Twitter

This session was focused on using Twitter within your classroom with your students. The presenter has the students find articles and tweet them out using a hashtag that is unique to that class. She later had the students begin to blog. Their blogs included article reviews, reports, science fair documents, etc and those links are then tweeted by the students.

The teacher then uses Paper.li to generate a "newspaper" once per week. Paper.li is a website that will draw from multiple twitter feeds and present the tweets in a newspaper format. The formatting is similar to Flipboard on the iPad. paper.li

This session was insightful in how Twitter could be used in the classroom in a a focused manner. I didn't know a lot about Twitter before this and I feel like I get how it work a little bit more!!