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Re: GeoTweets – Inviting your network into the classroom

Geoff Allemand — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:47:27 -0000

Another rippa activity.

Re: GeoTweets – Inviting your network into the classroom

Kev Hickey — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:17:11 -0000

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

Re: GeoTweets – Inviting your network into the classroom

tbarrett — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:53:40 -0000

Thanks Tony for your feedback. The links you provide are very interesting.

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Tony Hirst — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:41:10 -0000

What a wonderful activity :-)

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/Mat...
and as soon as I get it working properly (hopefully later today)
http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/g...

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/...

Re: GeoTweets – Inviting your network into the classroom

Regina — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:58:08 -0000

Thanks for the great idea. I look forward to trying this in the coming year.

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John Maklary — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:37:46 -0000

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.

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Ann Oro — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:00:43 -0000

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!

Re: GeoTweets – Inviting your network into the classroom

Adam Sutcliffe — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:35:23 -0000

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

Re: GeoTweets – Inviting your network into the classroom

Kevin Jarrett — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:42:21 -0000

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!