Comments on: Using Twitter with students has gotten easier http://www.dalebasler.com/2010/02/using-twitter-with-students-has-gotten-easier/ education.collaboration.design.technology Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:36:57 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mason Posner http://www.dalebasler.com/2010/02/using-twitter-with-students-has-gotten-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-4041 Mason Posner Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:38:55 +0000 http://www.dalebasler.com/?p=366#comment-4041 It was an interesting experience when I wrote tweets from a conference last year, during the sessions. I wondered if people thought I was checking my email during talks, when I was really listening intently and compacting what I heard into my tweets. There is definitely a change in mindset needed if smartphones and laptops are going to be involved with education. I know that when the laptops are up, I may be competing for students' attentions, but trust that they are doing something that is helping them with the class. I have found this semester that blogs are not a great tool for carrying on discussions between classes. Maybe because it is too much effort to get to the blog to post a comment, and students that do get there often write too much. Have you found twitter to be a better platform for discussion than blog comment threads? It was an interesting experience when I wrote tweets from a conference last year, during the sessions. I wondered if people thought I was checking my email during talks, when I was really listening intently and compacting what I heard into my tweets. There is definitely a change in mindset needed if smartphones and laptops are going to be involved with education. I know that when the laptops are up, I may be competing for students’ attentions, but trust that they are doing something that is helping them with the class.

I have found this semester that blogs are not a great tool for carrying on discussions between classes. Maybe because it is too much effort to get to the blog to post a comment, and students that do get there often write too much. Have you found twitter to be a better platform for discussion than blog comment threads?

]]> By: Science on Twitter « A Fish Eye View http://www.dalebasler.com/2010/02/using-twitter-with-students-has-gotten-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-4040 Science on Twitter « A Fish Eye View Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:39:39 +0000 http://www.dalebasler.com/?p=366#comment-4040 [...] My experience is that only relatively old people use Twitter.  My undergraduate students don’t.  But Dale Basler recently posted on his high school students using the platform during field trips. [...] [...] My experience is that only relatively old people use Twitter.  My undergraduate students don’t.  But Dale Basler recently posted on his high school students using the platform during field trips. [...]

]]> By: Dale Basler http://www.dalebasler.com/2010/02/using-twitter-with-students-has-gotten-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-4035 Dale Basler Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:19:44 +0000 http://www.dalebasler.com/?p=366#comment-4035 I had only a few students using Twitter before this- maybe three or four. I'm not too worried if they don't go back to it. Twitter may not be around in the future but I'm sure recording and posting data from a hand-held device will be. I also think we need to be more comfortable with students using digital devices during lectures and tours- just like we're comfortable with them writing in notebooks. I had only a few students using Twitter before this- maybe three or four.

I’m not too worried if they don’t go back to it. Twitter may not be around in the future but I’m sure recording and posting data from a hand-held device will be.

I also think we need to be more comfortable with students using digital devices during lectures and tours- just like we’re comfortable with them writing in notebooks.

]]> By: Mason Posner http://www.dalebasler.com/2010/02/using-twitter-with-students-has-gotten-easier/comment-page-1/#comment-4033 Mason Posner Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:27:22 +0000 http://www.dalebasler.com/?p=366#comment-4033 How many of your students were using twitter before the class? I find that virtually none of my college students use twitter, and the few graduates from my science-blogging capstone course that started twitter accounts did not stick with it for long. I have convinced two of them to get back on to promote their blogs, but there does not seem to be a critical enough mass of 20-somethings on Twitter. But maybe that is just here in Ohio. I am interested in reading more about how you use Twitter, as I am getting more caught up with it and think I see the benefits for classroom use. How many of your students were using twitter before the class? I find that virtually none of my college students use twitter, and the few graduates from my science-blogging capstone course that started twitter accounts did not stick with it for long. I have convinced two of them to get back on to promote their blogs, but there does not seem to be a critical enough mass of 20-somethings on Twitter. But maybe that is just here in Ohio.

I am interested in reading more about how you use Twitter, as I am getting more caught up with it and think I see the benefits for classroom use.

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