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Uses of Twitter for teaching and educational purposes.
Updated on Apr 02, 16
Created on Aug 13, 09
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Nov 21 2011
Jan 9 2012
A few weeks back, the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog published a piece on the use of twitter by academics, written by Jason Priem, that suggested peer review journals might become a thing of the past. Austin Frakt and I wrote a brief post noting that as much as we love the microblog service, the role of peer review journals cannot be replaced by Twitter, blogs, or anything else (and we really believe in blogs!). We need the slow deliberative process that emphasizes trying to get it right, as opposed to doing it quickly. We concluded:
We absolutely need the slow, peer review system as the foundation of thoughtful, careful scholarship. Twitter and other social media are important additions that can give scholarly content “reach” and “relevancy”. However, it’s a both/and, not an either/or proposition. Traditional peer review journals should remain the bedrock of the research evidence that can be brought to bear on health policy.
Tweet about each new publication, website update or new blog that the project completes. To gauge feedback, you could send a tweet that links to your research blog and ask your followers for their feedback and comments.
For tweeting to work well, always make sure that an open-web full version or summary of every publication, conference presentation or talk at an event is available online. Summarize every article published in closed-web journal on a blog, or lodge an extended summary on your university’s online research depository. In addition, sites like www.scribd.com are useful for depositing open web versions.
Tweet about new developments of interest from the project’s point of view, for instance, relevant government policy changes, think tank reports, or journal articles.
Sep 29 2011
Following on from the lists of academic tweeters published earlier this month, we have put together a short guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities, available to download as a PDF or view on Issuu.
How can Twitter, which limits users to 140 characters per tweet, have any relevance to universities and academia, where journal articles are 3,000 to 8,000 words long, and where books contain 80,000 words? Can anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters?
We have put together a short guide answering these questions, showing new users how to get started on Twitter and hone their tweeting style, as well as offering advice to more experienced users on how to use Twitter for research projects, alongside blogging, and for use in teaching.
Download the PDF for more on:
Very telling instructions, that amount to using social media to generate "metrics" and thus voluntarily putting yourself under surveillance, as well as instructions on "watch what you say," tantamount to instilling fear and encouraging self-censorship.
20 items | 3 visits
Uses of Twitter for teaching and educational purposes.
Updated on Apr 02, 16
Created on Aug 13, 09
Category: Computers & Internet
URL: