
How important is Twitter in your Personal Learning Network?
10 Free Web 2.0 Tools And How To Easily Use Them In Your Classroom
Earlier this week I had the opportunity to attend the first Ozarks Education Research Initiative (OERI) Teacher Technology Conference at Willard High School (MO). The learning sessions I attended were all very good and I am going to share 10 of the FREE tools I learned about below. I will be incorporating them into how I teach and hopefully by using these tools during faculty meetings, PD sessions, and other opportunities as they arise, this will help us all to find ways to incorporate them into the classroom to engage our students even more. This quote from last week has stuck with me ever since it was spoken – “Date the tool. Marry the idea.”Twitter’s “Bots” Problem: Time for Twitter to Take Ownership and Declare War on Spammers! » Social Media Lab
Twitter is a real treasure trove of educational resources for teachers and educators. It is one of my favourite web tools to stay updated about what is going on in the field of educational technology. It goes without saying that everyone of you has got a Twitter account but the question is do you really benefit from Twitter as should be ? By implication, my question is referring to educational and professional development benefits. Yes you might be following hundreds of bloggers and educators ; yet still unable to sift through the tsunami of tweets you have everyday.Tweeting is an art which you should master and the key to the mastery of this art is hashtags. Hashtag is a great way for users to locate and keep track of particular information within the massive tweets.
Top 10 Educational Technology Hashtags for Educators
I’m hearing more and more about teaching with Twitter in the classroom. The potential is amazing and I see this as a big step towards embracing the real power of Technology in the classroom. I am also aware of the concerns and understand the validity and necessity of ensuring the safety of students. But, when done properly, the opportunity to positively impact the classroom is exciting!
Over 100 ideas for using Twitter in the Classroom (Revised 6/3/12)
Every time we host live webinars (and as this long list suggests , that is quite often), quite a few attendees get confused about what to do with the hashtag we provide.

