Had fun today. We watched a Hans Rosling video on poverty in my Year 8
class. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpKbO6O3O3M
It’s a great video and the students were certainly interested. I wanted a response from them afterwards and decided on the spot to let them ‘tweet’ their response. We first had a very interesting converstation about what Twitter is, who uses it (Turns out that two students are very active and experienced Tweeters) and what all the @ # and RT meant.
Then the students used http://www.lettercount.com/ to keep track of the amount of characters. Below is a selection of their ‘tweets’. The students really seemed to enjoy it. Continue reading “Summarising in 140 characters or less with my students”
