Twitter. Principal embraces power of Twitter. Eric Sheninger, the principal of New Milford High School, has tapped out more than 12,000 tweets since he joined Twitter — or about 13 a day.
Now he's got more than 14,500 followers on Twitter from around the country. That's more than a "Today" show co-host and nearly as many as the U.S. secretary of education. His goal? To tap into the oceans of educators everywhere using social networking to share tips, ask advice and promote what they're doing. "I'm opening up what I'm thinking as a principal to the global society," he says. While some skeptics may see a stream of 140-character updates as a time-consuming distraction, Sheninger ticks off the benefits for his school of roughly 700 students.
"It's not about how many followers you have," said Sheninger, 36. The former science teacher's zeal for the savvy use of new technologies will be on full display today in a conference called "Edscape," expected to draw more than 300 educators from the tri-state area to New Milford High School. 10 Awesome Twitter Analytics and Visualization Tools. Recently Twitter rolled out their native analytics platform for all users and now you can get some quality data about your tweets directly from Twitter.
After researching over a thousand Twitter Tools for the Twitter Tools Book I came across many Twitter analytics and visualization tools. These Twitter tools were designed to add value by presenting a different way to visualize or analyze your tweets, the people in your network, and the tweets from the people in your network. Many tools tried to add value and failed. At least they tried. The following tools, however, stand out in my mind as exceptional or entertaining and I recommend you check them out if you want to analyze and visualize your activity on Twitter. 1. TweepsMap is an excellent Twitter tool for both analyzing and visualizing your Twitter network. As it’s name suggests it does this by showing you how your followers are distributed on a map, in terms of percentages.
You can see the distribution of my followers below. Teaching with Twitter. Reneefountain from Québec on Twitter. How to Use Twitter to Build Intelligence. 5 genuinely useful Twitter tools. There’s eleventy-billion Twitter apps, tools and services all vying for your attention. Some of them are pretty, some tell you some type of score (as if Twitter was some kind of competition) and some, well, some just seem to be side-projects for bored programmers… :-p But the following five Twitter tools are those that I find genuinely useful. They add value to my little social networking world. 1. Twitter. Élucubrations pédagogiques. J’ai eu la chance, cette semaine, de passer 7 jours à Washington, dans le cadre du “Global Forum – Partners in Learning” organisé par Microsoft.
Il s’agit, comme ils le définissent, d’une “coupe du Monde de l’éducation”, où se rencontrent plusieurs projets innovants. Compétition ou collaboration ? Vu de l’extérieur, on peut se poser la question de l’utilité d’un tel forum. Les projets présentés sont certes en compétition, observés par les lunettes évaluatives de plusieurs juges, qui examinent le travail de chaque enseignant sous un éclairage particulier (le projet permet-il d’ouvrir la classe à l’extérieur ?
How to Use Twitter to Build Intelligence. Intelligence: n. the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge (this post is a group Twitter experiment – link to similar articles at bottom & share your own experience on Twitter with hashtag #MonTwit) I’ve been thinking a lot about how we can leverage the potential of social networks in order to learn, facilitate innovation and solve problems.
I’ve been experimenting with Twitter heavily for the past few months, and would like to share a few basic insights into what I’m discovering. I started to tackle this a few weeks ago via a comment I posted on @briansolis‘s blog, so I’ll just expand on the main questions I laid out there: What is Twitter? Let me just start by saying I understand that Twitter is a communication channel that can be used in a variety of ways. 1. Getting started on Twitter is like walking into a crowded room blindfolded: you know there’s somebody out there, but you’re not quite sure who they are, where they are, or why you should care.
This is the potential of Twitter.