Watershed » literature http://blog.larkin.net.au Thoughts on teaching, technology, learning and life in an era of change. Sun, 11 Oct 2015 03:37:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 A tweet from Pompeii 79AD http://blog.larkin.net.au/2009/02/21/a-tweet-from-pompeii-79ad/ http://blog.larkin.net.au/2009/02/21/a-tweet-from-pompeii-79ad/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:56:31 +0000 John Larkin http://blog.larkin.net.au/?p=836

Source: Historical Tweets

A post by Francesca Tonchin in Classical Archaeology News just alerted me to Historical Tweets. The specific tweet relates to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD and the consequent disaster that befell Pompeii, Herculaneum and other regions of Campania. [This event and the societies of Pompeii and Herculaneum are a core unit of the Ancient History course in the New South Wales Higher School Certificate.]

The idea generated some thought and made me wonder about other possible applications such as “Famous Last Tweets”. Imagine asking students of literature, during a break or diversion in that programmed syllabus, to compose tweets that would have been written by writers such as Plato, Lawrence, Dickens, Twain, Pepys, Shakespeare, Orwell, Donne, and so on. I believe John Donne’s tweets could have been particularly telling…. “This bed has fleas…” or “Just picked up a nice compass“.

Care to suggest others?

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