58. 8 Find a good quality source of information Using Twitter, find an individual or organisation who regularly tweets on your subject of interest Reflect on the quality and relevance of their contributions, for your learners Look at the people they follow, and find another quality source of information Identify a person/organisation you found which could be useful for your learners, and share this with the group 25 August 2011 24
75. Curriculum development: Centre for Academic Development and Quality24 August 2011 29 http://www.flickr.com/photos/b-tal/116220689/
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Imagine you’re a student for a moment. You’ll go into this course’s learning room and have a look at the 10 Tips from today’s course from the student’s perspective.We’ll then look at how you create each of them.Go into the learning room for 10 Ways to spice up your learning room
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Show slide as you introduce the tip, then go into NOW and show how to do it.
Learning rooms are based on a standard template, which you cannot edit.In order to edit the layout, you need to create a new template, which is then editable.
Have you heard of creative commons?Allows the owner of a work to choose the license that will govern the use of their work.
We’ll be searching Google Images and Flickr to find resources we are able to use, that aren’t fully copyright protected.What is FlickrWhat is Google?
Show slide as you introduce the tip, then go into NOW and show how to do it.
Show slide as you introduce the tip, then go into NOW and show how to do it.Updates from the website of your choice are fed into NOW automaticallyFeed code builder URL in NAB
Stages to create the twitter feed in NOW
Show slide as you introduce the tip, then go into NOW and show how to do it.
Show slide as you introduce the tip, then go into NOW and show how to do it.
What is Twitter and why use it?Some of the things you might mention to introduce Twitter are:The concept is that you can keep up to date with what is happening by posting and reading concise updates from a person organisation or topicPost and read messages called tweetsTweet = text-based message of up to 140 characters, therefore short and conciseTweets can be posted through the Twitter website, through mobile phones and through other websitesCompanies promote themselves and communicate with their client base in this way. They also respond to customer complaints and queries this way, meaning replies are visible to everyoneMany educators tweet about what they are doing and new and interesting articles they have foundSome well-known Tweeters are: Stephen Fry, 10 Downing Street, The Guardian, NTU, Penguin Books
Search tip: Use from: immediately before a username to find tweets from that user. Example: from:alexiskold will find tweets sent from the user "alexiskold".
What is Twitter and why use it?Some of the things you might mention to introduce Twitter are:The concept is that you can keep up to date with what is happening by posting and reading concise updates from a person organisation or topicPost and read messages called tweetsTweet = text-based message of up to 140 characters, therefore short and conciseTweets can be posted through the Twitter website, through mobile phones and through other websitesCompanies promote themselves and communicate with their client base in this way. They also respond to customer complaints and queries this way, meaning replies are visible to everyoneMany educators tweet about what they are doing and new and interesting articles they have foundSome well-known Tweeters are: Stephen Fry, 10 Downing Street, The Guardian, NTU, Penguin Books
Stages to create the twitter feed in NOW
Show slide as you introduce the tip, then go into NOW and show how to do it.
Show slide as you introduce the tip, then go into NOW and show how to do it.
Top three tips and which will you use in your real learning rooms?