Twitter in the classroom

Blog post from blog.classroomteacher.ca telling the story of classroom use of twitter in school in Ontario demonstrating how the world communicates now, and how it can be used in the classroom as a collaboration tool. Concludes with plus, minor and interesting points.

Here's an excerpt

"Twitter is a neat “little” collaboration tool. You could create individual or group Twitter accounts for your students. A class account follows all of the students so we get a live feed of ideas which you can then project using a data projector.

It’s kind of like using classroom clickers (i.e. SMART student response system), but instead of being limited to multiple-choice answers or numerical responses, you’re texting in short messages. In the computer lab, you could ask a question in response to a text (printed or media) and have students respond on Twitter."

Guide to using clickers or PRS

Knowing that the use of clickers (Personal Response Systems) is a hot topic I thought this list of resources from Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at University of British Columbia is worth highlighting. Includes a downloadable Clicker resource guide.