Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Twitter tools. 7 Effective Ways to Engage on Twitter. May 9, 2014 Twitter is one best social networking platforms for building personal/professional learning communities and for engaging with others in discussions around similar interests. Creating a community on Twitter is as easy as creating a hashtag and sharing it with others. The power of hashtags lies in the fact that they build community around content. There are now several wonderful hashtags designed specifically for teachers and educators. Some of the prominent hashtags in this regard include #edchat and #edtech and for a comprehensive lis of all the educational hashtags available on Twitter, check out this chart. To better leverage the power of Twitter for your professional development , one needs to move from the consumption phase where one only consumes what others share to the production phase where one gets to produce and share with others .
Source: Openforum.com. The Complete Guide To Twitter Hashtags For Education. What is a hashtag? A word or phrase preceded by a “#.” How do hashtags work? Twitter can be a busy place with lots of tweets–and thus lots of “noise.” A #hashtag is a way to aggregate tweets that are appended with a hashtag. Picture it like a magnet that attracts all messages categorized by that topical word or phrase. See also 50 Of The Best Education Accounts On Twitter Who can use hashtags? Anyone. What else do I need to know? Don’t hashtag spam–if your tweet doesn’t add to that hashtag’s topic, discussion, or user base, don’t add the hashtag.Use more than one hashtag if it applies to more than one topic, but choose wisely.
Meeting Times Many of the hashtags have “meeting times” where educators agree to “meet and tweet”–that is, send out messages on a topic at a certain time on a certain day. If you do participate at the agreed upon time, you’ll see the tweets stream in live and participate in said conversation (via twitter) in what is nearly real-time. Popular Hashtags Trends General Literacy. Twitter Exec Reports that Educators Dominate the Twitter sphere. Fake Tweet Builder. Twitter Chats for Education. Weekly Twitter Chat Schedule - Sheet1.
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