Emerging peer support networks on twitter
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Emerging peer support networks on twitter
Alan Cann, Jo Badge, Stuart Johnson, Alex Moseley
www.le.ac.uk
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10 iPod Touches
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• Mobile phones/ SMS• Dedicated iTouch apps• Browser based• Staff members resident
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Two groups of students
1. Biological Sciences first yr undergraduates (7)
2. Museum studies postgraduates (8)
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Using the iPod touches was easy
Listening to music
playing games
watching youtube/iPlayer
surfing the web
posting messages to twitter
looking at photos
taking notes
using the calendar
maps and directions
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Microblogging using Twitter
• doing metabolism questions over msn, testing each other is a fab way to learn! If only I knew any answers.
• is rather worried about the assessment tomorrow and is preparing herself for failure
• Got up at 7 and look the black sky out of my window. Just browsing the website of National Sports Museum http://www.nsm.org.au/
• Reading about kandinsky and art and music. How apt on an iPod
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Comparing undergraduate and postgraduate activity
Average number of tweets per
day
Number of interfaces
used 1
% of @ tweets
Following : Followers (taken from twitter
homepages)u/g min 4 3 2 13/12u/g max 10 7 58 60/29p/g min 1 2 0 5/15p/g max 4 4 39 34/25
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Twitter was used in other ways
web
hahlo
mobile web
twitterific
natsuliphone
twhirl
twitterfontweetdeck
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Undergraduate tweets
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Networks
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Postgraduate tweets
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Networks
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Acknowledgements
This project was supported by
JISC TechDis Heat 3 scheme