Twiducate.com – Scial Networking for Schools
December 18th, 2009
twiducate.com is a twitter like environment for classrooms. As a teacher you sign up, add students and post messages.
Student accounts are linked with a classroom code you create and a random password. Students never enter personal details or email addresses.
But the value of private social media is limited??
Well, many school firewalls (and parents) won’t allow social networking sites through. Twiducate.com does not contain ads (as of right now) and nobody can view your classroom posts but your class itself. I like this
concept.
Uses for twiducate.com
- Story starters
- Interest surveys
- Open response questions
- Collaboration among all students
- Links to resources
- Reflections / thoughts on resources
- Online debate
- Journal / Blog entries
- Word study
- etc. etc. et
.
twiducate.com is only limited by your use of the service. How you use the service determines its value in your classroom.
Hi Brian, Happy Holidays and thanks for the lead on Twiducate. We experimented with Twitter in our grade 8 classroom last year and this would solve some of the privacy concerns I had. (http://blog.classroomteacher.ca/338/twitter-in-the-classroom/) I’m looking forward to experimenting with the beta version this year.
By the way, I sent you an email about collaboration possibilities for the future. Cheers.