1. PML 6
Locating culture: Who makes it, and how?

2. Learning Goals
Understanding audience, composition, purpose, and context
Performance/drama
Slam poetry and remix culture

3. Agenda
Discuss lesson redesigns (should be posted to your blog today)
Audience, purpose, and context: using Twitter to role play the
classics and other experiments with social media
Q&A with our student guests
Discussion of readings

4. Lesson Redesigns
Posted to blog with resources and explanation of what you
changed and why.
Be sure to credit original sources.
Remember your audience and purpose:
Audience: your peers and future colleagues
Purpose: to share, reflect, look for feedback

5. Comment Settings
Last week I mentioned the default comment setting on Blogger
that requires you to have a Blogger account in order to comment.
I showed you how to change it.
If you have your blog set to moderate comments before they
appear, make sure you check regularly to see if you have
comments. You should get an email when you have a new
comment.

6. Brevity is the Soul of
(t)Wit
Using Twitter to Role-Play the Classics

7. The Experiment
• Can we use Twitter to role-play Hamlet in
real time?
• What would we learn if we tried it?
• What is the value of trying this in the
classroom?

8. Twitter is an online social networking
and microblogging service that
enables its users to send and read
text-based posts of up to 140
characters, informally known as
"tweets".

11. Multimedia

13. Implications for the
Classroom

14. Technology doesn’t necessarily = engagement

15. Big Ideas
"What is the value in re-imagining a
text using social media?”

16. Be the Director
Set up the Twitter accounts yourself
not so much for policing but so you can
see all the planning that happens through
direct messages.
An email account is necessary to set up a
Twitter account, but I’ve found a good
workaround is to use variations on a
gmail address such as yourname
+student1@gmail.com.

18. Lists
Create a list and add all the character handles to the list.
This way people can follow a list rather than each
character:
eg/ https://twitter.com/#!/danikabarker/brevity-2-0

19. Don’t grade this.
Not everything we do as teachers needs to be
graded, although this is sometimes a tough sell for
students. Assess, and have the students reflect but
the second you tell students they’re being graded, it
raises the level of anxiety and puts a stop to
creativity and playfulness, especially when trying
something new.

20. Other Applications
•History role playing: http://twitter.com/#!/
danikabarker/mr-t-s-history-class
•Backchanneling
•Homework reminders
•Developing a PLN

21. Introducing our Guests
Sam and Jordan are students from my first semester ENG4U
class who have used a variety of different types of texts and
technologies in our classroom. They’re here to answer any
questions you might have.

22. Everything’s A Remix
Is this a rip off? (Four Corners Discussion)

23. Poetry Slam
Althouse Poetry Slam
In small groups, compose an original poem for our Althouse
Poetry Slam following the guidelines in the video reading for
this week.
Audience: your peers
Purpose: to express your feelings, concerns, hopes, fears
about teaching (and to understand how you can apply this
to the classroom)

24. For Next Week
We’ll perform our poetry slam and debrief
Reading: "Curriculum theorizing for multiliteracies: A rebel
with a cause" (Will be uploaded to Web CT)