Teachers use Social Media to Enhance Classroom Experience
Social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter are continuing their rise in popularity and there are no signs of this growth stopping soon, as is evidenced by the 42% of high school students who currently use Twitter. Smart educators who opt to use Twitter in the classroom are sure to see improved student grades as well as creative and positive results in other areas. If you have not entered this realm of social media, it’s easy to pick up on the basics of Twitter and enjoy its benefits for you and your students. Here are seven innovative and motivating ways to bring the world of Twitter into your classroom: 1.
50 Power Twitter Tips
A while back, I wrote 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business. It still gets plenty of attention, as it’s listed as an official resource on the Twitter business resources page (thanks, @ed!). But you know, I can’t leave well enough alone, so here I am with another 50 Power Twitter Tips.
Twitter in the Classroom
As educators, we are preparing students to succeed in the real world. That’s why it’s imperative for students to be taught not only the ‘fun’ parts of social media, but how to be responsible. Prior to integrating social media in the classroom, it’s crucial to understand both its power and limitations. In two previous blogs we discussed the advantages for using Twitter to create a strong network and how to leverage your PLN with hashtags.
The Top 27 Free Tools to collaborate, hold discussions, and Backchannel with Students
1- ChannelME ChannelME is a great web tool. It allows its users to browse a particular website simultaneously. They are able to look at the same content of a web page with friends in real time and even chat with each other . 2- Search Team It allows its users to search in small teams and collaborate to find the best search results.
12 Adobe Air Applications for twitter.
1-TweetDeckTweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more.TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organised and up to date. 2-ShareFireShareFire is a feature-rich news aggregator that lets you share stories via AIM, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, email and more with no copying and pasting, or dragging and dropping.ShareFire lets you read all your news in one place, and share it all in one place, too. With built-in support for over ten different ways to share stories, all you have to do is click on an article to start it cascading through your social network. And it even supports 16 different languages. 4-Twitch
Educational Web Sites Twitter
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Nine Rules for Stifling Innovation - Rosabeth Moss Kanter
by Rosabeth Moss Kanter | 9:00 AM January 15, 2013 Innovation has become the holy grail. Finding innovation is almost a sacred quest for the solution that will create growth, and open new eras of prosperity and well-being. Unfortunately, like many things called holy, the concept of innovation is invoked ritually and ceremonially more than it is embraced in practice. For all the talk about innovation, I see many leaders in numerous organizations in every sector who actively stifle it. They say they want more innovation.
Twitter, PLEs and PLNs
Thought I would share some bits of my thesis on Twitter, PLN’s and PLE’s as others might find it useful. What is a PLN? For all of the conversation occurring among educators about PLNs, there has been surprisingly little academic research on PLNs (Couros, 2010, p. 123).
