Marija Petreska: Swaying Tweets | Hot Topics. By Marija Petreska Expert Educator Columnist, Republic of Macedonia So that your classroom is fully twitterized and your tweets are Swayed into a story, make sure all your students create twitter accounts. Be careful twitter is not for students under 13, so I suggest informing parents and school authorities before you start and an official consent on both sides is advisable. I’m an English language teacher so my ideas will go in that direction, but I’m sure you can all find something interesting, or that my ideas might grow into new ones you can use. 1.
This first idea comes from a book called Meet the Marks This is an amazing way to teach punctuation. 2. This is an idea from my blog about teaching Present Simple tense and I thought why not Sway it. 3. Next they have to create their world and the rules in it. 4. Students will create a character and decide on his/her age, hobbies, habits, occupation, family… They will tweet what they think their fictional character would most likely tweet. Teacher Marija: Mix a Tube and Sway It! | Hot Topics. By Marija Petreska Expert Educator Columnist, Macedonia Another Sway feature I simply adore alongside with Swaying tweets is Swaying YouTube videos.
And I devote this blog post on tips and ideas how to mix some video lessons and sway them. 1. Lip Sync There are a few short animated fims that I’ve been dying to share and just thought of how to create lesson plans with them. [youtube Not a very pleasant bedtime story, right? My next suggestion is adding narration to films without speech. [youtube [youtube 2. I have always wanted to make my own version of the fairy tales, well who hasn’t. It’s not that complicated, right? And for Alice, why not make a story told by the eat me cake and the drink me potion and the rabbit’s clock and even Mad Hatter’s hat. These are pretty simple. 3. One of my favorite animation movie is The Croods and it is a perfect film to teach relative clauses. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Sway. Mystery Skype Nigeria. Model Books. Passports. 5 Ways Teachers and Students Can Use Sway in the Classroom I bet you never thought that you can use Sway for formative assessment but the insert in tweets feature is what I love most about Sway.
You can easily find tweets by searching hashtags and if you tweet in your classroom than this is the perfect tool to assess with. Still no idea how, here are some tips. The first game is called shape thoughts, Students tweet of the most important idea form the lesson using #triangle (or you can set your own hashtag) #square for how I can use this outside the classroom, #heart for how I feel about using what I learnt and #circle for the thought still going round my head. Save all tweets in Sway and embed the Sway into your blog or website.
Here is another one : students tweet #3 and add three facts they can recall from the lecture, #2 and two reasons why what they have just learnt is important and #1 for a question that they have on the lesson. You can make a Sway adding the tweets but also answers to their questions. Infographics. PowerPoint Created Infographics. Missing Person Announcement.