- The document discusses using microblogging tools like Twitter to engage students during lectures. It outlines benefits like increased focus, participation and innovation as well as concerns around inviting the world into discussions. - Various microblogging platforms are presented, including Twitter, Facebook and tools designed for education. The Curtin Hotseat tool allows anonymous participation and metrics collection. - Research found students who engaged more via microblogging during lectures received higher grades, with top posters getting A's and less active students lower grades.

1. Teaching and Learning Forum 2012 Engaging Microblogging in Lectures

2. Presenters: Kim Flintoff - [email_address] - @kimbowa Peter Mellow – [email_address] - @kiwirip eLearning Advisors - [email_address] - @celcurtin

3. Engaging your students in lectures

9. Go to http://hotseat.curtin.edu.au login and then update your profile Home

10. External Logins are possible https://hotseat.curtin.edu.au/login/openlogin.aspx

11. Go to http://hotseat.curtin.edu.au Roadshow Question 1 #TLFHotseatQ1 What are the limitations of lectures with regards to student engagement? 140 characters or less (You can post from Twitter by including the #hashtag above – or use the Facebook app)

12. HOTSEAT Promotional Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz6TUhcGf6s

13. Go to http://hotseat.curtin.edu.au Roadshow Question 2 #TLFHotseatQ2 Having seen this brief overview of the microblogging approach - what benefits can you identify for your lectures? After answering in 140 characters or less – vote on answers that are most relevant to you.

14. HOTSEAT Student Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8UR4xrjWME

15. Go to http://hotseat.curtin.edu.au Roadshow Question 3 #TLFHotseatQ3 What are your thoughts about these student perceptions of how the tool impacts on their learning?

20. "Unlike a regular Twitter account, the Hotseat discussions are restricted to just students enrolled in the class and the instructors leading the course. Students may post anonymously - 53 percent of the students in the pilot study chose this option - but who is actually posting is known to the instructor. " http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2010/101013BowenEducause.html

21. "The research found that in two of the three classes the students sending messages the most were those receiving As, the students sending the second-most number of messages received Bs and so on, with students receiving the lowest grades sending the fewest messages. In the other course examined, students who received Bs sent the most messages." http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2010/101013BowenEducause.html

22. The research results were presented at the Educause conference in Anaheim, Calif., and published in the latest edition of Educause Quarterly , and can be read online at: http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quart erly /HotseatOpeningtheBackchannelin/213668

23. Go to http://hotseat.curtin.edu.au Roadshow Question 4 #TLFHotseatQ4 What matters were not adequately covered in today’s presentation?

24. Curtin Hotseat