This document discusses using Twitter to teach history in an engaging way through microblogging. It outlines 8 objectives of the activity, including learning history in English, using social media, connecting past and present, and developing writing and technology skills. Students will write tweets about historical events or figures from their perspective or based on sources. Their tweets will use the hashtag #b2History to share with their class.

1. TWITTER AND HISTORY

2. OBJETIVES:
1. Learn History another way while learning English
2. Use a social networking service and microblogging
3. Joint the knowledge of History with today´s society where the student lives
4. Increase comunication among students and between these and the teacher on
Subject
5. Rewrite past events and make them yours
6. Promote collaborative learning as sharing other personal aspects
7. Adquire a learning more practical, effective and motivating
8. Develop the following skills:
---Written expression and comprehension
---Use of information technologies and conmunication
---Sociability

3. FIRST SCREEN

4. Name
Username
Your tweets or retweets

5. ADJUSTEMENTS
Button to change the account
You can edit profile
You can transform Settings

9. 1º
2º
WRITE, SEND AND READ TEXT-BASED MESSAGES OF UP TO 140 CHARACTERS
3ºPhoto
A NEW TWEET
TWO DIRECTIONS
@Username message
#Hashtag message
URLS

11. HASHTAG
#b2History
FUNCTIONS:
--Represents a subject
--Meets the same thematic messages
--Can represent a study group temporarily together for a topic
--Another option is creat a account

12. PATTERN 1PATTERN 1
Tweets of a historical event as if it happened now

15. PATTERN 2
Tweets of historical events
Information relating to the History, Art and Geography

26. ACTIVITY TWITTER:
Write and send three tweets:
-- your past or your family
-- The life and reign of Carlos III from Wikipedia
Two options:
---Directly with your own account on twitter
---Indirectly with a piece o paper
Destination: #b2History