Studying by Twitter - ridiculous or sublime?
Twitter is a microblogging service, where short updates of 140 characters of less can be uploaded for public consumption. It is notorious as a time-suck and aid to procrastination. However, a recent post by Ves Dimov or Clinical Cases Blog showed me that Twitter could be a tool for collaborative study. This sounds ridiculous, and it may well be, but I can’t get the idea out of my head.
Ves collated his tweets from his recent advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) course (see examples below). He has used hash tags to mark each of the relevant tweets. Therefore, if you visit http://hashtags.org/tag/ACLS you can see a list of the most recent tweets with that tag.
if you read through his tweets, you will see that he has made very succinct summaries, that cover only the key information covered in the course. In order to make summaries like that, you need to really understand your material.
So how does this relate to study?
Think about a subject you are studying. Do you know it well enough to boil it down to 140 character summary tweets? If you do, or are willing to try, this process would improve your grasp on the topic. It might also help others who are studying the same topic.
So here is how it might work:
- Set up a twitter account that is just for study (or realize that you are going to be spamming your regular followers)
- Join the new ning network TwitterStudy
- Post in the forum what topic you are summarizing, at what level, what hashtag you will use, and your twitter account details.
- Over time, students can revisit topics that have previously bee summarized, and review the previous posts using hashtags, or they can add their own contribution.
What do you think? Is this idea ridiculous or sublime?
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