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Tweeting Your Way to Improved #Writin g, #Reflection, and #Community Alice Louise Kassens R oanoke Coll ege [email protected] NETA Fall 2013 Austin, TX
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Tweeting Your Way toImproved #Writing,
#Reflection, and #Community
Alice Louise Kassens
Roanoke College
NETA Fall 2013Austin, TX
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Can we harness
social media to
work with us in the
classroom?
Social media is here
It is very popular
Economists are not great at
embracing technology in the
classroom
Students en joy it
If you can’t beat it…
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What is Twitter?O Online microblogging
technology
OPost “tweets” up to140 characters
O ~200 million activeusers, ~400 milliontweets/day
O Free service,www.twitter.com
O Accessed throughvariety of portals:cellphone, computer,
tabletO Tweets can include
pictures and videos
O User’s twitter pagecan be customizedusing templates
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@kassensecon122
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Twitter in the classroomO Twitter has been
shown to improve:
O EngagementO Participation
O Writing
O Community
O Learning
O Memory
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Twitter and writing/reflectionO 140 character limit
forces succinctness
O “electronic editor”
O Brevity of tweets =powerful tool forteaching writing &other communicationskills
#writing
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Twitter and writing/reflectionO Writing about
economics=vital
test of understanding
O Challenge in 100-level courses
O A key to goodwriting=developing an argument
#reflection
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What we didO Social media project
O ~25 student avg.
O 15% of course grade
O Computer lab
O Screen projecting Twitterfeed
O Unique hashtag(#kassensecon122)
O Ten graded tweets
O Rubric developed
with classO Assignments both
in and out of classperiod
O Review tweets in
class
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Preparation (in class)O Brief introduction to Twitter (many
students had never used Twitter)
O Set up accounts
O 10-15 minutes to personalize page,follow, tweet
O Develop rubric: “What makes a goodtweet?” Facultyshould
already befamiliar
with Twitter
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Preparation (in class)Twitter grading rubric
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Sample assignmentO State of the Union
Address 2013
1. Watch address w/in24 hours of event
2. Tweet severalcomments orquestions
3. One tweet graded
O Purpose
O Increase student
awareness of current issues
O Apply coursematerial to theseissues
O Communicate inthoughtful/concisemanner
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Sample assignment…
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Unintended consequenceO Twitter expands the
classroom beyond thephysical walls
O Global conversations
O “guest speakers”
O Community can bedeveloped in typicallyisolated experiences
#community
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Suggestions Benefits
O Hold class in lab
O Establish ground rules
O Allow practice tweets
O Select unique #
O Grade tweets viastudent page
O Follow your studentsO Assign a significant
weight to assignment
O Expand classroom, becomepart of a larger community
O Refine reflection & writing
skills w/o a large writtenassignment
O Increase engagement
O Demonstrate responsible useof social media
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Difficulties Cautions
O Challenging withlarge classes
O Currently are notreliableapplications tocollect tweets fora record
O Professor shouldbe comfortable
with thetechnology
O Pick a uniquehashtag for all
assignmentsO Keep tweets to
course material
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Thank you!
Follow me @RnningEconomist
Follow my class
@kassensecon122
Read my paper http://ssrn.com/abstract=2331004
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