Over the past couple of years, live-tweeting has grown in popularity. In real-time, people have documented serious, life-changing events like the recent revolution in Egypt, space missions, and elections. At the same time, they’ve also recorded more mundane and/or sillier affairs like Apple announcements, the Oscars, the Golden Globes, and academic conferences. Much more controversial is a woman who live-tweeted her abortion.
So for my UToledo film students who will be watching the 2011 Academy Awards — and I know many of you are (I overheard your in-class conversations!) — why not live-tweet them with your classmates and friends? It makes the extra-long evening more bearable and ultimately much more fun.
Plus, if you use our assigned course hashtag, your live-tweets, retweets, and @replies WILL count toward your class Twitter grade. That’s right: live-tweeting this year’s Oscars ceremony (and/or the pre-show business/foolishness) may very well benefit your course grade. (NOTE: those students who have no interest or can’t participate in this little soiree, your grade will in NO WAY be affected.)
Finally, if you do decide to live-tweet, let me know (@profmarshall), and I’ll add you to the class list, which you can follow on your Tweetdeck tomorrow night.
See you on the red carpet!
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