Open call for contributions: TAGS talk at #OER15 – how are you using Twitter to support education

In a couple of weeks I’ll be talking about TAGS at OER15 (14:30-15:00, 15th April). Whilst parallel sessions aren’t going to be streamed I’ve got a couple of ideas for broadcasting my session. If I pull this off I’ll be co-tagging my presentation #oer15 #740.

My notes for structuring the session so far is:

  • Networks – shape, strength and characteristics
  • Networked education – making the connection
  • Footprints – seeing the connection
  • Twitter in Ed – activities Adoption Matrix (Mark Sample) and examples
    ”anyone to become an active participant in the conversation” Ross, 2012.
  • APIs – me speaky code
  • Twitter Search and the Twitter Search API
  • Anatomy of a tweet
  • TAGS/TAGSExplorer
  • TAGS in the wild
  • Context – SNA, ethics, vulnerability

You’ll see I’ve highlighted two items in that list and this is where you can help. If you have used TAGS to support your class/course I’d like to know:

  1. how does Twitter generally fit in to the course? Are you using directed activities or is there a more organically;
  2. how TAGS is used to support this? Post/ongoing SNA, situational awareness, …

As the session will mostly be me talking, preferably some video or audio would be great. If you’ve previously talked about Twitter/TAGS in education and a recording is available I’ll happily look at this and see if there is something I can use.

Thanks!

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