Twittering in HigherEd
by smithtk ~ July 14th, 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized.Twitter is certainly garnering a lot of attention in education and everywhere else. Here is an example of how a University of Texas professor uses Twitter in her classroom.
Professor Monica Rankin uses a weekly hashtags to organize comments, questions and feedback that students post on Twitter in class. The tweets are projected “live” to the class, an ongoing back channel of ideas related to class discussions. Professor Rankin says more students are participating in classroom discussions than before she tried the Twitter experiment. Here’s a Youtube video:
