Session 5: #Twitter4Educators, by Evylyn Quiñones

• Going around the room introducing ourselves and saying how comfortable we are with Twitter.
• I joined Twitter in March of 2007. I think I’m the old fogey here.
• Norms
  • Take risks
  • Share ideas
  • Ask questions
  • Have fun learning
• Addressing two things simultaneously: Teacher tweets and student tweets.
• Remember, there is a BIG audience out there.
  • Students
  • Family
  • Strangers
  • More
• Link sharing – URL shorteners make them manageable.
• Differentiating between @ and # … this is basic information, but perfect for this audience.
• You can invent your own hashtags for student/class use.
• My favorite tags right now are #PGTech and #BYOTchat.
• Talking about edchats! Fantastic! No mention of #BYOTchat, but she’s hitting her favorites.
  • #edchat
  • #flipclass
  • #digcit
• Leading us through the steps of edchat participation. This is a good primer.
• Sharing Twitter user names with each other to build our personal communities.
• Twitter could be used for exit tickets, class discussion, idea sharing, collaboration, and so on.
• Extends learning. Don’t need to be done with a lesson because class time is over.
• Showcasing cool things in your class/with your students is great! (Do you have media release forms…?)