Comments on: Twitter in the Classroom http://blog.classroomteacher.ca/338/twitter-in-the-classroom/ Educational Technology in the Classroom (K-12 Education) Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mr Kuronekohttp://blog.classroomteacher.ca/338/twitter-in-the-classroom/comment-page-2/#comment-10355 Mr Kuroneko Tue, 31 May 2011 02:31:03 +0000 http://blog.classroomteacher.ca/?p=338#comment-10355 No, not really. There are better (safer / more private) social media tools that you could use in the classroom. For example, you could set up Google Moderate on a school Google Apps account which is kind of like twitter: students can submit questions / ideas / solutions to problems, and vote for which question they think is the best. You could run BuddyPress (on a WordPress platform) and have your own private social network (similar to facebook). You could even open up a Google Doc and share it with all of your students - the current version of Google Docs allows for 50 simultaneous users editing a single document in the cloud. There's even a teacher version of twitter out there...But the idea of using twitter as a tool to get instant collaboration on a question is pretty darn cool. No, not really. There are better (safer / more private) social media tools that you could use in the classroom. For example, you could set up Google Moderate on a school Google Apps account which is kind of like twitter: students can submit questions / ideas / solutions to problems, and vote for which question they think is the best. You could run BuddyPress (on a WordPress platform) and have your own private social network (similar to facebook). You could even open up a Google Doc and share it with all of your students – the current version of Google Docs allows for 50 simultaneous users editing a single document in the cloud. There’s even a teacher version of twitter out there…

But the idea of using twitter as a tool to get instant collaboration on a question is pretty darn cool.

]]> By: Jason | Best Article Rewriterhttp://blog.classroomteacher.ca/338/twitter-in-the-classroom/comment-page-2/#comment-10293 Jason | Best Article Rewriter Tue, 10 May 2011 19:53:37 +0000 http://blog.classroomteacher.ca/?p=338#comment-10293 I'd take a Twitter class for sure. There's a lot of security issues for kids and what they share. I’d take a Twitter class for sure. There’s a lot of security issues for kids and what they share.

]]> By: Scaffoldinghttp://blog.classroomteacher.ca/338/twitter-in-the-classroom/comment-page-2/#comment-10292 Scaffolding Tue, 10 May 2011 11:27:14 +0000 http://blog.classroomteacher.ca/?p=338#comment-10292 They really do use twitter in the classroom now? They really do use twitter in the classroom now?

]]> By: Mr Kuronekohttp://blog.classroomteacher.ca/338/twitter-in-the-classroom/comment-page-2/#comment-9558 Mr Kuroneko Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:19:53 +0000 http://blog.classroomteacher.ca/?p=338#comment-9558 Thanks Sue, We'll check it out. Cheers, Kisu. Thanks Sue, We’ll check it out. Cheers, Kisu.

]]> By: Sue Hellmanhttp://blog.classroomteacher.ca/338/twitter-in-the-classroom/comment-page-2/#comment-9555 Sue Hellman Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:55:52 +0000 http://blog.classroomteacher.ca/?p=338#comment-9555 I think you might be interested in Twiducate. It offers the same kind of short entry continuous discussion as Twitter, but students do not have to register and you will not be kept offline when Twitter is on overload. I think you might be interested in Twiducate. It offers the same kind of short entry continuous discussion as Twitter, but students do not have to register and you will not be kept offline when Twitter is on overload.

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