How Teachers Can Stop Being Scared Of Twitter. November’s EdTechTeacher’s iPad Summit (which, by the way, I found through Twitter) completely amazed, overwhelmed, challenged, and inspired me. I left feeling empowered about the 1:1 iPad environment in which I was teaching and excited about the possibilities of technology inside and outside of my classroom. My Twitter Addiction I also left the conference with a mild addiction to Twitter.
Mild as in I stopped taking notes within the first 5 minutes of the keynote when I realized that I could just tweet the links for great resources, apps, articles, images, videos… And went from following one or two people to dozens of the brightest stars in the edtech realm – including the EdTechTeacher staff and some pretty amazing teachers I met at the conference. Like I said, it was a *mild* addiction. It went something like this: Presenter: I’ve used ______ with my students… (Frantic search – copy link – insert witty comment – hashtag – tweet – done). Repeat … several hundred times. Hashtags Ahoy! Twitter for Professional Development: Ultra Beginner Edition, Part 2. Written by Mark Brumley Beyond the Basics In the post Twitter for Professional Development: Ultra Beginner Edition, I offered a simple way to demonstrate the power of Twitter to teachers.
If you are introducing Twitter to your colleagues, I highly recommend following that model. This builds awareness of the learning possibilities of social media in a non-threatening way. Sharing The next step is for teachers to share what they learn. A zillion possibilities exist to share content including a shared Google doc, Evernote notebook and, of course, the faculty room bulletin board. With newbies, I suggest using Diigo. Login to Diigo and create a new group. Social Bookmarking Now the most difficult part by far; explain social bookmarking to your teachers and have them create Diigo accounts.
Okay, that’s the hard part…now for the fun. I’m not going to lie; this is an exhausting professional development session. Personal Learning Networks for Educators: 10 Tips. By Dr. Mark Wagner I often begin my workshop on personal learning networks (PLN) for educators by asking these questions: Who is in your learning network? Who do you learn from on a regular basis? Who do you turn to for your own professional development? Some educators are lucky enough to learn from their coworkers or colleagues at their site. Far too many others feel isolated in their room or office, and need to meet with counterparts from other sites in order to have a professional learning experience. I usually ask these questions at conferences, which are frequently only annual events – and rare treats for many educators.
Learning to Network and Networking to Learn 1. 2. 3. 4. Networking Tools and Anecdotes The four tips above are the core activities of building a personal learning network, and they can be applied using various tools to connect with others online. 5. 6. 7. 8. Final Thoughts 9. 10. Note: I’ve also been writing about this topic for some time. Google. Hashtags - Twubs. Leslinks- Using Twitter in school. 5 Ways Twitter Can Help in Education - Getting Smart by Guest Author - edchat, social media, twitter. By: Pamela Rossow If you are in an educational field as a student, teacher, or parent, you may have wondered about the benefits of social media—specifically Twitter. All that tweeting seems like it could give you a headache. What if Twitter was more than just a way to dish about the amazing Caprese salad you had at lunch and actually a way to help students learn better?
Here are 5 ways that Twitter may enhance learning . . . Class participation. Projects. Outside in. Networking. Finding information. Education and Twitter can be synonymous if Twitter is used in a way that benefits educators and students. Pamela Rossow is a freelance writer who works with higher education clients such as eLearners. I am a teacher on Twitter, by Michelle Gaydash on Prezi. Using Twitter in a Primary Classroom. It's funny, I've been using twitter a fair bit with my students this past year but as I went to find a post about it to share with a colleague on twitter I discovered I've never actually blogged about it.
It's time to fix that. My class and I have used twitter as an incredible connecting, sharing, and learning tool. We've used it for many different purposes and the reality is there is always another way we could be using it. The great thing about Twitter is that it's one of the easiest ways to bring the world into your classroom. To begin with I've created a class twitter account at @MsLsClass. But what do we tweet? Other times we use twitter for specific purposes. This term we also tweeted out math story problems to the hashtag #mathstory which we created as a class. We also used twitter this year to connect with people. We also used twitter when we were learning about voice. Sometimes we don't start out with the intention of using twitter but our conversations end up there as well. Paradigm Shift: Thoughts of A Young Twitter PLN User - Teaching With Tech In Mind. Twitter isn't new to me. In fact, out of the 1.5 billion twitter accounts I am number 14,440,832.
I joined Twitter in April of 2008. I've gotten to connect to some pretty impressive people in my little world of southeast Texas (here, here, and here). I don't say these stats to boast but to tell you that I've been around 140 Character land for quite some time. How I came to use twitter to create my PLN:My district annually holds their technology conference the week before ISTE.
Guide to Twitter in the K-8 Classroom Twitter, without a doubt, has become the social network for educators to take their professional development into their own hands. Twitter allows teachers to connect with other educators from around the world, join discussions related to their interests and have a steady stream of resources (to help them teach and learn) available to them whenever, whereever and however.
Creating a network on Twitter has catapulted educators to be part of a connected world where learning happens anytime, help is only a tweet away, collaboration partners meet and communicate, conversations that directly or indirectly impact their physical lives take place 24/7. Twitter is helping educators gain many 21st century skills and literacies which could easily transfer to their classrooms. So the next question is… How do you bring Twitter into your K-8 Classroom? If your students are under the age of 13, they cannot create their own Twitter account (Minimum Age Restriction).
Related 21. In "Collaboration" 3. 14. Teachers – The 10 Stages of Twitter | dedwards.me. 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. Stage 2 Overhear colleagues chatting about twitter and a great article they found. Promise to give it a go again and follow two or three recommendations.
Find articles interesting and wonder how to get more. Stage 3 Think about posting first tweet. Stage 4 Upon realising you have no followers ask colleagues how to get them? Stage 5 Have a mini twitter conversation with colleague, even retweet a couple of statements. Stage 6 Practise a couple of tweets that include @names and hashtags. Stage 7 Retweet any link you find interesting as people might read them. Stage 8 Thank colleagues for introducing you to twitter, impressed with the knowledge you have gleaned and your growing number of followers. Stage 9 Stage 10 (the reason for this post) Like this: Like Loading... Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet TAGS v5 Jisc CETIS MASHe. For a couple of years now to support my research in Twitter community analysis/visualisation I’ve been developing my Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet (TAGS). To allow other to explore the possibilities of data generated by Twitter I’ve released copies of this template to the community.
In September 2012 Twitter announced the release of a new version of their API (the spreadsheet uses this to request data from Twitter). Around the same time Twitter also announced that the old version of their API would be switched off in March 2013. This has required some modification of TAGS to work with the new API. The biggest change for TAGS is that all requests now need authenticated access. So here it is: *** Twitter Archive Google Spreadsheet – TAGS v5.1 *** [If the first link doesn't work try Opening this Spreadsheet and File > Make a copy] Important: Uldis Bojars (@CaptSolo) has highlighted an issue with TAGS V5.0 which meant it would not page all the results. Note!