This document summarizes a presentation about using Twitter for language education. It discusses what Twitter is, who uses it, and different types of Twitter users. It also outlines some Twitter applications like TweetDeck and advantages of using Twitter like collaboration and social learning. Some drawbacks mentioned are privacy issues and reliability of information. Examples of Twitter usage in education include media literacy, documentation of learning processes, and informal learning.
2. "Life’s most persistent and urgent question is:
What are you doing for others?"
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
a mindful participant of a community
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3. In this presentation:
• What is Twitter?
• Who uses Twitter? Webheads? Twitter Types?
• Twitter CA
• Twitter Applications
• Advantages & Drawbacks
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4. Why do we blog?
5 major motivations:
3. Documenting one’s life
4. Providing commentary and opinions
Simplicity 5. Expressing deeply felt emotions
Can be archived
Comment 6. Articulating ideas through writing
Link 7. Forming and maintaining community
groups.
SMS
RSS (Nardi, Schiano, Gumbrecht & Scartz, 2004)
Email
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5. Twitter types
Twitter pers onalities :
• Listener (you follow more than follow you)
• Talker (you have more followers than you follow)
• Hub (you have equal followers and followed)
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/5_ways_to_have_fun_with_twitter.php
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6. Content
Analysis
Statement analysis/ Meaning analysis/ Association structure analysis/
Qualitative- Quantitative CA/ Hermeneutic-classificatory CA
A procedure for analyzing content
2.Theoretical level (RQs)
3.Establishment of categories
4.Pretest (reliability and validity)
5.Data collection and evaluation (statistical analysis)
6.Interpretation of results
(Bos & Tarnai, 1999)
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8. User A
• 1,096 Following
• 2,513 Followers November 2009
• 196 Listed # of Tweets: 74
(April, 2010)
# of Replies: 4
# of RTs: 4
# of tweets: 1950 as of April 05, 2010
Twitter Applications:
- Web: 2
• Real name & surname
- API: 2
- TweetDeck: 70
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14. User C
• 654 Following November 2009
# of Tweets: 397
• 1,835 Followers # of Replies: 55
• 154 Listed # of RTs: 88
(April, 2010)
# of tweets: 3959 as of April 05, 2010
Twitter Applications:
- Diigo: 1
• Real name (no surname) - Web: 312
- Twitterrific: 58
- Seesmic: 2
- Hootsuite: 1
- Peoplebrowsr : 1
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17. User D
• 1,153 Following November 2009
• 1,698 Followers # of Tweets: 571
• 121 Listed # of Replies: 413
(April, 2010) # of RTs: 42
# of tweets: 7365 as of April 05, 2010
Twitter Applications:
Surname + letters from name - TweetDeck: 556
- Tweetie: 14
- Txt: 1
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24. More tasks:
- Learning diary - Describe an object/
- News report image
- Complete the - Talk about a city/
sentence celebrity
- Fill in the blanks - Sentence each day
- Word of the day story
- Sentence correction
27. http://twittermap.tv/
On twittermap you can:
See who twitters in your area.
Change your location maually if you follow it.
How does twittermap work?
Follow map_eu, map_tv, map_es or map_de on twitter.
Twittermap will look up every 5 minutes for new followers.
if a new follower is found, it uses the GoogleMaps API to determine the place of your
residence.
- If successful you will be displayed directly on the map.
- If your location is not found, you receives a message about it and must
determine your position.
You get a Direct Message with a permanent link to change or delete your position.
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34. Advantages
Professionally: career
opportunities In Education
Social aspect: collaboration, • Media literacy
social planning • Role of the teacher
For business: consumers • Process oriented learning
become publisher of info
bw sts and teachers
(Lloyd, 2009)
consumer opinions about • Documentation of process
brands & WOM (Word of • Informal learning
Mouth) (Jansen et al., 2009) • Immediate feedback
For enginnering: location
tracking (Page& Kobsa, 2009)
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35. Drawbacks
• Privacy: too much personal info, id/data theft, virus spread
• Malicious use: reliability of the info eg. A legal case for a fake
Facebook user (Lloyd, 2009)
• Technology adoption
• Social norms (“ignoring a friend request: not shaking a hand”)
• Audience management
• Information filtering ( Page&Kobsa, 2009)
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40. References cont’d
• Bos, W. & Tarnai, C. (1999). Content Analysis in empirical social research.
International Journal of Educational research, 31.
• Lloyd, B. (2009). Professional Networking on the Internet. Proceedings
from 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and
Engineering.
• Page, X. & Kobsa, A. (2009). The Circles of Latitude. Proceedings from
2009 International Conference on Computational Science and
Engineering.
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Anderson et al (2001) CA a research methodology that uses a set of procedures to make valid inferences from text Smith (2000)CA: a technique to extract desired information from a body of material…by systematically and objectively identifying specified characteristics of the material
All 4 users have public profile
No of posts initially increases as the no of followers increases but it eventually saturates: users who receive attention from many people will post more often than users who receive more attention
Faculty can hold office hours virtually on Twitter, interested sts could go back and see the conversation
WOM: conveying info from person to person and plays a major role in customer buying decisions