September 2009 - Posts
Objective: To provide students, actively participating in classroom Writer’s Workshop, with an opportunity to share their stories and experiences using Twitter . · Students will take their classroom Writer’s Workshop activities to a higher level by posting
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Twitter Lesson Plan-Ice Breaker Objective: Each student will learn interesting facts about each of their classmates. Assessment: Will be when each student introduces a new friend along with an interesting fact about that person to the other classmates.
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Since I have not Twittered before this class, and the fact I teach K-4, I had a hard time thinking of an idea. I did think of something but not sure how it would translate to Twitter. Who am I? Student would create hints for famous persons being studied
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Book Club’s Stop and Chat Spot Objectives: -Students will create a Twitter account. -Students will discuss the groups’ book using tweets. - Students will create and post discussion questions for their group on Twitter. Activity: While doing Book Clubs,
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(*I don't teach a foreign language, but I instantly thought of this idea and thought that it would be interesting for a foreign language class.) Twitter Lesson Plan Subject Area: Foreign language TN State Standards: Modern Languages-Year Four/Five 1.1
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I am not really sure how I would use Twitter in my classroom so I will imagine how I could use it in a classroom. I could imagine having my students follow a famous author or some form of educational person (scientist, etc). I would like to see them able
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This activity is assuming students would have access to Twitter. If your school is like ours, everything is blocked! Keyboarding students could create a twitter account (once all keys have been learned). Each week students would be given a research topic
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This weekend I made a post on the general discussion board about 'memes'. (You should check it out if you have not already done so, its quite interesting) While I was exploring the Twitter website I came across a Trending Topic called "Music Mondays".
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My lesson plan for using Twitter in the classroom or library would include creating literature circles on Twitter. Twitter Literature Circles By: Angela Hardin Libs 6960 Objectives: 1. Groups of students would join Twitter. 2. The students will discuss
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Twitter has some fantastic applications for use in educational circles, especially those arenas that lend themselves well to discussions among a variety of participants. One use I have considered is enabling a language arts class or a library skills class
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