Pedagogy:Outreach:Twitter
We host Twitter chats every other month using the hashtag #DLFteach. Learn more about the DLF Digital Library Pedagogy Group on our wiki page.
Upcoming chats
Twitter chats are on the third Tuesday of the month from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET unless otherwise noted.
- April 22, 2020: Collaboration and roles of instructional designers and liaison librarians
- June 16, 2020
- August 18, 2020
- October 20, 2020 (8 p.m. - 9 p.m. ET)
- December 15, 2020
Would you like to host a #DLFteach Twitter chat in 2020? The DLF Digital Library Pedagogy Group welcomes proposals for chat hosts and topics! If you are interested in hosting, please fill out this Google form.
Previous chats
2016
- January 12, 2016: Our First Chat!
- March 8, 2016: Professional Development for Digital Library Pedagogy
- May 10, 2016: Melissa Dinsman Interviews Laura Mandell
- July 12, 2016: Supporting Practice in Community
- September 13, 2016: Commit to DH People, Not Projects
2017
- January 10, 2017: Teaching Information Privacy and Security
- March 14, 2017: Critical Approaches to Digital Primary Sources
- May 9, 2017: Reflection and Restoration
- July 11, 2017: Sustaining Momentum for Collaborative Digital Pedagogy
- September 12, 2017: Digital Pedagogy and Service
2018
- January 9, 2018: Digital Libraries, DH, and Social Justice
- March 13, 2018: Professional Development for Digital Library Pedagogy
- May 8, 2018: Nailed It / Failed It
- July 10, 2018: Reflective Practice for Digital Library Pedagogy
- September 11, 2018: Teaching Data Visualization
- November 13, 2018: Teaching Digital Scholarship (co-sponsored by the DLF Digital Scholarship Working Group)
2019
- January 15, 2019: Teaching Ethical Issues of Digital Libraries
- March 19, 2019: Information Literacy and Digital Scholarship Instruction
- May 21, 2019: Teaching Online Privacy and Security (co-sponsored by the DLF Technologies of Surveillance Working Group)
- July 23, 2019: Using Data in the Classroom
- September 17, 2019: Evaluating Digital Scholarship Projects in the Classroom
- December 10, 2019: Future #DLFteach projects and initiatives
2020
- February 18, 2020: Collaboration, Scheduling, and Promotion for Digital Pedagogy Workshops
- March 25, 2020 - Special Edition: Tools, Strategies, and Pedagogy for Distance Learning
Hosting a chat
Interested in hosting a chat? Want to suggest a topic? Get in touch with the outreach coordinators of the DLF Digital Library Pedagogy Group!
Step by step
- Identify hosts (usually 2 people). The outreach coordinator can schedule the tweets for the hosts, or hosts may need to gain access to the @CLIRDLF Twitter account and the DLF wiki (write to info@diglib.orgto get edit access).
- Take topic proposals from the suggestion form for hosts to sign up.
- Put out an open call for hosts on DLF-Pedagogy and DLF-Announce.
- Invite leaders of the DLF Digital Library Pedagogy Group to host.
- Host the chat yourselves, as chairs of the outreach subgroup!
- Identify a topic. Browse previous chats for inspiration. Hosts may bring their own ideas.
- Write questions in advance.
- Use this template
- Post questions to upcoming chats so that participants are able to view and consider questions ahead of time.
- Send questions to DLF-Pedagogy and DLF-Announce email lists one week in advance, and promote on @CLIRDLF Twitter and your own Twitter accounts.
- Send reminders to same channels one day in advance.
- Schedule tweets in TweetDeck to go out from @CLIRDLF account. For more on scheduling tweets, see advanced TweetDeck features.
- Host the Twitter chat!
- Archive the chat.
- Create a Wakelet story using the DLF account (write to info@diglib.org for login info).
- Create a TAGS archive of the Twitter chat, and upload the CSV to the DLF Digital Library Pedagogy Group space on the Open Science Framework (OSF).
- Add links to both the Wakelet story and the TAGS spreadsheet on OSF to the page for this Twitter chat on the DLF wiki.
- Share archived chat to DLF-Pedagogy and DLF-Announce.
Tips
- No more than 4–6 questions per hour.
- Share questions ahead of time.
- Encourage participants to answer with “Q” and the number of the question being discussed to make it easier to sort, e.g. "Q2: I think that…"
- Consider using TweetDeck while participating so that you can primarily follow the chat’s hashtag.
Example
Below is a 6-question chat with intervals of 8 minutes between question tweets. A 5-question chat usually has intervals of 10 minutes (e.g. 2:05, 2:15, 2:25, 2:35, 2:45).
- Monday, 10:00 a.m. Join us tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. ET for our next #DLFteach chat, focused on digital library instruction successes and failures in the classroom. Details at https://wiki.diglib.org/2018.05.08_Digital_Library_Pedagogy_Twitter_Chat
- Tuesday, 1:00 p.m. In one hour (at 2:00 p.m. ET), join us for our next #DLFteach chat, focused on digital library instruction successes and failures in the classroom. Details at https://wiki.diglib.org/2018.05.08_Digital_Library_Pedagogy_Twitter_Chat
- Tuesday, 2:00 p.m. Welcome! This #DLFteach chat is hosted by @eagibes @ararebit & @letsshall
- Tuesday, 2:01 p.m. Follow along with the #DLFteach hashtag, and don’t forget to include it in your responses along with the question number, e.g. Q1.
- Tuesday, 2:02 p.m. For this session of #DLFteach, we’re interested in your biggest successes and failures in the classroom. What works, what doesn’t when it comes to digital library instruction.
- Tuesday, 2:03 p.m. Questions will be Tweeted from @CLIRDLF. Ready? Here we go! #DLFteach
- Tuesday, 2:03 p.m. First, introduce yourself! #DLFteach
- Tuesday, 2:05 p.m. Q1: What was the best “nailed it” lesson plan for you? What worked so well? #DLFteach
- Tuesday, 2:13 p.m. Q2: What was your biggest “failed it” moment? It’s okay to share! We’ve all been there. #DLFteach
- Tuesday, 2:21 p.m. Q3: When planning for the classroom, what is most essential for you to include in a lesson plan? E.g. tool instructions, discussion questions, example archival docs? #DLFteach
- Tuesday, 2:29 p.m. Q4: If you could do your worst class again, what advice would you give yourself? #DLFteach
- Tuesday, 2:37 p.m. Q5: What are some elements of a good faculty/librarian collaboration that leads to a successful lesson plan? #DLFteach
- Tuesday, 2:45 p.m. Q6: How do you measure success? #DLFteach
- Tuesday, 2:55 p.m. Thank you for participating in this #DLFteach chat!
- Tuesday, 2:56 p.m. Learn more about #DLFTeach, what we do, and how you can get involved! https://wiki.diglib.org/Pedagogy
- Tuesday, 2:57 p.m. Did today’s #DLFteach conversation get you wanting to share more about your teaching? Consider contributing to the Digital Library Pedagogy Cookbook! Here's the CFP. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZXM52sb5CGkmRmNiGRt2m33YfqAJHpbX183p5yXKosw/edit?usp=sharing
- Tuesday, 2:59 p.m. We also host #DLFteach office hours on Slack, for feedback, discussion, and chatting with colleagues. For more info, check out @letsshall’s description on the DLF blog. https://www.diglib.org/dlfteach-slack-channel-office-hours
- Tuesday, 3:00 p.m. Don’t forget to join our Google Group to stay updated! #DLFteach https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dlf-pedagogy