Using+Twitter+in+English+Teaching

Using Twitter in English Teaching 1: Create a twitter account just for the use of your teaching. You can use this to post reminders of upcoming assignments or to suggest extra readings for your students. 2: Encourage students to make a twitter account and @reply you with any queries (or dm – direct message – if they don’t want others to see their questions) about the course work. This way you are available to help at any time. 3: Post articles, videos and links to helpful sources that your students can then see and use. They can also post a source and ask for help deciding if it is worth using or not. 4: Get your students talking to each other through Twitter – discussions about coursework can take place and involve everyone. 5: Due to the 140 character constraints for public posts, students will learn to be succinct and will also learn all common abbreviations. 6: You can posts polls to twitter. Polls can not only be used to see how students are feeling about the work and if they are coping, but also to see if students are understanding concepts. E.g. an anonymous poll with several possible answers for the question ‘What is a metaphor?’ will show if the class has grasped the concept or not, depending on how many students get the answer correct. 7: You can encourage students to follow their favourite authors. Etc, that are on twitter to increase their interest in learning. 8: Have twitter competitions. See who can make the best poem or story in only 140 characters and give out small prizes or certificates in class for the best ones.