Using Twitter for Professional PurposesLaajuus (1 cr)

Learning objectives

Upon successful completion of the course, the students are able to:

Create and update a useful professional Twitter profile.
Use Twitter effectively for professional purposes.

Contents

Students study the various sources about how to create a Twitter profile and how to use Twitter effectively for professional purposes in their own career. The assessment criteria will contribute to guiding the study and the learning task. The instructor will assess the final outcome.

Starting level and linkage with other courses

No prerequisites.

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

The student may present their existing Twitter profile and their previous tweets where applicable, with possible modifications.

Assessment criteria - grade 1

Content:
Very few of your tweets/links provide at least partly professional and relevant information. Some effort to interact with other tweeters.
Verbal expression:
Understandable but quite defective language. Your keywords and hashtags are minimal or poorly chosen.
Images:
Your use of images do not seem to convey the message very clearly but they draw some attention. They look poorly framed or technically defective.

Assessment criteria - grade 3

Contents:
Some of your tweets/links provide professionally relevant information. Interaction with other tweeters.
Verbal expression:
Easily readable language with very few mistakes. Rather versatile and accurate vocabulary. You use keywords and hashtags mainly quite well.
Images:
Your images convey the message. They look mostly professional, rather well framed and of rather good quality.

Assessment criteria - grade 5

Contents:
Your profile looks highly professional. All your tweets/links provide pro­fessionally very relevant, up-to-date, and well-argued information. Successful interaction with other tweeters.
Verbal expression:
Correct, very fluent and creative language. Rich and accurate vocabulary. You use keywords and hashtags very wisely.
Images:
Your images convey the message in a highly creative way. They look highly professional, very well framed and of high technical quality.

Learning materials

Internet sources
Other sources

Further information

The students may enroll in Peppi during the implementation's enrollment time. After the instructor has accepted the enrollment, the students may send their completed learning task to the instructor any time during the time when the implementation is open, preferably three weeks before the desired registration of the grade.