For what it’s worth, I’m on twitter now…

By David Ng On November 23, 2009 · 4 Comments · In >ubc'er

… because I am keen to see if it has any utility in general for some of the programs I run. In fact, I’m even curious to see if it would be useful in the context of being used during classes – like using #ASIC200 during lectures for instance.

I know, I know… how can that be anything but distracting. Which is true… except that I know students are doing it anyway, and besides, people do it in conferences all of the time…

Anyway, say hello @dnghub. I promise not to tweet about boring stuff.

4 Responses to For what it’s worth, I’m on twitter now…

Tyler says:

November 23, 2009 at 6:24 pm

Jackie Stewart is trying Twitter in a classroom setting this term. See @CHEM233UBC
David Ng says:

November 24, 2009 at 9:50 am

That’s really cool. I wondered if anybody has done it at UBC using the # sign. i.e. where you can get some play by play of the actual class itself.
Tiffany says:

November 25, 2009 at 2:04 am

I’ve never really gotten on the twitter bandwagon… in fact I’m still not really sure how I feel about facebook. But just wanted to comment, if you want to twitter your classes (or a play-by-playy or even a portion of it), it might be an incentive for students not to go to class….
Tiffany says:

November 27, 2009 at 6:25 pm

P.s. Dave: you can analyze your moods on twitter via “Analyze Words” (http://www.analyzewords.com/index.php) which for some reason rates you as a 49 (average) in the spacy/valley girl category.