10 Ways to Use Social Media for Professional Development. Twitter Quick Guide for Schools & Districts. The new school year is upon us. You may be thinking, what can you do differently this year? How can you stand out above the crowd? How can your school become a larger part of the school community? While Twitter is beginning to catch on with many educators, schools are lagging in their adoption of the platform.
Twitter is a quick and easy tool to let the entire school community know what's going on with you and your students. But where do you start? If you feel like your juggling skills are worthy of a Ringling Brothers Circus... Everybody talks about creativity in the classroom, but very few teachers... After the iPod revolutionized how society listened to music and the iPhone... Ever feel buried under the stack of assignments, tests, and quizzes just... With last month’s conventions and next month’s debates, it’s a perfect time to... Here is a quick guide for schools and districts that want to start using Twitter.
{*style:<b>Prep for a Twitter Account </b>*} • Will you follow anyone? HP Teacher Exchange: Tips for fighting cyberbul... Serious Games Promote Engagement and Learning. Email Share August 25, 2011 - by Sarah Cargill 0 Email Share Photo Courtesy of Serious Play Conference Game developers, educators, scientists and business professionals met at the DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond, Wash. this week to explore the ways games and simulations (sims) are revolutionizing learning, professional development, military training and health for the annual Serious Play Conference .
Key themes of the conference include interests in balancing assessment, engagement and learning for a multitude of disciplines. This community of scientists and programmers says that games can engage students of all ages in new ways to inspire them to learn and continue to learn difficult subject areas such as math and science. James Portnow, the CEO of Rainmaker Games , says that we need to establish the fact that there is something to learn from games rather than approaching the tools as simply “children’s play things.”
For more, see the EdWeek story. TweetDeck & 100s of Twitter tools for Teachers. I have posted about Twitter a few times before.
Twitter in Classroom part 1. ; Twitter in Classroom 2 ; Twitter in Classroom part 3; Updates: Facebook and Twitter in Classroom and Georgia Department of Defense: Tactical Guides of Social Media. This post share some examples of other available Twitter tools which gives extra boost on your tweeting. My top tool is TweetDeck. Best feature in TweetDeck is that i can see multible columns in one view, very quick look and i know whats happening, like example today i have 15 columns open. First all friends, my top list, my iPad list, mentions, #RSCON3, #finnedchat, favorites, direct messages, new followers, #edtech, #mlearning, #ipadchat, #ipaded, Facebook, Linkedin.
I also open new columns for daily needs, like follow my new blog post retweeting (for thanking them), follow interesting hashtags, sometimes i follow one person, who has some spesific information, like Scott Newcomb @snewco from mlearning or @web20classroom Steven W. 10 Tips to Help You Get Started » The Rapid eLearning Blog. SC EdTech - SC EdTech Live. Interesting Ways.
Exploring Ed Tech @ the Bi-Co. 28 Interesting Ways to use an iPod Touch in the Classroom. 10 New Twitter Tools That Will Make Your Life Easier. Twitter continues to add a staggering amount of 460,000 users each day.
In order to be fully equipped to stay on top of this popular web service, you can use Twitter tools to help. Here are 10 fresh, new Twitter tools that you can use to achieve greater productivity on Twitter-related tasks. 1. The Archivist This tool gives you insights and data about a specific search term. The Archivist allows you to download the data so you can go and pull it into presentations, reports and other analytics tools. 2.
This Twitter tool analyses your tweets and your followers’ tweets and then gives you a graph of times of the day and days of the week your tweets will have the most visibility. Tweriod saw development at a great pace in the past few weeks. 3. ManageFlitter has been around for a while; however, a few weeks ago, the app rolled out an overhaul and launched a pro version of its service. 4. (Full disclosure: I work at Buffer.) 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Google. The E-learning Daily. Blogging: Why Aren't You Doing It? Twitter for educational purposes.