[Yr7-10it] Twittering

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Twitter is a bit different from a forum to ask for help .. it is an odd mix
of micro-blogging and chat. I have a small, friendly gathering of educators
on my Twitter rgesethuizen identity but not as many as I can tap into via
these forums. No students although I expect they have moved beyond
micro-blogging to communicating in fewer syllables with words like hmm, shh,
ahh, grr, hah, ugg, huh, yeh etc.

Perhaps if students were looking to share questions they would use Yahoo
Answers. Last year I was surprised to spot my VCE students skim this for
answers until I found out that one was handing out IT advice and trying to
gain more 'points' than somebody else! She was doing a swell job of
answering basic questions by doing some snap research and typing up short
answers. Apparently they got the most points if the questioner voted her
answer as the best. Worth studying although I should warn that I now
recognise that like other similar engines, some of the questions discussed
cover adult concepts.

Regards Roland

2009/6/22 Dr Paul Chandler <paul.chandler at une.edu.au>

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone as thought of - or implemented - the use of
> Twitter (or some twitter-like technology) as a "help system" for students?
>
> We all know that kids talk with one another and 'get help' on various
> aspects of computing when they are working in the classroom ... is this
> the logical extension?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> Dr Paul Chandler
> Research Fellow
> 'Multimedia grammatical design and authoring pedagogy' (Kahootz) project,
> School of Education, University of New England
>
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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