Some More Twitter Chats Worth Checking Out. It's been almost 1 and half years since I last wrote about my favorite Twitter chats.
Since then many have come and gone, some have changed and some new ones have emerged worth checking out. First, to participate you don't need a Twitter account. Chats are a great way to passively learn with lots of people. I am a big believer in the power of the network. November 2011 #titletalk « sharpread. I am very excited to co-host #titletalk with the lovely Donalyn Miller (@donalynbooks) again this month.
Last weekend I had the privilege of meeting and getting to know Donalyn. Videos. 3 27 2. Checking Out Class Connect. I am always interested in easy ways to share content and collaborate on projects with others in quick and easy ways.
So when I heard about Class Connect and it's ability to do just that, my interest was piqued. First some back ground. When the founder, Eric, was in high school, bored, a teacher asked him what would make him interested in the class. He wanted to work with the other kids in the class and use technology at the same time. Since the school didn't have the software in place to do what Eric wanted, he built it. So what is Class Connect? Turning links into a library with Diigo. Can bookmarks make you more productive?
Admittedly, I’m more passionate about bookmarks than most but for good reason. My bookmarks are my digital memory. The story is told that a reporter once asked Einstein if he could have his phone number. Einstein picked up the phone directory, looked up his number, wrote it on a slip of paper, and handed it to the reporter. The dumbfounded reporter replied, “You are considered to be the smartest man in the world and you can’t remember your own phone number?” Regardless if this anecdote is true I certainly subscribe to the logic. Unclutter your mind. I’m all for not having to remember tech tutorials or the tour company we used in NYC, bookmarks allow me to archive that knowledge.
From Links to Library Bookmarks are great, big deal, I’ll save my bookmarks in my browser. Your browser enables you to save a link, place it in a folder, and possibly add a few tags (which you probably don’t use). NCTIES 2012. Recently, I made my annual trek to the North Carolina Technology in Education (NCTIES) conference in Raleigh.
While I did not plan the following strategy when I walked in the conference center, I ended up "immersing myself" in three main themes with three speakers presenting at the conference. Those three speakers were: Ken Shelton, Richard Byrne and Jennifer LaGarde. NCTIES never disappoints. It stretches my mind and I leave feeling enriched not only by the new information, but also the collaboration with colleagues and friends. What stood out? In the spirit of Mr. Mr Shelton said In planning a presentation, not considering your audience is like a love letter addressed to "whom it may concern". A Brief History Of #Edchat. As one of the founders of #edchat I get a lot of questions about the what, where, when and why.
So here is everything you need to know (or wanted to know) about #edchat. The History #edchat started out of a series of conversations between myself, Tom Whtiby and Shelly Terrell. Tom is a bit of an instigator and likes to push people's thinking about various topics in education. One day he was asking several of these though-provoking questions and he was getting comments from all angles. The Basics. Turn Your School Staff Into A Powerful Twitter Team. Chances are if you are reading this article, you are familiar with Twitter.
In fact, it is quite possible that you even found this article through your extensive and knowledgeable Twitter network. Congratulations, you are part of a community that is not only revolutionizing education, but also revolutionizing news, journalism, emergency services, marketing and nearly everything else. Internet Catalogue. It's All About The Hashtag. If you remember, in my 3 part series on Twitter, I wrote about how I completely changed the way I do professional development on Twitter.
In a nutshell, I no longer start with signing up and tweeting the first day. I always show how to use Twitter without ever signing up. I believe it's important to establish the value in using it rather than using it and attempting to find the value. What a lot of people don't realize that Twitter is a very powerful search engine. Just like Google, if you know how to use the search effectively you can find pretty much anything. What is a hashtag you ask? From The Twitter Fan Wiki: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. Basically, its a tag in your post so that you or someone else can find it later or track it as it is happening. Right, but how does this help you find stuff for your classroom? There are so many more educational hashtags out there.