Today in Professional Experience class we were introduced to the social networking site Twitter. As I sat in class, listening to what twitter is and how it is used, I started thinking about the potential ways twitter could be used in the classroom. I came up with a few ideas on my own and then decided to search the net for some more. Whilst researching I found a great website which lists 31 ways twitter can be used in the classroom. You can find that website here.
So here is a list of ideas that I have compiled with the help of the above source on the different ways twitter can be used in the classroom.*Create a Tweet-story. Each student of the class, must use the 140 character word limit to write part of a story, the next student continues on and then on.
*Set up a private Twitter account for your class. Invite parents to 'follow' you, and they can see what the class are up to from any computer.
*Find someone in another class, school, country who is interested in the same topic you are. Following each other on Twitter, share information, resources and ideas. Help each other find answers or even suggest questions
*Create a scavenger hunt- Firstly set the students a topic e.g. China and then each child must find a piece of information to fit into a 140-character tweet about the topic.
*Create a twitter account for a historical figure e.g. Captain Cook which each child could have to tweet one interesting fact about them.
*Create a scavenger hunt- Firstly set the students a topic e.g. China and then each child must find a piece of information to fit into a 140-character tweet about the topic.
*Create a twitter account for a historical figure e.g. Captain Cook which each child could have to tweet one interesting fact about them.
Image Source: SigmaMarketing. (2010) Twitter Bird [Image]. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/48276902@N06/4900694109/
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