questions about
reading (in and outside of class)
• Reflection about reading &class
discussion
• Substantive comment about a
current event
• Substantive comment or
question about the tweets of
someone the student is
following
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C & Gmore time
on task and
hopefully
more
feedback!
How do you assess accomplishment of objectives?
ASSESSMENT
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Student Perceptions of Twitter
Use
• Contribute to Knowledge
of Content?
– Pre: 56% Agreed/Strongly
Agreed
– Post 64% Agreed/Strongly
Agreed
• Would Make No
Difference
– Pre: 25%
– Post:17%
• Would Not Contribute
– Pre: 19% Agreed/Strongly
Agreed
– Post: 17% Disagreed it
would make a difference
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Course Grades: Spring 2011/Spring
2012
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Twitter Assignment-Part 3—Follow a
Professional Athlete; Develop a
Social Media Policy
• Evaluate Twitter use and legal
implications by 3 sports figures and
develop a proposed policy
– Favorite sport
– Identify 3 professional athletes who have
twitter accounts
– End of proposed policy on athletes’ use of
social media
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Expectations
• Identify legal implications of using
social media
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Role of sports governing bodies
Contracts
Torts
Labor law/collective bargaining
• Develop, read and analyze policies
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How do you assess accomplishment of objectives?
ASSESSMENT
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Impact
• Evaluation of policies submitted
• Student comments
– High level of involvement (100% agreed
or strongly agreed)
– High level of satisfaction (72% agree or
strongly agreed/27% neither agreed nor
disagreed)
• Good start on policies
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Questions and Comments
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