Initial-Workshops about “Micro-Blogging for Teaching and Learning” at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts on September 6, 2011. This 30 minutes workshop gave an overview on the microblogging service Twitter and focused on the usage for social learning, the creation of a personal learning network, a learning community, for communication, and sharing links and resources. A discussion about experiences, hopes and concerns closed this session. The participants were interested university members, researchers and teachers.

1. Micro-Blogging How to Use Twitter for Teaching and Learning Marion R. Gruber "Distance Learning" - Szenarien und nützliche online Tools für Lehre und Forschung Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts Institute for Communication and Marketing IKM 6th September 2011 23.09.11 Seite

2. Characteristics of …

3. Tweet (140 Characters)

4. #Socialmedia

5. Following

6. Favorites

7. Follower

8. RT (Retweet)

9. Reply (@ELKphil)

10. @Mention

11. Lists

12. TweetDeck Twitterwallr Paper.Li

13. Connections (Blogger, WordPress, Facebook, LinkedIn, …)

14. Fail Whale

16. Social Learning

17. Personal Learning Network (PLN)

18. Learning Community

19. Communication

20. Sharing Links and Resources

21. Being Up to Date

22. Problem Solving

23. Backchannel

24. Pre-Class

25. During Class

26. Post-Class and Between Classes

27. Feedback and Quizzes (Questions, Polls)

28. Micro-Learning (Text, Audio, Video, Quiz, Tweet)

29. Synchronous Learning with Live Twitter Chats

30. Collaborative Writing

31. Scavenger Hunts

32. Book Clubs

33. ELK-Blog http://blogs.uzh.ch/elkphilfak/ Sowebedu-Wiki http://sowebedu.wikispaces.com/ Sowebedu-Blog http://sowebedu.wordpress.com/

34. Hopes Discussion

35. Concerns Discussion