Twitter Usage and Trends by Faculty

The Faculty Focus survey of nearly 2,000 higher education professionals found that almost a third (30.7 percent) of the 1,958 respondents who completed the survey are using Twitter in some capacity. More than half (56.4 percent) say they’ve never used Twitter. The remaining 12.9 percent of respondents say they tried it, but no longer use it.

Depending how they answered the question — “Do you use Twitter?” — respondents were asked a unique set of follow-up questions. The 20-page report provides breakdown of the survey results by question, including comments provided by survey respondents. The comments allowed faculty to further explain how they are using Twitter, why they stopped, or why they have no interest in using it at all.

It is clear that those educators who’ve had a good experience with Twitter are eager to share comments or anecdotes with others, as well as stretch their imagination to find new applications for using the tool to engage students inside and outside of the classroom.

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I love this example of a use of Twitter:

Currently, we have a Russian instructor using it to tweet on every day activities. His students respond in Russian. It gives him a chance to correct mistakes and it gives the students daily practice in writing and understanding the language. Students from other universities have joined in to make it a very dynamic learning tool.

Do you use Twitter? Want to share with us what you do?

Please comment!

Don't forget to come see what we're working on!

Tomorrow, at College Day, we'll be presenting 2 workshops.

The first will be Enhancing your Course with ANGEL - if you don't already know how this course management tool, this is the chance to see how to post documents, link to extra resources, communicate with your students outside of class and more!

The second, Teach, Rewind, Repeat - come learn about the option to video key parts of your lessons, then you can post these for your students to use as review or in case they missed the class. We're going to be starting with a pilot group - why not be a part of it?

Happy Friday!!!

I'm Back!

Wow - where has the time gone?

I can't believe it's been two months since I posted here, for that I apologize. I hope to be posting on a much more regular basis from now on!

There are lots of articles that I want to share...

To start us off, I want to share one from Faculty Focus...

An insider’s guide to teaching and learning in the online classroom
10 Principles of Effective Online Teaching: Best Practices in Distance Education

"Teaching online for the first time is a little like trying to drive a car in a foreign country. You know how to drive, just like you know how to teach, but it sure is hard to get the hang of driving on the left side of the road … you’re not quite sure how far a kilometer is … and darn it if those road signs aren’t all in Japanese. "

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