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2010-05-04 |
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10:00 |
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Nottingham
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Matt Lingard - London School of Economics
Tony McNeill - Kingston University
Alan Cann - University of Leicester
Tony McNeill
Tony is a Principal Lecturer in Educational Technology at Kingston University. He is currently involved in a small LearnHigher-funded project on the use of Twitter to support student engagement, the final evaluation of which is due in May 2010. He is particularly interested in the ways in which the technology-mediated literacy practices associated with social networking sites like Facebook (e.g. the creation of ‘microcontent’ in the form of status updates and wall posts) might transfer to formal educational contexts and help develop learning communities. Could Twitter be used to enable dialogue, collaborative note-taking, resource sharing, and the posting of questions, comments and reflections?
Matt Lingard
Matt Lingard is a Learning Technologist at the London School of Economics. He has over 15 years experience of teaching and training and has worked in the field of educational technology for the last 8 years. He regularly delivers internal and external workshops to practitioners across the education sector on a variety of e-learning topics. He is particularly interested in the use of social technologies in both teaching and research. Matt ‘tweets’ for ALT (@A_L_T) and is the one of the Web Participation Co-ordinators for ALT-C 2010.
Alan Cann
Dr Alan Cann is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Leicester, UK. He has over 15 years experience of developing and delivering online learning materials for science and mathematics. In recent years he has worked extensively developing new approaches to delivering learning materials via web 2.0 technologies. Alan is also one of the Web Participation Co-ordinators for ALT-C 2010.
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| Description: |
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This workshop, held at The National College in Nottingham, will provide an introduction to Twitter, a microblogging/social networking service, and its potential uses in HE and the other sectors. The first part of the workshop is organised in two strands:
strand A for those who are new to Twitter and who have yet to create or use an account;
strand B for those who have a Twitter account and who would like to extend their understanding of its possible uses.
After lunch, participants will be presented with two case studies of Twitter. The workshop concludes with a discussion of Twitter's educational potential partially conducted via Twitter and using a workshop hashtag. A series of Twitter ‘quick sheets’, developed with the support of LearnHigher, will be distributed at the start of the workshop.
Topics to be covered:
using Twitter to develop Personal Learning Networks (PLNs);
using Twitter to promote interaction in large-group sessions;
Twitter essentials (e.g. create an account, types of tweet);
Twitter clients (Brizzly, Tweetdeck);
Twitter polling tools;
Twitter widgets (feeds into your blog or VLE);
Twitter lists;
displaying Twitter backchannels.
By the end of the workshop participants will have developed:
an understanding of Twitter;
awareness of its varied uses;
practical experience of using it for learning activities.
Who should attend?
Anyone with an interest in educational technology, especially Web 2.0 and social media. The workshop is designed for total Twitter newbies as well as more experienced practitioners who would like to extend their understanding of Twitter's potential.
Outline Programme:
10.00 - 10.30: Registration
10.30 - 11.00: Overview of day & introduction to Twitter
11.00 - 12.30: parallel sessions
Strand a: introductory Twitter
Participants will learn how to:
create an account;
fill in the profile field;
post a tweet;
follow others;
use hashtags;
tweet pictures;
shorten URLs;
tweet from a mobile phone.
or:
Strand b: advanced Twitter
Participants will learn about:
Twitter clients (Brizzly, Tweetdeck);
polling tools;
Twitter widgets (feeds into your blog or VLE);
Twitter lists;
displaying Twitter backchannels.
12.30 - 13.30: Lunch
13.30 - 14.30: Case studies of practice (30 mins each - participants will be encouraged to tweet comments and questions)
University of Leicester Twitter projects (Alan Cann)
Kingston University Twitter projects (Tony McNeill)
14.30 - 15.00: Backchannel questions and comments on case study presentations (hashtag #twalt)
15.00 - 15.30: Coffee
15.30 - 16.00: Round table discussion - homework for the journey home: tweet an idea for using Twitter in HE
16.00: Close
ALT reserves the right to amend the programme without notice.
Costs to attend:
The cost includes all refreshments and lunch.
Members of ALT: £115
Non-members of ALT: £155
Booking to attend:
To book online please click here. |
