Student Post: Jared Rieden

When I was a supervisor at Tim Horton’s, I worked with five high school students on my afternoon team. One of the students told me about his English assignment where he had to tweet like a character in the book he was reading for class. The tweet had to be in the character’s voice and had to be about what was happening in the story. For example, Juliet might twee “lol hate that the Montagues and Capulets got to fight #love.” He enjoyed that he can use twitter in the classroom. It challenged him to fit everything in 140 characters, but part of the lesson was being concise.