Last week, I had the jeopardy to speak at the IH AMT Conference inwards London. I was talking close the divergence betwixt receptive as well as productive vocabulary as well as its implications for teaching. It was a fun termination amongst a buzzy atmosphere as well as an engaged audience, as well as my session seemed to become downward well. I was equally good lucky plenty to bring the wonderful Sandy Millin live-tweeting from my session as well as then when I checked Twitter afterwards, I constitute a huge flurry of mentions as well as retweets. This got me thinking close the implications of Twitter when you're giving talks as well as workshops ... what are the benefits - as well as downsides - of having your session tweeted out to the wider world?
On the addition side ...
- You tin accomplish a wider audience as well as engage to a greater extent than people inwards the discussion.
- You larn to run across what the principal points the tweeters picked upward on were. It's an interesting exercise, peculiarly when you lot compare the tweets to the points you'd hoped to larn across!
- You equally good larn to run across which ideas sparked most involvement through likes as well as retweets, which is both interesting as well as provides useful feedback, peradventure for refocusing futurity talks.
- You tin accomplish a wider audience as well as engage to a greater extent than people inwards the discussion.
- You larn to run across what the principal points the tweeters picked upward on were. It's an interesting exercise, peculiarly when you lot compare the tweets to the points you'd hoped to larn across!
- You equally good larn to run across which ideas sparked most involvement through likes as well as retweets, which is both interesting as well as provides useful feedback, peradventure for refocusing futurity talks.
On the downside ...
- Putting all your carefully prepared cloth out at that topographic point online leaves you lot rather compromised if you lot computer program to plough over the same beak i time to a greater extent than to or as well as then other audience! This is peculiarly truthful if pictures of fundamental slides where there's a surprise chemical cistron larn tweeted ... I'll definitely bring to intend twice right away close reusing or as well as then sections of this beak precisely equally they were.
- It's slowly for your ideas to live on misrepresented. I bring to tell that all the tweeters from my session were genuinely rattling adept at putting points across accurately, but the tweet that turned out to live on the most retweeted wasn't genuinely quite what I said ...
What I did tell was that vii is considered to live on the magic publish yesteryear psychologists when it comes to the publish of items nosotros tin retain inwards our short-term retentivity as well as that memory's i cistron you lot involve to consider when designing vocab activities - you lot involve to intend close how many items to focus on (not necessarily precisely 7!) as well as live on careful non to overload students. Of course, inwards 140 characters, context as well as hedging tend to larn lost ...
Overall, it was a genuinely interesting sense as well as I intend the pluses of beingness tweeted definitely outweigh the nipper drawbacks. Big thank you lot to the IH squad for inviting me as well as for organizing such a smashing termination as well as to the whole audience - including the tweeters! - for beingness as well as then engaged.
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