Since starting this Masters in Educational Technology, I have heard tons about Twitter. Through research, I am finding that it can be another PLN for educators. Social media is an excellent tool for educating our students. I just created both my Twitter and TweetDeck account yesterday. Earlier this evening, I just completed my first tweet. I found two links that are for those just getting started like my self. They are 50+ Ways to Use Twitter in Your Classroom and 100 Ways to Use Twitter in Education, By Degree of Difficulty. I just saw on Twitter this evening through a friend's tweet, that this is a great tool to teach visual literacy in the 21st Century Classroom. Anything involving literacy excites me since I am an ELA Teacher. I had to be what my husband calls a "stalker" on Facebook for awhile and it looks like I am going to be one on Twitter until I can see how it all works. Thanks in advance to my fellow classmates for their patience as I start this next journey. Below are examples that I found of how Twitter could benefit an educator in an ELA classroom.
- Free information
- Short conversations 24/7
- A way to connect with other teachers
- Collaborate on education chats
- Find tools, strategies, and resources
- Communicate with parents or students
- Research and find answers
- Send out reminders to students or parents
- Allow students to give feed back on a book or video
- Allow students to answer questions or have discussions
- Give students who don't really say much in class, a way to communicate because some will say more on line
- Have students tweet sentences to build vocabulary, improve writing, and punctuation which would make students accountable for grammar
There are tons more than what I mentioned and I am not quite sure which direction I will go with these in my 2nd Grade ELA classroom. This might be a good topic to bring up with my students. We are starting a Service Learning Project for our new Tiger's Den at the elementary. Some valuable tweeting might happen in the future with this project.
Next week, we will start a Twitter chat assignment in this course. My next goal is to figure out hashtags. A link that I found that could be helpful is The Complete Guide to Twitter Hashtags for Education.
What are you doing with Twitter in your classroom? I would love to hear your ideas.
@BonnieJohn6
Here is a link that you might find helpful to get you started with using Twitter and a few ideas for your class of very young kiddos.
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Like you I am hoping to find some fun and educational ways that I can incorporate Twitter into my elementary classroom.
Bonnie,
ReplyDeleteI found you on Twitter and am following you! Please follow me too: @doyel79. I clicked on your link, 50+ ways to use Twitter in the Classroom. The information was useful such as using Twitter as a bulletin board to keep classroom projects organized or as a means to coordinate assignments rather than using email. I cannot wait to become more familiar with Tweeting and incorporate these tools into my classroom. I know Twitter is already popular with my students so using these for classroom projects will already be familiar to them. Thanks for the links! Look forward to following your tweets :)
Great ideas there! And a great list to look back on through this class!
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