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140 Characters in Search of a Story

140 Characters in Search of a Story

Using Microblogging in Language Arts

TIES Language Arts SeminarAugust 18, 2009

Using Microblogging in Language Arts

TIES Language Arts SeminarAugust 18, 2009

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“Brevity is the soul of wit.”“Brevity is the soul of wit.”

PoloniusHamlet II.ii

PoloniusHamlet II.ii

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“Brevity is the soul of Twitter.”

“Brevity is the soul of Twitter.”

(what he really meant)(what he really meant)

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Participate via TwitterParticipate via Twitter

Tag your tweets: #tiesla Take notes Post questions Participate in activities

Tag your tweets: #tiesla Take notes Post questions Participate in activities

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Session OverviewSession Overview

Twitter basics Microblogging concepts Twitter (or just the idea of Twitter) Edmodo: “Twitter for educators” Lessons, activities, and resources

Twitter basics Microblogging concepts Twitter (or just the idea of Twitter) Edmodo: “Twitter for educators” Lessons, activities, and resources

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Before We StartBefore We Start

What brings you here today?

What do you hope to learn? What questions do you

have?

What brings you here today?

What do you hope to learn? What questions do you

have?

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What is microblogging?What is microblogging?

Microblogging is a form of multimedia blogging that allows users to send brief text updates (say, 140 characters or fewer). . . .

Wikipedia

Microblogging is a form of multimedia blogging that allows users to send brief text updates (say, 140 characters or fewer). . . .

Wikipedia

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And why should we care? And why should we care?

“Why would you subject your friends to your daily minutiae? And conversely, how much of their trivia can you absorb? The growth of ambient intimacy can seem like modern narcissism taken to a new, supermetabolic extreme….”

Clive Thompson

“Why would you subject your friends to your daily minutiae? And conversely, how much of their trivia can you absorb? The growth of ambient intimacy can seem like modern narcissism taken to a new, supermetabolic extreme….”

Clive Thompson

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Twitter BasicsTwitter Basics

@replies - Public reply RT - Re-Tweet DM - Direct message Tinyurl - Shorter is better Hashtag - Label your tweet

@replies - Public reply RT - Re-Tweet DM - Direct message Tinyurl - Shorter is better Hashtag - Label your tweet

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Twitter Talk Twitter Talk

What I’m doing What I’m thinking Sharing resources & links Conversation via @replies

What I’m doing What I’m thinking Sharing resources & links Conversation via @replies

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Getting startedGetting started

Sign up for free account at Twitter

Twitter in Plain English The Big Juicy Twitter Guide Blogging Sueblimely

: Twitter for Beginners

Sign up for free account at Twitter

Twitter in Plain English The Big Juicy Twitter Guide Blogging Sueblimely

: Twitter for Beginners

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Strengths of microbloggingStrengths of

microblogging Concise Metacognitive Social & collaborative Ephemeral

Concise Metacognitive Social & collaborative Ephemeral

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ConciseConcise

“Twitter’s 140-character limit provides a great framework for creating compact messages. Not that there’s anything wrong with being verbose; yet having taught writing, there’s much to be said for getting straight to the point.”

Chris Sessums“I like Twitter for its asynchronous, forced concision….”

Barbara Ganley

“Twitter’s 140-character limit provides a great framework for creating compact messages. Not that there’s anything wrong with being verbose; yet having taught writing, there’s much to be said for getting straight to the point.”

Chris Sessums“I like Twitter for its asynchronous, forced concision….”

Barbara Ganley

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MetacognitiveMetacognitive

“I also want to explore students using tweets to send out questions and observations to the group while engaged in the "solo work" of the course--the reading and ruminating and writing that so often happens alone. How might sending links and notes this way deepen and broaden our learning experience together?”

Barbara Ganley

“I also want to explore students using tweets to send out questions and observations to the group while engaged in the "solo work" of the course--the reading and ruminating and writing that so often happens alone. How might sending links and notes this way deepen and broaden our learning experience together?”

Barbara Ganley

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Social and collaborativeSocial and collaborative

“Twitter and other constant-contact media create social proprioception. They give a group of people a sense of itself, making possible weird, fascinating feats of coordination.”

Clive Thompson

“Twitter and other constant-contact media create social proprioception. They give a group of people a sense of itself, making possible weird, fascinating feats of coordination.”

Clive Thompson

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EphemeralEphemeral

“The power of twitter in the classroom lies in harnessing the instantaneous and ephemeral nature of the tool.”

Darren Kuropatwa

“The power of twitter in the classroom lies in harnessing the instantaneous and ephemeral nature of the tool.”

Darren Kuropatwa

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Think-Pair-ShareThink-Pair-Share

How might these concepts support your instructional

goals?

How might these concepts support your instructional

goals?

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Use Twitter to bring literature into your

classroom

Use Twitter to bring literature into your

classroom

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Intrigued by first lines?Intrigued by first lines?

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Follow an authorFollow an author

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Use Twitter to prompt writing

Use Twitter to prompt writing

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Daily writing promptsDaily writing prompts

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Use Twitter to collaborateUse Twitter to collaborate

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Twittories, or Twitter stories

Twittories, or Twitter stories

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Use Twitter to find an audience

Use Twitter to find an audience

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Flash fiction & tiny poetryFlash fiction & tiny poetry

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Flash fictionFlash fiction

Wikipedia: “Fiction of extreme brevity”

Contains (or implies) traditional elements of fiction: character, plot, etc.

FlashFictionOnline

Wikipedia: “Fiction of extreme brevity”

Contains (or implies) traditional elements of fiction: character, plot, etc.

FlashFictionOnline

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For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway

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Novel in 12 Words or LessNovel in 12 Words or Less

Twelve-word novel win changes life. Fame, drugs, adultery, sorrow, tears, blood.

Obituary. First five words free, she thought. Charles dead. Yacht for sale.

Louise's love of poodles was overshadowed only by her love of barbecue.

On The Media’s 2007 Novel Challenge

Twelve-word novel win changes life. Fame, drugs, adultery, sorrow, tears, blood.

Obituary. First five words free, she thought. Charles dead. Yacht for sale.

Louise's love of poodles was overshadowed only by her love of barbecue.

On The Media’s 2007 Novel Challenge

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Tiny poetry: TwaikuTiny poetry: Twaiku

Twaiku: Haiku in 140 characters or less

Copyblogger Twaiku contest A wandering ghost / My dead father

cries “Uncle!” / I must have revenge. “I’m following you” / A compliment on

Twitter / Not so in real life Realtime search results for #haiku

Twaiku: Haiku in 140 characters or less

Copyblogger Twaiku contest A wandering ghost / My dead father

cries “Uncle!” / I must have revenge. “I’m following you” / A compliment on

Twitter / Not so in real life Realtime search results for #haiku

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Tiny poetry: TwitkuTiny poetry: Twitku

Twitku: micro-haiku 17 characters in 5/7/5 format Tiny Poetry Society wiki hello/twitter/verse

Twitku: micro-haiku 17 characters in 5/7/5 format Tiny Poetry Society wiki hello/twitter/verse

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It’s your turn.It’s your turn.

Try your hand at a 12-word novel, twaiku, or twitku.

Tweet your composition.

Try your hand at a 12-word novel, twaiku, or twitku.

Tweet your composition.

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EdmodoEdmodo

Twitter for education Private micro-blogging No student email address needed Teacher controls group settings

Twitter for education Private micro-blogging No student email address needed Teacher controls group settings

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Log in to Edmodo Log in to Edmodo

Go to http://www.edmodo.com

Click “Student” link Enter group code: blj382

Go to http://www.edmodo.com

Click “Student” link Enter group code: blj382

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Sample microblogging activity

Sample microblogging activity

“Reading for the Gist.” Harvey & Goudvis, Strategies That Work (2000).

Use a variety of strategies to construct meaning

Ask questions, make connections, visualize, make predictions, synthesize

Notes used for reader response

“Reading for the Gist.” Harvey & Goudvis, Strategies That Work (2000).

Use a variety of strategies to construct meaning

Ask questions, make connections, visualize, make predictions, synthesize

Notes used for reader response

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Lord of the Flies reader response

Lord of the Flies reader response

Read-aloud from Golding’s Lord of the Flies

During reading, note responses in Edmodo

Main ideas, questions, connections, predictions, inferences

Read-aloud from Golding’s Lord of the Flies

During reading, note responses in Edmodo

Main ideas, questions, connections, predictions, inferences

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Standards-based lesson ideas

Standards-based lesson ideas

IRA/NCTE Standards for English Language Arts

K-12 MN Standards in Language Arts Reading and Literature Writing Speaking, Listening, and Viewing

IRA/NCTE Standards for English Language Arts

K-12 MN Standards in Language Arts Reading and Literature Writing Speaking, Listening, and Viewing

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Reading and LiteratureReading and Literature

Reading comprehension: QAR (Question-Answer Relationship) strategy: Twitter sticky notes

Understanding dialogue in dramatic works: Reimagine Shakespeare dialogue as Twitter exchange

Biographical or character study: Synthesize insights into subject through a-day-in-the-lifeTwitter postings

Reading comprehension: QAR (Question-Answer Relationship) strategy: Twitter sticky notes

Understanding dialogue in dramatic works: Reimagine Shakespeare dialogue as Twitter exchange

Biographical or character study: Synthesize insights into subject through a-day-in-the-lifeTwitter postings

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WritingWriting

Persuasive essay: A concise thesis statement in 140 characters

Research: Use microblogging to provide progress updates, organize ideas, evaluate resources

Audience and point of view: Use Twitter “scenarios” to develop understanding

Persuasive essay: A concise thesis statement in 140 characters

Research: Use microblogging to provide progress updates, organize ideas, evaluate resources

Audience and point of view: Use Twitter “scenarios” to develop understanding

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Speaking, Listening, & Viewing

Speaking, Listening, & Viewing

Evaluate media sources: Twitter as citizen journalism

Social notetaking: Use microblogging to provide feedback for oral presentations

Evaluate media sources: Twitter as citizen journalism

Social notetaking: Use microblogging to provide feedback for oral presentations

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What ideas do you have?What ideas do you have?

Help write the e-book: Twitter for Teachers

Send them to Scott: [email protected] http://twitter.com/sschwister

Help write the e-book: Twitter for Teachers

Send them to Scott: [email protected] http://twitter.com/sschwister

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Additional reading & resources

Additional reading & resources

NCTE Inbox: Twitter: 140-Character Professional Development and Writing Tool

Chris Sessums: Twitter Me This: Brainstorming Potential Educational Uses for Twitter

Darren Kuropatwa: Twitter: Ephemeral Learning Tool Terry Freedman: Twittering in the classroom: some

issues Clive Thompson in Wired: How Twitter Creates a Sixth

Social Sense Clive Thompson in NYTimes.com: Brave New World of

Digital Intimacy Brian Stelten & Noam Cohem in NYTimes.com: Citizen

Journalists Provided Glimpses of Mumbai Attacks NPR’s On The Media: The Twitter Wire Service

NCTE Inbox: Twitter: 140-Character Professional Development and Writing Tool

Chris Sessums: Twitter Me This: Brainstorming Potential Educational Uses for Twitter

Darren Kuropatwa: Twitter: Ephemeral Learning Tool Terry Freedman: Twittering in the classroom: some

issues Clive Thompson in Wired: How Twitter Creates a Sixth

Social Sense Clive Thompson in NYTimes.com: Brave New World of

Digital Intimacy Brian Stelten & Noam Cohem in NYTimes.com: Citizen

Journalists Provided Glimpses of Mumbai Attacks NPR’s On The Media: The Twitter Wire Service

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ContactContact

Scott [email protected]

Scott [email protected]