Had Moodle training yesterday. More on Moodle later but Randy Piland (Faculty Technology Fellow) showed us the ins and outs of twitter feeds which really got me excited.
There are a lot of different kinds of Twitterers out there - ranging from a simple enthusiast to world experts on any topic that you might be interested in. What I'm going to do this year is set up a Twitter feed on the class website that will funnel in current musings/postings from Twitter feeds from professional Microbiology groups. An example of this is embedded on the right side of the screen albeit I still need to work on the formatting.
My goals for this is to bring current information directly to the students as an enhancement to the course, however I can see where you could build in assignments around this too. I do bring current information into the course anyways but I like how this really highlights the cool and emerging topics
Twitter feed has been moved to it's own page - click on the tab above titled "Twitter feeds"
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