Twitter

The twitter application that I found was DreamTweet.

This application allows people to answer the question What Are You Dreaming? This allows people to talk about nightmares or just dreams they have had in a dream log. This could be used in a classroom instead of a journal. If you would have a section you were journaling on about dreams. I would think this would be useful for a creative writing class. You could tweet about your dreams, but at the same time you can also read about other peoples dreams. If you would use it for creative writing you could look at others dreams and write a story about them or even your own dream. Since you have limited space for a tweet, this will allow the student to be creative and come up with different cenarios. By having the journal/dreams on the web, you can access it from anywhere. Students always have a problem with leaving things at school. Since it would be online, they will be able to access it anywhere.

Personally, twitter is different. It is nice to connect with people who are half way around the world or in different states. If I was teaching English and not math, I would use Dream Tweet for journaling. I would probably even use just Twitter for journaling. I think that the Dream Tweet would be a good use for story ideas. It's kind of like brainstorming, but with your dreams. I like the fact that you can go to other Twitters and read what their dreams are.

This provides an interesting way for students to be creative in the classroom.