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* Ramsden, Andy (2008). How and why are people using Twitter: A small group study. Technical report, University of Bath, [http://hdl.handle.net/10247/471 Abstract_/PDF]
* Ramsden, Andy (2008). How and why are people using Twitter: A small group study. Technical report, University of Bath, [http://hdl.handle.net/10247/471 Abstract_/PDF]
* Wolfgang Reinhardt, Matthias Moi, Nina Heinze (2011) Analysis of Twitter usage in an exploratory seminar setting. Form@re 74. [http://formare.erickson.it/wordpress/it/2011/analysis-of-twitter-usage-in-an-exploratory-seminar-setting/ http://formare.erickson.it/wordpress/...]


[[Category: Social computing]]
[[Category: Social computing]]


[[Category: Mobile computing]]
[[Category: Mobile computing]]

Latest revision as of 19:59, 8 January 2013

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Definition

“Is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via SMS, instant messaging or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.” (Ramsden, 2008/Wikipedia).

In education

Daniel K. Schneider thinks that twitter replicates very much what people do with SMSs and instant messaging. Therefore one could use this technology to implement mobile learning/ubiquitous learning type of things, e.g.:

  • data gathering scenarios (learners send data about something they observe to a central place)
  • ideas gathering (including back channels for classroom and lecture hall teaching.

Furthermore, this kind of microblogging

  • what is hot/going on in large multi-session conferences
  • to rely important last minute informations / reminders to students

Since messages are very short, they also can be sent from a cell phone.

Links

Examples

Bibliography

  • Ramsden, Andy (2008). How and why are people using Twitter: A small group study. Technical report, University of Bath, Abstract_/PDF