This is a presentation I gave for the Teaching Education Program at the University of Oregon. It is about the use of in-class tweeting in large lecture classes. The event details can be found here: http://tep.uoregon.edu/workshops/events/year09-10/winter/twitter.html
1. Twitter in Large Lecture Classes
Hashtag for discussion: #UOregon
(Tweeting during this talk is welcome.)
Tiffany Derville Gallicano, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Journalism and Communication
Twitter handle: @derville
2. Digital Digital
Immigrants vs. Natives
Slow and controlled Quick and frequently
release of information updated information
Singular processing Rapidly shifting
processing among tasks
Work independently
Interact with many
Linear, logical, people at the same time
sequential information
Random access to
hyperlinked multimedia
Adapted from Ian Jukes and Anita Dosaj (the InfoSavvy group, Gartner), originally
published in a Porter Novelli white paper (2008)