Saturday, March 19, 2011

Thing17, twitter

Homework Help Sessions
Being that helping students with homework after school hours is difficult for most of us. HP teach exchange suggests using Twitter and student helpers to take care of this problem.

Start by assigning more responsible students to be homework mentors who will be willing to moderate tweet chats. Design a timetable that fits with your student mentors’ schedules. For example, Jim Bob will be the homework mentor on Mondays from 7:00 – 8:00. Create a homework help hashtag or a separate TodaysMeet room as needed.

I think this activity will place many of the students in their comfort zone of a social network doing productive "things" they would perhaps NOT be doing on a social network site.

Teacher Experience Exchange

No comments:

Post a Comment