Tweetwrite

By Isabella

Did you know our classroom has a twitter wall? We posted our thoughts about Michigan symbols for our first post. One of our post on the wall was by Isabella. She said “I think a symbol expresses something.” Ewan said “I think symbol is something that can be remembered.” “I think a symbol is like a state bird, a state deer, or a state fish” is what Jackson thought. Naeem said “I think a symbol is something that represents things.”

We also posted about bullying on the twitter wall. We watched a video about a girl who was getting bullied. To go with the video we read a book called Say Something by Peggy Moss. In it a girl watched other people get bullied but didn't say anything. We posted on the twitter wall about what we noticed in the video and book. Skylar said “the video made me feel sad for the person being bullied.” Brandon thought “It changed in the book and the video by a kid getting bullied, but this time, someone stood up for her.” Another Thinker said that they were both about speaking up.

So far we have two posts on our Twitter wall, and we look forward to our next posts!

Tweet Tweet!

A new beginning!

The idea for this blog came to me in the wee hours of the morning, when I'd much preferred to have still been in a deep cycle of REM sleep. But since that wasn't the case, I'm glad that this blog popped in, as it made it slightly easier to be awake so early on a Saturday morning.

This blog is going to be an attempt at showcasing ways to integrate technology into the ever-changing elementary school classroom. The first project to go public is being dubbed "TweetWrite" as I attempt to introduce my fourth graders to the art of tweeting.

While this may or may not be a successful experience, the key word is experience. We can all learn loads from experiences- positive and negative. In fact, as Thomas Edison said, "I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work." Well, we're going to hold that as our motto of the moment and see how much we can learn in the process!

Enjoy!
Ms. Diem