將Twitter應用在課堂上

在RWW看到一篇有趣的文章,講一位美國德州達拉斯大學的歷史老師,Monica Rankin怎麼將Twitter應用在他的教學上



在Monica Rankin所寫的教學經驗裡,可以看到他的出發點與作法其實是很簡單的:
  • First, I set up a twitter account for the class called ushistoryII. 
  • I posted instructions on my website for those who needed them and Kim Smith made an introductory “how-to” video that I also posted on my website. 
  • I set up the ushistoryII account to follow all of the students and we were reading to start having “discussions.”
  • I gave the students special hash tags to use on all of their comments. The hash tags were organized by week so that all of the comments posted in a given week would appear together. This also allowed students to search by the hash tag for a given week and pull up all comments to use as a study aid before exams. 
  • I used tweetdeck as a central hub to track our weekly discussions. Tweetdeck allowed me to search for that week’s hash tag and it created a special column dedicated to comments using that hash tag. Tweetdeck is also designed to refresh automatically at regular intervals (about every 12 seconds I believe). 
  • I would run a search for that week's hash tag, pull up the tweetdeck column, and a running stream of comments would appear. 
  • I loaded tweetdeck on the classroom computer and projected it onto the large screen at the front of the room so students could watch the stream of comments.
有更多的Twitter教育應用方式可以參照這篇

Comments

豬小草 said…
Rankin有提到他的學生都不知道twitter,跟這個調查結果挺相符。