Comments on: Twitter and Facebook in the College Classroom

By: Kelli Marshall

Kelli Marshall — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:09:29 +0000

Absolutely! Would love to know how things worked out for you re: Twitter in the classroom. What subject matter do you teach?

By: Erin Weber

Erin Weber — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:43:37 +0000

Kelli,

I just found your blog. I’m pulling as much info as I can about using SM in the classroom. This was the first semester I attempted to use Twitter to enhance the classroom experience. It wasn’t a total loss, but I have lots of ideas for upcoming semesters. Would love to share thoughts and ideas with you. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Look forward to more!

~ Erin ~

By: KelliMarshall (Kelli Marshall)

KelliMarshall (Kelli Marshall) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:14:31 +0000

@AllofE_HE It was a little better this semester but still not where I want it. Have blogged abt it here: http://tinyurl.com/yhgraet #smcedu

By: Interfolio (Interfolio)

Interfolio (Interfolio) — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:02:59 +0000

@KelliMarshall Enjoyed your article regarding Twitter / Facebook in the classroom! http://tinyurl.com/yhgraet #highered

By: KelliMarshall (Kelli Marshall)

KelliMarshall (Kelli Marshall) — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:55:13 +0000

@raulpacheco Me too. Although, as I’ve written about before, they still seem to prefer FB to Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/yhgraet #smcedu

By: Tweeting (and Facebooking) for Textbooks | unmuzzled thoughts (about film, television, and Shakespeare)

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:19:55 +0000

[...] few weeks ago I wrote about my experience with Twitter in the undergraduate film classroom. In brief, it did not go as planned. While nearly 100 students signed up for the social networking [...]

By: Kelli Marshall

Kelli Marshall — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:12:14 +0000

Hi, Ralph. The interview was initially for television; it aired on Toledo’s PBS affiliate, WGTE.

Thanks for the update on your class and Twitter; I appreciate it. While my current students have engaged with Twitter more this semester than last semester’s, there are still many who are not using it. Perhaps it will eventually grow on them…

I am signed up for Google Wave, but no, I have not used it. Don’t really understand it all that much at this point. =)

By: Kelli Marshall

Kelli Marshall — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:08:04 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Eleanor. And, yes, please do let me know how Twitter works for you and your students if you decide to use it.

By: Ralph Merkel

Ralph Merkel — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:34:44 +0000

Kelli,
First off, I’m impressed with the production skills demonstrated in the story itself. Is that for public TV or just the web?

Well, we’re almost to spring break and the students are more engaged now than at first. But I must say that a lot of them still aren’t using it.
I have a guest speaker tomorrow. I’m going to make them tweet their questions…which I will then ask the guest.
It should expand that public timeline!

And we are both so early that it was easy to create accounts with just the class name.

The more web 2.0-savvy students thought using Twitter was really hip. But in a class of 25 only 4 were using it before they got accounts to talk to me.

Now–
Have you used google wave at all yet?

By: Eleanor Edwards

Eleanor Edwards — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:03:35 +0000

I came across this piece following a link from Ari’s blog post about education and Twitter. Having left a comment there before reading over here, I said that I suspected lack of interest in Twitter to be the major contributing factor for poor number of tweets. Coming here to read that you agree was encouraging. Can I have a gold star?

I’m just a substitue teacher so I have no power or influence. However, I just suggested to Ari that I’ll see if I can use the 140 character limit principle tomorrow in school. If you like, I’ll let you know how that works out.

Fascinating post. Thanks for sharing.
Eleanor

By: FSU Social Media Talk | Using Technology in the Language Arts Classroom

FSU Social Media Talk | Using Technology in the Language Arts Classroom — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:01:09 +0000

[...] literary scholars (among others). For some discussion of Twitter’s use in the classroom, see Kelli Marshall (who identified some problems with using it) and David Parry, who offers a number of helpful [...]

By: KelliMarshall (Kelli Marshall)

KelliMarshall (Kelli Marshall) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:51:29 +0000

@sgerald I’ve written 2 blog posts about it: http://tinyurl.com/yhgraet and http://tinyurl.com/yfk5647

By: Kelli Marshall

Kelli Marshall — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:42:40 +0000

Ralph–ahh, if you walked them through it, then they should be better prepared than my students! Yeah, do keep me posted. Good luck to you this semester…

By: Ralph Merkel

Ralph Merkel — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:46:07 +0000

It’s still early, but I WALKED THEM through the process the first day of class. They sit in a lab with 24 online computers. I’m going to emphasisze Twitter as both a way to communicate out to the world but also as a tool to GATHER info. I’ll let you know how it goes. Half are signed up as of today.

By: Anne Helen Petersen

Anne Helen Petersen — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:34:05 +0000

This is a little late, but I thought I’d add that my students had ZERO INTEREST in using Twitter. I tried to encourage them to use it to ask me short questions out of class (instead of sending me emails); I tried to encourage them to use it DURING class to ask short points of clarification. It’s not that they don’t want to interact with me — it’s that 95% of them didn’t use Twitter at ALL. The vast majority started their accounts because I forced them to; even now, they have very limited followers/following and rarely, if ever, tweet. I’m going to encourage it again this semester at Whitman, but I do still doubt it’ll work.

By: The Chutry Experiment » Twitter, Blogs, and Wikis: eCitizenship at Fayetteville State

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:32:13 +0000

[...] scholars (among others). For some discussion of Twitter’s use in the classroom, see Kelli Marshall (who identified some problems with using it) and David Parry, who offers a number of helpful [...]

By: LaRue Sloan

LaRue Sloan — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:46:18 +0000

Fascinating.