#3 Twitter Part 2

The second part of this task involves following a hashtag and then blogging about it. I chose the #WV hashtag and saw some tweets from Senator Rockefeller as well as some from the City of Clarksburg, the Charleston Gazette, Greenbrier Valley, and other WV stuff. This would be a good search when you are studying current events. Some other good educational hashtags to search includ #edchat, #iste, #teachers,and #edtech. Learning to use and follow hashtags makes Twitter so much more useful. Get the app for your mobile device. Also if you like to follow a hashtag without rechecking all the time try Twilert. It will send you an email summary of all the times the hashtag you are following was used that day.

#3 Twitter Part 1

I am already a huge fan of Twitter. After I learned how to follow Hashtags from a Simple K12 webinar given by Steven Anderson, Twitter actually went from being something I thought was dumb to a useful tool for me. I highly recommend you follow him. There are a lot of great educators that are willing to share on Twitter. Some of the better ones include Kyle Pace, Jerry Blumengarten, Kimberly Munoz, Christopher Casal, and Crystal Kirch. The more you follow, the more you can learn.