Tag: discussion

• Is This a Problem? Twitter in the Classroom

  Each student Tweeted a reaction or question they had about the syllabus. Most of the students stared at their computer or cell phone screens. From my walking around the room, I saw that students were reading each other’s Tweets and responding to them. I had the website Tweetchat up on the projection screen with everyone’s…

  William Torgerson

  September 5, 2012

  Torg Life

  composition, digital literacy, discussion, education, English, language arts, Las Vegas, NCTE, tweetchat, Twitter

• Using Twitter in the Classroom to Facilitate Discussion

  Using Twitter to Enhance Discussion in the Composition Classroom I started with Twitter in the spring semester of 2012. I invited students to create accounts so that we could use them along with classroom discussion. We talked about privacy and potential problems with going public with writing, and I told the students that they might…

  William Torgerson

  July 30, 2012

  Torg Life

  classroom, college, digital literacy, discussion, English, Facebook, multitasking, NCTE, privacy, private, public, research, social media, St. John’s University, Twitter, writing

• What are you working on? Discussion in the Writing Classroom

  In the writing classrooms where I teach, we often sit in a circle and do a “quick share” to begin class where everyone offers a brief comment. Examples of what students might say include a golden line from a reading, a question for our fellow writers, or an observation about a project in progress they…

  William Torgerson

  July 26, 2012

  Torg Life

  A Writer Teaches Writing, basketball, classroom, college, discussion, Golden Line, practice, sports, student engagement, writing, writing groups