I tried using Twitter, SMS, Word Clouds and Audience Response Systems in my last presentation. I suppose the first question must be, why use so many technologies? A previous comment on this blog asked if there was any evidence of people using Twitter

I've finally written up some observations from the survey I undertook of Twitter uses a few months ago. The article abstract is ..."This paper reports the findings from a survey of people who are using Twitter. Twitter feels like the new tec

I've been discussing the idea of students on a course using an agreed tag within their tweets to comment on their course. You could then search against this to collect the tweets together. Some of the previous blogs statements elaborate on this i

This post is driven from a comment by Alice on a previous post. The question was can students use their twitter accounts (assuming they have one) to post comments and questions to the lecturer to either addresses directly in the class, review later,

As some people might be aware I've got my teeth into Twitter at the moment. As part of this, I'm wondering if I could devise a robust-ish classification index for the different types of Tweets. The intention is to use this as a way of introdu

At University of Bath we are about to roll our summer seminar series which are a number of 45 minute sessions. There are 5 sessions over 6 weeks. There is little new about that, however, for this event I have designed in a few new approaches that enh

I've been experimenting with twitter for a few months trying to see any application for its use in Higher Education.I have to admit I'm warming to it nicely. For a certain group of my contacts and life style it is a very good way of keeping i

A very “now” question is, what can Blackboard course instructors do to enhance the potential of mobile learners within their courses? This can be addressed through various approaches one of which is usability. However, it does involve the