Twitter

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Twitter has been around for years, but I just recently opened an account.  I wanted to see what the hype was all about! 

I was very excited to see all of the individuals and groups that were using Twitter and posting tweets. 

I started by following my local news, Valley News Live and In-Forum.  I am following a wide variety of tweets including NBC Today, Cooking Light, Daily Healthy Tips, Education.com, edtech, and eLearning. 


10 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom

1) Tweet upcoming assignments, quiz, or test dates.

2)  Follow the local or national news.  Students can compare and contrast local news issues with national news issues.  Students can find following interesting issues and tweet their opinions.

3) Teacher can tweet questions and have students tweet their responses.

4) Play Word Games.  Post a daily challenge asking students to unscramble anagrams or play vocabulary word finds within tweets students are following. 

5) Connect with the community.  Have students partner with a business and participate in discussions, plan events, and assist with solving issues. 

6) Connect with families.  Keep parents up-to-date by posting upcoming assignments, events in the classroom, or events in the school.

7) Write a poem or story.  Students can write a poem or story, learning how to descriptively write in a concise way!  Only 160 characters are allowed!

8) Sync with a class blog.  Students are able to create their own blog and then provide tweets about it. 

9) Connect with classrooms around the world.  Students can collaborate and connect with students from different parts of the world to work on projects or have discussions about issues. 

10) Write reviews.  Have students follow a movie, song, book, ect. and write a review about it. 

These are only a few ideas that I am planning on incorporating into my classroom.  There are a lot of uses for Twitter in the classrooms.  Let me know what you are doing!!!