Thursday, February 21, 2013

Twitter and SMS Literacy

Detest texting and tweeting and think that it is destroying the way our students write? Check out this interview with linguist, David Crystal on Tweeting and language...
Who is this David Crystal guy? Go to Wikipedia of course!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boj8VYzDAy8



Article and resources for texting in the classroom. Links to Polleverywhere etc... Use SMS messages for reviews or studying.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/texting-classroom-audrey-watters

Reasons to try Celly for group chat - How to information...
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2013/03/03/use-celly-to-setup-a-free-text-messaging-group-chat/

Reasons to join and take part in the Twittersphere....

http://blog.sfgate.com/rheingold/2009/05/11/twitter-literacy-i-refuse-to-make-up-a-twittery-name-for-it/

http://etmooc.org/

E-learning and Digital Cultures Mooc - sign up
https://www.coursera.org/course/edc