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My Ignite: Twitter
The document discusses the impact of Twitter on communication and language learning, highlighting its use for real-time interaction and cultural exchange. It emphasizes the potential benefits of leveraging Twitter in educational settings, particularly for learning languages like Spanish and Italian. The author shares personal experiences and research findings that suggest Twitter enhances learner engagement, confidence, and knowledge acquisition.
My Ignite: Twitter
- 1. That old familiar tweet… tuit twiittini Tweetjeim Твитт I’m Enza, twitterize me & you get iVenus. My pointless babble, conversations and news are about technology and books, based on circumstantial evidence of course. I share this information cheerfully, with my geeky grin. Ah, that old familiar tweet…
- 2. We are whatwe tweet… The top 5 moments in the US indicate we tweet a lot when we watch TV. What does that say about us culturally…think about it. If we are what we tweet, are Americans couch potatoes?
- 3. According to Twitter’sprivacy info tip What you say on Twitter may be viewed all around the world instantly. You share it publically to your following. Hmmm, Tell me who you follow…
- 4. So who dowe follow…not surprisingly celebrities. Is celebrity stalking, via their self-obsessive sound bites, is as important to stars as the Milton Berle show was to Elvis’, or the Ed Sullivan show to the Beatles? We can get info in real time nonstop. As my 10yo daughter says…don’t let your children on Twitter (PS they must be 13 yo to have an account)
- 5. We’ve seen thetop 5 tweeting moments (what) and top 5 tweeps (who). Is that newsworthy…yes and no! The medium becomes the message…. Traditional news sources reporting about what happens on Twitter! Ah, if only the mild- mannered Marshall McLuhen could tweet ;)
- 6. Twitter’s 2012 numbersare staggering! People from around the globe tweet night & day, always on, always connected. we have access to global Twitter moments in over 61 languages. As language teachers, how do we harness this?
- 7. I have beenusing Twitter to learn Spanish. What a resource! There are 2.5 M hispanic americans who prefer to tweet in spanish!. But I can also learn from Beatriz in Mexico City, Luis in Honduras, Yoani in Cuba, Pam in Argentina, eraser in Seville & Pedro in the Canary Islands
- 8. Daily this 3rdparty app, I have my Spanish tweets nicely laid out for me in a traditional looking e-paper, so I can read, learn, explore and share. My content is organized so I can easily “study” Culture sections in textbooks can’t compete!
- 9. Using Twitter forSpanish is too predictable, you say? Let’s look at the other languages, in all major writing systems. Remember what Ferdinand deSaussure’s said about the arbitrary nature of language … doesn’t matter how you spell it a tweet is a tuit, is a twittini, tweetjaim, twitt
- 10. My tweeting studentsor my STWudents, if you will, could theoretically follow experts (native Italian speakers) -they can share whatever: themselves, what they know about Italy, Italians, ItaloAmericans; - they can chat and learn from whomever they choose
- 11. Twitterers can: Micro-blog about what they are doing (learner written output) Read what others are doing (learner’s comprehensible input) Communicate directly with someone they are following (negotiation of meaning) Chapelle (1998)’s theory of good interaction underlies my research. Twitter maximizes opportunities to create tasks for good interaction with a communicative objective: content is in authentic context, and the tasks generate communication and require meaning to be negotiated.
- 12. Twitterers interpret input produce output engage in conversations Tweets are self-perpetuating generative authentic It’s organic… those who enjoy tweeting don’t need prompts or encouragement from the teacher
- 13. Teacher/Res Italians earcher 25% 14% Students in other sections 15% Classmates 46% My students tweeted with whom? In the two classes that participated in the study, mostly they chatted with their classmates. But they didn’t stop there…initially I encouraged conversations
- 14. To rank studentsperceptions of learning Italian with Twitter -Helped build their confidence in writing italian/ -Made the course more interesting, raising motivation / -Increased their knowledge of grammar & vocabulary / -Increased their cultural awareness
- 15. I <3 overachievers! Posted 324 tweets from Sept. to Dec. 2008 (required to post only 60!) Was is really such a positive experience? This student isn’t an italian major but is a bilingual twitterer, even now almost 4 years later. She was introduced to twitter in my class and took flight to be a twegend, exceeding expectations by 400%!!
- 16. Since twitter isreal-time updates, we should allow our students to take advantage of tweeting wherever and whenever. I love it when students tweets from trains/buses, the gym and other classes (eeps!)…Don’t limit foreign language tweeting to the classroom!
- 17. Have them Have them tweet brainstorm ideas without prompts and post them for Have them feedback investigate/search Use polls and topics related to hashtags to get syllabi instant feedback Have them investigate Have them ask language use to build questions and get vocabulary feedback from a Have them post a larger community photo and describe it of experts Suggestions for using twitter in and out of the classroom. Contact time has a different dynamic (Reynol Junco’s 2011 study). Going beyond the classroom helps learning occurs intersticially, during pauses in the daily routine
- 18. Twitter does havea place in education, with analogous concepts of input, output, negotiation presented here according to degree of difficulty. This spectrum is just a sampling of possibilities for Twitter for teaching and learning.
- 19. In my 5minutes, about 1500 new twitter accounts were opened and approximately ½ million tweets were posted. See, I’m not the only one passionate about twitter!
- 20. Enza Antenos-Conforti a.k.a. iVenus a.k.a.the “mother” of foreign language twitterers* Professor of Italian Chair, Academic Technology Committee Montclair State University Twitter:@iVenus Slideshare: slideshare.net/iVenus Mail: antenosconfe@mail.montclair.edu
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Editor's Notes
- #2 I’m Enza, twitterize me & you get iVenus. My pointless babble, conversations and news are about technology and books, based on circumstantial evidence of course. I share this information cheerfully, with my geeky grin. Ah, that old familiar tweet…
- #3 What did Americans tweet about the most in the last year. The top 5 moments indicate we tweet a lot when we watch TV. What does that say about us culturally…think about it. If we are what we tweet, are Americans just couch potatoes?
- #5 So who do we follow…not surprisingly celebrities. Celebrity stalking is as important to stars as the Milton Berle show was to Elvis’, or Carson to the Beatles. Now we can get info in real time nonstop. As my 10yo daughter says…don’t let your children on Twitter
- #6 We talked about top 5 tweeting moments (what) and top 5 tweeps (who). Is that newsworthy…yes and no! Look, the medium becomes the message…. Media reporting about media!!! Twitter is the message! Ah, if only the mild-mannered Marshall McLuhen could tweet ;)
- #7 Twitter’s 2012 numbers are staggering! People from around the globe tweet night & day, always on, always connected. we have access to global Twitter moments in over 61 languages. As language teachers, how do we harness this?
- #8 I Wanna learn Spanish. There are 2.5 M hispanicamericans who tweet in spanish!. But I can learn from Beatriz in Mexico City, Luis in Honduras, Yoani in Cuba, Pam in Argentina, eraser in Seville & Pedro in the Canary Islands
- #9 Daily this 3rd party app, I have my Spanish tweets nicely laid out for me in a traditional looking e-paper, so I can read, learn, explore and share. My content is organized so I can easily “study” Culture sections in textbooks can’t compete!
- #10 Using Twitter for Spanish is too predictable, you say? Let’s look at the other languages, in all major writing systems.Remember what Ferdinand deSaussure’s said about the arbitrary nature of language … doesn’t matter how you spell it a tweet is a tuit, is a twittini, tweetjaim, twittVikrama – Hindi, mumbaiBuithaina – kuwait city, kuwaitElissavet – greekathensMiyavi – japanesetokyo (samurai guitarist)Afelia – moscow
- #11 My tweeting students or my STWudents, if you will, could theoretically follow experts (native Italian speakers)-they can share whatever: themselves, what they know about Italy, Italians, ItaloAmericans; - they can chat and learn from whomever they choose
- #12 Chapelle (1998)’s theory of good interaction underlies my research. Twitter maximizes opportunities to create tasks for good interaction with a communicative objective: content is in authentic context, and the tasks generate communication and require meaning to be negotiated.
- #13 It’s organic… those who enjoy tweeting don’t need prompts or encouragement from the teacher
- #14 My students tweeted with whom? In the two classes that participated in the study, mostly they chatted with their classmates. But they didn’t stop there…initially I encouraged conversations
- #15 To rank students perceptions of learning Italian with TwitterHelped build their confidence in writing italianMade the course more interesting, raising motivationIncreased their knowledge of grammar & vocabularyIncreased their cultural awareness
- #16 Was is really such a positive experience? This student isn’t an italian major but is a bilingual twitterer, even now almost 4 years later. She was introduced to twitter in my class and took flight to be a twegend, exceeding expectations by 400%!!
- #17 Since twitter is real-time updates, we should allow our students to take advantage of tweeting wherever and whenever. I love it when students tweets from trains/buses, the gym and other classes (eeps!)…Don’t limit foreign language tweeting to the classroom!
- #18 Suggestions for using twitter in and out of the classroom. Contact time has a different dynamic (Reynol Junco’s 2011 study). Going beyond the classroom helps learning occurs intersticially, during pauses in thedaily routine
- #19 Twitter does have a place in education, with analogous concepts of input, output, negotiation presented here according to degree of difficulty. This spectrum is just a sampling of possibilities for Twitter for teaching and learning.
- #20 In my 5 minutes, about 1500 new twitter accounts were opened and approximately ½ million tweets were posted. See, I’m not the only one passionate about twitter!