Teachers Roadmap to The Use of Twitter in Education Twitter is a social network of huge importance for us in education. We have posted several articles about it here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning and there is even a separate section where you can access all the educational tools you might need to effectively leverage Twitter in your teaching and learning.
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. This tool allows you to keep track of what people are talking about in a specific area or location.
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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
FREE PowerPoint Twitter Tools WARNING: From March 5th, 2013, Twitter will progressively drop support for RSS feeds, breaking the tools below (except the AutoTweet plugin, which I have updated to the new API). I will try to find a solution, but no guarantees, I’m afraid… Ever wanted to make presentations a more interactive, Web 2.0 experience? The PowerPoint Twitter Tools prototypes are now available. There are currently eight tools – you can easily cut and paste them into your own PowerPoint decks: PowerPoint Twitter feedback slides PowerPoint AutoTweet, PowerPoint Twitter voting — bar charts and pie chart PowerPoint Twitter ticker bar PowerPoint Mood meter PowerPoint Crowd meter PowerPoint Zoom text PowerPoint Twitter update bar Download the PowerPoint presentation with embedded PowerPoint Twitter Tools as a .zip file (Office 2007) Download the PowerPoint presentation with embedded PowerPoint Twitter Tools as .ppt file (Office 2003) NOTE: Windows Only . Display a feedback slide with questions and comments from Twitter
Why High Schools Should Treat Computer Programming Like Algebra - Jordan Weissmann The tech industry is officially out to remodel your kid's classroom -- and it feels like there's a good chance that it's going to succeed. After years of more or less resisting the pull of the web, both college and K-12 seem ripe to be remade for the digital age. There's political buy-in. But what exactly will tomorrow's schools look like after they get a SIlicon Valley-style makeover? Kids should play video games in school (and out) Could video games be the future of tomorrow's classrooms? Important disclosure: one of the day's two underwriters was the Entertainment Software Association, otherwise known as the video game lobby. In any event, some experimentally minded schools are already embracing video games as teaching tools. Which brings us to another one of the day's big themes. The end of industrial-style learning But if today's panelists are to be believed, education may finally be about to move into its post-industrial phase. Don't punish noble failures
It’s Official: Using Twitter Makes Students More Engaged Further affirming what you probably already know, Twitter is evidently one of the best tools for learning and becoming an engaged student. We’ve covered the benefits of the social network ad nauseum for teachers and administrators over the past few years … but a new study solidifies the worth of Twitter for students. Assistant Professor of Education at Michigan State University, Christine Greenhow, conducted a study titled “ Twitteracy: Tweeting is a New Literary Practice. ” In it, she found that college students who tweet as part of their instruction are more engaged with the course content, the teacher, other students, and they have higher grades. “Tweeting can be thought of as a new literary practice,” said Greenhow, who also studies the growing use of social media among high-schoolers.
Learnist Trending Boards: 5 Resources For Teaching with Twitter Every week, TeachThought will bring you relevant and trending learning boards from one of our favorite digital platforms, Learnist. In this week’s post, you’ll find resources for teaching with Twitter. 1. Better Learning with Twitter: Courtesy of TeachThought’s own, Terry Heick, this board is dedicated to better learning strategies, tools, and thinking with the social media giant twitter. 2. How to Create a Twitter Account: This board will teach you how to create a Twitter account. 3.
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25 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom, By Degree Of Difficulty How Can We Stop Cheating In Online Courses? 6.11K Views 0 Likes While clearly not every student is trying hard to take the slacker route, it's worth noting that picking out the students trying to take this route gets a little more complicated when you move from taking classes in person to taking classes online. 5 Ways To Have A High-Tech Classroom With What You Already Have 11.45K Views 1 Likes There are a host of ways to use the technology you already have at your fingertips to create a Classroom 2.0. How Common Core Standards Mesh With Education Technology
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. This is just one instance in which crowdsourced expertise from social media can open up new opportunities for human rights organizations. Having that said, the challenges and pitfalls are numerous. 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.
A Useful Social Media Cheat Sheet If you’re looking for a straightforward no-frills guide that breaks down the details of some of the most popular social networks, look no further. This social media cheat sheet covers most of the big names you’re probably aware of … but it’s not perfect. The infographic from Flowtown showcases Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Google+, Tumblr, and … Digg. Yes, Digg. It offers up insight into Digg but skips over LinkedIn, Stumbleupon, and Pinterest. But, it’s useful stuff anyway.