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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

Ask a Tech Teacher

Most teachers I know have used Twitter in their classes either to communicate with parents, share homework with students, for group study, to research on a topic, crowd source ideas with colleagues, or a myriad of other purposes ( click here for more ideas ). The social media platform became a resource when I was running on empty.

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14 Educator Social Media Accounts That Inspire Us

MIND Research Institute

Social media can be an amazing tool for so many pu rposes. In no particular order, here are some of my colleagues' and my favorite educational social media accounts. Twitter Educator Accounts to Follow. Bonus: ST Math Social Media Accounts. That's where we come in! View this post on Instagram.

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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.

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What Would Abe Lincoln’s Social Media Campaign Look Like? A New Classroom Use For Twitter and Facebook

Edsurge

During the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama and his team pioneered the use of social media as a powerful campaign tool. It’s easy to forget, given how commonplace the use of social media is today, that back in 2008. Both Twitter and the iPhone were less than a year old. I’m curious. But how do you do it?

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10 Cool Ways Teachers Use Social Media to Enhance Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. While a recent poll showed 9 out of 10 teachers do not use social media in the classroom, there are teachers who are. Social doesn’t have to be a distraction and kids can be safe. Doing work that matters. How did they link together?

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Communicating and Connecting With Social Media (An Excerpt)

A Principal's Reflections

The book is entitled Communicating & Connecting With Social Media: Essentials for Principals and will be available from Solution Tree on May 19, 2011 Using Twitter to Build Your School’s Brand The good news is that open-communication practices in a social media world don’t have to be intimidating. See figure 1.1

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Disruptive Thinking: Making it a Reality

A Principal's Reflections

Study guide I can’t speak highly enough about ConnectEDD as they have been a true partner as a publisher. To that end, a comprehensive study guide can be found on their site. If you are looking to grow individually or collectively as part of a book study, be sure to have this resource on hand.

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