Joan Axthelm on 2009-07-06
ELL's need lots of peer interaction and this is a way to do that in writing. But what standard of writing? Will this help ELL's learn standard English, or just tweet-English?
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Sheri Trapp-CordovaArticle makes a few suggestions for how to use twitter in the classroom.
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Richard RennoldsTwitter Classroom Use
Twitter Classroom Uses Web 2.0 Education technology microblogging tools
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developed a sense of each other as people beyond the classroom space
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developed a sense of each other as people beyond the classroom space
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Carol FurchnerSpecifically using Twitter in academics
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Janna AcevedoHow to use twitter in the classroom
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Now this type of supplementary material might not be attractive to all educators, I can definitely say that changed the classroom dynamics for the better.
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Joan Axthelm on 2009-07-06
Ways to introduce students to multiple vocations, which is important developmentally, according to Erikson.
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This helps to demonstrate, both how all communication needs rules/structure and how important something like a comma or a period can be.
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http://grouptweet.com/
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MATESL ClassmatesSo it is worth using it in the classroom!
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The first thing I noticed when the class started using Twitter was how
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It's fun and interactive!
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MATESL Classmates on 2009-06-30
Twitter is definitely worth exploring.
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MATESL Classmates on 2009-06-30
Though it's fun and interactive, I don't like the idea having students spend so much time on talking.
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This served as a reinforcement/connection between the material and the “real
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Once students started twittering I think they developed a sense of each other as
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New Years was particularly interesting as people around the world wished “Happy
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MATESL Classmates on 2009-06-30
It's good to say happy festival to others via Twitter. People can get immediate feedback! It's interesting!
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MATESL Classmates on 2009-06-30
honstly, they are writing 'happy festiva" rather than saying it.
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I was prepping for a lecture and wanted to know if students shared a particular
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Surprisingly Twitter is actually good for teaching grammar
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Because Twitter is based on SMS technology it limits communication to 140
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Perfect, an in-context lesson on gender prejudice.
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similary, we can have in-context lessons on other issues as well.
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Erin ThompsonThis article explains how you can use Twitter in the classroom, given from a first-hand account from a teacher who experimented with it in their own classroom.
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Class Chatter: The first thing I noticed when the class started using Twitter was how conversations continued inside and outside of class. Most of these conversations were not directly related to class material, but many were tangentially related.
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Because Twitter is always on, and gets pushed to your cell phone if you set it up this way, it is a good way to get instant feedback. I was prepping for a lecture and wanted to know if students shared a particular movie reference, I asked via Twitter and got instant responses. Students can also use this when doing their classwork, trying to understand the material.
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Then I read an article by Clive Thompson at Wired. Clive’s article convinced me that perhaps it was worth giving Twitter a try.
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Some of these ideas are general, and some are specifically from a Twittering assignment I did for a class last semester
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one of the better things I did with that class
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Gayle Fischermore twitter ideas for the classroom
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(people were more willing to talk, and more respectful of others)
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Through Twitter you can “track” a word. This will subscribe you to any post which contains said word. So, for example a student could be interested in how a particular word is used. They can track the word, and see the varied phrases in which people use it.
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track an event, a proper name (I track Derrida for example), a movie title, a store name
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Students can also use this when doing their classwork, trying to understand the material. Tweet: “I don’t understand what this reading has to do with New Media? any ideas?” Other students then respond.
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Students can follow someone else who is on Twitter, who interests them
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Follow a Famous Person
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Surprisingly Twitter is actually good for teaching grammar. Why? Because of its short form those who tweet often abbreviate and abuse grammar rules, developing their own unique “twitter rules.” This helps to demonstrate, both how all communication needs rules/structure and how important something like a comma or a period can be. (Some Tweets become really ambiguous because of their lack of punctuation.)
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Related to the above is the idea that when you change the rules (context) around any written communication you necessarily change the content of such an utterance. Rules rather than hindering communication can actually be really productive (for the long version of this argument read about Oulipo). Because Twitter is based on SMS technology it limits communication to 140 characters, it is surprising what develops out of this limit, and how quickly one starts to think in messages of 140 characters.
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Twitter is really good for sharing short inspirations, thoughts that just popped into your head. Not only are they recorded, because you can go back and look at them, but you can also get inspiration from others. This is really useful for any “creative” based class.
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Writing Assignments: Remember that game you used to play where one person would start a story, the next person would continue it, etc. . .Okay try this on Twitter.
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students had the shared classroom experience when something came up outside of class that reminded them of material from class
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Classroom Community: Once students started twittering I think they developed a sense of each other as people beyond the classroom space
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you can “track” a word. This will subscribe you to any post which contains said word. So, for example a student could be interested in how a particular word is used. They can track the word, and see the varied phrases in which people use it. Or, you can track an event, a proper name (I track Derrida for example), a movie title, a store name see how many people a day tweet that they are at or on their way to a Starbucks. (To do this send the message “track Starbucks” to Twitter, rather than posting the update “track Starbucks” you will now receive all messages with the word “Starbucks.”)
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nstant Feedback: Because Twitter is always on, and gets pushed to your cell phone if you set it up this way, it is a good way to get instant feedback. I was prepping for a lecture and wanted to know if students shared a particular movie reference, I asked via Twitter and got instant responses. Students can also use this when doing their classwork, trying to understand the material. Tweet: “I don’t understand what this reading has to do with New Media? any ideas?” Other students then respond. (This actually happened recently in a class of mine.)
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Follow a Professional
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sharing short inspirations, thoughts that just popped into your head. Not only are they recorded, because you can go back and look at them, but you can also get inspiration from others.
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Track a Word: Through Twitter you can “track” a word. This will subscribe you to any post which contains said word. So, for example a student could be interested in how a particular word is used. They can track the word, and see the varied phrases in which people use it. Or, you can track an event, a proper name (I track Derrida for example), a movie title, a store name see how many people a day tweet that they are at or on their way to a Starbucks. (To do this send the message “track Starbucks” to Twitter, rather than posting the update “track Starbucks” you will now receive all messages with the word “Starbucks.”)
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Follow a Professional: Students can follow someone else who is on Twitter, who interests them. For example if they are thinking about journalism they should follow NewMediaJim who works for NBC and Tweets about being on Airforce One, covering the Middle East etc. This is a rare inside, “real-time” view into journalism. He is followed by over 2,500 people at this point. Howard Rheingold also uses Twitter in his social journalism class.
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Public NotePad: Twitter is really good for sharing short inspirations, thoughts that just popped into your head. Not only are they recorded, because you can go back and look at them, but you can also get inspiration from others. This is really useful for any “creative” based class.
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Get a Sense of the World: You can have students look at the Public Timeline of Twitter. This is the place where all public messages get posted. The “noise” ratio here is pretty high, but one gets a sense of how varied are the things people are doing around the globe. Just a quick look at the timeline shows a range of languages, although English is still the predominate one. Additionally the public timeline serves as a sort of quick measure of what people are paying attention to. During large sporting events (World Series, or NFL Playoffs, Twitter) has a large number of messages from people watching these events. New Years was particularly interesting as people around the world wished “Happy New Year” via Twitter, far before the New Year actually got to me in Dallas, TX.
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Track a Word: Through Twitter you can “track” a word. This will subscribe you to any post which contains said word. So, for example a student could be interested in how a particular word is used. They can track the word, and see the varied phrases in which people use it. Or, you can track an event, a proper name (I track Derrida for example), a movie title, a store name see how many people a day tweet that they are at or on their way to a Starbucks. (To do this send the message “track Starbucks” to Twitter, rather than posting the update “track Starbucks” you will now receive all messages with the word “Starbucks.”)
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Track a Conference: Before going to MLA (the big language and literature conference held between Christmas and New Years) I started “tracking” MLA. This means anytime that someone tweeted using the word MLA I got a notice. This way I discovered several other people who were at the MLA using Twitter. (Now I also got a bunch of college students complaining about MLA citation format as well.)
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Shea Smithacademhack, Tech Tools for Academics, Mike Cherim, Beast-Blog, Green-Beast
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They can track the word, and see the varied phrases in which people use it.
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