[Yr7-10it] Twittering

[Roland Gesthuizen]

(* hand over mouth *) OK you lot .. toss in your 2 cents worth.

Regards Roland

2009/6/23 Dr Paul Chandler <paul.chandler at une.edu.au>

> Roland and others,
>
> I hope you haven't put the moz on other responses to my question, Roland
> :-)
>
> I'm presently engaged in observing classes using Kahootz, for which there
> is no existing (student-accessible) forum or similar system.
>
> What we are observing is that students are thriving on the immediacy of
> getting help.  For instance "how do I make it seem that this character is
> morphing to another ... oh, I can show you how to do that"   There is help
> being spread across schools ("how can I show rain"), but it is
> teacher-mediated and word of mouth (but very efficient when it works).
>
> I think help forms are terrific.  The rapidity in which I've received
> assistance for products like vlc and PGV is astounding, but these are very
> large and very active communities, where the principal developers devote
> huge numbers of hours to answer questions.  This is not likely to be the
> case with Kahootz.
>
> You're not going to get extended responses in a medium like twitter.  But
> interactions such as "Can u mk rain?"  "yeah - check http://somerain" are
> possible, and probably very helpful.
>
> So, notwithstanding Roland's informed comments about forums and Yahoo
> answers, I think my question still remains: 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?
>
> Regards,
>
> > 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
> >>
> >> located at Australian Children's Television Foundation
> >> 145 Smith Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, 3065
> >> e-mail: paul.chandler at une.edu.au
> >> Ph: 0400 198 187
> >> Fax: (03) 9419 0660
> >> Skype: paul.d.chandler
> >>
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> > http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
> >
> > "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
> > change
> > the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
> >
>
>
> --
> Dr Paul Chandler
> Research Fellow
> 'Multimedia grammatical design and authoring pedagogy' (Kahootz) project,
> School of Education, University of New England
>
> located at Australian Children's Television Foundation
> 145 Smith Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, 3065
> e-mail: paul.chandler at une.edu.au
> Ph: 0400 198 187
> Fax: (03) 9419 0660
> Skype: paul.d.chandler
>
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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