Twitter in the classroom
24 ways to use Twitter in a class
- Inspirational quotes of the day: Allow students to become more familiar with Twitter, and exercise reading and writing skills by having a student post an inspirational quote tweet each day, preferably relating to course content.
- Conversations can continue outside of class: When students participate in Twitter discussions in class, there’s a great opportunity for conversations to continue to develop even after the lecture is over.
- School trip tracking: Whether it’s a field trip or a long journey, students can log and track their progress on a school trip using Twitter.
- Bringing characters to life: At California State University-San Marcos, students in a literature course use Twitter to bring Twilight characters to life, choosing characters from the series to personify on Twitter.
- Class newspaper: The entire class can come together to create a newspaper, contributing to sections using hashtags.
- Conference following: Students can follow professionals and industry conferences to see what’s going on in that particular realm.
- Bonus assignments: Give students optional bonus work to do at home, assigned via Twitter.
- Meme tracking: Students can study communication and sociology through the tracking of ideas and ads that spread through Twitter.
- Reading assignment summaries: Students can build 140-character summaries based on reading assignments, forcing a focus on quality.
- Link sharing: With Twitter, students can share websites with class, making relevant link finding and sharing a classroom assignment.
- Trend mapping: Using Twittermap, students can track what people are talking about where.
- Researching locations: The class can send out a tweet, asking people to give them their location, and then research that particular location.
- Twitter puzzles: Tweet a puzzle each week, giving a prize to the first student who shares the correct answer.
- Language learning: Teachers can send foreign language students tweets in a different language, and have students continue the conversation in the same language.
- Twitter poetry: Create a collaborative poem where each student contributes one line.
- Twitter book club: Within the classroom, willing participants can engage in a Twitter book club for extra credit.
- Word tracking: Using Twitter, students can track a word, staying on top of any posts that contain a particular word, like a movie title or store name.
- A Twitter story: Students can take turns tweeting stories together, using a hashtag to keep it all together as each student takes a turn to tweet the next line.
- Sharing microreviews: Using Twitter, students can write a short review of movies, books, and music that they’ve enjoyed (or not).
- Twitter haiku: Using Twitter, students can share short poems to express how they feel about a subject.
- Twitter art show: Students can curate their own art shows, using Twitter to share what they think belongs in a particular exhibit.
- Collaborative event watching: Students can “watch” presidential debates, political speeches, and other important events together outside of class time, and then continue the discussion back at school.
- Current events: By Twitter stalking, students can stay on top of current events through users, such as @BarackObama during the presidential elections.
- Find foreign pen pals: Students can use Twitter to communicate with students in a different country, learning about their hobbies, home, school, and more.
Source: http://fluency21.com/blog/2013/06/18/60-ways-to-use-twitter-in-the-classroom-by-category/
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Video Resources
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