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TipLine - Gates' Computer Tips: Twitter with students?

  • Chatsy and Backnoise, or Coveritlive, allow for privacy, AND you can get the
    transcript very easily. You can set up "rooms" with passwords ahead of time, and
    students would just know to go to that room.

TeachPaperless: Response to a Criticism about Using Twitter in the Classroom

  • my students use their feeds as lifelines on quizzes and tests, as a way to share
    links and organize collaborative assignments, as a tool for hashtagging
    collaborative reference bibliographies, and as a collaborative note-taking
    backchannel during lecture and class discussion. We also use Twitterfall as a
    discussion starter and I project our Twitter feed on the wall throughout all of
    our classes to remind students about the global ramifications of what we are
    doing by learning together in a classroom.
  • the key is that the use of the social media needs to be fully integrated into
    the teaching -- specifically for the purpose of teaching the content and skills
    of the course
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11 Dec 09

BBC NEWS | Africa | Country profiles | Country profile: Mozambique

  • Population: 22.9 million
  • Area: 812,379 sq km
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Twitter in the Classroom | blog.classroomteacher.ca

  • Twitter and social networks are changing the way news gets
    reported

TeachPaperless: Best Practices in a Twitter-enhanced High School Classroom

  • kids now (and more than ever given the complexity of live interactive networks)
    are going to be expected to think immediately, on the fly, and with regard to
    several arguments at once: I'm talking active vs. passive reality here; students
    also need to develop the ability to question authority and back up one's
    arguments immediately
  • Twitter = Immediate Formative Assessment.
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