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- 1. @Kidsedchatnz Connecting classes through Twitter Reid Walker @reidhns1 Simone Gentil @simone015 www.kidsedchatnz.blogspot.co.nz @kidsedchatnz
- 2. What is Kidsedchatnz? Chat session run weekly for NZ school children Coordinated & moderated by NZ teachers Facilitated through Twitter accounts Questions are posted before chat sessions on the blog www.kidsedchatnz.blogspot.co.nz
- 3. Anatomy of a chat tweet Profile picture Twitter handle Username Date of tweet Chat question number Hashtag with name & school @username being replied to Favourite View more tweets
- 4. Kidsdchatnz History Created late 2012 after @Pascaldresse impressed by #Edchatnz 2013 strong growth & now managed by team of seven teachers Growing recognition of Kidsedchatnz Edutopia article
- 5. Where are our classes?
- 6. Kidsedchatnz Team Pick topics Set questions Post questions on blog before chat session Post questions on Twitter in chat session Moderate posts in chat Post a “tweet of the week” on blog
- 7. Digital Citizenship Keeping tweeters safe is a priority Subscribed list vs hashtag Classes follow subscribed list in chat session
- 8. Why Kidsedchatnz? NZ Curriculum Key Competencies: Relating to others Participating & Contributing Using Language, Symbols & Texts
- 9. Curriculum Links Chat topics have included: Digital Citizenship Teamwork Social Issues Hack your learning Term Reflections Goal Setting
- 10. Student Voice
- 11. Need a Twitter account & subscribe to the Kidsedchatnz list Questions posted to blog in weekend Follow the list during the chat Tweet, reply, favourite & retweet Taking part in Kidsedchatnz QuickTime™ and a H.264 decompressor are needed to see this picture.
- 13. More prep work
- 14. Twitter AccountTwitter Account You need a TwitterYou need a Twitter account for your classaccount for your class Kidsedchatnz BlogKidsedchatnz Blog www.kidsedchatnz.blogspot.co.nzwww.kidsedchatnz.blogspot.co.nz HH ave the blog open to follow the queave the blog open to follow the que Tweetdeck / HootsuiteTweetdeck / Hootsuite Kids find it easier to followKids find it easier to follow the chat using thesethe chat using these platforms.platforms.
- 15. Workshop Kidsedchatnz session, feel free to take part Support with setting up class Twitter accounts & subscribing to lists Support with setting up Tweetdeck columns Google Doc if you’re interested in Kidsedchatnz
Editor's Notes
- Introduce myself & Simone, feel free to Ask early about how many attendees have taken part before, heard about, have twitter or not.
- Chat session where children are using twitter to connect with other children around a particular topic. Thursday 2pm. - Timings can change term to term. Team of 7 introduced in another slide. Questions are posted on a blog, this can be used to help scaffold children for the session (modelling quality tweets, introducing vocab but most importantly there is often a task to do before hand (flipped lesson).
- Kidsedchatnz is an #Edchatnz baby created when it was obvious how the chat session model could benefit children - connection, engagement and real writing & reading. Now our team of 7 look after it, taking turns to moderate topics. A typical session involves 15 - 25 classes and up to 1000 tweets. We regularly get tweets from other teachers wanting to observe or hook in to the sessions and we even got an article published in Italy recently about Kidsedchatnz.
- We do have a mascot called Follow who gets sent around the country too.
- We all come from a range of levels 0-8 During a session we utilise the @kidsedchatnz twitter account, post the questions & facilitate discussion between the children. Tweet of the week - Quality tweeting
- We use a subscribed list, that way kids only follow the list and see other classes and teachers who have subscribed to the list. It avoids the use of hashtags which are prone to Spam once they trend.
- Relating to others: Children interact on many levels - classroom, with others they praise, encourage, moderate, feed forward Part. & Contribute: Building relationships & knowledge together around a common interest or topic, building collaborative groups that have moved beyond the chat session also. Using Language, Symbols & Texts: Twitter requires they write using specific structural & language features, quite different to other written forms, with use of hashtags, handles.
- The writing & reading aspects are obvious, I’ve never seen such an authentic experience of a child skimming & scanning as a child charging through a twitter feed. Other topics ask for children to encounter with many different aspects of the curriculum, sometimes in more of a silo format while other topics may integrate many different subjects.
- http://youtu.be/v6WbScyRuhM - Marnel’s Video
- We suggest two twitter accounts, 1 for the teacher, 1 for the class, this requires two separate email addresses. A lot of classes don’t have everyone participate, perhaps only a small group. You don’t have to take part every week. Other useful videos to help are posted on Kidsedchatnz blog.
- Examples of ways that Kidsedchatnz can be incorporated into your regular class timetable over & above the actual chat session. Demonstrates various aspects of literacy learning.
- Preparation can involve research, reading & writing for tweets too. Quality tweeting necessitates the full writing process just like any other form of writing, poor tweets don’t get favourited, RTd or replied to. Kids learn to write for their audience of teachers & peers.
- 2 platforms at least required to make it easier for you & your students on the day, 3 if you use Tweetdeck (our recommendation).