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This is a presentation given on the one-day Braztesol seminar given at Casa Thomas Jefferson on May 11th, 2012
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• Jack Dorsey
• San Francisco, California
• March 2006
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• 2007 South by Southwest
Interactive (SXSWi) Conference
• Astronauts from NASA
International Space Station on
January 22, 2010.
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• In 2007, about 400,000 tweets
per quarter.
• In March 2011, 140 million tweets
daily. June 2011, 200 million.
• Prominent events: the World Cup
and Michael Jackson’s death
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• The words “Michael Jackson”
crashed Twitter servers – rate of
100,000 tweets/hour.
• Disasters such as earthquakes in
Haiti, Japan and Chile
• Political events: Arab Spring
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• 1. Ask for and provide help
• 2. Share ideas
• 3. Get advice
• 4. Announce events
• 5. Follow celebrities
• 6. Follow topics of interest
• 7. Read the latest news
• 8. Pursue professional development
• 1. Offers opportunities to practice
specific language skills
• 2. Teaches sts to focus on what
they say
• 3. Keeps conversations going
inside and outside the classroom
• 4. Develops a sense of classroom
community
• 5. Provides a sense of the world
• 6. Offers the possibility of instant
feedback
• 7. Provides quick search on any
possible topic for discussion
• 8. Offers the teacher a tool for
announcing any event for the
class e.g. homework, speeches…
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*The easiest use of Twitter is to answer the great question which the microblog was created for:
What are you doing now?
*Establish a number of times students could tweet answering the question.
*Establish a day and time when all students should tweet their answers to the question.
*Ask students to follow a news
channel such as:
*@BBCWorld
*@cnnbrk
*@BBCNews
*@NBCNewYork
Students comment on the latest news
that has surprised them or called their
attention.
*Celebrate important dates
*Ask students to use the Twitter search and look for an interesting Tweet they could RT on that special day:
*Mothers’Day
*Fathers’Day
*Saint Valentine`s
*International Environment Day
*They could compose their own messages and you could have a poll to vote on the best one.
*As a class, decide on a celebrity to
be followed and on a deadline to
bring the juicy gossip into class and
comment on what they have learned
about the celebrity:
*@sseagalofficial
*@justinbieber
* @LadyGaga
*@BarrackObama
*Use Twitter to comment about the
literature books that the class is
reading.
*At the end of each chapter, our
students and readers tweet at least
one comment about their
impressions of the story or the
characters.
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*We proposed to our Advanced students to tweet in English as an after/during class project.
*We opened an account for the class and an application of GroupTweet.
*As students joined Twitter and started following the class Twitter, they were added as contributors.
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*The project has a duration of three weeks to start and will later be evaluated if it should go on or not.
*Our proposal was that they should answer at least one tweet in relation to the grammar being studied in the lesson.
*And answer at least one tweet in relation to the content topic of the lesson.
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Can you think of another activity
that could be done with the use of
Twitter to enhance/improve
language use outside the
classroom?
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ZEINSTEJER, R. Transform and Tailor your Teaching with Twitter.
In Pro.T 2012. " evolving Pedagogies, evolving Englishes”;
02/17/2012; Buenos Aires, Argentina
Twitter – Wikipedia.org – access on 05/05/2012
A Beginner`s Guide to Twitter. In Youtube; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4tCn2KTLro&feature=related
GroupTweet.com
Images
Twitter. http://conecti.ca/2010/09/28. Access on 05/05/2012
Twitter. http://fcruzbello.es/tag/twitter. Access on 25/04/2012
Twitter bird icon. http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/freebies.
Access on 25/04/2012
Twitter-sing. http://www.rizwanashraf.com/2009/07/11/50-
free-twitter-icon-and-button-sets. Access on 25/04/2012
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