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Using Twitter Can Help Your College Search

Jared Hobson — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:26:06 +0000

Are you tweeting yet?
If not, we think it’s time that you jump on board.
Twitter is a great tool for both high school students and parents to add to their college search toolbox. A number of colleges have started incorporating Twitter into their admission marketing campaigns, campus visit programs, weather and emergency updates, faculty recognition and much more. Some colleges even offer free t-shirts and other fun giveaways for their followers through online Twitter contests.
SmartCollegeVisit offers their top reasons that high school seniors should start using Twitter when conducting their college search. Check out StudentAdvisor.com for a list of some great college admissions offices that are actively using Twitter.
Go for it! Create a username and start tweeting!

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Tweet for a Scholarship?

Jared Hobson — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:01:49 +0000

Last week, USA Today published an article about a new trend in the race for scholarships: Tweeting. While the main contest in the article was about University of Iowa’s tweeting contest to win a two-year scholarship to their MBA program, there are also descriptions of three additional contest geared toward undergraduates.
So start writing your best 140 word tweet! This may be a future trend worth begin prepared for!
Katherine Price
Educational Consultant

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Teaching with Twitter

Jared Hobson — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:16:58 +0000

The Chronicle of Higher Education posted an interesting article on professors using mediums like Twitter and Facebook in the classroom. Sugato Chakravarty, a professor of consumer sciences and retailing at Purdue University, is testing a software called Hotseat that allows students to posts questions from their cell phones or laptops via Facebook or Twitter.
The results of the experiment are definitely mixed. In some lectures, students take control and post questions that are off topic, often taking the lecture in an unexpected direction. These unexpected questions can often lead to great learning opportunities. However, Charkravarty has also caught a student cheating by posting a question to a classmate during a quiz. (The student thought the posting would be anonymous, but requiring students to log in allowed Chakravarty to track the post.)
This is definitely taking teaching in a new direction and allowing professors to reach students through a medium they are comfortable with. Some professors see this experiment as “potential for disaster,” but isn’t that part of the educational process?

Educational Consultant

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