Extension Activity of the Week - 4

This week: Twittering

The Guardian's annual April Fool this year told of how they were going to transfer all their archived material onto Twitter. For those who haven't heard of it, Twitter is a website in which users "tweet" to each other about what's going on in their lives, in 140 characters or less.

This sort of summarising can really help pupils to pick out the important bits of information from a lesson. Challenge students to squeeze all the information they have covered into one sentence. Set some boundaries, for example, it has to make sense, it cannot involve text abbreviations, it has to be a sentence and not just a list of keywords. After the lesson they could even text the message to somebody who missed the class.

If you fancy trying Twitter for yourself - it's not just for gossip. Try searching for #SMARTboard for messages which will give you some good tips on using your IWB.