You would be surprised how much can be done through 140 characters. In today’s episode, Jesse Stommel, shares about how he enhances his teaching with Twitter.

Podcast notes
Teaching with Twitter

Guest: Jesse Stommel
About Hybrid Pedagogy

Twitter basics

Getting started with Twitter
Jesse's blog post: Teaching with Twitter
Twitter Pedagogy: An educator down the Twitter rabbit hole, by Kelsey Schmitz
The rules of Twitter, by Dorothy Kim

Jesse's background
When I grew up, I always wanted to have my own school... [Hybrid Pedagogy] is not really as much a repository for articles, but a space for community and for engaging. - Jesse Stommel

Was recently in Canada for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, where he broke his ankle
On kindness
Kindness is what drives my pedagogy. It's about seeing people for who they really are and engaging with their full selves. - Jesse Stommel

Part of [kindness] is also about bringing your full self to the relationship you have with your coworkers, your students, and [other collaborators] that you use as a guiding ethic. - Jesse Stommel

What the 140 limitation does
The constraints of Twitter are also its affordances. Being asked to take an idea and put it in this constrained linguistic space of 140 characters forces us to think about and question our thinking in ways we wouldn't otherwise. - Jesse Stommel

Twitter allows for improvisation within a framework
What students should know
Twitter lets us play out our ideas
Twitter is a space for trying out ideas. It encourages us to iterate... - Jesse Stommel

[Twitter] is like a tool in the way that a pencil is a tool. A tool that lots of people can use for lots of different reasons. It becomes this platform that you can use in different ways and environments. - Jesse Stommel
Conversation with Steve Wheeler re: digital natives on episode 38
Literacies
Each person has to find a different relationship to these tools and build their own self inside of the network. - Jesse Stommel
Privacy literacy
Anyone who imagines that they can become private just with the flip of a switch is not really understanding how these networks work. - Jesse Stommel
Reflections on Teaching in Higher Ed episode 31 on the social network Yik Yak
Creative ways to teach with Twitter

Twitter vs Zombies

Pete Rorabaugh and Jesse Stommel share about Twitter vs Zombies with GamifiED OOC

The Twitter essay, by Jesse Stommel