The Twitter Experiment - Twitter in the Classroom

Dr. Rankin, professor of History at UT Dallas, wanted to know how to reach more students and involve more people in class discussions both in and out of the classroom. She had heard of Twitter... She collaborated with a graduate student, Kim Smith, from the Emerging Media and Communications (EMAC) and reached out to EMAC faculty for advice.

As a Graduate student in EMAC I assisted her in The Twitter Experiment and documented the project to share with others.

The feedback is varied, but the lesson for me, as a student, was the importance of a professor's attitude and willingness to try new technologies in the classroom, especially a more traditional class such as History. It was a great pleasure to assist Dr. Rankin with this.

I documented the experiment and used it in my digital video class with Professor Dean Terry, @therefore, and assisted Dr. Rankin in the experiment as a part of my collaboration and content creation course with Dan Langendor, @dlangendorf.

It was a real pleasure to work with Dr. Rankin - a forward-thinking professor open to the intelligent use of new media.

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[Paßlø Ganðara]

Follow me in Twitter please. @Pablo_Gandara1

[carla loera]

@carlaloera

[Pako Pingas]

Good to know how desperate people are to get heard from random strangers

[Cj Maldonado]

follow me @maldyballs

[Rick Henderson]

It seems like even if she wasn't using Twitter she would still have an engaging classroom, and not a talking head lecture. Very few of my 700 students use Twitter, so getting them up to speed would be a bit of work. First year students around here just aren't into it.

[emerset]

yeah greater participation, but at the cost of teaching students articulation and presentation. All my lectures still use old school techniques and I'm a big fan of that.

[Alex Isalguez]

very good video and experiment!! follow me! @IsalguezAlex

[CMeezy95SODMG]

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