We had a huge anti- social media presentation at one of our inservices. We learned about how to do everything we can to avoid being in situations that compromise the student / teacher relationship. Enter my new classroom “tuíter” wall:
LOVE IT! I’m adding a class participation category into my grade book this year, and I hope this twitter wall helps my shy students use their language skills more frequently without having to be put on the spot. I’m thinking about limiting the amount of “tweets” to one tweet per class so that my first period doesn’t fill up the entire wall all at once. I used these Dry Erase Writing Strips:
I found them in the dollar section at Target last year, and bought several sets for $1 each. I haven’t seen them this year, though. What do you think?
love it! I saw this somewhere on pinterest and was wondering how I could use it! Great idea!
I also saw it on Pinterest. I didn’t think I was going to end up putting it up, but I’m glad I did. I hope the students respond favorably.
You’ll have to monitor closely what the students write. Last year I had kids leave not so kind messages about others on my whiteboard on the way out. I employed all my detective skills and even though I had my suspicions I was never able to catch the criminal in the act :/
You’re right. I’ll probably do a brief aside on citizenship in the classroom and include a Twitter Wall clause on their take-home-and-bring-back-signed letter to parents. Ideas on how to prevent this from happening are welcome! I’m lucky that I’m teaching mostly honors courses this year, so I’m hoping it doesn’t happen [too often].
fun!! we had a similar Facebook wall two years ago…this would be the perfect follow up!! I think that I might have to start by having them put them in a bin for me to “moderate” first before they go up……
Good idea. Thanks or the suggestion!
Can I ask how you are assigning a grade for participation? My old system desperately needs an update and would love some suggestions.
I’m adopting the following rubric this year: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-7H2yWu04zgR3dWT2NCbWNqckE
The original was actually created by Sra. Lenord (sralenord.com), and she was kind enough to share it on Twitter some months ago.
I am not able to open the doc can you email it to me at
syoungthomas@cps.edu