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Using Twitter or Facebook for writing-to-learn assignments
From the course: Social Media in the Classroom
Using Twitter or Facebook for writing-to-learn assignments
- You're familiar with writing assignments but have you heard about writing-to-learn activities? They're informal writing exercises that focus on the process rather than the product. There are over 50 different writing-to-learn activities and as you have probably guessed, many lend themselves to being done with social media. In his book on student writing in the quantitative disciplines, Patrick Bahls covers all parts of the writing process. He has some really innovative writing activities including several in a category called micro-genres. He encourages using Twitter, Facebook, and meme generators to ask students to distill concepts into short passages. For a biology or anatomy-physiology class, you might ask students to describe the functions of the lymphatic system. For a community college class, Anatomy-Physiology 100, student Tweets might look like this: "#lymphaticsystem acts as a highway, "transporting white blood cells "to and from the lymph nodes into the bones. "#AP100."…
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Looking at social media outside the classroom1m 53s
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Using Twitter, Facebook, or social reading tools to discuss class readings5m 52s
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Using Twitter, Facebook, or Diigo to connect to real-world scenarios and people7m 57s
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Using Diigo, Google Docs, and VoiceThread for small group projects4m 35s
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Using Twitter or Facebook for writing-to-learn assignments4m 43s
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Using ReadWriteThink or Facebook to construct timelines5m 52s
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Using Flickr or YouTube to collect student field work4m 7s
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Using Pinterest, blogs, or Pathbrite eportfolios to showcase student work4m 58s
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