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Using Twitter to explore Haiti



With the news over the weekend that Haiti is to have its debt wiped out, I'm going to explore events around the earthquake again tomorrow with Year 8.

To do this I am going to need your help!
  • What questions would you like answered by my classes?
  • How would you like the information presented?
You can send me your questions in two ways:
  1. Ideally, send me a Tweet @daviderogers , or
  2. Leave a comment here!
I hope to Tweet live from the lesson tomorrow, so if you are online between 8:40 and 9:40 and fancy saying hello it would be good to hear from you!

We will be entertaining some visitors from the BBC's Newsround team during the lesson - so let's show the media how social media can be used as a powerful learning tool!
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  1. Alan Parkinson7 February 2010 at 17:03

    Here's a question:
    if you look here there are some "before and after" photos, but I can't see very clearly what the changes have been ?
    What do you think has changed ?
    http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/21/haiti.earthquake.satellite/index.html

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  2. Anonymous7 February 2010 at 19:02

    What do they think should be the main priority for aid / rebuilding that would help children their age the most.

    Comments on this blog would be good for me to see at I don't use twitter.

    meg

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  3. David Rogers8 February 2010 at 21:24

    Excellent, thank you for your questions. They were being worked on by a small group of students who will be emailing me their work :-)

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