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10 Ways To Use Texting, Tweeting & Social Networking to Spice Up Instruction
(with examples to get you started)

Tweet a Headline for a historic event.	The Tweets of War: What’s Past Is Postable
Translate a passage from a classical literature work to Texting.	LOL: Texting and Literacy in Today’s “Generation Text”
Students create Tweet(s) for each character in a classical literature work that describes their personality, role in the story, philosophies on life or other aspects of that character.	Students' book transforms classics into 'tweets'
420 Character Stories (the character limit for Facebook status updates)	Lou Beach's 420-Character Stories
Student create a short personal autobiography in multiple formats- standard prose, Texting, a haiku, a Tweet, as song lyric, a web page, a time line, a coat of arms and/or a wiki.	Coats of Arms, Shields, Heraldry & The All About Me Poster
Try Texting in a foreign language class.	Txt spk quizzes
Create a "low tech" physical psuedo-facebook with real walls.	Five Ways to Bring High-Tech Ideas into Low-Tech Classrooms
Start class with a Tweet summary of each day's lesson.	How to create a twitter event backchannel for your conference or event
Add hybrid learning with online discussions using Moodle, Edmodo or OpenClass.	Blended Learning in K-12
Students collaborate, in real time, on an assignment using Google Apps for Education's "Share" feature	GAEE Classroom Lesson Plans