bloomfield college tech showcase
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Faculty Showcase-Twitter workshopTRANSCRIPT
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Twitter and Teachers:
Expanding the Learning
SpaceEnza Antenos-Conforti
Montclair State University, NJ
Follow me: @iVenus (my PLN)
@profeac& @profenza
(teaching handles)
Image credit: http://www.distance-education.org/Articles/Top-75-College-Education-Tweets-133.html
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http://www.americandialect.org/index.php/amerdial/2009_word_of_the_year_is_tweet_word_of_the_decade_is_google/
What Is It?
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Many have criticised tweets to be “banalities” and “mindless”
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Why and What Do We Tweet?
• Tweets are a source of information; people in certain places, at certain events, sharing at a global level
Tweets his way out of an Egyptian jail (U of California-Berkley student, James Buck—April 2008)Earthquake in China (May 2008)Landing on the Hudson (US Airways Flight—Jan 2009)Earthquake in Italy (April 2009)Mumbai Terror Attacks (Nov 2009)
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Twitter and Haiti
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Where Do We Start?
Joining the conversation is easy…Select a username / create a password / provide an email address
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My Twitter Page
The last thing youmicro-blogged:a.k.a. a tweet
Where you update/ tweet
The Timeline with your following
Populartopics
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Deciding Who to Follow
By geographical location?By influential status?
By common interest?
http://www.twibes.com/group/WorldLanguages
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Let’s tweet
• Tweets are self-perpetuating
generative
authentic
• Tweeps / Twitterers (users)interpret input
produce output
engage in conversations
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Twitter term: Mention (aka Reply)
• The @Replies feature was introduced because we noticed lots of folks putting the @ symbol in front of Twitter usernames as a way of addressing one another.
For example: @biz what are you drinking in your avatar? (It's a soy latte.)
• @username also now in the middle of tweets as a way to simply reference another account
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Twitter term: Retweet
• Sharing and crediting sources
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Twitter Search: Retweet
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Twitter term: Hashtag
• Create groupings by adding context and metadata
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Tweeting to…
• Create a personal learning network—i.e., follow people who share your interests by reading their tweets about
blog posts
news & events
videos & music
other followers (who then you begin to follow)
The positive spiral of Twitter as a social network
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The Teacher’s PLN
• A Personal Learning Network is essential to implementing Web 2.0 technologies to teaching
• Conversation and interactivity are organic with members of the PLN
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Teaching with Twitter
• Create a Twitter handle for academic use only
• Use class time to have students create their handle, follow classmates and tweet for the first time
• Prompt them initially to have them feel comfortable with Tweeting
• Develop your best practices for course objectives
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Teaching & Learning with Twitter
Class chatter Classroom communityGet a sense of the WorldTrack a WordTrack a ConferenceInstant Feedback
Follow a ProfessionalFollow a Famous PersonGrammarRule Based WritingMaximizing the Teaching MomentPublic Note PadWriting Assignment
Source: AcademHackwww.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/
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In & Outside of the Classroom
BEYOND• Have them talk about
themselves (recycle grammar and vocabulary)
• Have them investigate topics related to syllabi content
• Have them investigate language use (vocabulary building)
IN• Have them brainstorm ideas
and post them
• Get instant feedback on topics using it as poll device using hashtags
• Allow them to ask questions and get feedback instantaneously from a larger language community
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Some Great Ideas!
http://www.slideshare.net/travelinlibrarian/twenty-five-interesting-ways-to-use-tw
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Hands-On Tweeting
• Here’s what to do:Tweet something to share two (2) things about yourself (personal, professional, etc.)
Include the hashtag below (#BCTech)
Click on the hashtag in your tweet and read what others have tweeted
Reply to the tweet of two (2) other twitterers