Social media are becoming key communication channels. Do you use Twitter or Facebook to communicate with your students? Which one do your prefer and why?
No. I don`t use neither Twitter nor Facebook to communicate with your students.
Dear Jesus,
Of course, I do not use any of them. I do not like the permanent presence of secrete services and the exhibitionism.
No. I don`t use neither Twitter nor Facebook to communicate with your students.
No, No, No!
Just remember the newest horrors about the manipulations in FB.
A Strict NO to FB and Twitter with students...
we prefer and advise a face-to face conversation, emails and TEXT messages...very rarely a telephonic conversation based on urgency or unable to contact in the above modes....
I have been using FB successfully to communicate with my students. I also email them and send SMS through our online platform ASU Online. This past year I did not teach and therefore, most communications were administrative in nature. However, before that I used them to communicate with my students.
Hats off to Hashemite university IT department.......Good idea of having an exclusive page for FB as a department........nice out of box thinking...
Many thanks for your answers. So most of you don´t use social media to communicate with students. However, I must say I started using Twitter to connect with my students some months ago and I am really satisfied.
I am teaching Media Ethics and TV and Radio Programming. There are several students who send tweets to me talking about media bad practices, examples, etc. I think it is really interesting. They are interacting with me and, the most important thing, they are really motivated.
No, Jesus, we use social media, but no with dubious behaviour.
Please differentiate.
Dear @Jesus, there are other medias that are more effective than FB and Twitter; for example, Piazza is designed to interact with students in a scientific medium.
Dear Kamal many departments at ASU have their own FB pages. I find using FB very useful since most students have smart phones.
Dear Hanno.
I understand your point of view. In fact, I think we totally agree: Facebook is not bad itself, nor is Twitter, it depends on the way you use them.
Dear Abedallah.
I didn´t know about Piaza. Could you give us a link about it?
Dears @Jesus, @Costas, and all: This is the link to Piazza:
https://piazza.com/product/features
Yes, I prefer Twitter. I use a hashtag for the course number so students can easily follow the conversation. I also create lists with resources they can follow to prepare for pop quizzes (e.g., New York Times Bits Blog).
Dears repected @Kamal and @Jesus and all: it is my pleasure to share with you the link to Piazza.
I would like to give a 100% answer:
No, No, No!!
It´s a question of level.
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