The document discusses using Twitter to role-play classics like Hamlet in the classroom. It provides examples of how to set up Twitter accounts for characters and guidelines for the activity. The goal is to explore new ways of engaging students through remixing texts using social media.

1. PML 6
Locating culture: Who makes it, and how?

2. Learning Goals
Understanding audience, composition, purpose, and
context
Performance/drama
Slam poetry and remix culture

3. Agenda
Discuss lesson redesigns (should be posted to your
blog today)
Audience, purpose, and context: using Twitter to role
play the classics and other experiments with social
media
Discussion of readings

4. Lesson Redesigns
Posted to blog with resources and explanation of what
you changed and why.
Be sure to credit original sources.
Remember your audience and purpose:
Audience: your peers and future colleagues
Purpose: to share, reflect, look for feedback

5. Brevity is the Soul of
(t)Wit
Using Twitter to Role-Play the Classics

6. The Experiment
• Can we use Twitter to role-play Hamlet in
real time?
• What would we learn if we tried it?
• What is the value of trying this in the
classroom?

7. Twitter is an online social networking
and microblogging service that enables
its users to send and read text-based
posts of up to 140 characters,
informally known as "tweets".

10. Multimedia

11. Implications for the
Classroom

12. Technology doesn’t necessarily = engagement

13. Big Ideas
"What is the value in re-imagining a
text using social media?”

14. Be the Director
Set up the Twitter accounts yourself
not so much for policing but so you can
see all the planning that happens through
direct messages.
An email account is necessary to set up a
Twitter account, but I’ve found a good
workaround is to use variations on a gmail
address such as
yourname+student1@gmail.com.

16. Lists
Create a list and add all the character handles to the list.
This way people can follow a list rather than each
character:
eg/ https://twitter.com/#!/danikabarker/brevity-2-0

17. Don’t grade this.
Not everything we do as teachers needs to be
graded, although this is sometimes a tough sell for
students. Assess, and have the students reflect but
the second you tell students they’re being graded,
it raises the level of anxiety and puts a stop to
creativity and playfulness, especially when trying
something new.
Not everything we do as teachers needs to be
graded, although this is sometimes a tough sell for
students. Assess, and have the students reflect but
the second you tell students they’re being graded,
it raises the level of anxiety and puts a stop to
creativity and playfulness, especially when trying

18. Other Applications
•History role playing:
http://twitter.com/#!/danikabarker/mr-t-s-
history-class
•Backchanneling
•Homework reminders
•Developing a PLN

19. Everything’s A Remix
Is this a rip off? (Four Corners Discussion)
IC
QuickTime™ and a QuickTime™ and a
decompressor decompressor
are needed to see this picture. are needed to see this picture.
Under Pressure Ice Ice Baby

20. Poetry Slam
Performance art competition
Scored 0-10 for content and performance
No props, no instruments, needs to be original
Can be performed as a team
Interactive

21. Poetry Slam
Althouse Poetry Slam
In small groups, compose an original poem for our
Althouse Poetry Slam following the guidelines in
the video reading for this week.
Audience: your peers
Purpose: to express your feelings, concerns,
hopes, fears about teaching (and to understand
how you can apply this to the classroom)

22. For Next Week
We’ll perform our poetry slam and debrief
Reading: "Curriculum theorizing for multiliteracies: A
rebel with a cause" (Will be uploaded to OWL)