How a hurricane is born…
Saturday, February 19th, 2011Thought this was a brilliant clip for starting a mystery exercise…
Posts Tagged ‘Hurricane’
Using Twitter in the classroom- Interview about Katrina…
Monday, March 2nd, 2009Twitter and hot seating a fictional character.
There’s been much discussion about the use of Twitter within the classroom, so I thought why not have a go… We are currently studying Hurricane Katrina in Year 9 , so I wondered whether we could interview an individual who experienced the event.
I haven’t got a wide Twitter network, so I set up an account for a fictional elementary teacher called Maisy Jay, who lives in New Orleans. I then added Maisy as a follower, and then surprisingly Maisy followed me! Liz Smith was available to act as the character. We briefly arranged beforehand the timing and structure of the lesson.
I like to try new ideas with one of my most challenging classes, I introduced the concept of Twitter, none in the class had heard about it, so there’s food for thought!
