Summarizer is a way to explore all things that connect to the real-time web and other publishers covering people, places, and things. Acting as a search engine, Summarizer searches for tweets in the past 7 days on the either by user name or topic. What a great way to get my students to explore a topic we have introduced in class and see what it is that the world has to say about the given topic. This gave me an idea for my new class called "Great Books". If I introduce the major themes within the novel we are about to read my students then can go on Summerizer and read through tweets to come up with questions to be raised in our literature circles. Modeled after the "Socratic Method" my students will be abled to lead the discussion much like the Problem Based Instruction my team research in the last class. All in all I would have never have thought took look for these tools and will be using this one is my up-and-coming classes.
You can check it out at: http://thesummarizer.com
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