Lecturer's notes on using Twitter

There's an interesting video on YouTube about using Twitter in lectures. What I found here is Monica Rankin's (the lecturer's) views on her webpage. This provides useful background and insight into her expierence and that of her students.

Some interesting points:

• not all students knew about Twitter and needed help setting up
• not all students had PCs, so they used their mobiles; some used paper to jot down ntoes which were then collated by the classroom assistant (US lecturers are very lucky!)
• there's a quick overview on how to set things up in Twitter to keep exchanges organised
• Tweetdeck was used as a 'board' to show interactions
• responses overlapped, which made is difficult to follow discussion streams
• most students participated!

I need to mull this over, and see how I could adapt this for my elearners. There's a wide range of ages, though most are computer savvy. I'll have to pilot with the ones who are dead keen first, so that I get a better understanding of what to do! Tweeting is easy enough, but tweeting collaboratively? I need to learn about that.