twitter in academics

More than a third of Higher Education Faculty are on Twitter

October 31, 2010

Twitter use by Higher Education Faculty is more extensive than you might expect, and it’s on the rise.  This last week I came across this report from Magna Publications, published last month, which discusses their second annual survey of Twitter usage among college faculty. The survey was conducted over the summer and had 1,372 respondents. I have to say that I been [...]

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100 Ways to Teach with Twitter

February 7, 2010

These resources actually provide over 110 ideas for, and examples of, using Twitter in the classroom. It’s been almost 8 months since I published the post, “6 Examples of Using Twitter in the Classroom”, about uses of the popular micro-blogging tool in the instructional setting. This post generated a lot of traffic, and continues to attract hundreds of viewers [...]

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