Friday, February 13, 2009

Wired Campus: On Twitter, Academic Debates Fall Short - Chronicle.com

Wired Campus: On Twitter, Academic Debates Fall Short - Chronicle.com: "On Twitter, Academic Debates Fall Short

The Ed Techie, an education blogger, tried to have a debate with colleagues using Twitter, the micro-messaging service. The Ed Techie, also known as Martin Weller, a professor of educational technology at the Open University in Britain, tried to get people talking about “virality” as an educational tool. The idea of virality, as he defined it, was an idea that causes people to react because it neatly encapsulates a concept."

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