[NOTE: I have published an update to this post, titled "100 Ways To Teach With Twitter". This newer post contains the links below plus a new set of articles that provide a much more robust set of resources for ideas about teaching with Twitter. I highly advise clicking through to that article. Thanks! - KW Feb 8, 2010]
It has seemed to me that lately there’s been an increased level of ‘chatter’ on the Internet about using Twitter in the classroom, as a part of the learning process, so I decided to take a closer look into it. After reviewing many articles and blogs, I realized that there has been a lot of coverage of a couple cases, but I also found mention of a few others as well, and went ahead and threw together this list of 6 specific different examples. This seemed like a useful mid-week post, since there appears to be a growing interest in using this hot Internet technology in the classroom environment.
- I’ll start by providing links to two articles (here is one, and here is the another), about teacher Monica Rankin using Twitter in instructional application at the University of Texas at Dallas. These are a few of many stories about Professor Rankin’s efforts (this highly covered case is what really triggered my perception that there were a lot of articles about Twitter in the classroom in recent weeks).
- Here is a video about Twitter (and other technologies) being used at Roosevelt HS in Minneapolis.
- This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses instructor Cole Camplese’s use of Twitter, streaming Tweets from students on screen during lectures, as part of the instructional process.
- In this Vlog, Christine Morris explains how she experimented with the technology with her higher ed students, tapping into Tweetdeck to get the most out Twitter.
- In this blog posting, David Silver explains how Twitter replaced three other technologies he was using in the classroom.
- Last, but certainly not least, here is one of countless articles about Professor David Parry’s work with Twitter, from early 2008. This is the first Twitter in the classroom story that I came across and it has been discussed and posted about many times on the Internet.
More ideas for using Twitter in the classroom
For those thirsting for more ideas about this tipic, here’s a few more related posts:
- Twitter for Academia
- Promoting Twitteracy in the classroom
- How to use Twitter in the Classroom
- 50 ways to use Twitter in the classroom
If anyone knows of any other web postings about other teachers actually using Twitter in the classroom, please comment and let us know.
I’ll be wrapping up my series on using Virtual Worlds in the Classroom with a look at a handful of useful resources in Second Life this weekend. See you then!
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I finaly translated the article about the use of twitter in the Kindergarten, here is the link:
http://www.anadominguez.org/blog/twitter/
Due to a Digital Immersion project many teachers are using twitter in the classroom where I work, a language school in Brasilia, Brazil. I have seen excellent examples of activities but the most impressive succeed because of the viral enthusiam coming from the teachers involved. Twitter can be a great tool to enhance participation in classrooms.
Wow – Twittering with 4 year olds – very impressive. I’d love to read the post when it’s translated to English. Thanks for the comment, Mario!
My wife is a kindergarten teacher in Portugal, and she is using twiiter in her classroom to promote literacy since May when most of the children were aged 4. Her twitter name is @Anadz but the twitts are only in Portuguese, she made an blog article about it. I intend to translate it to english so that it is better known.
Twitter is very addictive. I like Twitter more than blogging. the messages are short and straight to the point.