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
Internet Catalogue
The date and time of chats is determined by the organizer of the chat. A lot of times they poll those on the hashtag about what day and time they would prefer. Most chats are held once a week. In most chats there is a poll set up a few days before the actual chat. For #edchat (held on Tuesdays at noon EST (mainly for those outside the US) and the second one is 7 pm EST) where I am a proud member of the moderator team we have a poll on Sunday. The key is to get people to use the chat hashtag to stay in contact during the week. The moderator of the chat facilitates the topic. Most chats allow you to share information and sites that are pertinent to the topic. Moderator Tip Be the last person to vote before the poll closes to prevent a tie.
Why Twitter?
What's Happening? My twitter story began on the 21st of February 2009. I didn't know too much about the 'website' just that you had 140 characters to say what you wished. Based on it's continuing popularity I felt that there must have been another purpose to twitter, it couldn't be for me to really spread my views - I only had about 7 followers (50% Spam accounts...). Over the last four years I have used twitter to share interests, through that I have met some fantastic people who share similar interests and ideas. So why tweet? - it's simple - short bursts of thoughts/feelings/events - you can promote thoughts and ideas through hash tags and trends - informal - you can reach all types of audiences Developing a professional twitter account.... I now have a second account helping me to build up a PLN (professional learning network) which is supporting my teaching degree. So why do others use twitter? Personal Account Replies Professional Account Replies
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Twitter - my virtual staffroom
I don't go into my "real" staffroom very often at school. My mailbox is there so I check it a couple of times a week. Sometimes I go into the kitchen to make myself a cup of coffee or tea. I don't eat my lunch there - I eat with the students in the dining room and then I'm off outside for a playground duty or I attend a meeting. However there is another "staffroom" that I go into every day where I meet another group of teachers whom I also think of as my colleagues. I go into this virtual staffroom every morning as I'm eating my breakfast. While I'm at school I don't often have the chance to spend time in my virtual staffroom. When I get home I check through my Twitter stream again. I often think I'd like to meet these people in a real staffroom. Photo Credit: Tiny birds in my hand by Lise
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It's All About The Hashtag
If you remember, in my 3 part series on Twitter, I wrote about how I completely changed the way I do professional development on Twitter. In a nutshell, I no longer start with signing up and tweeting the first day. I always show how to use Twitter without ever signing up. I believe it's important to establish the value in using it rather than using it and attempting to find the value. What a lot of people don't realize that Twitter is a very powerful search engine. Just like Google, if you know how to use the search effectively you can find pretty much anything. What is a hashtag you ask? From The Twitter Fan Wiki: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. Basically, its a tag in your post so that you or someone else can find it later or track it as it is happening. Right, but how does this help you find stuff for your classroom? There are so many more educational hashtags out there.
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4 Great Twitter Applications for Teachers Using Twitter In The Classroom
These tools offer free functionality that extend and enhance the possibilities for instructional uses of Twitter. Twitter is playing a role in more classrooms every day. Articles like “6 Examples of Using Twitter in the Classroom” and “100 Ways To Teach With Twitter” have drawn tens of thousands of readers, a clear testament to the high level of academic interest in this wildly popular microblogging platform. Teachers are finding new ways to use Twitter to engage their students, build stronger academic and professional relationships, and to share information in a richer learning environment, and they are using tools like these to bring more fun and functionality to the process. It’s easy to get started with these applications. Twitpic (twitpic.com)Twitpic allows users to upload photos or videos and share them directly to Twitter, creating an array of possibilities for sharing information. Twtpoll (twtpoll.com)Polling and survey tools provide teachers so many capabilities. Print This Post
The Ultimate Guide To Using Twitter In Education
Twitter seems to be here to stay. As one of the most popular ways for teachers, students, and the general public to communicate, it’s becoming a must-have tool in almost every teacher’s toolbox. However, numerous recent studies have shown that education in general has been slow to adopt social media. In an effort to speed up this adoption process, below you’ll find a boatload of resources on the past, present, and future of Twitter in education as well as some helpful guides to using the tool in the classroom. This guide is by no means exhaustive and is meant to be added to on a regular basis. The History of Communication The following is a guest post excerpt from Ernesto Priego of The Guardian (UK). With that in mind, the future of communication in the form of social media is examined as a way to forever alter the world of education. The idea of slow adoption was featured on Edudemic last week and is certainly going to be an issue going forth as well. The Twitter Experiment Dr.
