Twitter-enabled Lectures
Chris Petkov and Medical Students
Allowed the students to text questions to a Twitter hashtag during lecture. Then after the lecture one of my power point slides allowed checking the twitter feed and answering the questions students had. With the Uni software that we have I can ask them questions and get responses but in large classes few people ask me questions during the lecture.
As a way of encouraging students to ask questions about the lecture material.
It depends on class size. When used in lectures with over 100 students attending, it can work well and allows the students to ask questions using the social medium that they are familiar with. However, with medium and small sized groups of students in lectures where the class is small enough to encourage questions being asked directly Twitter is less useful.
Using Twitter in Lectures
Research-Informed Teaching, Student Engagement, Technology Enhanced Learning, Student Representation
Undergraduate (all Stages)
Faculty of Medical Sciences (not a School)
Other
Over 200 students in a group
Other (please specify below)