Last week I created a lesson that asked my students to recreate a battle timeline using twitter. We started by looking at the egyptian january 25th revolution and how twitter played a critical role on that revolution and eventual ousting of the Mubarak regime. I used my own twitter account to show the students an example of tweeting, the previous day I created a tweet about the lesson using hashtags and provided this example on the worksheets I gave my students. We did not actually use Twitter as I am still a student teacher and did not want to require anyone to sign up for the social media service. My students used prepared packets covering four major battles of WWII: Midway, Iwo Jima, D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge. Students then created a storyboard for their twitter feed to decided upon twitter handles creating timestamps (who tweeted when and in what order) and what hashtags they would create for their battle. Students worked in groups of four with each students needing to create at least two tweets. The end result was a twitter feed that showcased students understanding of the various battles of WWII. Reflecting on this assignment I would use this same assignment but then ask students to actually use twitter to create a twitter feed and embed the tweets on to my class website allowing parents to see what their students have been creating. This would also allow me to scaffold the lesson gradually realising responsibility to the students. I felt that students responded well to the assignment with many of them asking to use other social media apps for future assignments. Students were able to meet the objective of the lesson while strengthening their use of social media as a communication tool not just for social means but for educational and career goals.