A Great Twitter Cheat Sheet for Teachers. 4 Reasons To Join Twitter Hashtag Chats. One of the benefits of Twitter for educators has to be the professional development opportunities. By following individuals I have expanded my techniques and teaching tools. There is a further Twitter option – that of the “chat”. As a language teacher I have benefited immensely from the weekly opportunities found in the Thursday #langchat with MFL (modern foreign language) teachers. We discuss what is current and relevant in our classrooms now. It reaffirms that I am on the right track: Teaching can often be a ‘solitary’ pursuit.
I find approaches/ideas on a specific topic: Chats are really focused with a weekly theme voted on by participants. I get a look into the future: Many of my #langchat colleagues are in districts or positions that are ‘leaders’ in their field. It broadens my ‘colleagues’ circle: Although we may work as part of a school department, we may or may not have colleagues that have a similar teaching philosophy or approach. The Complete Guide To Twitter Hashtags In 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. 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. Updated: Added #edcamp, #ukedchat Popular Hashtags Trends General Content Areas Literacy iPad. Twitter Hashtags Exposed. OzTweechersPLN - Twitter Hashtags. The Best 15 Twitter Hashtags for Teachers. Twitter speaks volumes of itself and does not really require any introduction. I am pretty sure everyone of you has an account there.That`s great ! But have you ever considered using Twitter for educational and professional development purposes ?
Twitter has a huge potential in education and there are many amazed at creative ways teachers can leverage this social media in the classroom as you will learn in the Teacher Twitter guide I am working on and that will be published here very soon. As was the case with the three Twitter tools every teacher should be using, I have again chopped another part from this guide and this time it is about the power of hashtags as learning mediums. According to Twitter help center, `` The # symbol, called hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a tweet.
It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages.`` Hashtag is a great way for users to get a tweet to appear in search results and discussion threads. Here is the list :