How To Create A Twitter Chat In Your School contributed by Nellie Mitchell A twitter chat is an amazing resource for professional development and gives educators the option to participate in their PJs, from the comfort of their own home! It is essentially a chat room, with everyone sharing and talking and hanging out virtually—discussing…
Even as a simple observation tool with categories, trending topics, #hashtags, and lists, twitter is flexible enough to be used read-only.
Do you want your PD effective, credible with staff, or affordable? Pick two — finding training that fits all 3 is a tremendous challenge.
This graphic by teachbytes organizes different ideas for using pinterest in the classroom according to Bloom’s revised taxonomy.
Hashtags can be a valuable tool for educators, administrators, parents and students to connect with each other and share ideas and discoveries.
Twitter is a microblogging platform that allows people to share and skim a large quantity of ideas in a short period of time.
How To Adapt A Social Learning Strategy Framework For Education Social learning strategies are, generally speaking, the stuff of businesses and brands. The word “learning” in the above phrasing is misleading, usually referring to how a business can “learn” what does and doesn’t work in regards to their social media and community strategies. It was…
We’ve got a guide to twitter hashtags for education that helps aggregate some of the must-know twitter tidbits. And of course, cybraryman has especially useful twitter resources as well. But there is something approachable about the following infographic from USC Rossier School of Education’s online teaching degree that makes it the kind of thing you…
Using Instagram For Learning To Document Abstract Ideas The use of Instagram in education may not make seem entirely logical, but just as social media and text messaging have made it almost seamless to send (inundate?) friends with messages, modern technology has made it more natural than ever to share images and videos with others…
Creating video narratives requires both creativity and teamwork. For that reason, it’s a great assignment to use in the classroom. But how do you make such a complex process playful enough to maintain the students’ attention? Until now, it would have taken a huge effort from educators to make the process seamless. Some recent social…
Using twitter for learning requires that you use it as an ongoing cultural survey of sorts. Then add Bloom’s Taxonomy for improved outcomes.
Twitter is a microblogging platform, so there is a wide range of content. Sometimes users tweet links to content while others share ideas.
7 Ideas For Using Hashtags In The Classroom By Anibal Pacheco, TeachThought intern If you are an Educator looking to use Twitter in the classroom you might have noticed most tweets include a #Hashtag. The use of the # sign with a word attached to it makes up one. Hashtags trace their history to IRC…
If you love twitter but not carpal tunnel, this graphic might help. From CTRL-V to spacebar scrolling, here are 25 twitter keyboard shortcuts.