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Go Bird, Go!AN INVENTIVE APPROACH, UTILIZING INFORMATION SEEKING STRATEGIES, FOR BUILDING A BUZZ AROUND CLASSROOM OR INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS, PORTFOLIOS AND/OR DESIGNS USING TWITTER.
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Call for Proposals
The RT Room encourages teachers, preservice teachers, university faculty, librarians, administrators, undergraduate and graduate students and educational consultants to submit proposals for online sessions.
The RT Room invites session proposals related to Reader’s Theatre (RT) such as best practices, innovation, fluency, e-learning, online learning communities, social media, blogging, and mobile learning. Any proposal related to how RT is enhancing classroom curriculum or after school activities (for both teachers and students) will be considered. Proposals that have practical application of RT for educators, as well as those that include practical application of technology to enhance their teaching or make it more efficient are highly encouraged. Proposals can also discuss research related to using RT in the K-12 and university classrooms.Watch page in early February 2016 for more details!
Part OneTwitter as Database
“He rocks in the tree tops all day long
Hoppin' and a - boppin' and a –singin’ his song…”
Database - A structured set of data held in computer storage
and typically accessed or manipulated by means of specialized software.
Information Seeking Activitiesi.e. “the search and acquisition of news, knowledge, opinions, and other information.”
Ha, Louisa, Chen Yang, Gi W. Yun, and Lanming W. Chen. "From Relationship to Information." (2015). Print.
Using Twitter as your database“Instead of building our own system, we asked reporters to post their updates to Twitter and use hashtags to associate each update with a race. Then we used the Twitter API … to fetch updates for each page.”
Sheinkman, Andrei. "Using Twitter as Your Database." Web log post. Open. New York Times, 15 June 2011. Web. 04 Oct. 2015.
Faculty Professional use of Social Media“In addition to their personal use of social media, faculty use of social media in support of their professional careers (any aspect of their job outside of teaching) was explored. Over one-half of all teaching faculty reported that they made “at least monthly” use of social media for professional purposes.”Seaman, Jeff, and Hester Tinti-Kane. Social Media for Teaching and Learning. Boston, Mass: Pearson Learning Systems, 2013. Internet resource.
Translating Inquiries into Answers
User Anticipated questions? How much information at a time? Are you Global?
Part TwoInformation Seeking Strategies
“The wise old owl, the big black crowFlappin' their wings singing go bird go”
Search and Retrieval Strategies
Model of Search Process Clarify the question Select the materials Prioritize the sources Locate the sources Search the materials Evaluate and repeat
Alexander, Carter. How to Locate Educational Information and Data: A Text and Reference Book. New York: Teachers college, Columbia University, 1941. Print.
Clarify the question
Readers Theatre What is it? Who uses it? Where is it being used? How is it being used? Why is it being used?
Example – How is it being used?
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UPDATE YOUR TWEET
Iconography“…photos give verified users a 35% bump in retweets.”
What fuels a Tweet’s engagement?Monday, March 10, 2014 | By Simon Rogers (@smfrogers)
Select the materials
Whose materials will you highlight today? Yours or someone else's?
Controlled VocabularyConsistent hashtag use for your content
#readerstheatre#readerstheater#opensource#PBL#steam#ELL#ESL
Locate the sources Retweet, hashtag, pictures, @ CREATE with
Canva, Smore, Tellagami & Wordswag
CANVAAn online tool similar to Photoshop. Quick, easy and professional graphic design.
SMORESmore makes it easy to design beautiful and effective online flyers and newsletters and empower small businesses and individuals to realize their online marketing potential and significantly impact their business goals.
TellagamiTellagami® is a mobile app that lets you create and share a quick animated Gami video
Wordswaguse Word Swag to:Make stylish quotes and poster designsMake awesome graphics for blog/websiteCaption their food & travel picsSend beautiful greetingsBrand profile pics
Prioritize the sources
Hootsuite
Search the materials
How to Write in 140 Characters or Less Dustin Wax Every character counts, so use strong verbs and a minimum of
adverbs Avoid "university words". Almost every long word in English has
a short, blunt word that means the same thing. Forget about breaking your thoughts into two posts. Write first, then rewrite. Spill it all out and then trim. Write short sentences. Many short sentences looks like
something worth reading. Use punctuation! when words are limited, punctuation adds
impact. Be personal. Short posts are very conversational and almost
intimate. on Twitter, it counts. Get to the point. cut straight to the chase. Humor works. 140 characters is well suited to the snarky jab, the
aphorism, the epigram. Brevity is, after all, the soul of wit. And Tweets.
The best you can do in 140 characters is entice. Get their attention and give them someplace good to go.
"I am sorry I have had to write you such a long letter, but I did not have time to write you a short one"--attributed to Blaise Pascal
** Beyond 140
Evaluate and Repeat
Twitter Analytics
Information Seeking Model Simplified
Need ? Search Twitter
Your Feed
Evaluate
No
Reformulate
Does the information answer
the ?
Yes StopDr. Elizabeth FigaUniversity of North Texas
Measurable ActionsFollowFavoriteRetweetImpressions
Stop
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retweet.
• Admins/Principals/Lead Teachers/Authors (i.e. movers and shakers in your content area)
• local academic and public Librarians
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