Three Years in Three Months | Wonderings in an elearning world… As I embraced a little down time over the first day of the school ‘holidays’ my brain began a little parched and missing something. It struck me that I’d been very quiet in the digital world after the 3pm bell went on Friday and the typical ‘non-contact time’ cold hit me within hours of being home. So I fired up the macbook on Sunday afternoon and began reading the many many thousands of tweets I’d missed. From @mrkempnz’s blog posts to recapping my comments and the comments of others as we were enthralled by @grantlitchman on Thursday night, I began feeling like my old self again.
I think it’s safe to say that through my development of a personal learning network and engagement in edchats all over the world, I have learned and shared more in the last three months than in the last three years! Listening to the views of others, interacting with individuals and watching larger tweeters retweet tricks, tips and advice, I am constantly presented with things to trial and do. 25 Twitter Tips For Students, Parents, And Teachers. How To Use Mood Boards For Visual Learning 5.03K Views 0 Likes Mood boards are used for photography, game design, interior design, marketing, fashion, music, advertising and even architecture; but who’s to say they shouldn’t be used in the classroom? (You might be doing this already!) How Twitter has made me a New Teacher « Dukelyer. TwitterThe other day I managed to pass a couple of Twitter milestones, 500 followers and 3000 tweets, and I made me really stop and think about how this thing that many of us use named Twitter has affected my life and my passion for teaching .
I teach at a steadily growing, but really still small, country school in the lower middle of the South Island of New Zealand. The closest town is 20 minutes away and has a standing population 4-5 thousand people year round. Like in most New Zealand primary schools I am the only male teacher. I am isolated geographically, but was beginning to feel isolated also as a teacher. Looking back at this time last year I was very dissatisfied with my job and if given the opportunity I may have jumped ship to a new profession.
Then I grabbed an opportunity to travel to an EXPO in Dunedin where I met up with a teacher who I had met the past year and he was Tweeting. Thank you Twitter PN: 13 hours later I have to add one more photo. Like this: Like Loading... 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.
Twitter to the rescue! In addition to just following educators and others with the same interests as you, there are several different hashtags that you can follow that revolve around the educational realm. Twitter Tips for Educators. Social Networking | Feature Twitter Tips for Educators According to instructional technologist Steven Anderson, Twitter holds the key for putting teachers in touch with great ideas from all over the world. Here are 10 ways he offers to get the most out of it. By Dian Schaffhauser02/27/13 Steven Anderson, known in some circles as @Web20classroom, argued that learning from Twitter is the best thing you can do as an educator because of how it expands the circle of people you're in contact with. 1.
Anderson noted that going to the home page of Twitter's Web site can be highly inefficient. His advice is to use a third-party client, a program that allows the user to organize Twitter feeds in a more customized fashion. 2. Anderson proclaimed that the more a person puts into using Twitter effectively, the more he or she will get out of it. 3. Forget about the number of followers you have, Anderson advised. 4. 5. What Twitter Can Teach Primary Students. Kathy Cassidy’s new book Connected from the Start: Global Learning in the Primary Grades will be published this month by Powerful Learning Press. This excerpt from Chapter 6, “Connected with Twitter,” illustrates the value of using social media tools in the primary school classroom. Learn more about Kathy’s outlook on the need for six year olds to develop a public global presence in this interview at the PLP blog. Although we have not always been consistent users of our classroom Twitter account, my six-year old students have had some tremendous opportunities for learning through our use of this popular social network.
In 2011, my students had heard about the floods in Brisbane, Australia from their parents and came to school talking about the video footage they had seen on television. They were intrigued because of our classroom connection with a class of seven year olds there called the 2M Gems. . @2mgems We saw videos of your floods. @mrscassidyclass thankyou 4 thinking of us.