TweetChat. Twitter PLN by Jennifer Reed on Prezi. Teachers – The 10 Stages of Twitter. Stage 1 Sign up to twitter following persuasion/pestering by colleagues.
Follow Stephen Fry, a famous sportsman/popstar and a news channel. Read a few tweets, don’t understand what the fuss is about and mock anyone who uses twitter. Nine Reasons to Twitter in Schools. I got in trouble for Tweeting at work. I remember the day like it was just yesterday...
I'd just finished a meeting with our elementary group leaders and I was on my way home. The meeting was good and was quite productive. I was feeling pretty good about what we had discussed and the plans we had moving forward. On the way home my phone started to ring and I noticed it was my assistant superintendent. Microsoft Word - Document2 - Using Twitter for Professional Development.pdf. How Twitter is Changing Professional Development for Educators - Finding Common Ground. "I naively assumed that Twitter was a place for people to narcissistically blab their every move, and after reading "Why Educators Should Join Twitter," my mind was changed and I joined.
My life is changed! I finally feel like I have others whose lives revolve around education the way mine does". Jaime Mendelis, Binghamton, NY. How to Promote Twitter for Professional Development to Your Colleagues and Other Stuff. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged and I’ve missed it.
Now that my husband is out in town at the Linkin Park and Stone Sour concert, it was an opportune time to sit at my computer and finally get my thoughts down. I haven’t had time to reflect much on my work recently as I’ve started a couple of new projects at work as well as complete two MOOCs. With the workload, I’ve been easily distracted from blogging. A Guide To Twitter Chats. If you remember back to my post on hashtags we talked about how hashtags can be great sources of learning.
When you begin to look at hashtags you will find some end it "chat. " That means there is an actual Twitter chat that goes along with that hashtag. What is a Twitter chat? In it's simplest form, its a set time where folks get together and all post using the same hashtag. Most times there are moderators and set questions. As one of the founders of #edchat I get a lot of questions about the what, where, when and why. The History #edchat started out of a series of conversations between myself, Tom Whtiby and Shelly Terrell. The Basics To participate users need only add #edchat to their tweets. Following Along You will need a way to follow the conversations. Afterwards The archive is usually posted by the next day and it includes all the tweets during the hour time span. Using Twitter for Teachers' Professional Development. I am actually engaged in an extensive review of the literature written on the use of Twitter as a Personal Learning Network ( PLN ).Twitter is the core topic of my MAEd thesis and I am trying to approach it from different perspectives : academic, social, and even personal ( for professional development ).
Academically speaking, papers investigating the use of Twitter in the world of academia are still scarce and the empirical research done in this field is still very limited. From time to time I feature some of the resources I am actually reading and which I know will be of great interest to my readers here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.For instance, today I am sharing with you a treasure trove ( I really mean it ) of Twitter lists to subscribe with and follow to stay updated about the latest news, resources, links, researches, and many more according to your area of interest.
6 Twitter Tips That Will Jumpstart Your Professional Development. Twitter may seem, in many ways, to be old news.
Twitter4pd - Twitter for Professional Development. Using Twitter for Professional Development. The term “professional development” conjures up thoughts of travel, conference fees, arranging substitutes, and loss of precious instructional time.
But does it have to entail all that? Actually, no. A growing number of educators are using Twitter—yes, the microblogging platform Twitter—as a quick, easy, low-cost alternative. 7 Tips To Get More Followers On Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC] The Art of Getting Retweets. Free Twitter Posters For Your Classroom. Featured Post What it is: I am a fan of everything PBS does, recently I ran across this gem while looking for some activities that help students learn about habitats.
Draw that Habitat is SO much more engaging than most of the “match the animal to the correct habitat” lower level thinking “games” (if you can call them that) that are out there. In Draw that Habitat, students are introduced to imaginary animals. How to Make a Class Backchannel. Yesterday I posted a “Twitter Matrix” for education, which generated a fair amount of buzz in the micro-blogging world.
A few people sent me messages asking if I could explain how I make my class backchannel, so here goes. First of all, I think of the backchannel as the conversation that might otherwise normally happen in class within students’ minds, or between each other. It’s the communication that happens between two or more students about their experience of class and their own learning.
To be clear, classes have always had backchannels of conversation, the difference now ist that technology allows us to put them to better use. When these conversations become public, students and teachers have an opportunity to learn from each other, and questions get answered, and issues get addressed. 22 Ways To Use Twitter For Learning Based On Bloom's Taxonomy. Last year we created a “twitter spectrum,” an image that clarified different ways that twitter could be used in the classroom in (hopefully) authentic ways. TeachBytes has followed that up with an excellent graphic of their own that uses a pure Bloom’s Taxonomy approach. The specific ideas range from “remix trending tweets with video and music” to creating concept maps showing the relationship between tweets. We must admit to going back and forth over the exact fit of a social media platform like twitter in a formal (or informal) learning environment.
Clearly it’s a great way to skim and monitor information streams, but just like we wouldn’t use sing Shakespearean sonnets to toddlers at birthday parties, using twitter as an in-depth critical thinking tool requires a bit of squinting, even as an Avante-garde 21st century learning tool. Unless you’re using it as a cultural survey of sorts. Twitter 201 ISTE 2013. For Public Schools, Twitter Is No Longer Optional. 35 Interesting Ways to use Twitter in the Classroom.
Twitter for Professional Development. One of best and worst things about teaching today is the unbelievably unfathomable amount of online resources, tools, websites, lesson plans, and overall good stuff for teaching and learning. However, there are only so many hours and minutes in the day to spend researching and finding resources that are relevant to your life as a teacher. How do you keep up with it all? Simply put: Twitter. There is nothing better than having a good group of “goto” people that you can turn to with questions about resources, bounce ideas off of for lessons and projects, and collaborate with on a regular basis. Hopefully you have a team of people in your school or district who you work with that serve this purpose, but wouldn’t it be great if you could also find a more global group of like-minded teachers to broaden your horizons a bit?
Mom This is How Twitter Works. Tlchat - How_To_Archive_Tweets. The 10 Types of Twitterers and How to Tame Their Tweets. 60 In 60 Brandon Lutz ISTE 12. How to Use Twitter to Grow Your PLN. For many people, Twitter conjures up the worst of the internet: disjointed, meaningless phrases, unrecognizable abbreviations, and endless drivel about where someone's getting their double mocha today. So, Why Tweet?!?! For the inquisitive educator, there are some jewels herein that can lead to stimulating discussions, new resources, and an ongoing supportive network.
You just have to know where to look. Twitter For Learning: 7 Ideas For Using Hashtags In The Classroom. By Anibal Pacheco, TeachThought intern Twitter For Learning: 7 Ideas For Using Hashtags In The Classroom If you are an Educator looking to use Twitter in the classroom you might have noticed most tweets include a #Hashtag. The use of the # sign with a word attached to it makes up one. Hashtags trace their history to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) networks where they are used to label groups and topics. When Twitter came into the social media scene users quickly adopted hashtags as a way to group Twitter messages based on a particular subject or topic. I would recommend you search hashtag directory services like tagdef.com, twubs.com and hashtags.org to see if somebody is using the one you want.
When you visit one of these services you can enter a hashtag, view what it means and register yours using Twitter’s app authentication system. Here are some examples for Hashtag usage in the classroom. 1. Twitter as a Curation Tool I have written and spoken extensively about the use of Twitter in education: In addition to the above mentioned uses of Twitter, I am increasingly becoming aware of the importance of Twitter as a CURATION tool for me. The term “curation” in itself has become quite popular recently. I am not sure yet, if it is another term destined to become a victim of talking at cross purposes among the educational community. Twitter for Researchers guide. At my institution we’re really stepping up our support for researchers, and I’ve been doing a lot of stuff around the Web 2.0 end of the spectrum.
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