Red Session (9) Using Twitter in projects

How can we use social media in a project?

How can we meet the kids where they are?

How can we use what your students are using daily?


Here are two projects using Twitter.

READ and then CALL

Twitter Feed

Sample feed (actual feed of Navy Seal raid that killed Osama Bin Laden on May 1^st, 2011)ⁱ:

@ReallyVirtual

Sohaib Athar

Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event).

19 hours ago

Go away helicopter – before I take out my giant swatter :-/

19 hours ago

A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope its not the start of something nasty:-S

19 hours ago

@mohcin all silent after the blast, but a friend heart it 6 km away too… the helicopter is gone too.

19 hours ago

Since taliban (probably) don’t have helicopters, and since they’re saying it was not “ours”, so must be a complicated situation #abbottabad

19 hours ago

and now I feel I must apologize to the pilot about the swatter tweets :-/

17 hours ago

RT @ISuckBigTime: Osama Bin Laden killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan.: ISI has confirmed << Uh oh, there goes the neighborhood :-/

12 hours ago

I need to sleep, but Osama had to pick this day to die :-/

12 hours ago

Uh oh, now I’m the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it.

11 hours ago

Synopsis

Sample Speech:

Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

@POTUS

Abraham Lincoln

4 scor & 7 yrs ago: nu nation,

all men =! Now civil war .

But! Not die in vain.

Gr8 task b4 us: Gvt of-by4-ppl

not perish frm earth!ⁱⁱ

Questions
1. What would have been the instructions that you could have used to guide students toward these results?
2.  What program or toy or TV show do your students watch or use?  How could you modify a lesson to include something from their lives in the lesson?