Using Twitter to Enhance Collaborative Learning

Students already love using Twitter, so why not capitalize on their enthusiasm to add a new, creative dimension to their college coursework?

Twitter is one of the hottest new ways to connect people and share information and is one of today’s fastest-growing social media.

Faculty have a new tool for classroom collaboration.

Students and faculty can identify relevant organizations to follow, remain current with each other’s research, and make professional contacts, and more.

Professor Kerry Ramsay introduces you to Twitter and details innovative uses along with tips & tricks to adapt it to the college classroom in this 90-minute seminar.

This seminar covers:

• Getting started with Twitter
• Suggested ways to leverage Twitter’s capabilities in the classroom
• Advantages of communicating in 140 characters or less
• How Tweetdeck can simplify Twitter activity
• Getting the social media conversation started in your courses
• Following key people and organizations within the Twitter community
• Developing your own Twitter following
• Twitter applications for research and assignments
• Raising classroom participation with Twitter
• Ideas for using Twitter in both large and small classroom settings
• How professors can use Twitter within their disciplines
  

 Who will benefit from this seminar?

• Faculty members in all disciplines
• Instructors
• Lecturers
• Distance education and online faculty
• College administrators
• Instructional designers and trainers

Your presenter
Professor Kerry Ramsay is an educator and communications professional who has applied social media in a variety of contexts to help create a collaborative learning environment for her post-graduate students. She holds a masters degree in communications from the Carleton University School of Journalism in Ottawa, Canada and  has been recognized with the Innovation & Excellence in Learning-Centered Teaching Award at Loyalist College.

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