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Monday, February 28, 2011

Summarization and Twitter

Posted on 7:24 AM by Robin Young

Summary is a skill that crosses into every subject area.  As a history teacher I wanted to have kids summarize, but I needed some tools to get started with.   As an ITS I am still looking for ways to help kids learn to summarize that is relevant to them, which is what brings me to the topic of this post:

  

Twitter and Summary


 

Background on Twitter: Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging site that lets informal communication happen in small snippets…it is like e-mail, but you have followers that you can keep up-to-date with "tweets" of 140 or less characters. 




Over time twitter has been adapted to meet the needs of the user including the "@" symbol to reply to someone else's tweet or a hashtag "#" to add labels or tags to tweets to allow users to follow topics or to find tweets more easily. #summaryidea




Ask students to compose a tweet to summarize a concept they have learned or a passage they have read in 140 characters or less. Can they do it? Can you do it? I've attached a template that contains 140 squares that can be used to compose the summary statement.





 Think about this activity as a ticket out the door activity with a note card you turn in on the way out or a sticky not you place on the door for others to see and review.

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