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Twitter in undergraduate physiotherapy research

Mar 4, 2009

in Education, Physiotherapy, Research, Social media

bit.ly, communication, education, Firefox, laconica, micro-blog, micro-blogging, physiotherapy, plugin, research, students, tweets, twitbin, twitter, URL shortening

I’ve spent the past few weeks experimenting with Twitter, a micro-blogging service that allows users to post short “tweets” of up to 140 characters. I’ve been following it’s development for a year or so but never really got it. I finally saw it’s potential in education when I realised that it’s only a small leap…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-01

Mar 1, 2009

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bit.ly, blogging, ebp, education, mcmaster, micro-blogging, net generation, online textbooks, open courseware, open wiki, peer to peer learning, questionnaire development, reflective practice, rehab+, scientific american, semantic web, slideshare, social media, storytelling, tim berners-lee, tweets, twitter, web 2.0, wikiversity

Reflective practise and assessment at http://bit.ly/kgj1c # Social media applied to online-only university, open courseware and peer-to-peer learning http://bit.ly/pQXsX # Nice explanation of the semantic web by Tim Berners-Lee, in Scientific American (2001), so a bit old but still good http://bit.ly/e40PA # A matrix of uses of blogging in education, prepared by Scott Leslie in…