Twitter

Twitter is a great tool to send out messages to many people at one time. Unlike an email, it is part of a feed provided you subscribe or "follow" the twitter account. For a teacher this could be very beneficial because it can have them remind their students of homework assignments instantly. Also, it could serve as a reminder for students regarding the upcoming class on what supplies or textbooks they need to bring. Twitter could also serve as a Q&A forum if any students have questions. Students could also follow news sources to help them relate the past with the present. While researching Twitter accounts with historical content, I found a Twitter account in which it chronicles WWII events in real time. I thought this was interesting and could certainly lead to more accounts of a similar nature, but that cover different time periods. Following this particular Twitter account could once again relate the past to the present in my students.

 

http://twitter.com/#!/RealTimeWWII

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