50 Of The Best Education Accounts On Twitter. 5 Authentic Roles For Twitter In Your School. A Teacher's Guide For Creating A School Twitter Chat. A Teacher’s Guide For Creating A Twitter Chat In Your School by Nellie Mitchell A twitter chat is an amazing resource for professional development and gives educators the option to participate in their PJs, from the comfort of their own home!
It is essentially a chat room, with everyone sharing and talking and hanging out virtually—discussing learning strategies, classroom management techniques, and technology. A good chat stimulates great conversation, but also has the power to motivate an entire district. 10 Reasons Twitter Works In Education. Why Twitter Works In Education by TeachThought Staff As the collective family of social media channels grows, each adopts their own personality.
The Best Twitter Chat For Teachers In 2015 - The Best Twitter Chat For Teachers In 2015 by TeachThought Staff If there was ever a doubt that education twitter chats were kind of a big deal, this television guide-style document should set things straight.
Twitter chats aren’t just “things,” but have evolved into fully-functioning professional development for teachers. At their worst, they’re laid-back, back-and-forth resource sharing and celebration of possibility. At their best, twitter chats are dynamic, digital, and easily curated cells of professional connected learning. 7 Ways To Get More Out Of Twitter. Twitter is one of the most powerful tools available to a modern educator, student, or administrator.
It’s a free tool that connects you to some of the most innovative and useful ideas the world has to offer. You can communicate with just about anyone in brief messages. This is probably a good thing for the more verbose folks who need some guidance in keeping their messages under 140 characters. So how do users of all skill levels get more out of Twitter ? By using this simple visual guide I whipped up, of course! The A-Z Dictionary of Educational Twitter Hashtags. Whether you’re a new or seasoned Twitter user, you likely come across confusing hashtags that probably look like a bunch of nonsense.
First, What’s A Hashtag? The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keyword or topic in a Tweet. Any Twitter user can categorize or follow topics with hashtags.Those hashtags (usually) mean something and are a great way to get a tweet to appear in search results or discussion monitoring. For example, the popular #edchat hashtag is used by thousands of users every Tuesday.
It makes it easy (sort of) for people to monitor what’s happening in the conversation rather than having to try and guess what topics you should search for. How To Hide Your Hashtag Chat From Followers When having a Twitter #hashtag chat, if you want to avoid overwhelming your followers, start any tweet you want to “hide” with @HideChat or (one character shorter) @HideTag . How Twitter Made Me A Better Teacher. Few can argue the need to keep up to date in your field.
In the same way that I would want a doctor who is current and knowledgeable in new methods, treatments, and techniques, I would want a teacher who is continually learning about the best their field has to offer and modifying their practices accordingly. I thought that I was doing fairly well in the area of professional development before joining Twitter and creating a teaching account. I would attend at least one conference per year, would take advantage of webinars on topics I could stand to learn more about, and would quite frequently read online articles related to teaching and classrooms. I thought that I was even further ahead of many others, as I would test different methods in class with my students and wasn’t afraid to change the way I taught based on the results I got. However, I must now admit that I was wrong. 22 Effective Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom. Using Twitter in the classroom is a no-brainer.
It’s a powerful and free tool that already has wide adoption among educators, students, administrators, and parents. 10 Little-Known Twitter Tools For Connected Educators. There’s an array of Twitter tools that make the rounds on the ol’ edtech circle.
We chat about Hootsuite , Paper.li , and Bit.ly quite a bit. But there are a lot of little-known Twitter tools that don’t see the light of day on sites like Edudemic. Twitter For Teachers: Erin Klein's Awesome 10-Minute Video Tells All. 8 Ways To Turn Students Into Storytellers 4.08K Views 0 Likes In the era of social media and always-on learning, it's hard to take a step back. So how do you effectively turn students into storytellers amid distraction? 5 Quick Visual Guides To Earth Day 2013 3.02K Views 0 Likes. A Useful Twitter Cheat Sheet. Want to step your Twitter game up?
Think you’re supposed to actually type a full 140 characters for each tweet? Not quite. That’s just one of the many handy tips found in this useful Twitter Cheat Sheet. You probably know most of these terms already but, as mentioned in the previous sentence, there are some parts that are a little more clearly defined than previous cheat sheets we’ve featured on Edudemic. However, this sheet is already slightly outdated now that Twitter has done a slight redesign. 10 education journalists on Twitter you need to follow. It's not always easy to keep up with the latest buzz in the education world but Twitter can be a surprisingly useful resource.
Whether you're looking for news, analysis or just a conversation, Twitter has it all—if you know where to look. Many education journalists use Twitter to keep their followers in the loop and, if you follow the right people, Twitter will automatically sift through the clutter for you. To make it easier for our readers, Education Dive compiled a list of top 10 education journalists on Twitter. Take a look and stay ahead of the curve (and while you're at it, check out Education Dive on Twitter as well): 1. (A Few More) Details about the Gates Foundation-funded inBloom and its plans for student data hackeducation.com/2013/04/04/inb… — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) April 4, 2013 2.
Check out this chart of NYC teachers' years of experience by @wsjgraphics twitter.com/lisafleisher/s… — Lisa Fleisher (@lisafleisher) April 8, 2013 3. 4. 5. 6. 8. 9. 10. 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?