Professors experiment with Twitter as teaching tool Facebook may be the social medium of choice for college students, but the microblogging Web tool Twitter has found adherents among professors, many of whom are starting to experiment with it as a teaching device. People use Twitter to broadcast bite-sized messages or Web links and to read messages or links posted by others. It can be used as a source of news, to listen to what people in certain groups are talking about, or to communicate with experts or leaders in certain fields. Marquette University associate professor Gee Ekachai uses Twitter to discuss what she's teaching in class with students and connect them with experts in the field of advertising and public relations. Instructor Linda Menck, who also teaches at Marquette, encourages students to include social media as a strategy in marketing campaigns for clients. Twitter is helping these professors build community in their classes in a way that appeals to some members of a Facebook-addicted generation. Live tweeting More informal
twitter en classe: casser les codes habituels de la classe "Twitter en classe" permet, avec cette deuxième année d’usages, une diversification du réseau et un élargissement spatio-temporel qui cassent les codes habituels de la classe. - Les équipes pédagogiques des deux nouvelles classes tweeteuses sont quasi-complètes présentes sur Twitter. Il y a une vraie volonté des enseignants de ces classes à s’inscrire et participer au réseau. Si j’avais présenté Twitter l’année dernière aux élèves comme une expérimentation, cette année ce n’est plus le cas. Le réseau prend en comparaison à l’année dernière une force et une valeur encore plus fortes dès lors qu’il ne concerne plus un ou deux enseignants mais bien toute l’équipe pédagogique. - Le réseau s’élargit au delà du groupe classe/équipe pédagogique: les enseignants des trois équipes pédagogiques des classes qui tweetent s’abonnent à tous les comptes enseignants et élèves du lycée: le réseau ne se restreint plus à la classe et s’ouvre à la communauté du lycée. avec la balise #IEF_2010) . Like this:
Twitter As a Learning Tool. Really. - 2009 Savvy trainers are using micro-blogging to foster informal learning and meet likeminded peers. Here's a scenario to give trainers pause. You're presenting at a conference. Minutes into your session, a number of people are tapping furiously at their phones or reading incoming messages. Though it may not be apparent to someone unfamiliar with Web 2.0 behavior, these people aren't simply multi-tasking while you teach. Twitter is a free micro-blogging service. Working the back channel While some instructors may not relish real-time reviews of their classes that cause people to leave, others know how to benefit from a roomful of people on Twitter. Jane Hart, a social media and learning consultant, classifies Twitter and other micro-blogs as tools for personal and informal learning. Many educators already use micro-blogs to create community around a class or an activity. Some believe that Twitter is even more powerful as a social learning tool outside the context of the classroom. The future
David Cordina, le formateur multitâches au pays des avatars de Vishnu David Cordina est bien connu des formateurs en langues : la plate-forme Ning qu'il a créée à Lille 1, Foreigners in Lille en 2008 est désormais une référence et la preuve la plus évidente que des réseaux sociaux plus ou moins informels et ouverts ont beaucoup à apporter à l'apprentissage. Le voila en territoire inconnu, en Inde, avec de nouveaux défis dont nous avons voulu parler avec lui. David, vous êtes directeur pédagogique depuis plusieurs mois déjà à l'Alliance française de Bombay (Mumbai) en Inde. Cette Alliance n'a pas vraiment d'espace centralisé dans la ville puisqu'elle loue beaucoup de salles de cours à des collèges et des universités. Pas de visibilité dans la vie réelle et une forte présence en ligne à travers une page Facebook et un réseau social ouvert en septembre 2010, cela incite fortement à de la formation à distance. Les cours en face-à-face représentent la très grande majorité de notre enseignement de langue française. Merci David d'avoir répondu à ces questions.
Three Practical Ideas for Using Twitter in E-Learning Twitter’s all the rage. Some people love it. Some people hate it. But many people really don’t know much about it or don’t do much with it. I’ll have to admit, I have mixed feelings about Twitter (and much of the other social media). For me it’s all about context. While I do follow people, I tend to focus on topics and keywords. With all that said, Twitter is a useful tool. Click here to watch Dr. In addition to Dr. Follow the Subject Matter Expert Suppose you’re doing a course on organizational leadership. Here’s another idea for those in the education world. Another angle is to have each student represent a historical character and then they have to tweet and follow the other student characters of the time. Follow the Subject You can assign and follow tweets via a hashtag. I look forward to September and watching the Seattle #Seahawks play. Someone tracking #Seahawks can now see my tweet. Let’s say you were teaching a course on fire safety. Build a Community
How Can Twitter be used as a Learning Tool? If you still haven’t got your head around Twitter, don’t worry! You’ll get there. And it really is a lot more simple than you might think. It’s basically a free social networking tool that connects you with other people and information. One thing I really like is the ability to search conversations for keywords. And one of the coolest things is that you can access a lot of untouchable people on Twitter (@richardbranson) and big brands are now using it to market themselves in a more personal way. But does this mean it can be used as a learning tool? As much as people say it’s a marketing tool for business (true – we do have this blog feed hooked up to our twitter account), my main use for it is to discover blog posts and articles relevant to the tech industry and training i.e. learning. Jeanne Meister of New Learning Playbook sees Twitter as ‘a great tool for communicating and asking questions on conference calls and other types of static asynchronous conferencing. Related Posts:
Is Twitter Being Used As A Training Tool? | New Learning Playbook Twitter, a social networking platform used for microblogging, is a free service that lets you send the briefest of messages (with a maximum of 140 characters) to everyone in your network. It marries the mass appeal of blogging with the speed and ease of text messaging. There has been a growing interest in how to use these new forms of social media for learning & development. This is the generation that is most likely to be using Twitter. So given this level of activity, are companies using Twitter to it’s fullest potential for learning & development?
Learn English on Twitter What's Twitter you ask? Twitter is a tool that you can use to send messages of up to 140 characters to a group of followers while you also follow others. To understand, here is a video called Twitter in Plain English which provides a good introduction: This is a great tool that works with any device that you use to connect to the Internet. Sign up for a free Twitter account Once you've signed up, log in to your account. The main idea is to learn new vocabulary and practice your writing through participation. The main thing is you'll be getting English practice done everyday! I won't be correcting all the mistakes on this service. This is experimental, but that's the fun!
The Ultimate Guide To Using Twitter In Education Twitter seems to be here to stay. As one of the most popular ways for teachers, students, and the general public to communicate, it’s becoming a must-have tool in almost every teacher’s toolbox. However, numerous recent studies have shown that education in general has been slow to adopt social media. In an effort to speed up this adoption process, below you’ll find a boatload of resources on the past, present, and future of Twitter in education as well as some helpful guides to using the tool in the classroom. This guide is by no means exhaustive and is meant to be added to on a regular basis. The History of Communication The following is a guest post excerpt from Ernesto Priego of The Guardian (UK). With that in mind, the future of communication in the form of social media is examined as a way to forever alter the world of education. The idea of slow adoption was featured on Edudemic last week and is certainly going to be an issue going forth as well. The Twitter Experiment Dr.
Blogs Lille1: Twitter en classe de FLE à Lille1 - expérimentations Je viens présenter dans ce présent article mes usages de Twitter dans un cadre professionnel, à savoir la pédagogie des langues étrangères dans l'enseignement supérieur et la formation continue. (pour la présentation du contexte, du dispositif et des acteurs de formation - voir la fin de l'article.) width="131" height="131" alt="image" style="border: 0px; "> Qu'est-ce que Twitter, je ne répondrai pas à cette question. Comment j’utilise ce nouvel outii en classe ? Avant de donner quelques exemples... je replace les comptes pour des visites éventuelles: Mon compte personnel: Le compte de la classe: 1. Voici en premier le cas particulier de l'utilisation de Twitter en temps réel lors d’une conférence ou lors d’un exercice de compréhension orale et de prises de note en FLE (Français Langue Etrangère) [/caption] 2. 3. Rappel du contexte:
Nous twittons, nous apprenons ! J’ai commencé à utiliser Twitter en classe FLE en août 2010, il y a un an. Aujourd’hui, je vais faire le bilan de mes usages de cet outil de microblogage. Mes comptes professionnels pracheefle et pracheepalsule Pourquoi ? On n’avait pas encore créé le réseau ning Mumbaikar in French Il n’y avait donc pas de plateforme commune pour les apprenants après leurs cours. Comment ? 1.