The #missouri #compromise
Like Jan Fernheimer and Kathie Gossett, I’m encouraging (though not requiring) students to use Twitter as part of an approach to involvement with beyond-the-classroom discourse communities.
So I was crowing last week, on Twitter of course, that rather than have a course-specific hashtag for my grad seminars, we would use hashtags already in use on Twitter already: #techcomm for the Key Concepts in Technical Communication course and #km for the Knowledge Management one.
And I’m still moving forward with that plan, largely to take advantage of the broader discussions of both areas on Twitter. But then I realized that a course-specific hashtag would be useful for course-related or course-specific posts, while the other hashtag would be important for things related to the broader tech comm and knowledge management Tweetstream on Twitter.
Not to mention that neither my students nor I want to pollute the Tweetstreams for #km and #techcomm with things that only have relevance to our mundane business in the course.
So there it is, care of the OR boolean operator on the Twitter search feed: Key Concepts will aggregate #techcomm and (…actually OR…) #com521, and Knowledge Management will aggregate #km and #com542.