These slides were used during the workshop 'Twitter for language tutors' delivered at the Sussex Centre for Language Studies at the University of Sussex on 24th January 2017.

1. TWITTER
Benoît Guilbaud
Tuesday 24th January 2017
for language tutors
Sussex Centre for Languages Studies
#TwitterSCLSAdapted from @eljeejavier & @benguilbaud, 2012

2. SESSION CONTENTS
What isTwitter?
What’s in it for me?
Can I use it for language teaching?
Hands-on workshop
(30 minutes)
(60 minutes)

3. WHAT ISTWITTER?

4. WHAT ISTWITTER?
Free online service accessible via browser, phone, tablet
Type and post 140 characters ‘tweets’
‘Follow’ people and view their tweets in your ‘timeline’

6. WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?

7. WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
Join a community of language teachers / professionals
Find teaching resources and ideas, examples of good practice,
call for papers, academic articles, cultural events, etc.
Share your ideas, content, resources

8. BENEFITS
Intellectual - Engage with your community
Learn something new
Professional - Keep up-to-date with your field
Boost your online academic profile

9. WHOTO FOLLOW

10. WHOTO FOLLOW
Individuals, e.g. @AdamTickell
Teachers, researchers, colleagues, etc.
Institutional accounts, e.g. @SussexUni
HE institutions, research centres, British Council,
foreign/partner institutions, newspapers, …

11. LISTS

12. MFLTWITTERERS
by @joedale
≃ 4,600 members
…/twitter.com/joedale/mfl-twitterers

13. HASHTAGS

14. USEFUL HASHTAGS
#MFLtwitterati
#LangChat
#TwitterSCLS

15. CAN I USE IT FOR
LANGUAGETEACHING?

16. WELL…

17. IDEA #1: COURSE HASHTAG
Pick a hashtag for your course, e.g. #LEAPFrench
Students and tutors tweet using the hashtag
Embed onVLE

18. Benoît
Guilbaud
In order to bring together every student following a French course at the
University Language Centre, we have created the Twitter hashtag #LEAPFrench.
Any tweet containing this hashtag will appear in the box below, and will be visible
on every Blackboard site for LEAP French course and publicly on Twitter.
To get started
What is Twitter? How do I join? What is a hashtag?
How to get involved?
To start with, just look at the feed on the right-hand side - it will be a great way
for you to:
find out about news and events relating to French language in Manchester
and at the ULC
find reading suggestions in French - at all levels
discover who else is studying French at the University Language Centre
Interested? Why not start tweeting?
Just compose a tweet and add the hashtag #LEAPFrench to it. Your tweets will
appear in the feed on the right-hand side and will be visible to all. Use the
hashtag to:
share the things you've read or watched with the rest of the LEAP French
community - ask for opinions, exchange ideas in French
ask the community for language learning advice and tips - remember that
people on #LEAPFrench are learning the language at all levels, from A1 to
C2. There will always be someone who can help you, and someone you can
help.
sell your old books or buy someone else's old books.
organise socials, find someone to go see a French film with.
Look out for tweets from the University Language Centre team @UoMLangCentre.
Please note
The Twitter hashtag should not replace traditional email communications for
matters such as attendance, lateness, administrative queries, formal complaints
and grievances. Please refer to the 'Essential information' page to find out who to
contact.
#LEAPFrench
0 Members See All JOIN
PAUSE
Compose Tweet
Live Feed
SHOW OLDER
@UoMLangCentre UoM Language Centre
@UoMLangCentre UoM Language Centre
@kshjensen Kathrine Jensen
@BenGuilbaud Benoît Guilbaud
@BenGuilbaud Benoît Guilbaud
Thinking of using your French for work? Why
not get an internationally-recognised
qualification? http://t.co/6GGuXnnW8t
#LEAPFrench
Why do we make mistakes? Blame your brain,
the original autocorrector via @guardian
#LEAPFrench http://t.co/8b5iGoTFWM
RT @BenGuilbaud: On Friday I will be talking
about Twitter and what it can do for
language tutors @UoMLangCentre
#LEAPFrench
L'actualité française au quotidien : JT France
2 - http://t.co/2ewFozDsBm #LEAPFrench
Le passé simple - Le connûtes-vous ?
http://t.co/YCswQyZB40 #LEAPFrench
1h
2h
2d
2d
2d
More Tweets, Photos & Videos at Twubs
#LEAPFrench#LEAPFrench

19. One student tweets a new word every day for one week
Add link to definition, picture, anecdote
Add hashtag to collect all tweets in a feed
IDEA #2:VOCABULARY BUILDING

20. IDEA #3: INTERACTION IN LARGE GROUPS
Use tweets with large groups or cohort
Use for voting, Q&As

21. IDEA #4
Alessia Plutino’sTwitTIAMO (Uni of Southampton)
“UsingTwitter to boost language learning
and cultural awareness”
(see handout)

23. WORKSHOP:
USINGTWITTER

24. @ MENTIONS
Exchange @usernames with someone
Compose a new tweet and mention them

25. FOLLOW
Click on a person’s @username
Follow them

26. #HASHTAGS
Compose a new tweet
Include the session hashtag #TwitterSCLS
Add this to all your tweets for this session

27. SEARCH
Create & save a search for #TwitterSCLS
Follow everyone who is using the session hashtag

28. WHOTO FOLLOW
Look at the tweet suggesting people to follow
Follow people & institutions you like
#ff

29. RETWEET
Choose a tweet you find interesting
Retweet it
You may also ‘quote’ the tweet
(and add a comment, hashtag, etc.)

30. FAVOURITE ❤
Find the tweet with a link to the session slides
Mark it as a favourite
Retrieve it later from your profile

31. HOMEWORK
Add a short bio: say who you are, where you work,
what your pedagogical and research interests are
Add a link to your university profile or blog

32. FURTHER READING
ATwitter guide by LSE - Impact of Social Sciences (PDF)
What the *Tweet*? Social Media for Grad Students - M. Fullick (Prezi)
60 Inspiring Examples ofTwitter in the Classroom (Blog)
How English language teachers can go with theTwitter flow (Guardian)
The language ofTwitter: the rise of MFL teachers online (Guardian)
90+Twitter tools teachers should know about

33. Using Twitter in university
research, teaching and
impact activities
A guide for academics and
researchers
Amy Mollett, Danielle Moran and Patrick Dunleavy
Twitter is a form of free micro-blogging which allows users to send and receive short public
messages called tweets. Tweets are limited to no more than 140 characters, and can include
links to blogs, web pages, images, videos and all other material online.You can start tweeting in
10 minutes, anytime, from your computer, smart phone or tablet.
By following other people and sources you are able to build up an instant, personalized
Twitter feed that meets your full range of interests, both academic and personal. Thousands of
academics and researchers at all levels of experience and across all disciplines already use
Twitter daily, alongside more than 200 million other users.
Yet how can such a brief medium have any relevance to universities and academia, where
journal articles are 3,000 to 8,000 words long, and where books contain 80,000 words? Can
anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters?
This guide answers these questions, showing you how to get started on Twitter and showing you
how Twitter can be used as a resource for research, teaching and impact activities.
© LSE Public Policy Group 2011
Impact of Social Sciences
Maximizing the impact of academic research
1
ATWITTER GUIDE BY LSE
Terminology
Tweeting styles
Building up your followers
UsingTwitter for research projects
UsingTwitter in departments
Using twitter alongside blogging
UsingTwitter in teaching

34. MODEL STUDENT :-)

36. THANKYOU
Benoît Guilbaud
Tuesday 24th January 2017Sussex Centre for Languages Studies
Please tweet your feedback using #TwitterSCLS
Adapted from @eljeejavier & @benguilbaud, 2012