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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Twitter goes to college - Zach Miners, US News and World Report
NOTE: Visit or subscribe to Ray's Twitter http://twitter.com/rayschroeder for daily tweets on technology, online learning, and related topics. At the University of Texas-Dallas, history professor Monica Rankin needed a better way to get students involved in the classroom. The 90-person lecture hall was too big for back-and-forth conversation. So, with help from students in the school's emerging media program, she had her students set up accounts on Twitter—a micro-blogging service—and then use the technology to post messages and ask questions that were displayed on a projector screen during class.
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