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I enjoyed learning about and presenting on the "Tweet the Text" strategy lesson. I think this is a very practical strategy that I can see myself using in the classroom. One of my favorite things about this strategy is that it incorporates something that students are already familiar with so that it becomes engaging to them. I like how we allowed the students to enter their tweet electronically so that we could see all of the tweets together and discuss them. An unexpected problem that occurred was that our link was giving some students trouble so we had to send it to them a different way so that they could submit their tweet. Technology can always be a little unpredictable so having a backup way to do it on paper would be a good idea. A good point that was brought up in class was that students might not be able to handle using their phones to complete this activity so having them write it on a piece of paper as a sort of exit slip might be a good way to execute this lesson. I think the passage we gave each group was a bit lengthy so if I were to do this again, I would maybe use a shorter text. Another good idea that was brought up was to use this strategy with a video and I thought that was a great way to keep kids engaged as they are watching something in their class.


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