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Wire Services (2012). Reading, Writing, Tweeting, //E-School News//. Retrieved from http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/03/01/reading-writing-tweeting/

Reading, Writing, and Tweeting

A teacher at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School is using twitter to send out a weekly newsletter, update the days’ activities, as well as give parents reminders about upcoming programs. The teacher controls the account and the messages that the class, as a group delivers. Her students also have a kid-friendly blogging program and make videos for a private YouTube account that parents are able to access. By having these students use social networking helps them learn how to type, read, and spell and its fun! At the end of the day the class comes together and decides what they want to tweet about their day. In a way it helps students review what they have done that day and asses how their day went. Parents are then able to access the class Twitter account and see what their child had done during the day. The students really enjoy using Twitter they get excited to push the tweet button. They also enjoy being able to have their own kid-friendly blog.