i think i may want to do more of. How old were your students? I'd be surprised to find anyone under 30 deriding twitter -- right? Or does twitter have no cache among the younger crowd? Well. Now I'm wondering exactly who uses twitter, these days. the majority of the #ed474 class are under 30. all use FB -- i asked on the first day -- and some had Twitter accounts but said they didn't really "get it." a few were users, but personal users. the piece i found most interesting, now that i think back, was actually the separations the group tended to make between their use of social media and the value of social media. the first day, many worked within a narrative of "addiction." they'd absorbed the idea that it was negative and had little educative value, even though they'd integrated the practice of using it into their lives. Now having offered a companion piece to yours, I realize there are so many other things to throw in, for me anyways. Your so much more eloquent than I, and I am not sure how many details to offer are "safe"? So many details could be included. But since it is a focus on Twitter, there aren't as many moments to share. What happens if we open this to ED 474 in general? Twitter was a big piece, but the nature of the course itself, and us just saying "Hey -- no papers here!" would make good (non)