World History
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 for that purpose last semester. He argues that these media allow students to write across different genres and to connect the material in class to the world around them. Overall, he thought it went well and described twitter as a ?third space? for his class but noted that he would do a number of things differently if he were to use twitter again. For example, instead of asking kids to tweet a number of times each week, he would ask them to tweet on specific days so students would not wait until the last day and simply do all three tweets at once.
- Tweeting Your Class Warmup
As our students leave Facebook, more and more are using Twitter, among other social media. One of our new hires, Doug Zywiol, is using Twitter as a warm-up for his students. Most of our students have phones that can text, but for those who do not,...
- Twitter For Your Pln
During our first week of school (not until next week) I am doing a presentation about Professional Learning Networks to other teachers in my county. I am going to focus on Twitter. So to start off on top above is how to set up a Twitter...
- To Tweet Or Not To Tweet
My colleague, Jeff Feinstein, and I jumped into Twitter full steam this week. We both created twitter feeds for our AP classes. The purpose of the feeds is to give kids updates, reminders, and links to interesting stories about subjects we are studying....
- Setting Up Your Twitter Account
Introduction to Twitter for Educators Last week I introduced my "teacher students" to Twitter by asking what it was. The first answer was that it lets people know what you are doing during the day. While that is an excellent answer for a...
- Tweeting 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...
World History
Using Social Media in the Classroom
- Tweeting Your Class Warmup
As our students leave Facebook, more and more are using Twitter, among other social media. One of our new hires, Doug Zywiol, is using Twitter as a warm-up for his students. Most of our students have phones that can text, but for those who do not,...
- Twitter For Your Pln
During our first week of school (not until next week) I am doing a presentation about Professional Learning Networks to other teachers in my county. I am going to focus on Twitter. So to start off on top above is how to set up a Twitter...
- To Tweet Or Not To Tweet
My colleague, Jeff Feinstein, and I jumped into Twitter full steam this week. We both created twitter feeds for our AP classes. The purpose of the feeds is to give kids updates, reminders, and links to interesting stories about subjects we are studying....
- Setting Up Your Twitter Account
Introduction to Twitter for Educators Last week I introduced my "teacher students" to Twitter by asking what it was. The first answer was that it lets people know what you are doing during the day. While that is an excellent answer for a...
- Tweeting 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...