Emerging peer support networks on twitter

Emerging peer support networks on twitter

Alan Cann, Jo Badge, Stuart Johnson, Alex Moseley

www.le.ac.uk

10 iPod Touches

Twitter

• Mobile phones/ SMS• Dedicated iTouch apps• Browser based• Staff members resident

Two groups of students

1. Biological Sciences first yr undergraduates (7)

2. Museum studies postgraduates (8)

Using the iPod touches was easy

Listening to music

playing games

watching youtube/iPlayer

surfing the web

email

posting messages to twitter

looking at photos

taking notes

using the calendar

maps and directions

9

7

8

10

8

10

5

4

7

8

Microblogging using Twitter

• doing metabolism questions over msn, testing each other is a fab way to learn! If only I knew any answers.

• is rather worried about the assessment tomorrow and is preparing herself for failure

• Got up at 7 and look the black sky out of my window. Just browsing the website of National Sports Museum http://www.nsm.org.au/

• Reading about kandinsky and art and music. How apt on an iPod

Comparing undergraduate and postgraduate activity

Average number of tweets per

day

Number of interfaces

used 1

% of @ tweets

Following : Followers (taken from twitter

homepages)u/g min 4 3 2 13/12u/g max 10 7 58 60/29p/g min 1 2 0 5/15p/g max 4 4 39 34/25

Twitter was used in other ways

web

hahlo

mobile web

twitterific

natsuliphone

twhirl

twitterfontweetdeck

Undergraduate tweets

Networks

Postgraduate tweets

Networks

Acknowledgements

This project was supported by

JISC TechDis Heat 3 scheme