edte.ch: GeoTweets – Inviting your network into the classroom
Kevin Jarrett
· 1 year ago
Tom, what a terrific idea! I *JUST* did a GE lesson with my Second Graders but this would be perfect for my 4th graders, whom I see at 1:30pm EDT - 'prime time' for much of the twitterverse (here in the USA, at least). Thanks for the inspiration!
Adam Sutcliffe
· 1 year ago
Hi Tom This sounds like a really fun lesson. the sort where your kids never even realised they were learning and on how many different levels. Couldn't do anything like this at our place though. Adam
Ann Oro
· 1 year ago
I just used Google Earth for the first time with the students who are emailing your teachers and students. This brings it to a whole new level. I think my older 12-14 year olds would have fun with this idea. Thanks for sharing!
John Maklary
· 1 year ago
Thanks for a great mashup tip. Never thought about Twitter and GE. What a neat way to introduce the "network" with a geo-slant. I'll be looking to do something similar with my 6th graders.
Regina
· 1 year ago
Thanks for the great idea. I look forward to trying this in the coming year.
I know the level of this is all wrong, but here's how Google are thinking about how to find complete addresses from partial ones to improve their local search/Google maps search engine:
Thanks Tony for your feedback. The links you provide are very interesting.
Kev Hickey
· 3 months ago
Hi,
I found this post while reserching different ways of useing Twitter for education and I just wanted to say I was really impressed and your students are lucky to have such a creative teacher
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This sounds like a really fun lesson. the sort where your kids never even realised they were learning and on how many different levels. Couldn't do anything like this at our place though.
Adam
Not wanting to spoil the fun, there is a possible link in here to talking about how technology might go about extracting and plotting the location automatically - e.g. http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/012696.html
and as soon as I get it working properly (hopefully later today)
http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/geotwitterous
I know the level of this is all wrong, but here's how Google are thinking about how to find complete addresses from partial ones to improve their local search/Google maps search engine:
http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=1022
I found this post while reserching different ways of useing Twitter for education and I just wanted to say I was really impressed and your students are lucky to have such a creative teacher