"I therefore decided to make use of Twitter throughout the whole event" #wymhm

  1. I was also able to demonstrate the potential of Twitter for learning:
  • for keeping up to date with colleagues and industry news
  • for problem solving
  • for serendipitous learning
  • for resource and file sharing - and as an example of how partiicipants were quick and willing to  contribute to the event, Jon Ingham @joningham quickly shared with us, in a tweet, some pictures he had taken on his iPhone - see the one at the top of this posting of me sitting near the screen, and the one below, which shows a few of the participants in the informal table-less setting (Note: 2 were using laptops and 2 were using phones to tweet)
  • for synchronous learning - we were actually doing a form of that ourselves, but I also cited the example of #lrnchat
  • for micro-learning - as in my 140university example
  • for polling and feedback
  • for group tweeting
  • as well as alternatives to Twitter in the workplace