World History
Most kids now know about Twitter as they like to use it to communicate with their friends. Well one of the teachers in my department is using that fact to her advantage. She found out about FakeTweetBuilder which allows the kids to create characters, add images and Tweet what they would have said. So you could take an historical figure and have them Tweeting back and forth with someone else. The nicest thing is that there is not login, password or e-mail needed to do the exercise and at the end you have a url to send the teacher. Here are some great directions she wrote up to help out her students - and you. The one limitation is that you can only do six Tweets per time, but you could have your kids each do it twice. Here is actually a very nice site that has built its own historical examples which you could show your students before asking them to do the project.
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World History
Tweeting World History
- Twitter Warm-up
So I always have a meet and greet on our first day of school, but tomorrow, thanks to @dougzywiol I am going more high tech (imagine that!) and having the kids Tweet their answers. To do that yourself you can either create your own hashtag...
- Fakebook Tutorial
I have been using Russell Tarr's Fakebook for several years with my students. It allows the kids to create a Facebook like page where they can have friends, put up posts and make comments. It is not real in that the students are not sharing...
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I am thinking about having my religions class participate in a live blog next semester and maybe tweeting about religious issues using a hash tag I create for the class. Here are the reflections of a graduate school teacher who had his kids use Twitter...
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I showed my teacher students tonight so they could create Fakebook pages with their students. I use it, for example, to have my students converse between different historical characters. What I love about it is that the algorithm finds...
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