Greg Ferenstein at Mashable: The Social Media Guide observed that Twitter not only boosts student engagement during classroom lectures, but also creates a community of learners by allowing students to continually engage topics discussed during classroom lectures. Below is a video of a Twitter Experiment at the University of Texas.
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If Twitter is responsible for such development within college classrooms, do you think that the church could benefit by incorporating Twitter during worship services or other teaching venues?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPVWDkF7U8&feature=player_embedded#[/youtube]
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Jesse
on Mar 2nd, 2010
@ 7:40 am:
First, does anyone know of any churches utilizing Twitter during worship services? If so, who and how?
Second, I’m not sure where I fall on this one and how it would actually work-out in practice. In other words, I haven’t thought it through and may put my foot-in-my-mouth.
Anyways.
Without having a Twitter account and not knowing how it actually works, especially in this context, this is what I think could be beneficial.
Greg mentioned the community building aspect of it. What if churches created a Twitter account and allow worship participants to Tweet their comments during it. This obviously would encourage engagement, but it also could lead to the development of community in a few ways.
One, people interested in participating in the life of the church could benefit by reading people’s Tweets about their own experience.
Two, a mid-week gathering could be created to address questions brought up during the worship service. This way people could ask questions, do some research, and discuss the implications of the message throughout the week rather than just one day.
What’s your thoughts?
Cheers