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Let's All Live Tweet Campus Events

7/25/2012

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I had the honor of offering a 10-minute "show-and-share" presentation on live tweeting campus events at the 2012 Teachapalooza conference for journalism educators last month at the Poynter Institute. Those who follow my blog know my journalism students in the Diederich College of Communication regularly live tweet events at Marquette University. I enjoy promoting my students' success and thought sharing it at Teachapalooza would be pretty cool.

Many of my fellow educators there seemed to appreciate the presentation and concept. Some asked for a handout so they could try it in their fall courses. I didn't have any – shame on me! But I promised to share more via the conference listserve. Well, today I can finally make good on my promise. And thanks to my friends at Poynter.org, there's hope that many more journalism instructors will have their students live tweeting this next semester.

Yesterday, the website published my article, "How Journalism Educators Can Teach Students to Live Tweet Campus Events," in its How Tos>Journalism Education section. Expertly edited by Mallary Tenore, it stresses four points: First and foremost, focus on the fundamentals; use class time to show students how it's done; make the first experience worthwhile and set goals moving forward, and continue encouraging your students.

The article is getting a great response; more than my prior Poynter.org submissions: "Flash: Educator and Students Disagree," "Some Journalism Among the Madness" and "Digital Divide in Mobile News Interest." Interestingly, when Tenore first tweeted that the article was published, she asked for feedback, something I need to do better when I post things on Twitter. Indeed, among the replies was this advice from the editorial staff @TheSkannerNews: Prepare material in advance-don't just wing it; know your hashtags!; be ready to #FF your fellow livetweeters."

My article is likely as long as Poynter.org could likely stand it. There's so much more me and others could offer about educators and students aiming to live tweeting campus events. Please visit my related blog – www.herblowe.com/live-tweeting.html – to see additional posts about the concept and my students' success. Don't hestitate to contact me if you have any questions. I know you and your students will enjoy the experience.

@mallarytenore @HerbertLowe Create an original hashtag for the event and update often. When I live tweet, I never put my phone down.

— Erin Spandorf (@ErinSpandorf) July 24, 2012

@Poynter @HerbertLowe Tell them it's okay to throw in something fun. We got good response to this @ student gov debate: bit.ly/Ml61zc

— Meghan Frick (@meghan_frick) July 24, 2012

Go, Herb! RT@Poynter: @herbertlowe explains how journalism educators can teach students to live-tweet bit.ly/SSlQRF #ASNEmo”

— Chris Juzwik (@juz44) July 24, 2012

Gr8 tips! RT @poynter: @herbertlowe explains how #journalism educators can teach students to #live-tweet campus events bit.ly/SSlQRF

— Janet Cho (@janetcho) July 24, 2012
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5/21/2013 07:33:28 pm

campus vents and functions are always shard online and they need the likes and comments form the students. this is a good way to get good tweets in ones webpage. keep sharing and updating.

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8/28/2022 05:56:51 am

Hello matte nice post

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10/19/2024 02:59:57 pm

Thank you for ssharing

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    I am a journalism faculty member and graduate student at Marquette University; native of Camden, N.J.; former president of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ); former communications director for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF).

    This specific blog focuses on my students' successes at live tweeting campus events. My hope is it inspires other journalism educators to teach their students to do the same – and other ways that journalists use social media.

    By all means, continue to visit my primary blog on this website to see what me and my students are up to.

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