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About the Class: |
It is difficult to be online and miss the buzz surrounding Twitter. Twitter is one of the hottest growing social networking, social news and social sharing platforms in the world. Millions of journalists, corporate leaders, celebrities and businesses use Twitter for variety of reasons : customer service, word of mouth publicity, marketing, subscriptions and just sharing news with friends. Given it's widespread growth and increasing adoption, there is increased awareness and interest in the teaching community on how they can also use or leverage Twitter. In this Workshop, we gather some active Twitter users who also happen to be teachers/ trainers. They will share their thoughts and ideas on "How Teachers can use Twitter".
Some of the topics we will cover:- As a teacher, do I really need to care about Twitter?
- Leveraging Twitter for self growth and professional development
- Branding oneself using Twitter
- Using Twitter as an Educational Tool : Evolution of Real Time teaching
If you would want a specific topic to be covered in the workshop, please leave behind a comment or contact the presenters below on Twitter.
We will open the room 10 minutes before scheduled time to allow you to test your audio and video devices.
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About the presenter:
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Presenter 1 : Alexandre Enkerli : @enkerli on Twitter
Alex is a French-speaking ethnographer from Montreal, Qc. As a part-time or visiting lecturer, he has been teaching anthropology, folkloristics, and sociology at diverse universities in Canada and the United States, including Concordia University in Montreal and Indiana University South Bend. His teaching philosophy has been influenced by his constructivist father and by diverse learning experiences. Alex pretty much lives online. Apart from diverse activities on online services like Facebook and Twitter, he participates in diverse online forums and mailing-lists, including the Moodle community at Moodle.org. His main blog is Disparate.
Presenter 2 : Kirsten Winkler : @kirstenwinkler on Twitter
Kirsten Winkler is a professional language coach with over 7 years of experience in teaching language to adults. She is the founder of several internet sites for learners of German as a foreign language, for example www.deutschhappen.com, www.learngerman4free.com, www.deutschfeed.com and www.deutschsprechen.net and is the owner of a language school in France. Kirsten's interests besides languages are gardening, culture, reading, travelling, painting and many others. Kirsten is also the founder of E-Teachers Academy.
Presenter 3 : Enza Antenos-Conforti : @ivenus on Twitter
Enza Antenos-Conforti is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Italian at Montclair State University. She received her Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the University of Toronto. Her research areas are Applied Linguistics, instructional technology, materials development, and teacher training. Currently, she is working on viable Web 2.0 alternatives to learning management systems for the second language classroom and mobile-assisted language learning (MALL). Recently she presented on Twitter at the OIT Summer Symposium at Montclair State and LARC's Summer Institute (San Diego State University).
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