Feeds.AllofMe.com
We’re prepping to talk about Twitter in our ed tech course for preservice teachers for Friday. Based on their blog posts so far, they are not very excited about it (sorry, folks). I have found Twitter to be an invaluable source for shorthand information about books and articles to read, tech tools to consider, or conference messages. And I also think there are useful tools that could be employed in the classroom: students tweeting key points, tweeting in the voice of historical or literary characters, or as an alternative to clickers to quickly get information.
Here’s one tool that might be useful. If you go to http://feeds.allofme.com, you can paste in an RSS feed (a blog or a Twitter feed) and see the posts placed along a timeline. Then you can grab the embed code to put the timeline into your blog, wiki, or Web page.
Below is one for the White House’s Twitter feed.
How might turning a Twitter feed into a visual timeline help students gain greater understanding of a current event? What other Twitter feeds might be useful?
July 15th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
Key Kristin,
My take is that Twitter was the thing I vowed never to do, only because it seemed so fleeting, so trendy that by next week we would have already moved on to the next thing. Paris Hilton bobbleheads? I’m there. Nothing inherently wrong with tweeting. Like many things of late, I may find that I like it. Hard to hate something you know next to nothing about, eh?
Let’s give it a whirl. Wow us with the new tool!
–Joe