10 Days of Twitter

Join the online scholarly conversation.

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Date: June 13-24, 2016 - Twitter in (mostly) 10 minutes/day

Workshop format:

• Day 1: Monday, June 13, 1:10-2:00 - in-person class

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

• Day 2-5: June 14-17 - Twitter exercises done on your own schedule, approx. 10 minutes/day
• June 18-19 - weekend off!
• Day 6-9: June 20-23 - 10 minutes/day
• Day 10: June 24, 1:10-2:00 - 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.

Nelly Cancilla is a Copyright Outreach Librarian at the University of Toronto Libraries. She manages and contributes to a number of UTL social media accounts and regularly presents on effective social media practices at library conferences.

Questions? Contact Eveline Houtman