Using Twitter to Build Community Within Large Classes and Departments

 

Mindy McCarville & Lara Gibson

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2017, Volume 38

Abstract

We teach in large core second year classes, Cell Biology and Diversity of Life, with approximately 400-600 students per year. In the past two years we have each introduced twitter accounts to our classes, @Dal_CellBio and @DalBiodiversity, which are used as a model of a professional account and a tool to build community. The intention of these accounts is to promote discipline-related articles and links, as opposed to using it as a class administration tool.

Keywords:  social media, Twitter

University of Houston (2016)