Comments on: Would You Use Twitter With Your Students?

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:34:28 +0000

@Satya Thanks. I’m glad you like my posts.

By: Satya

Satya — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:08:40 +0000

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on Mobile(cell phone) Industry and happenings. Please continue the good work. Thank you.

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By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:05:37 +0000

@rachel88 I’m also not convinced about using it within classrooms however I do believe it is important for educators to use for their personal learning. Good luck with testing twitter for yourself.

By: rachel88

rachel88 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:34:20 +0000

I didn’t know anything about twitter until Matt and Kate’s tutorial today.
After listening to what they said, and seeing what some of you guys have written, I really don’t think I would use twitter in my classroom. It’s too risky. I liked Darren’s definition, Creepy Treehouse, it’s too true.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:31:11 +0000

@Sarah You say you would use twitter with your students and yet that implies you don’t. Any reason?

@Toni I’m the same I don’t want f2f friends or family in my twitter network. Your story of the twitter stalker is scary — I’ve never had a problem like this. Like you I still feel that twitter is more important for our personal learning as there are tools that are probably more effective for our students.

@Mrs C Definitely the thought of primary school kids would worry me. Blocking of tinyurls is really annoying.

@Darren I think I have to agree — interesting take on use of some of these tools with students.

@Jamie I can’t see any issues with using with College/University students due to the age. Interacting with Matt and Kate (the student teachers) in twitter highlights the value of these tools for their learning.

@Jose Thanks for the link to more information on Edmodo. Let us know how you go using it with your students.

@Ana Hadn’t thought of Pownce which I should have mentioned to Matt and Kate. Pownce would definitely be a good alternative especially for sharing files. Thanks for the link to your post.

@Misterg I use Skype and GTalk all the time and yet the thought of using MSN which my son uses does nothing for me. Thankfully I don’t as he would bug me using it.

@Nik Hadn’t thought of Plurk either. Also another one worth considering. Thanks for sharing your post. I’m wondering Nik — do you feel all school ages are ok for using these tools? Are there any ages you wouldn’t use with?

@Bernie Definitely great tools for College and University students. Can’t believe I also didn’t suggest they check out Jaiku. Thanks for the reminder.

By: Bernie Goldbach

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:22:36 +0000

We teach social media in our college so we need to jump into both Twitter and Jaiku. The latter is best for threaded conversations.

By: Nik Peachey

Nik Peachey — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:45:36 +0000

I actually would, but prefer Plurk. I wrote some suggestions on how to use Microblogging generally with students at:
http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/2008/07/microblogging-for-efl-with-plurk.html

There’s also a nice posting on box of Tricks about Edmodo which is a designed for education version of Twitter: http://www.boxoftricks.net/?p=403

How can we not use these tools for education?

Best

Nik Peachey

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By: misterg

misterg — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:02:48 +0000

I’m considering using Twitter with the sixth form, but haven’t gone far enough down the line as I’m still relatively new to this. I tried IM approach but there are so many varieties and MSN annoys me so I dropped this.
I might investigate it further later, but I’ll have to see what Moodle offers (if they can keep our server up long enough!)