{"id":198,"date":"2014-12-13T00:11:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T04:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/timrollwagen\/?p=198"},"modified":"2015-01-13T13:44:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T17:44:14","slug":"twitter-chats-storify-and-plcs-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/timrollwagen\/2014\/12\/13\/twitter-chats-storify-and-plcs-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter chats, Storify, and PLCs in the classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Similar to Facebook, you are able to set up a profile where all your Storify articles are stored. You can also follow and share with others.<\/p><\/div>\n

Twitter and Storify – Enhancing and Archiving for Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n

The power of sharing in an isolated event such as a Twitter chat can be a motivating, collaborative, and unique way to stimulate the minds of our students. \u00a0A couple weeks ago, I ran my first Twitter chat with the Cohort 21<\/a> crew on educational frameworks and action planning as a professional development technique. \u00a0After completing the Twitter chat, I wanted to capture the questions, ideas, and resources that the Cohort 21 community shared. \u00a0I had heard of Storify<\/a> before but hadn’t used it as a tool to capture and archive resources. It was super easy and made it into a very organized and easy to read format. \u00a0Unfortunately, WordPress won’t embed Storify due to security reasons but you can still see the link below to view the recent chat on Ed-tech Frameworks such as SAMR<\/a>, TPACK<\/a>, and TIM<\/a>\u00a0and get an idea of how it works. This\u00a0was the first time that I had seen the value of Storify\u00a0for my learning as a teacher and potentially for my students.<\/p>\n

[View the story “Cohort 21 – Frameworks and Action Planning” on Storify<\/a>]<\/div>\n
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In the weeks following,\u00a0a group of teachers at my school, and various other independent schools in Ontario, attended the GAFE Summit<\/a> in Montreal, which in itself is an amazing PD opportunity. \u00a0Again, it was a time where many people were sharing their resources, ideas, and views via Twitter. \u00a0As I wished to capture the conversation, Storify allowed me to compile the resources that were shared via the #GafeSummit hashtag for future use.<\/p>\n

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Bringing it to the classroom<\/strong><\/div>\n
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After my experience with the archiving site, Storify. \u00a0Brent Hurley<\/a>, a fellow Cohort 21 Coach, and myself began discussing ways in which we could use Twitter to enhance the learning within our classrooms. \u00a0After much discussion, we were both able to come up with a meaningful way to use Twitter in the classroom and capture the moments via Storify.<\/p>\n

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In Brent’s AP English class, he set up a hashtag unique to his classroom and posed questions to stimulate conversation between his students. \u00a0He then\u00a0archives the conversation through\u00a0Storify so\u00a0the kids can access the conversation in an easy and organized platform. \u00a0It’s a unique way to integrate social media into the classroom in a way that also demonstrates what good digital citizenship<\/a> looks like. The students essentially learn how to create their own personal learning community (PLC) within their own class.<\/p>\n

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Brent’s AP English class. Big ideas, questions, and comments shared via Twitter, made into an organized ‘Story’ for students to use and share.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I am excited to introduce Twitter Chats to my Biology class next week as well. \u00a0The conversation, resources, questions, and curiousity that it can instil will\u00a0be a powerful way to connect students to social media in a different way then they are usually exposed to. \u00a0I know that twitter, when used correctly, can be a powerful tool for learning and for connecting people, as it has been for my own\u00a0professional development as a teacher. \u00a0My plan is to have students run Twitter Chats surrounding ethical issues, technological advances, and new ideas for my upcoming Molecular Genetics\u00a0unit, have them archive them with Storify, and then bring the conversation back into the class. I am really excited to see where this goes with my grade 12 biology students and I will be careful to scaffold them for success:<\/div>\n