Sure George Washington and the other Founding Fathers didn’t have Facebook and Twitter, but woudn’t it have been cool if they did? It would have been awesome to see Sacagawea’s posts about how Lewis and Clark refuse to listen and “know” where they are going. I can imagine hew tweets [1. A message posted on Twitter consisting of 140 characters or less.] would have been re-tweeted [2. Re-tweeted messages are tweets shared in their original form by other Twitter users.] by women around the world. The templates shared in this post are designed to let your students be creative and share the knowledge that they have gained. These templates can be used for more than documenting the lives of historical characters. These templates can be used for novel studies as well as creative writing.
When students use the Facebook template, they will be able to display biographical information about a historical character’s life, hobbies, career, and “friends”. The Twitter template will challenge students to create “Tweets” that share information that is relative to the subject’s life or activities. There is a second option inside the Twitter template, and that is the documentation of an event using a “fictional” hashtag [3. Hashtags are specific searches on Twitter using the “#” sign. Charlie Sheen made the hashtag “#Winning” very popular during his public breakdown.] There are example of the Facebook and Twitter templates below. These templates were created for my MAC users, but have been exported into .ppt and .doc format.
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Click here to download the Facebook template for MACs.
Click here to download the Twitter template for MACs.
Nice work Frank! I will definitely be sharing this post.