Twitter in K-8 Classroom- Globally Connected Learning

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Micro- Blogging What is Twitter? Social Network A Way to Communicate with a GLobal Audience Twitter is a social network site that has quickly become one of the fastesT growing Learning tools for educators. In 140 characters or less educators are connecting with others from around the world to share resources, take part in a Global discussion, stay informed, give and receive "just in time" Teaching and Learning.The same can happen for your students. Create a ClassRoom Twitter account to introduce your (13 year olds and younger) Students to the connected world of a Learning Network. Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano - GloballyConnectedLearning.com

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Guide to help you get started with Twitter in your K-8 Classroom.

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Micro-Blogging

What is Twitter?

Social Network

A Way to Communicate with a GLobal Audience

Twitter is a social network site that has quickly become one of the fastesT growing Learning tools for educators. In 140 characters or less educators are connecting with others from around the world to share resources, take part in a Global discussion, stay informed, give and receive "just in time" Teaching and Learning.The same can happen for your students. Create a ClassRoom Twitter account to introduce your (13 year olds and younger) Students to the connected world of a Learning Network.

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Getting Started

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Create a Twitter account (http://www.twitter.com) by choosing a username (The shorter the better).

Important: fill out your profile (160 characters or less) identifying that you are a classroom tweeting, the age level of the students, as well as a geographic location (could be region, state or country). Upload an avatar (don't stay an egg!)Let others know what your class hopes to share and learn with and from others.

Choose your Privacy Settings: Allow everyone to see your tweets or only let people who you have approved see and follow you.

Start following other educators and classrooms tweeting. See who they follow and decide if your learning journey would benefit from their contributions.

Username

Profile

Avatar

Settings Who to Follow?

Who can follow Us?

Tweeting

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How can you use Twitter in the Classroom?

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There are many ways to take advantage of the Power of Twitter in the Classroom. Assign one of your students to be the "Twitterer" of the Day to document Step by Step what the class is learning during the school day (official Scribe)Connect with Pre-Arranged Mentors who will push your students thinking to the next level.Tweet as a class (especially with younger students) to review at the end of the day what occured during the school day.Use Twitpic or another photo service to share images of learning moments from the classroom.

Share & Document Research

Connect with Mentors

Gather Real World Data

Send reminders

Document Classroom Learning

Keep Parents in the Loop

Share questions that you are wondering about

Communicate with Peers, Experts,

Eye-Witnesses Around the World

Share links to Student work to encourage

authentic feedback

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Don't Gossip about

someone else

Twitter Etiquette

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Give Credit where credit is due

Follow People who add value to your

learning

Think Quality over QUantity

Netiquette is defined as the "acceptable" way how to communicate on the Internet.Learning acceptable behavior is part of digital Citizenship, one of the core literacies of the 21st century.

Remind your students of your classroom rules and emphasize that "real world" etiquette, rules and consequences transfer to online behavior as well.

Discuss copyright with your students. It is common practice to give the original author of a tweet credit by including their @username with a "RT" (Re-Tweet). When quoting a passage of a website, it is appropriate to link to the original site and/or mention the author with @username (if they have a Twitter account).

Respond to your followers

Be polite

Use appropriate languageAdd

something of value to the conversation

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Pose questions

you are wondering

about

The first Tweet

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share Something you have learned recently

Tweet about

something that will help

someone else

Link to your classroom Blog or

school website

Be an Information Filter for others?

share Something unique

about your geographic location

Give a book recommendation

Write a six- Word

Story

Tweet as a

Historical or Book

Character

Write a poem

Share an interesting fact

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What is a Quality Tweet?

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Don't use "Awesome","Great", "Cool" to

describe a resource you are sharing

Add a Resource

Link

SpecificInformative

PRecise

140 Characters

or Less

Add value in addition to the

Resource

We want students to produce and contribute Quality content. Before they click the "tweet" button, Students should ask themselves if their tweet:

* is Informative?* documents their learning?* Asks questions?* responds to someone else's question?* Curate information for specific Audience?* Links to quality resources?* Adds Value to any links re-tweeted?* states its intent clearly?* is globally Conscious?* is grammatically correct?* is spelled correctly?

As students tweet, they learn about Word Choices, clarity, the writing process (Write/Revise/Edit/publish), networking skills, Research Skills, Summarizing Skills, global Awareness and connections.

Creative

Rich in Content

Clear

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Give students as much ownership as possible over their Tweets

Logistics

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Assign Twitterer of the Day

Have everyone tweet on paper and then vote on best Quality Tweet to publish

Assign several

students to tweet

about Specific

SubjectsAdd your Twitter Stream to your classroom

Blog

Make Tweeting part

of your Classroom routine. It

should be an integral part, not a separate

subject

Teach Parents how to

subscribe to Class' Twitter

Account

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Twitter Vocabulary

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RTRe-Tweet

Tweet someone else's Tweet, giving them credit

by using "RT" before their @username

@Mention

use @username to respond to someone directly or get their

attention

DMDirect Message

Send someone, who follows you a

private message

TwitPic Create an account

with twitpic.com and email relevant

images as a tweet

#Hashtag

a hashtag connects a

certain topic or

conversation together.

Twitterverse

Tweeting

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Tweeting Classrooms

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@5thmjgds

@HRAGrasyon

@2mgems

@StMaryLibrary

@R9_RusselLST@mrstgSkiddos

@Krebsclass

@Gill_Villians

@Pod4fennemore@Grade2YIS

@MDEkinderkids

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Interested in Learning More

about using Twitter with Students?

Take a Look at the

Langwitches Blog for More

Articles and Resources for

Twitter in Education.

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