Due April 9. Email me a your pdf or a link to your curated tweets. 10% of final grade.

Twitter has become an active site for academic discourse and debate and figures prominently as in conferences and workshops. Knowing how to use Twitter strategically and responsibly provides up-to-date insights into your field(s) of interest and provides unique opportunities to share your work.

Tweets relative to FNIS 401W allow me to gauge student interaction with the material and provide blended support targeted at student needs. Twitter also provides a secondary environment for classroom discourse—where we can continue conversations, expand on ideas, and share resources.

Tweets for FNIS 401W should address projects and key concepts from the course. For instance, you may choose to write on your experience of the Twine workshop. Or you might tweet a response to one of the course readings. You should also be reading and engaging with the individuals listed above in the required readings. The use of photos and images, and memes, as long as they respect copyright, is encouraged. Twitter is about conversation, so engage with posts from other Twitter users and, students in the class, tag each other, build hashtags, etc.

Please tweet as much and as often as you like. You are ultimately responsible for submitting six tweets at the end of the class. Curate the tweets you best think represent your engagement using snapbird or storify or take screenshots of the 6 you want to submit and email them to me as a single pdf. Threads count as a single tweet.

I will be grading your twitter engagement based on the following criteria:

  • Do the tweets provide new resources or ideas that add value to class conversations?
  • Are the tweets clear and grammatically correct?
  • Do the tweets include images, links, or ideas that enhance the topic?
  • Do the tweets represent a breadth of engagement across the course?
  • Does the user demonstrate engagement in a community? I.e. do the tweets engage with posts from other students from the class, or from the “required reading” users, or from users interested in similar ideas?

If you don’t already have a twitter account, sign up for one here: http://www.twitter.com/ You may sign up with a pseudonym, but please email me your twitter handle so I can keep track of who is who.