Here is the handout that we gave out at the Tech Showcase illustrating how to incorporate Twitter into your classroom. Kudos to a great team: Jackelyn Chung, Christian Leguerrier, and myself!
Brock Meet and Tweet
Application
to the Classroom
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The Goal:
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To promote collaboration between peers and schools
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To enhance writing skills (summarizing, inferring,
predicting, grammar)
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To increase interest and motivation in literacy
through social media
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Learning Task:
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Two (or more) classes will be connected through
Twitter
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Class #1 will tweet a photo with a question to ask the
other class. For example, send a photo of a burnt down house with the question
“How do you think this happened?”
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Class #2 will respond within 140 characters. If the
class chooses to, they may tweet back another question pertaining to the
picture or they may send their own photos for.
class #1 to discuss.
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The process repeats
Uploading a
Picture from your computer to Twitter
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From your twitter page click on following and then select tweet
to on the dropdown menu
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Click on the camera icon in the bottom left corner of
the text field
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This will automatically access your documents file in
your computer
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Select a photo that you wish to upload through your
“my pictures” file
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In the text field, type the twitter handle of the
person you wish to send the picture to (eg. @classroom1a)
Uploading a
Picture from the Internet
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Select the picture that you wish to use
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Copy the url of the page where the picture is located
and paste it into the field in the top right
corner
of the bitly site
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This will create a shortened form of the url which you
can then copy and paste into a tweet
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When others click on this shortened link from your
tweet it will take them directly to the picture
Curricular
Expectations
Twitter is a fantastic tool for bringing classes together,
but also for matching engaging learning tasks to various curriculum
expectation.
Example:
Language
Arts
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Reading
(Grade 3)
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1.5 Making Inferences/ Interpreting Texts: Make
inferences about texts using stated and implied ideas from the texts as
evidence
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Writing
(Grade 3)
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2.1 Form: Write short texts using a variety of forms
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2.3 Word Choice: Use words and phrases that will help
convey their meaning as specifically as possible
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3.5 Grammar: Use parts of speech appropriately to
communicate their meaning clearly, with a focus on the use of proper nouns for
titles
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Media
Literacy (Grade 5)
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1.2 Making Inferences/ Interpreting Messages: Use
overt and implied messages to draw inferences and construct meaning in media
texts
Collaborating with other classes through Twitter can also be
useful for sharing ideas and experiences in Social Studies as well as Math and
Science. Students working on an Early
Civilizations unit, for example, can share resources for Egyptian games and
quiz each other on famous pharaohs.
Successful science experiments can be shared, or math problems can be
collaborated on.
Resources
1) Site for
copyright free pictures: http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/
