I am always eager to discover how innovators adopt emerging technologies and fads. The article posted in yesterdays Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired section illustrates a new pedagogical use for Twitter at Duke University.
It is not surprising that the discovery was made by Duke students taking an introductory film class. These students organized the “First Ever Twitter Film Festival” where students watched short YouTube clips that were embedded from 39 movies. The students then spent time tweeting their thoughts about the clips being viewed. While I no longer consider YouTube an emerging technology, I do consider it a tech fad that has proven its worth as well as some of its pit falls. Although Twitter has been around since 2006, it is still an emerging technology because it has only permeated all industries and popular culture within the past year.
Kudos to the Instructor for being flexible enough to allow students a sound and creative way to use and reflect on web generated and augmented content in a concise way within the context of a community of practice.
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