article thumbnail

The Skinny on Hashtags

A Principal's Reflections

Upon getting on Twitter in 2009, I was not only baffled about how to use the social media site but also about all the symbols associated with it. Before Twitter I referred to this as the “pound sign” on the telephone and only used it as such. Let’s start by defining what a hashtag (#) is in the sense of social media.

article thumbnail

Transparent School Leadership: Engaging Social Media as a Strategy

The 21st Century Principal

The basic premise of the entire presentation was based on these assumptions about school leadership and the engagement of social media. School leaders no longer have a choice of whether to engage in the use of social media if they are going to communicate in a 21st century manner.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

10MT | #29 Steven Anderson talks technology trends From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Twitter handle: @web20classroom. He is also responsible in helping create #edchat, a weekly education discussion on Twitter that boasts over 500 weekly participants. Blog: www.web20classroom.org.

Classroom 287
article thumbnail

Popular K-12 Tool Edmodo Shuts Down

Edsurge

Its folding led to some eulogizing on social media platforms like Twitter. wrote one educator on Twitter. Edmodo platform was one of my best app when I started teaching in 2013.” It was originally considered a competitor to Schoology and Google Classroom, and it was popular with teachers. It's so sad!”

Edmodo 157
article thumbnail

Using Social Media for Good

Graphite Blog

After the Common Sense Media Awards ceremony, we had the opportunity to speak with Khepra about Wear Orange and about the ways social media can be a catalyst for positive social change. Erin Wilkey Oh: How did social media play a role in Project Orange Tree? That showed the human element of it all.

article thumbnail

Using Social Media for Good

Graphite Blog

After the Common Sense Media Awards ceremony, we had the opportunity to speak with Khepra about Wear Orange and about the ways social media can be a catalyst for positive social change. Erin Wilkey Oh: How did social media play a role in Project Orange Tree? That showed the human element of it all.

article thumbnail

EdTechSandyK's Top 5 Posts of 2013

EdTechSandyK

Because this was a helpful exercise for me at the end of 2012 / start of 2013, I thought I''d give it another go as 2013 ticks away its final hours and 2014 looms on the horizon. I had used someone else''s similar post in previous workshops, but Twitter had changed its layout enough that I felt an update was prudent.