Last week I asked my class to create Tweets regarding the story that we were reading in class, Pretty Ugly. Here is a screenshot of Tweets from my class Twitter account.
Hashtags that they used
- #BS121 – General class update information
- #Plot121 – Updates and remarks about plot elements from readings
- #Voc121 – Updates about use of interesting vocabulary words from our readings
- #Ref121 – Updates about thoughts and feelings evoked by our readings
I captured their tweets using Tweetdoc. It created PDFs of the Twitter hashtags that I asked them to use. Here is a graphic that I created from a PDF.
How successful was this activity???
I know that they focused on the plot elements more doing these updates than they just reading and listening to the story. I gave them class participation points for each update they created. Could I have required them to take down some notes in a reading log? Yes, buuuutttt I am thinking about doing this more often. I will have them to quickly plan out their tweets on paper and then have them post them online.
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