10 Days of Twitter

Join the online scholarly conversation.

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Date: Nov. 2-11. 2015

Workshop format:

• Day 1: Nov. 2, 3:10-4:00 - in-person class

Location: Robarts Library, e-classroom, 4th floor, room 4033. Directions.

• Day 2-9: Twitter exercises done on your own schedule, approx. 10 minutes/day
• Day 10: Nov. 11, 12:10-1:00 - live chat via Twitter

Audience: graduate students (the course is eligible for credit in the Graduate Professional Skills program)

Description:

Twitter is a platform for scholarly conversation. It’s used for sharing and discussing research at all stages of the process (even peer review via Tweet!); for current awareness; for networking; for conference participation; and for teaching.

Learn about Twitter and its uses in higher education together with a community of learners, through hands-on practice, class discussion via Twitter, and guided engagement with the public scholarly conversation on Twitter.

By the end of this workshop you will:

• Be able to navigate the technical aspects of Twitter
• Understand the breadth of platforms, applications, and devices that can be used with Twitter e.g. Hootsuite, Tweetdeck, Storify
• Communicate succinctly, framing a point using only 140 characters
• Understand what it means to be a part of a scholarly conversation in public
• Begin building a Twitter network of scholars, and gain followers of your own
• Reflect on your own use of Twitter going forward: in the classroom, at conferences, and throughout the research process

Workshop facilitators:

Eveline Houtman is Coordinator of Undergraduate Library Instruction at Robarts Library and a PhD candidate at OISE. She has published on social media in higher education.

Jacqueline Whyte Appleby is the Assistant Director at Scholars Portal, a service of the Ontario Council of University Libraries based at the University of Toronto. She most recently taught Social Media for Conference Networking to graduate students in the Faculty of Information.

Questions? Contact Eveline Houtman