60 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom By Category
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. 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
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Students have questions while not in school? Use Padlet as a question wall Use Padlet to get student reflections during the week. Think about using it as an exit ticket.padlet.com Use Padlet with teaching teams as an ongoing brainstorm center for units, lesson plans, assessments, and projects. Padlet can be a great place for students to share what they want to learn in class. Administrators could use Padlet to get ideas for upcoming staff meetings. Want feedback from students? Students could use this as a journal. Use it to remind students of homework assignments. Upload a scene and write a narrative. Because students can upload Expository and research doesn't have to be boring. Science student can write up entire experiments, add images taken with mobile devices to prove observations, upload video, docs, and more. Use Unit Pages to differentiate instruction in a Padlet.nmef.wikispaces.com Connect with me on Twitter! Let's connect on LinkedIn. Visit my blog and website!
Socrative Student Response System
My name is Dennis Villano and I am the Director of Technology Integration for Burlington (MA) Public Schools. Thank you to Richard for this great opportunity to guest post about the Socrative student response system. Socrative is a rapidly evolving free web application that provides the easiest and most user-friendly experience I've seen from any student response system. Socrative will ultimately provide full-featured apps for iOS and Android devices. Socrative provides a similar end user experience to that of the SMART Response System or Promethean Activote. Teachers can register for a free account. The system is appropriate for almost any grade level.
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@LearnMooreStuff and I had a history-textbook-worthy Twitter battle yesterday over who would blog first about this amazing resource from @TechChef4U. Laura Moore graciously conceded (although I think she is secretly afraid that my light saber is more powerful than hers). I love to use Padlet (formerly known as Wallwisher), and I’ve recently started to make my own backgrounds to organize the notes added to the board. If you want to make your own Padlet backgrounds, one easy way is to make one in Powerpoint or Keynote and save the slide as a .jpg file. Recently, I’ve used backgrounds in Padlet for mini-EdCamp type PD. Padlet is such a versatile tool – device neutral and user-friendly. Like this: Like Loading...
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English NQT Emma Morgan has been using Padlet to help her students revise. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Padlet, it is basically a blank wall that you set up (online!). You or anyone else can then post things on to it – for anyone to see. This is what Emma’s looks like: As can be seen, Emma has used it in a variety of ways: Key bits of information have been posted e.g. key quotes from ‘An Inspector Calls’ that will help with their revision..Exam tips – what do I need to learn? Emma’s page can be viewed here. Getting started with Padlet is really easy. For security, it can be set up so that you have to agree any posts, before they are made public. Reasons why Padlet is worth using: It’s really quick and easy to set up.Provides lots of information for students in one place.It can be used from their smartphones.Great for a quick homework – set a question and students then respond. A great idea – thanks Emma. let us know if you start using Padlet with your students and how it goes.
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