1.) Use Twitter to get to know your students, have them get to know each other, get to know previous students, campus clubs and resources, and department faculty early in the semester.
(Twitter can contribute toward greater student engagement, interest, and utilization of campus resources that compliment your teaching objectives)
2.) Have on-going, real-time discussions about current events related to your learning objectives.
(Unleash student creativity, interest in your topic, Twitter autonomy, and cyber collaboration; it contributes to student success in greater capacities than traditional instruction can provide)
3.) Introduce your students to other leading authors, speakers, and researchers in your industry while staying up-to-date with the most current articles, research studies, seminars, webinars, current events, etc. that relate to the syllabus.
(Twitter combines “what you know” with “who you know”; this not only helps them learn the course content faster but also sets them up for future networking and professional opportunities)
4.) Create a Hashtab and TweetChat forum for your class to discuss topics during conferences, seminars, or webinars.
(Class discussion during a meeting, online webinar, guest speaker, conference, etc., can stimulate greater student collaboration, engagement/interest in the topic, and lead to further investigative cyber research. TweetChat forums presuppose internet connection; therefore, students can check the references mentioned in the conference, research counter theories or opinions, collect supporting documents, etc. while still in the TweetChat discussion. This leads to extraordinary learning)
Tara Madden-Dent, Ph.D. 