bodmas blog » twitter http://bodmas.org/blog Keith Peter Burnett's blog about Maths teaching and ILT Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:13:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 twitter for essays http://bodmas.org/blog/ilt-ideas/twitter-for-essays/ http://bodmas.org/blog/ilt-ideas/twitter-for-essays/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:11:27 +0000 Keith Burnett http://bodmas.org/blog/?p=819 140 characters

Twitter includes a 140 character limit on each twit. Sounds like an ideal constraint to me. Challenge to students: summarise today’s lesson in one twit. Provide a copy of the blank above to each student…

Paul Constant has written a review of twitter as a series of twitter posts (via daringfireball.net). Now, what I want to get going is a short story told by 5 to 7 twitterers taking turns…

...as anyone who has looked at my twitter page will have guessed, I’m using twitter simply as a way of saying where I am each day. I’ll try a bit of the location specific writing over the holiday. Photos on flickr.

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