4 Simple Ways To Get Started Teaching With Twitter - 4 Simple Ways To Get Started Teaching With Twitter by first appeared on gettingsmart.com As the use of social media rise, we may feel tempted to suppress its use inside of the classroom to keep students focused on the content. However, social media can provide tools to enhance learning for students. Twitter provides these four techniques (among many others) that teachers can use to enrich their student’s learning: 1. In many cases, experts or topical users can post tweets that provide new ideas to teachers or give teachers ideas on how to expand on their subject. Depending on how dynamic the class and materials are, we can also use embedded tweets at website locations or links to tweets so that students can interact with the experts or topical Twitter accounts in addition to reading them. 2. One challenge we face is finding material we can use and that will help our students learn. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4.
James Burke: Connections Connections explores an Alternative View of Change (the subtitle of the series) that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of historical progress. Burke contends that one cannot consider the development of any particular piece of the modern world in isolation. Rather, the entire gestalt of the modern world is the result of a web of interconnected events, each one consisting of a person or group acting for reasons of their own (e.g., profit, curiosity, religious) motivations with no concept of the final, modern result of what either their or their contemporaries' actions finally led to. To demonstrate this view, Burke begins each episode with a particular event or innovation in the past (usually Ancient or Medieval times) and traces the path from that event through a series of seemingly unrelated connections to a fundamental and essential aspect of the modern world. Connections (1978) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Connections² (1994) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Twitter Chats - The ins, outs and my top 8 chats Every opportunity I can get I involve myself in the 1 hour twitter chats that surface themselves in my twitter feed. It gives me the opportunity to connect and collaborate with like minded educators, network with the best in the business and pick up new and interesting things to use to make me a better educator. PD in the palm of my hands (literally). For those that don't know what I am talking about - let me give you the low-down. Twitter chats take place on twitter at a certain time every week (click here for a complete list of education related twitter chats and their times). To get involved in a twitter chat - you need to follow the hashtag. Here is a list of my 8 favourite education related chats, the hashtags, a short description and when they are on: #whatisschool - an edchat space where people can express an unbiased response to questions about schooling, where educators have a voice in shaping the future through their experiences, recommendations and interests.
‘Twitter-Jacked’: The Risk of Social Media Marketing | Business WASHINGTON, February 20 (By Sasha Horne for RIA Novosti) - Two American companies have been “Twitter-jacked” this week, taken over by hackers posting crass messages to corporate Twitter pages and replacing corporate logos with those of competitors, further illustrating the often daunting tasks companies face as they strive to manage their social media feeds. “Managing social media accounts is truly a 24-7 job,” said Nicole Siobal, president and co-founder of Social Butterflye, a branding agency that assists startups with creating and managing their digital presence. “If you do find your brand has become the target of a hacker, it’s really important to get ahead of it, and put a statement out right away,” she said. That’s just what global fast food chain Burger King attempted to do on Monday, when its official Twitter account was taken over by hackers who replaced the company’s logo with rival McDonald's. Later, Jeep tweeted, "Hacking: Definitely not a #Jeep thing.
How is Social Media Transforming Human Rights Monitoring? Syrian youths, inside a vehicle, film a protest against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with their phones in the northern city of Aleppo on October 12, 2012. (Photo: TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images) Social media is increasingly helpful to not only monitor emerging human rights emergencies, but also to uncover incorrect information. A recent example is when Twitter helped me to spot incorrect contextual information on a newly uploaded execution video from Syria. Of course, citizen journalism is not a new phenomenon―think of the Rodney King case in the early 1990s, to name just one well known example. The crime scene at your fingertips Similar to journalists, human rights researchers cannot cover all places at once and may be denied access to a potential crime scene altogether. In early December, a gruesome video came across my screen that depicted a child taking part in a beheading, reportedly the weekend of December 8, 2012, in Homs. Social media as evidence Limitations
Two Wonderful Tools Integrating Twitter in Google Maps I am just doing the last touches on an academic paper I have been working on for the last couple of weeks and which I will submit for publication in an academic journal very shortly. The topic of this paper is Educational Social Networking and once published I will share with you the download link However while working on this paper and because Twitter has taken the lion shaper in it , I have been sifting through a lot of resources on Twitter and accidently cam across these two wonderful Twitter tools from Google Maps Mania . Check them out below 1- Twaps Twaps is a combination of Twitter and Google Maps.
The Teacher's Quick Guide To Educational Twitter Hashtags The Teacher’s Quick Guide To Educational Twitter Hashtags Added by Jeff Dunn on 2012-10-18 I heart Twitter. If you haven’t yet, follow @edudemic to keep up with what we’re doing, working on, and seeing (like last night’s tech event with GDGT in downtown Boston!). Twitter has become a massive hit in education and it’s too big to ignore. But that’s a very lengthy list. Want to download this graphic as a PDF? Category: Featured Tags: #edchat , guide , hashtags , infographic , resource , twitter , visualization You may also like How Teachers Are Hacking Their Own Digital Textbooks Added by Anthony DiLaura 5 days ago 17.23K Views 9 Comments 0 Likes A group of teachers have started to disrupt their own textbook options by starting up an iBooks Author Hackathon. 5 Free Apps For Classrooms With A Single iPad Added by Monica Burns 1 month ago 24.65K Views 1 Comments 0 Likes You don’t have to be in a 1:1 classroom to infuse technology. 30 Young Leaders Worth Following On Twitter 2 Comments Fresh Posts
Teachers – The 10 Stages of Twitter | syded Stage 1 Sign up to twitter following persuasion/pestering by colleagues. Follow Stephen Fry, a famous sportsman/popstar and a news channel. Read a few tweets, don’t understand what the fuss is about and mock anyone who uses twitter. Stage 2 Overhear colleagues chatting about twitter and a great article they found. Stage 3 Think about posting first tweet. Stage 4 Upon realising you have no followers ask colleagues how to get them? Stage 5 Have a mini twitter conversation with colleague, even retweet a couple of statements. Stage 6 Practise a couple of tweets that include @names and hashtags. Stage 7 Retweet any link you find interesting as people might read them. Stage 8 Thank colleagues for introducing you to twitter, impressed with the knowledge you have gleaned and your growing number of followers. Stage 9 Reflect that twitter is an incredibly positive place and everyone is full of praise. Stage 10 (the reason for this post) When seeking opinion from a range of people, ask PLN to respond.