Twitter

NASA and Twitter

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I've been following MarsPhoenix on Twitter for a while, and was delighted to see a really neat use of Twitter -- people tweeting questions to the probe, anthropomorphized.

Reflection on Patrick vs. the Pipes

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A neat thing happened during my twittering about the plumbing joys last weekend. At some point, I think somewhere in day two, I stopped thinking of the tweets as individual items, and started thinking of them as a narrative. That struck me as important because it think it makes a good analogy to what we want students to do with a liberal arts education (or any education, for that matter).

Patrick vs. the Pipe (A Tale Told in Tweets)

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Here's the tale...I've put the tweets back in chronological order, and edited out the ones that weren't relevant.

Epilogue

Twitter for back-channel talking around an event

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Following Faculty Academy, many people around UMW have caught the Twitter-bug. A few people wondered about how it could be used as a communication channel in the classroom, sort of as a guided back-channel communication.

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