Nature Sounds. Listen and download for free Twitter In The Classroom Social media offers some great opportunities for learning in the classroom, bringing together the ability to collaborate, access worldwide resources, and find new and interesting ways to communicate in one easily accessible place. Teachers around the world have found innovative ways to use Twitter as a teaching tool (including TeachThought’s favorite), and we’ve shared many of these great ideas here with you. Read on, and we’ll explore 60 inspiring ways that teachers and students can put Twitter to work in the classroom. Communication Twitter makes staying in touch and sharing announcements super simple and even fun. These ideas offer a great way to put the tool to good use. Organization Twitter’s hashtags and other tools share a great way to organize information for your classroom. Resources Use these ideas to take advantage of the vast resources that Twitter has to offer. Writing Skills
Free-Loops.com | Free Loops Easy Downloads Text Expansion I’ve recently started using text expansion software to improve the written feedback I provide to my students with regard to their writing, and it’s made a huge difference. Let me explain. I teach students how to write. The reason I don’t love doing this is because it’s an activity that can get very repetitive. With all students in possession of the same assigned writing handbook, rather than write out the rules for commas myself in the margin of every paper that has comma errors, I can just write, “See section C of the handbook,” instead. Maybe, just to be sure, I should write, “See section C of the handbook for an explanation of the rules about commas.” The (hypothetical) solution introduced: After reading Ryan’s ProfHacker post entitled “Smarter Typing Through Text Expansion,” back in May I began to experiment with the way I compose emails. So that takes care of making comments about things like grammar or punctuation. Conclusions: It’s still too early to tell, to be honest.
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Teaching With Twitter Stephanie Hedge is a graduate student in the Department of English at Ball State University. You can follow her on twitter at @slhedge. The last several semesters, I have been incorporating Twitter into my teaching style and lessons, and it has quickly become an inextricable part of my teaching tool box. Twitter allows me to stay in touch with my students quickly and easily, it fosters discussion in the classroom, and it helps to create a community among my students. I am able to engage students 140 characters at a time, and it makes sharing cat pictures way easier. Why Teach With Twitter? There are several reasons that Twitter has become important in my classroom. Twitter is free, easy to sign up for, and exists on multiple devices. The Twitter platform is uniquely suited to fostering discussion. Using Twitter validates the digital writing students are doing. Twitter helps shy or untalkative students contribute to the discussion, and provides a means for discussion in large classes.
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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. See Also: A Useful Social Media Cheat Sheet & The Ultimate Guide To Using Twitter In Education In any case, what are the most important parts of using Twitter that you’d want others to know about? Source: LexisClick