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History on Twitter

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There was an interesting article in the NY Times on Monday about a history fan who is using Twitter to “live-tweet” the events of WWII as if they were happening in real time.  The Twitter feed now has hundreds of thousands of followers.

The “live-tweeting” of historic events gives them a real-time urgency and feel.  As Timothy Snyder, a professor at Yale said “People in the past weren’t living in the past, they were living in their own present.  These kinds of tweets restore to the past the authentically confusing character of the present.”

The article also links to TwHistory (“Those who forget history are doomed to re-tweet it”) and the Washington Post’s Civil War “live-tweeting” that shows how the Civil War unfolded day by day 150 years ago.

I think both of these projects, and many of the links on the NYTimes article to other projects, could be useful in WHII or USHistory classes.  They could spark an inspiration for a classroom project on twitter that could capture students interest as they “live-tweeted” a historic event or era, or even used twitter’s 140-character posts as a “micro-review” for midterms.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22

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  • I'm excited for the conference tomorrow! RT @jesskalagher: #ccs NL Share your tweets about the Charlottesville November Learning Conference! #
  • [Who's teaching L.A.'s kids?][http://bit.ly/dB0gaK a must read from LA-Times on teacher effectiveness, test scores, and data. #
  • I'm excited for the conference tomorrow! RT @jesskalagher: #CCSNL Share your tweets about the Charlottesville November Learning Conference! #
  • Alan November (@globalearner) and his team presenting at CCS this morning #CCSNL #
  • RT @CHSBlackKnights: CHS teachers are learning about global communication from Alan November in the PAC #CCSNL #
  • http://www.khanacademy.org/ collection of lectures and videos from college professors #CCSNL #
  • RT @dkuropatwa: Teaching Posterous http://post.ly/sSGY / Great to have you at #CCSNL #
  • welcome @globalearner @dkuropatwa @angelaMaiers @juleong to CCS. Thanks for presenting today at #CCSNL #
  • RT @casscan: #ccsnl What are implications that will live here when Alan leaves? Can we organize around his insights? #
  • RT @KatStaton: Just worked with 44 teachers learning about iPods. Great group! #ccsnl #
  • indeed RT @adamhCHS: Nice job, SE! Great question about YouTube. I hope we get access in CCS for all teachers, year-long. #ccslead #ccsnl #
  • RT @AngelaMaiers: Resources Here from @globalearner keynote and breakout sessions- http://novlearningcharlottesville.wikispaces.com/ #CCSNL #
  • RT @VArungirl: 'Students want to publish. That's why they go to Facebook.' -Alan November #ccsnl #
  • Links to some of the sites in Alan November's talk this morning: http://bit.ly/cW9Iu7 –it's a google doc, so feel free to add/edit #CCSNL #
  • welcome back to CHS, TB. RT @tborash: I will be tweeting #ccsNL as Alan November speaks- visiting from #acps #
  • RT @MichaelCIrani: What if we provided teachers 1 day every quarter.. /What if it was for teachers and STUDENTS? our own mini-conference? #
  • RT @tborash: yep, morning went great. Nice to have such an eloquent speaker pushing us to think more about teaching and learning. #
  • in @juleong 's session for secondary history teachers. Diigo, delicious, google wonder wheel, timeline, etc Links at http://bit.ly/ap5esU #
  • RT @rmbyrne: Wolfram Alpha Tools in the Classroom http://bit.ly/aywnvk Also, if any CCS folks want great edtech stuff follow @rmbyrne !!! #
  • http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html some useful classroom posters from Google with tips for better searching #ccsnl #ccslead #
  • RT @DanielPink: Studies Show *Why* Students Study is as Important as What http://bit.ly/cmCo3b – definitely connects to #ccsnl talks #