This blog post is about using Twitter in the classroom. As I mostly spend my days with the elementary set, this is a little more difficult task. Almost all my students are under the Twitter age threshold of 13. Of course, barring that our county blocks Twitter. So that is a big wall to get over. I really enjoy Twitter and have talked several people into using it. It is a little "Schizophrenic" to follow until you get the hang of it. But lots of good education ideas on there. The trick is to find the right people or stuff to follow. If I was going to use it in the classroom, I would think it would be good for current events and especially government study. As a class, I would have the students follow the WV Legislature, the Governor, and they could also follow specific bills and see who is interested and tweeting about what is going on in the bills. I think it would be interesting to follow bills from committee to the Senate, to the House and then to the Governor. Government in action and current events all rolled into one. Pretty good use of Social Media and learning I think.
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
#17 Twitter in the Classroom
This blog post is about using Twitter in the classroom. As I mostly spend my days with the elementary set, this is a little more difficult task. Almost all my students are under the Twitter age threshold of 13. Of course, barring that our county blocks Twitter. So that is a big wall to get over. I really enjoy Twitter and have talked several people into using it. It is a little "Schizophrenic" to follow until you get the hang of it. But lots of good education ideas on there. The trick is to find the right people or stuff to follow. If I was going to use it in the classroom, I would think it would be good for current events and especially government study. As a class, I would have the students follow the WV Legislature, the Governor, and they could also follow specific bills and see who is interested and tweeting about what is going on in the bills. I think it would be interesting to follow bills from committee to the Senate, to the House and then to the Governor. Government in action and current events all rolled into one. Pretty good use of Social Media and learning I think.
Friday, July 13, 2012
#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.
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