This is my very brief presentation from TeachMeet and the Northern Grid conference about @ClassroomTweets

1. Tweeting with Orange Class
@ClassroomTweets
Martin Waller
Holy Trinity Rosehill C.E. Primary School

2. “What’s happening?”
(in 140 characters... please!)
Trivial use of technology or worthwhile?

3. Why use Twitter?
‣ Web 2.0 becoming increasingly prominent
in society(Davies and Merchant, 2009)
‣ We use Twitter as a means of recording
snapshots and reflections of learning
‣ Literacy for real purpose and audience
‣ Children want to tell people what they
have been doing

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11. Rules and Responsibility
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Children must not mention their name or their any of
their friends by names in tweets under any circumstances
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Children must not check for replies (To prevent the them
from seeing any inappropriate material that may be viewable)
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Children must not navigate away from our Twitter Stream
page and look and other people’s profiles (in case of
inappropriate language use)

12. Reading and writing in this context means not only
simply decoding but involves taking part in the
construction of social networks where knowledge is
co-constructed and distributed (Marsh, 2010)

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14. ‣ Email: martinwaller@multiliteracies.co.uk
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http://www.changinghorizons.net
‣ Twitter
http://www.twitter.com/MultiMartin
‣ Classroom Tweets
http://www.twitter.com/ClassroomTweets