How to integrate the microblogs into your classroom

This week we are dealing with the microblogs. So I am thinking about how to integrate them into my classroom to motivate my students' learning. Then I read some articles and searched on the websites about how other teachers deal with the microblogs like twitter. I came up with a couple of good ideas which I would like to share with all of you.


1. Teachers can post links of additional resources for their students on the microblogs for their students to check out.
2. Post a video for the students to check out.
3. Let the students post their idea on a certain topic on their microblogs. And let the students to leave comments and maybe do some discussion on each other's microblogs.
4. The students can post their questions on their own microblogs. Teachers or other students who have the answer can answer them.
5. Guide the students to follow people with expertise in certain fields. In this way, the students are expected to learn a lot from those people.
6. The students can follow daily updates like news or other things. In this way, they may practice their literacy skills. This is especially useful for those language learners. They can refine their reading skills by following those microblogs in the target language.


There are a lot more ideas can be found on the websites, I recommend the following link, and it does contain a lot of useful information.


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