29. The project
• Run a presidential
campaign
• Goal: get your organelle
elected president
• Create
posters, flyers, goodies, F
acebook page, Twitter
account, etc.
• Smear at least 5 other
organelles
• HT Marna
Chamberlain, Piedmont
HS, CA
30. In the beginning …
• Students were
encouraged to create
Twitter accounts for
organelles
31. In the beginning …
• Students were
encouraged to create
Twitter accounts for
organelles
32. In the beginning …
• Students were
encouraged to create
Twitter accounts for
organelles
• Used for promotion
33. In the beginning …
• Students were
encouraged to create
Twitter accounts for
organelles
• Used for promotion
• And smearing
46. The level of discussion went
beyond my expectations
47. We made it to BBC Radio!
• And were blogged about here …
• And here …
• And here …
48. We received some great resources!
• “Hidden Life of the Cell” video from BBC
television before it was available in the US
• Narrated by David Tennant (of Dr. Who
fame)
54. Storify helped us wrap up the
project
• Storify: a curation tool
for social media
• Students narrated the
highlights of their
#organellewars
experience.
• Peroxisome Storify
• Cytoskeleton Storify
• Ribosome Storify
• #OverlyHonestMethods
Storify
58. #Organellewars on Twitter
• Changed
– Student experience
• Scientists became real people
• Engaged in content
• Public audience = accountability
– Teacher experience
• Able to engage with real scientists on variety of topics
• Able to have students excited to learn about cells
– Scientist experience
• Able to engage in outreach with high school students to
encourage them into scientific fields
59. My role
• Encourage student tweets/questions &
compliment good ones
• Monitor students & their
interactions/followers
• Engage scientists w/my own questions
(model for my students)
• Admit what I know and don’t know
• Allow my own excitement/enthusiasm to
show
64. Any questions?
• Ways to contact me
– @mr_graba on Twitter
– bgraba@d211.org via e-mail
Editor's Notes
Texting = passing notesSmartphones = computer inside a phoneApps = Books, magazines, planners, games, etc., all on the computer in your phoneFacebook = Talking on the phone everyday to everyone you do know, all at onceTwitter = talking on the phone everyday to everyone you don’t know, all at once
