A Teacher’s 3 Twitter Accounts Twitter is the simplest system available to interact with the web and share resources. Twitter is built into the iPad’s operating system and so an account allows you to share any photo, website or resource immediately without fuss. Its system is the opposite to Facebook and expects you to operate numerous accounts for different purposes. @EDUCATOR – Tweet as an Educator The first account is your ‘Educator’s’ account (mine’s @iPadWells) with which you interact with other teachers and share resources. @TEACHER – Tweet as a classroom teacher Create an account for your classroom activities with your students. Take photos of good student work during any day. @Dept – Tweet as a Department or School This is something I’m just setting up now. Here’s the list of ideas so far: All colleagues get to see best practice within the same department / school. Conclusion The whole iPad is now designed to be the perfect management tool for organising these 3 streams of information as you go through your day.
My account Sign in to continue to Skype No account? Create one! Sign-in options Terms of use Privacy & cookies ... Over 100 ideas for using Twitter in the Classroom This handful of resources provide about 100 different ideas for, and examples of, using Twitter in the classroom. It’s been almost 8 months since I published the post, “6 Examples of Using Twitter in the Classroom”, about uses of the popular micro-blogging tool in the instructional setting. This post generated a lot of traffic, and continues to attract hundreds of viewers every week. Since that brief posting, I’ve come across a lot of articles containing examples and suggestions for using Twitter in instructional applications. I’ve combed through many of these and tried to boil down the redundancies to create a rich set of idea-laden resources. While there’s still going to be some overlap in the concepts presented in these articles, they clearly meet the goal of providing a thorough set of ideas and examples for leveraging Twitter in the educational process. Here are the original “6 Examples” from last June’s post: About Kelly Walsh Print This Post
The Complete Guide To Twitter Hashtags For Education What is a hashtag? A word or phrase preceded by a “#.” Twitter can be a busy place with lots of tweets–and thus lots of “noise.” A #hashtag is a way to aggregate tweets that are appended with a hashtag. See also 50 Of The Best Education Accounts On Twitter Anyone. What else do I need to know? Don’t hashtag spam–if your tweet doesn’t add to that hashtag’s topic, discussion, or user base, don’t add the hashtag.Use more than one hashtag if it applies to more than one topic, but choose wisely. Meeting Times Many of the hashtags have “meeting times” where educators agree to “meet and tweet”–that is, send out messages on a topic at a certain time on a certain day. If you do participate at the agreed upon time, you’ll see the tweets stream in live and participate in said conversation (via twitter) in what is nearly real-time. Note, this list of Twitter hashtags for education will be updated periodically, including reorganization, and functional linking on all hashtags. Trends General Content Areas iPad
OPINION: Twitter Supports These Changing Times in Education | EdSurge News EdSurge Newsletters Receive weekly emails on edtech products, companies, and events that matter. As I write this article, education is making a shift towards increased rigor and accountability for teachers, students, and administrators. But that’s not the only big shift. Twitter is a free social media tool that affords our high school, Madison High School in Madison, South Dakota (home of the Bulldogs), the opportunity to push positive information about student achievements, athletic scores, important updates for parents and students, and character-building concepts. I firmly believe that Twitter is a great way to build positive relationships with people and also promote the wonderful things we do in public education. But building those relationships through Twitter doesn’t stop once I close my computer. Twitter is not only a tool to provide communication for a school district, it is also one of the most powerful tools for personal professional development. Next, parents.
The Compelled Educator: Don't Use Twitter with Your Students Maybe you’d like to say to me, “Jennifer, how can you say not to use twitter with our students? You are a huge fan of twitter and you promote it in your school.” This is how I would respond, “I am a huge twitter fan, and if you already use it with your students, GREAT! I want you to be selfish this one time.” You see, as teachers, when we learn about a new technology, we usually ask, “How can I use this in my classroom? Twitter is a fantastic way to increase your knowledge about classroom management ideas, current research, instructional strategies, motivational strategies, and more. So how do you go about using twitter for you? Join twitter chats Twitter chats give a tweeters a purposeful time to be on twitter. Follow twitter users who share links to content Some users tweet links to articles, blog posts, and other information related to specific topics. Follow a hashtag
The Compelled Educator: Teachers Harness the Simple Power of Twitter I had to share this great story of how one of our teachers took the initiative to bring down the four walls of the classroom and connect her students to others via social media. Last week, while visiting classrooms and tweeting the wonderful experiences our students were having, I tweeted this: Students in Ms. Gannon's English 11 class were watching a TEDx Talk by Paul Piff titled, "Does Money Make You Mean?" If the embedded video isn't visible on your device, watch the video here: The first neat thing that happened was that Paul Piff "favorited" the tweet. As preparation for my co-taught English class's reading of The Great Gatsby, we watched your TEDTalk video, "Does Money Make you Mean?" And, GUESS WHAT? Hi Lisa,That sounds like great fun! Ms. You tweeted about us watching the video; he “favorited” the tweet, and Lisa has found him, and we are going to set something up to send him questions. Related posts:
Teacher's Visual Guide to Creating Twitter Lists June 10, 2014 A Twitter list is a curated group of Twitter users and a great way to organize your interests. You can use them to categorize and organize tweets into different categories relevant to the information you are seeking. You can for instance create a list about educational technology and add to it Edtech tweeters you follow. In this way , you will have a pool of resources aggregated in a single page to access anytime you want. You can create your own lists or subscribe to lists created by others. Here is how to create your own Twitter list: 1- Head over to your Twitter homepage and click on the "gear" button on the top right and select "lists" 2- Click on " Create new list" 3- Type in a name and description to your list. 4- Use Twitter search to add people to your list. Another way to add people is through their profile page.On the profile page of the Tweeter you want to add to your list, click on " add or remove from lists".
New Wonderful Twitter Guide for Teachers and Educators June 18, 2014 As I have repeatedly stated in several instances here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning, online social networking remains one of the powerful routes to any effective and sustained teacher professional development plans. Social networks open up a whole new horizon of promising opportunities for on-the-go and at-any-time learning. One of the preeminent social networking site in this regard is the microblogging platform Twitter. The power of Twitter resides in the kind of connections and networks it allows you to make.Twitter is by far the social networking platform that teachers and educators populate the most. Using Twitter to grow professionally is a theme I have extensively talked about in previous posts ( see this post or this one ). This visual is created by UKEdChat.
The Ultimate Twitter Guidebook For Teachers Adopting a new communication tool is not easy. Figuring out the best way YOU can use Twitter is even harder. Luckily you are not going it alone. We have culled the following resources from an array of websites that try to help anyone understand and better use Twitter. The microblogging service is growing in leaps and bounds (and having plenty of server downtime because of it and the World Cup) as it seems everyone is joining and sharing their lives with the service. If you haven’t yet taken the plunge, perhaps the following 100 resources might help you out. Busy teachers may feel that taking the time to learn how to use Twitter isn’t worth the return for the students benefit, so that’s why this list of 100 tips, apps, and resources is worth browsing.
Educational Leadership:Schools, Families, Communities:Twitter: Not Just About Ham Sandwiches For people who don't use it, Twitter seems like an incredible waste of time. "I surely don't need to know that someone had a ham sandwich for lunch!" is a common complaint. We agree—even the best ham sandwich isn't likely to be worth a virtual conversation. Take a look at how a Nixa, Missouri, school district employed Twitter during a series of serious thunderstorms and a tornado watch: 6:22 a.m., May 8: We've cleared out all our "trailers" due to the bad weather. 7:03 a.m., May 8: No damage at any of our schools as of right now. 7:28 a.m., May 8: We do have some minor damage around the district. 7:47 a.m., May 8: We have a light pole down across the JH track. 7:53 a.m., May 8: We are now releasing the elementary students to complete their bus routes from the morning. 8:22 a.m., May 8: Power back on at Inman Elementary. 8:36 a.m., May 8: B/c of damage from the storm, the NJH Walk for a Cause has been canceled for Sat. A Real-Time Information Option Whoa! Think Before You Tweet