This morning’s issue of the Opening Bell, from NEA http://www.nea.org/neatoday/index.htmliiI ,–(I think you have to be a member to get it), but anyway, has Christopher Dawson’s Talkback blog where he discusses the use of blogging with Twitter that he is implementing in his classroom.
http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1605
And now half of them are tweeting like mad and really dig the idea of microblogging, while the other half just can’t see the point. It shouldn’t surprise me that absolutely none of the tweeting has anything to do with physics. I even tried letting them tweet in class, but only a few were fast enough with the cell phones to keep up. With some practice, it might avoid being a distraction, but I doubt it. That and the cell phone ban violations, of course, put a cramp on its utility in a regular classroom.
So, someone is going the extra mile. I may add his blog to my gator.
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