Re: [tips] Decision Criteria/Flowchart On How To Decide Whether You Should Follow Someone On Twitter

[gaddy001]

I appreciate that you shared this, Mike. It definitely gives me a lot to 
think about. I actually started using Twitter this summer in my 
introductory statistics course as an "experiment," and I was so excited by 
what I observed, I plan to continue using it from this point forward. I can 
forward a handout to anyone who is interested about how I set this up in my 
class (I did it this summer in a face-to-face course but will repeat it 
this fall in two online sections of the same course). It's an extra credit 
opportunity for students, and they get credit for up to five "tweets." I 
ask students to "tweet" about things they are finding in the news or online 
that relate to statistics (e.g., news reports that included statistical 
information, uses or misuses of statistics, interesting graphs, cartoons, 
data sets, websites that teach statistics, survey or poll results, YouTube 
videos, etc.). I thought this would be a great way to emphasize statistical 
literacy in my course and to help my students become more savvy consumers 
of statistical information they are presented with in the "real world" on a 
daily basis. These are definitely learning goals in my courses. It's also a 
great way for ME to share things I am finding with students, especially 
since I don't always have time to go into details about these things in the 
classroom. I had 20 students in my summer course, and 15 of them signed up 
for Twitter and participated in my "experiment." I think using Twitter can 
be beneficial and meaningful for students IF you use it in the right way--a 
way that aligns with both your learning goals for students AND the goals of 
Twitter.


Michelle Everson, Ph.D.
Quantitative Methods in Education
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Minnesota
gaddy...@umn.edu
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~delma001/CATALST/



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