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| Project Ideas | Overview | Links |
| Historic Tweets | students develop interface and messages as historic or fictional characters might have communicated in 140 character tweets | sample historic tweets 25 Dead People on Twitter |
| 7 Tweets to Change the World | students brainstorm and create 7 tweets to send to the principal of their school. Each tweet should identify and outline one strategy the principal can implement in the school community to make the world a better place. | 101 Ways Your School Can Change The World |
| Twitter with iPod Touch in the Classroom | How to use Twitter, iPod touch, and TweetDeck to engage students in learning 140 characters at a time. | Bookminder's post |
| Adopt Someone | use Twitter to keep grandparents or other community members in the loop | CBC's Spark episode #67 has an interview with a grandparent on Twitter |
| Inspirational Tweet Quote of the Day | Students alternate devising an inspirational tweet quote for each school day. Bonus marks go to students who can find inspirational quotes that relate to the course content. | - motivational quotes of the day - Famous Inspirational Quotes |
| Summary | Students create a 140 character summary. Forces them to focus on the important stuff! | |
| Book Lists | Create a classroom account that only students access and use it to recommend books. Keep kids reading through the summer. Students will need to be creative in "hooking" their peers to read in only 140 characters. | |
| Current events | Students tweet current event and provide a link for further reading. | |
| Classroom Ideas | Teach Paperless has a number of ideas about using Twitter in the classroom | Using Twitter in the Classroom Latin Test via Twitter More ideas... |
| Parent communication | Have parents sign up to receive tweets from teachers. The tweets can be about a week's activities test/projects/units of study, etc. This way parents can stay informed about their child's learning at this age when parents seem to have more difficulty staying connected. | |
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