Something to Tweet About

Hello there! I have recently added this interactive twitter bulletin board to my teachers pay teachers and teachers notebook shops. In this download there is everything you need to create your own interactive classroom twitter bulletin board. I saw this idea on Pintrest and created my own twitter board for my student teaching class. It did take sometime to put this board together but the results and excitement that came from the students made it will worth it! Below is a picture of the twitter board I put together and some student responses.

I printed off a twitter account box for each of my students and included the students name with an "@" symbol where I labeled each students name.  Because they were laminated, students were able to use dry erase markers to write and erased each time they used them (you could also print the twitter boxes off on regular paper and have students write directly on the twitter boxes that way). I also included a page that you can laminate and hang on your bulletin board where you can write the "hastag" or share with the students what you want them to tweet about.  The tweeting possibilities are endless but here are some ideas of things you could get your class to tweet about...

• Favorite things: ice cream, movie, book, sport etc.
• Use this as an exit slip to assess student understanding.
• Before starting a new unit, ask students an essential question from that unit to assess prior knowledge.
• Have students tweet about their weekend plans, vacation or after school activities.
• Give the students a chance to "free tweet" about anything they want.
• Ask review questions.
• Have students solve a riddle.
• Response to a prompt.
• Give an opinion on a current event.
• Leave a message for their parents during conferences.

These are just a few ideas that I came up with.  If you can think of any other ideas please feel free to list any in the comments below! Take a look at what you get in this download below.

 

  

 

Final thought:  Setting this bulletin board up in my classroom brought up some very good discussion and questions about proper technology use.  My students and I were able to talk about how we should conduct ourselves online where many different people can view the things we say and the pictures we post.  We discussed appropriate and inappropriate behavior when using this twitter board and that translated nicely to our conduct on the Internet.  We also talked about being safe and smart on the Internet as well.