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…?)