TWITTER WORKSHOP (EMAN & ROBERTO)

Learning Event

Relation to

Time

Notes (examples; metaphors; etc)

Learning
(Internal Mental)
Processes
1.

Gain Attention Activating

1.

receptors

We are going to make announcements via twitter about the workshop which

will show up on the board

eg. welcoming tweet

2 mins

2. Show images of celebrities profiles on twitter (Kim Kardashian, Jimmy Fallon,

Tom Hanks, Cristiano Ronaldo, LeBron James, and Kevin Hart) and number of the
trending Hashtags

3. Stimulate Recall
of Prior Learning

3. After that, we will present the question: Is that what you think twitter is all

Retrieving relevant

about?

prior knowledge

Recall of Prior Learning

into working
memory

4 mins

4. Following the question, there will be a small discussion in which they well share
what they think.
* those who have accounts on twitter will be asked to share their experience and for

4 mins

what purposes they have used twitter.

------------------------5. Play a video A Brief History Of Twitter
6. we will elaborate on the power of twitter by giving examples of events that
twitter has played a major role in (Black Lives Matter and the Egyptian
Revolution).

2. Inform Learner of Engaging executive

Objectives

Set up a new twitter account with appropriate profile and follow

control processes
Creating

2 mins

expectancy for
learning

others on twitter.
Utilize twitters basic features (tweet, retweet, favorite, and search)
Create lists to manage and organize the accounts one is following.
Participate in Hashtags to share ideas and interact with others.
Identify twitter usage as an educational tool.
Discuss the benefits of using twitter as an instructional tool.
Recognize helpful twitter tools and third party apps. (Twtpoll,
TweetDeck)
Create PLN with mentors and colleagues of learners professional
field.

1. Present New
Content

Engaging selective

1 mins

perception of

to someone you can have an impression about him from his office)

relevant features

+
3. Elicit
Performance

7 mins
Assessing and
enhancing response
organization,
encoding

7. Assess
Performance

Activating retrieval

Compare profile on twitter to someone office (before you start talking

10 - 15
mins

- How to create a twitter account.

- How to follow others accounts on twitter.
- How to tweet, retweet, favorite, and search on twitter.
Activity #1: Each learner should create his own twitter account, edit
his/her profile, find people to follow, and start tweeting, retweeting, and

during

favoriting tweets.

activity

Assessment: the learners will mention our account with their usernames on
twitter.

 Reinforcing

2 mins

understanding and
application

To smoothly move to this part, we will share some stats about the
content on twitter to emphasize the importance of lists and Hashtags.

5 mins

- How to create a list

- How to create and participate in Hashtags

5 mins

Activity #2: Each learner will create 2 lists:

First list: include his classmates in this course.

during

Second list: based on the accounts the learner follows, he/she will create a

activity

list and explain its purpose.

10 - 15

Assessment: the learners will be asked to add our account in each list, and

mins

this way we could check our account setting to see their lists.

during

Activity #3: we will create two Hashtags on what they think the ways we

activity

could use twitter as an educational tool and its benefits.

Assessment: their tweets in the Hashtag.
we will try to get an educator to share with us his experience using

15 mins

twitter for educational purposes, or we are going to show the class this
voicethread:

4 mins

_ Explain how twitter could be used in the classroom.

_ provide a list of the most popular educational accounts and Hashtags.
_ identify the benefits of twitter as an instructional tool.

Activity #4: through a Hashtag or group discussion, we will ask them to

15 mins

reflect on how they could use twitter in their workshop.

10 mins

Assessment: their tweets in the Hashtag

_ How to use Twtpoll

_ How to use TweetDeck
Activity #5:
- they will create a poll on their workshops
- they will use TweetDeck to organize their accounts

10 mins

Assessment: they will share the polls via twitter

we will provide a twitter PLN definition. Before explaining this
concept in detail, we will use Lamar Odom case and what type of
information you will get on this case depending on what type of twitter
accounts you follow:
Scenario 1: if you follow sports accounts (basketball players and reporters),
he is a two-time NBA champion and the sixth man of the year 2011.
Scenario 2: if you follow pop culture magazines and news accounts, he is
Khloe Kardashian Ex-husband.

5 mins

Then, we will ask the class why do they think we used this example in

during

relation to the twitter PLN concept.

activity

_ How to Build Your PLN on Twitter.

_ provide a list of respectful educators on twitter.
Activity #5: we will ask the class to start creating their own PLN
by following two or three account related to their field. we might create a
Hashtag and ask how they imagine their PLN to be, and what type of
accounts they are looking to add to this network.
Assessment: their tweets in the Hashtag.

4. Provide Learning Providing

- Handout

Guidance

- Tweeting questions, cues, and resources to learners.

cues/support for
encoding to and
retrieval from longterm memory

6. Provide Feedback Reinforcing,

Moving from group to group to provide the appropriate feedback.

on Performance

refining, correcting

Retweet or favorite their tweets.

understanding (i.e.

Giving each group a chance to give their feedback on their peers work via

schema/neural

twitter

networks)
8. Enhance
Retention and

Providing
cues/support for

- At the end of the workshop, we will give them a chance to tweet us any questions
2 mins

they have on the workshop.

Transfer

generalization and

- We will ask them to participate in Hashtag (after class) to suggest how we can

retrieval in novel

improve the workshop.

situations

- If possible, maybe the can use twitter in their workshops.

for Example, there is an active hashtag on Edmodo (#edmodochat), Nouf and
Andrew could retweet helpful tweets from the hashtag.
- Share three interesting tweets about their field.

Critical Notes for Understanding:

1.

Although presented in linear fashion here, the nine events are not always executed that way.
a. Steps one, two, and three typically occur at the beginning of a learning event and are repeated, separately or together, as needed
throughout a learning event (to refocus or restart the learning).
b. Steps four through seven typically occur in a repetitive fashion for every manageable chunk of new content (knowledge and skills).
c. Steps six and seven are about embedded (also called formative) practice of new knowledge and skills.
d. Step eight is about summative assessment (also referred to as comprehensive/holistic testing).

2.

The events can be applied to any approach to learning (e.g. direct instruction; discovery learning, constructivist approaches, etc.)

and typically span across learner experiences both inside and outside the classroom or formal learning event/environment.