On using twitter in teaching
2011-04-25
One of the modules I’ve been teaching this year is called “Interactive Web Programming”, so I’ve been fairly internet-heavy in my teaching and my activities. It’s a small group (30 in the class) and I’m teaching in a computer lab, so I thought it’d be kinda fun to experiment with twitter in teaching. My slides are all written in HTML (well, specifically, HTML5/JavaScript/JQuery, as that’s what I’m teaching). This makes it trivial to include live twitter stuff (or “twitterfalls”) in a lecture for instant open-ended quiz-like goodness, or for any other kind of feedback The way I did this was to choose a hashtag (#aber_iwp)Read More →