World History
One of the things I teach my teacher students is how to have their students create fake Tweet streams. You can use it to have conversations between historical figures, add in pictures and generally make your students condense their comments to a very well thought out series of concise statements. Above is a video made by one of the teachers in my course last year, Matt Levi. The best part about this is that while you can set up an account, you do not need to and once you are done it gives you a unique url which your students could e-mail or put on a Google Drive document to share with their teacher.
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If you follow this blog, you know I like Fakebook and FakeTweet which allows students to create facsimiles of Facebook and Twitter without having to create a login/password. Above is a video on how to create a Fakebook page. On our county in-service...
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World History
FakeTweting
One of the things I teach my teacher students is how to have their students create fake Tweet streams. You can use it to have conversations between historical figures, add in pictures and generally make your students condense their comments to a very well thought out series of concise statements. Above is a video made by one of the teachers in my course last year, Matt Levi. The best part about this is that while you can set up an account, you do not need to and once you are done it gives you a unique url which your students could e-mail or put on a Google Drive document to share with their teacher.
- 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...
- Using Google Drive In Your Classroom
One of my former teacher-students, Amanda Lombardi has been proving for a long time that special education students are great for using technology in the classroom (and this year I am going to prove that with ESOL kids). Tomorrow she is doing an...
- Fakebook And Faketweet
If you follow this blog, you know I like Fakebook and FakeTweet which allows students to create facsimiles of Facebook and Twitter without having to create a login/password. Above is a video on how to create a Fakebook page. On our county in-service...
- Fakebook For Historical Discussions
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...
- Getting More Out Of An Essay
One of the most frustrating exercises I have had as a teacher has been to get my non AP students to write essays. First off, I have to hear the line, "This isn't an English class." Secondly so many students simply do not write their essays,...