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Social Media for Learning
The aim of this blog is to help you explore the different ways you can interact online using social media and the tools to help you do this.Introducing Social Media
Social Media is an umbrella term for web based and mobile technology that allows the user to produce and share information with others using text and/or media (video, audio, images), who in turn are then able to engage in a interactive dialogue about the content.
About me
Sue is an Associate Professor Learning and Teaching and National Teaching Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University; a Visiting Professor at Arden University and a Visiting Fellow at Edge Hill University. She is also a Principal Fellow of the HEA, a Senior Fellow of the Staff and Educational Development Association, a Certified Management and Business Educator and a Member of the Association of Learning Technology.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suebeckingham/
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My publications can be found on my Sheffield Hallam University profile page and books and book chapters at amazon.com/author/suebeckingham-
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Category Archives: Twitter
How to make images accessible on Twitter and why its important
You can add a description, sometimes called alt-text, to your photos so they’re accessible to even more people, including people who are blind or have low vision. Good descriptions are concise, but present what’s in your photos accurately enough to … Continue reading
Twitter feed getting a little congested? Muting tweets may be the solution to resolve this!
There may be times when you see content coming up in your feed that you are just not interested in and given the choice you’d prefer not to see! It could be that your timeline is suddenly full of tweets … Continue reading
Happy 15th Birthday Twitter
On March 21 2006, Jack Dorsey published his first tweet. It was another three years and a month before I took the step to set up my own Twitter account and then tweet. This is my first tweet. How to … Continue reading
Celebrating a milestone: The 200th #LTHEchat
On the 17th March 2021 the weekly Learning and Teaching in Higher Education tweetchat reached a special milestone – the 200th #LTHEchat. For anyone who is not familiar with the chat, this is an hour long Q&A focussed on a … Continue reading
Things you may find useful when using Twitter that you might have slipped past you!
As the old saying goes “Every day’s a learning day’. Social Media including Twitter seems to be always changing things. Whilst introducing new features in the main can be useful, they sometimes pass you by. For me it was saving … Continue reading
Different ways to engage in a Twitter conversation
From time to time it can be useful to keep an ongoing Twitter conversation together. This can be done by replying to a tweet. Whilst you can also interact through a tweet by mentioning individuals or by adding a comment … Continue reading
Creating a set of threaded tweets
Sometimes one tweet is not enough to express the story you want to tell. You can create a connected collection of tweets known as a tweet thread. Now some of you might already be thinking if 280 characters is not … Continue reading
10 Ways to Use Twitter in Teaching
Resource building – tutors AND students can use a course hashtag to share links to relevant resources. These could include websites, news articles, videos, podcasts, images, SlideShare presentations as well as books and journal papers. Interactive lectures – ask students … Continue reading
How to save a hashtag search on Twitter
Busy conversations If you are a user of Twitter you can’t have escaped noticing the use of hashtags. People use these keywords preceded by # to add emphasis to what they are saying, but also use them to filter … Continue reading
Digital Stories – Creating Moments on Twitter
Twitter Moments enable users to curate a succinct digital story. This can be done from the web or mobile devices. Bring together Tweets, photos and videos. You can also upload your own image as a cover for your story. Choose … Continue reading
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