H. B. Swete is on Twitter

One of the problems with Twitter is that it is so full of modern people.  Nowhere near enough nineteenth century theologians for my liking.  So it is good to see Henry Barclay Swete (1835-1918), "Professor of Divinity, Cambridge. Great christian theologian" with his own daily twitter feed.  Thanks to Richard Vervoorn of the Henry Barclay Swete site for letting me know.

Tweeting SBL

Stephen Carlson is going to be tweeting SBL. I tweet all sorts, and then tweet even more when I'm at something of greater interest than just a visit to the pool, so I'll be doing the same. It looks like the hashtag to use is going to be #SBL Tweetup.

Update: Actually, it looks like #SBL Tweetup is specifically about finding a meet-up time for twitterers. Perhaps we should think of another hashtag for just tweeting the meeting. How about #SBL New Orleans?

Further update: It looks like #SBL09 is gaining in popularity.

Using Twitter to teach?

Bob Cargill, Meeting Students Where they are: Using Twitter to teach, picks up on an interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education on Professor Gets Religion about Twitter in Class. The article mentions that only 11 out of 80 students had signed up in the early stages of the class in question, but that he hoped more were to come. I have discussed this issue before (Using Twitter in the classroom) and have not, as yet, done anything much with Twitter in class myself. One of my reasons for this is that students don't actually use Twitter. Not yet, at any rate. Not many. Not much. Current undergraduate students, like High School students in the US and secondary school students in the UK, are massive Facebookers, but they think of Twitter as the preserve of middle-aged men ("I am sitting on the patio") and celebrities. I would have to see a major shift in student take-up of Twitter before I would be interested in experimenting in using it in teaching, and I am saying that as something of a twitter-holic myself (a middle-aged man and not a celebrity).

Most academics don't use Twitter

In today's Campus Technology, the news that Most Faculty Don't Use Twitter, Study Reveals. Also in the news today, it emerges that bears do, in fact, poo in the woods.