Automne 2016 FLF 212 Twitter

Le but de l’exercice : Pour mieux intégrer vos intérêts à cette classe, nous allons nous servir de notre compte Twitter.

Le Contenu: Please remember to keep content limited to materials relevant to class discussions, textbook themes, and local French language activities of interest. Also, please vet your sources. Before you tweet or retweet information consider your source and be certain of its reliability and accountability for any statements that it makes. Please follow similar guidelines for on-line behavior as you would in class for responding politely and respectfully to your colleagues.

Les Détails: Those students who do not already have a Twitter account must create one at Twitter.com. The account must be publicly visible (unlocked). You may use a pseudonym and limited bio information to protect your privacy if you wish, but please inform me of your ID so I can add you to the class list. The account should have a photograph or other avatar (not the Twitter default) so that I can identify you. If students already have a Twitter account that they use for personal communication, they may use it--the instructor will only read your responses to @FLF212 posts and those with the #FLF212 and not your personal communication. If you prefer to create a new Twitter account for this course to protect your privacy, you may.

By Monday, students must:

1. Follow at least 5 French sources. Ideas for people to follow can be found by looking at the Moodle doc “Branchez-vous,” exploring lists, participating in online conversations, and checking your favorite blogs for Twitter IDs. Using the search bar in Twitter you can find many French news sources and organizations that tweet. For example, if you type in Le Monde, you will find Le Monde’s Twitter account and you just hit “Follow” in order to have their tweets come up automatically in your Twitter account. These will not show up on our course account unless you click on Retweet.

2. Tweet! Tweets for this course should contain the #FLF212 hashtag so that they can be easily followed by classmates and others. Your tweets should include at least the following:

A. First, send me a tweet (to @FLF212) so that I can confirm that you are signed up and ready to go.

B. Engage in conversation on the FLF212 account by asking questions and interacting with those who respond, in at least 2 tweets. About once per week, please use this forum to discuss interesting articles you read on the class Twitter account or reply directly to tweets within Twitter. Remember that Twitter is brief, so keep your discussions to less than 140 characters. Not sure what to write? Keep it simple at first with a brief comment on how a tweet interests you, relates to class, or changes your understanding of French culture. For example, something basic such as, c'est utile pour chapitre 10!, je ne savais pas que les écoles en France offrent un menu sans porc, or cet article offre un bon moyen d'apprendre plus sur le cinéma en France.

C. Retweet at least 1 posts by sources you follow. These should not be randomly chosen, but selected because of their usefulness and relevance to course materials.

3. Document the above in a file, to be submitted electronically via Moodle. The best way to document your work is by creating screenshots (hit Ctrl + PrtScn on your keyboard with the page open that you would like to copy, then paste it into a word doc by hitting Ctrl + V)—this can be done from the Twitter page. Please see the sample document below. Do not simply send me a link to your Twitter account: you are responsible for verifying that you have met all of the assignment criteria. See sample doc at the end of this document.

The deadline for completing this introductory assignment is Monday, August 22nd. If you have any questions or difficulties, feel free to visit me during office hours, arrange an appointment, email, or tweet.

Throughout the semester, students should:

1. Continue following their French sources.

2. Retweet articles of interest to the class.

3. Engage in discussions about articles with other students on Twitter.

4. Based on one week’s Twitter feed, write weekly journal entries in French by hand on the journal template due

in class as noted on the syllabus that address the following:

a. Which article did you choose to summarize? (The article does not have to be one that you retweeted)

Why is it relevant or not to the course?

b. Summarize the article in one of two ways:

i. SEE-I: State the problem (What’s the issue?), Elaborate (Give context-when, where, why, how),

Exemplify (Give an example), and Illustrate (Draw your impression of the problem/question)

ii. 3 Finger: Situation (What is the problem setting? What defines the situation?), Complication

(Why does something need to change / is something changing now?), and Key Question (What

issue are people trying to resolve? What are they focusing on?)

c. Relate the article to one of the TH!NK Intellectual Standards and explain

i. Answer one of the following: Is it clear? Is it accurate? Is it precise? Does it include relevant

information? Does it consider all the complexities of the problem? Does it consider alternative

solutions? Is it logical? Is it significant? Does it present all sides of an argument fairly? Is it

original? Is it adaptable to new circumstances? Is it appropriate? Or What does it contribute to

the field of study?

ii. AND How or why?At the end of the semester you will reflect on your journal entries over the course of the semester and turn them all in together with the reflection for an additional grade worth three times the value of a single entry. Therefore, please keep them in a safe place or make digital copies as back-ups.

Sample document for August 22nd:

Laura Call (@FLF212) Twitter documentation

1. Screenshot of my subscriptions (that is who I am following).

2A. I sent my introductory tweet from my Twitter handle @FLF212.

2B. My responses to three tweets

3. Retweets