Facebook and Twitter in the classroom?
Facebook
- Facebook as a Learning Platform by Tony Karrer.October 15, 2007, eLearning Technology.
- How to Use Facebook for Social Learning. Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies: Social Learning Academy.
- 100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom. October 20, 2009, OnlineCollege.org.
- "Facebook for Learning? Boleh!" by Zaid Alsagoff. SlideShare presentation. It's 39 slides. Take my word for this - the most useful stuff starts on slide#22:
Facebook For Learning? Boleh!
View more webinars from Zaid Alsagoff.
Twitter
- Twitter for Learning - 55 Great Articles: eLearning Technology by Tony Karrer. March 24, 2010, eLearning Technology.
- Derek Baird posted about Eight Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom (by Tom Barrett) on his blog, Barking Robot. At the end of Tom's slideshow, he asks others to give their Twitter ideas -- it's now been expanded to 29 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom.
- (Over) 100 Ways for Using Twitter in the Classroom by K. Walsh. February 7, 2010, EmergingEdTech
- In our quest to discover how others are using Twitter for teaching and learning, here was another find: Twitter as Courseware.
- Here's another idea for using Twitter -- take a look at this handout for an "Economics in Action" assignment. Feel free to swap out "Economics" for your discipline area:
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HootCourse allows you to create and maintain a virtual classroom space using Twitter and Facebook. You can take advantage and use social media networks students are comfortable with. HootCourse displays updates (tweets) users post to the course. Users can follow all posts being created following the course hashtag.