Presentation for HEA Annual conference, for project funded by HEAT3 TechDis Alan Cann, Jo Badge, Stuart Johnson, Alex Moseley University of Leicester

1. Student Microblogging And Recording Timelines (SMART)Alan Cann, Jo Badge, Stuart Johnson, Alex Moseley www.le.ac.uk

2. 10 iPod Touches

3. Two groups of students Two groups of students used the iPod touches for a period of 4 weeks each: Biological Science first year undergraduates (7 students) Museum studies postgraduates (8 students)

4. Microblogging using Twitter doing metabolism questions over msn, testing each other is a fab way to learn! If only I knew any answers. is rather worried about the assessment tomorrow and is preparing herself for failure Got up at 7 and look the black sky out of my window. Just browsing the website of National Sports Museum http://www.nsm.org.au/ Reading about kandinsky and art and music. How apt on an iPod

5. Using the iPod touches was easy

6. Twitter was used in other ways

7. Undergraduate tweets

8. Postgraduate tweets