Saturday, June 5, 2010

Inspiring ways to use social media in the classroom

From OnlineUniversities.com comes this great post on incorporating social media into classroom settings.  Great ideas for teachers and school librarians!  A few of my favorites:  

  • Make literature real. Have students create a Facebook page for a character from literature you are studying like this class did.
  • Tweet famous conversations. Have students tweet imagined conversations between famous literary figures such as Romeo and Juliet, Sherlock Holmes and Watson, or Dante and Beatrice.
  • Share interesting websites. Both students and instructors can share interesting websites related to class topics via social media.
  • Poll the class. Use polls as an interactive teaching tool in class using the Poll app for Facebook or PollDaddy for Twitter.



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