Transform and Tailor your Teaching with Twitter
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The document discusses the benefits of using Twitter as a teaching tool, emphasizing its ability to facilitate information sharing, promote language skills, and encourage classroom interaction. It outlines specific classroom applications, such as tweet chats, homework help, and collaboration, as well as the potential for building a learning community through Twitter. Additionally, it highlights various tools and best practices for educators to optimize their use of Twitter in an educational context.
Transform and Tailor your Teaching with Twitter
- 1. Transform and Tailor your Teaching with Twitter (latest edition May 6, 2016) Rita Zeinstejer
- 2. •“a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates…”Wikipedia •“the most popular of the genre of 'microblogging' tools that emulate SMS messaging but fall short of blogging…”V. Stevens •“one of the largest platforms in the world for sharing real-time data”Douglas A. McIntyre, in TIME Twitter
- 3. Twitter serves two main purposes: •Information in - getting information from many sources coming to you in one place •Information out - broadcasting your own information to many sources
- 4. • imposes necessity to abbreviate fitting in ideas • develops skills for word selection • fulfils a need of …being fast and getting instant feedback • …getting more connections • encourages autonomous learning • uses tags to build up a network • shapes your own community • helps share real time data microblogging pluses
- 5. •ask for and provide help •share ideas •get advice •make recommendations •announce events used to
- 6. •combines features of SMS text messages and blogs •up to 140 characters long text-based posts •updates instantly delivered •delivery restrictions •updates via instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email Features http://twitter.com/home
- 10. everyday use…? •dissemination of publications and materials •product recommendations •serendipitous improvement •serendipitous discovery •locating original sources of ideas, quotes, etc. •following celebrities
- 11. tweet to…. •follow conversations •follow others •participate in a community •correct tweets •integrate note-passing into a lesson •collaborate in twitterature
- 13. Create hashtagged chats Ex: #ELTChat
- 16. Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin Two students' efforts to reduce the great works of literature to digestible 'tweets' 50-odd works of serious literature into two-page chunks of twitterese jokey attempts to parody literary styles grown-up readers might find the odd thing to smile at it's like listening to teenagers jabbering on the bus fun for other 19-year-olds
- 17. benefits as a classroom tool….? •offers opportunities to practice specific language skills •stds learn how to focus on what they say better •class chatter: conversations continue inside and outside of class •development of classroom community •get a sense of the world
- 18. benefits as a classroom tool….? •increase parental awareness •track a word •track a conference •instant feedback •follow a professional/ famous person •storytelling
- 19. Twitter en conjunción con otras herramientas
- 20. Introduce Twitter to your class: thank you, Jen! tweet a greeting from your stds request an answer from followers see answers coming in place them on map
- 21. with Google Maps talk about a trip/excursion . zoom right into the area you want to pin . click ‘add a placemark’ and position on the map . describe what you did there or what is possible . let others know about the new experience through Twitter
- 22. basically….. all about conversation keep students in contact emphasize fluency in communication focus on conciseness and accuracy can lead to more interactive and swift discussions well suited to task-based language learning
- 23. Infographic: College Students – Is Twitter Hurting Your Grades?
- 26. Great Point Average: .51
- 28. Responsible Use Considerations How will students access/use Twitter? Who provides support? What activities will they carry out? What policies are in place? * cyberbullying committee, anonymous reporting * responsible use agreement * parental consent, std assent How will accounts be administered? * blocking, following, privacy
- 29. How can we use Twitter with our students?
- 30. assign a tweet chat: use specific vocab homework help sessions: with mentors backchannel during class for queries (use projector)
- 31. learn about online resources, find lesson plans and connect with likeminded educators Here are a few must-follow Twitter accounts for ELA teachers: NCTE The National Council of Teachers of English has a Twitter feed that shares events and resources. Their tweets include reminders for live chats and links to articles on reading instruction. Reading Rainbow Reading Rainbow’s Twitter feed includes plenty of ideas for teachers. They share favorite books for read alouds students will love. ReadWorks Tweets from ReadWorks include links to short reading passages for K-12 students. Teachers will find resources for lesson plans too. Teachability Teachability shares links to blog posts that are very relevant to ELA teachers. You’ll also learn about upcoming events including free webinars. Newsela The Newsela Twitter feed is full of links to current events articles that students will love. The folks at Newsela share paired passages and relevant new stories that are accessible for kids. TED-Ed TED-Ed shares short video clips for teachers and students. This is a great Twitter feed for gathering ideas and inspiration.
- 33. as a personal learning tool: powerful a great information filter lets me interact with experts I’ll never meet f2f an instant give-and-take forces me to be a reflective learner
- 34. Personal learning suggestions Follow influential people Crowdsourcing: sharing answers to problems Instant messaging Conference backchannel tool Track breaking news Serendipitous and/or instant collaboration Locate sources Lend or receive support
- 35. for educators…? join any conference share discussion during/ after follow the stream make it a sizzling conference! perfect tool for mobile devices
- 36. remember… it’s an opt-out society use the URL shortening tools like TinyURL commenting on others’ tweets, and retweeting what others have posted is a great way to build community it’s an instant “backchannel” a tool for learning: provided you follow the right folks!
- 38. http://www.twibes.com/ a group of Twitter users interested in a common topic
- 39. finds Twitter people interested in similar topics enables people to meet and participate in conversations gathers likeminded members around key words organizes tweets encourages community formation anybody can find and join any group
- 42. http://paper.li/ http://paper.li/tag/webheads read Twitter as a daily newspaper organize links shared on Twitter into an easy-to-read newspaper-style format. newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag.
- 44. http://twittertim.es/ choose to open one of three types of pages on a daily/hourly basis looks for followers’ tweets + 2nd circle of friends can retweet from your page Top News History
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- 47. http://www.grouptweet.com/ helps groups communicate privately via Twitter allows users to send a private message to another user + send it to multiple users
- 48. promotes use of Twitter http://screenr.com/ instant screencasts for Twitter web-based recorder: nothing to download
- 49. http://spezify.com/ generates extensive and diverse search results: choose: images, text, video, sounds, tweets.
- 50. http://twitcam.livestream.com/ posts your video description and link to Twitter for all your followers to see chat with your viewers via Twitter right from your broadcast page archive your video and display it on the same page.
- 51. http://twaud.io/ upload your mp3 file or record it directly add a message it’ll be tweeted on your behalf with a link to a page where your followers can listen to and comment on your clip you can see how many visitors it’s had.
- 53. http://eltchat.org/wordpress/uncatego rized/how-to-use-twitter-apps/ Hootsuite – Signing Up Hootsuite – How does it work? Tweetdeck – Signing Up
- 55. Tips… answer “What has your attention?” promote a blog post ask for opinions follow interesting people direct student’s attention to good things caution: be wary of always promoting your stuff talk about non-education stuff too.
- 58. new http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/03/this-is-how-to-use-twitter-as-curation.html How to create a twitter poll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoH68e_C2Ro&feature=em-subs_digest-g http://www.alicekeeler.com/teachertech/2015/09/16/why-a-class-twitter- account/ http://teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/technology/what-to-do-on- twitter-50-ideas-for-teachers/ http://www.twtbase.com/tweetknot/
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- 64. Holly Rae Bemis-Schurtz and Cynthia S. Medina: Edmodo, Twitter and Yammer: Microblogging in Education (webinar January 25, 2010)