One of the tweets Nixon did not manage to erase in 1972…
Just kidding. I found this great, fun tool Twister from Classtools (twitterbution to @John_larkin, about time I gave you one back). It is a simple web form where you can enter info about a historical figure, and create a fake status message from them, as if they were tweeting back then – like Beethoven complaining about his iPod, Monet pondering painting versus gardening, or Isaac Newton calling for a post apple falling beverage.
It’s pretty simple, enter a fake twitter handle (be creative), their real name (used to pluck the images from sonewhere), the tweet they might have said (use hashtags! @people! bit.ly links!), and the date to put on the tweet.
It’s late for the ds106 visual assignments, but this one is easy anyone can do it in about 5 minutes. I made the ones on this post actually from my iPhone.
A few more I made…
Old Testament tweets…
And from a footnote I saw in Sean Wilenz’s Bob Dylan in America
Right foot red, left arm blue– let’s play Twister http://classtools.net/twister/
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This looks like so much fun. Awesome find here!
Fake tweets to help students learn?! Awesome! http://cogdogblog.com/2011/03/17/phake-tweets/
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Phun with Phakes – learn while having fun http://cogdogblog.com/2011/03/17/phake-tweets/ #23NTSA
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I like this, but I wished it gave you more freedom on which image it chose. Am I missing something? Is it just picking common google image? Wrong picture shows up for more obscure “famous” people. Fun little tool, though. Thanks.
You are correct Jabiz- you are stuck with the image it creates. I think what you are after is better done with the Firebug tool and the Web Story assignment from ds106.
Poor Moses 😀