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