"On August 23, 2007 Chris Messina started something so small, he would never know how it might change the world." Both George Couros and Steven Anderson have great posts on hashtags in education. How they function, why we should use them, and some ways to get started immediately with hashtags. As I looked at the "big list" of educational hashtags I wondered if any other field had as many hashtags as education…
"Get your hashtags ready: Twitter is a far more effective source of CPD than more traditional approaches, research has found. Indeed, teachers believe they derive more from the 140 characters of a tweet than they do from several hours of seminars or lectures. Academics from two US universities surveyed 755 members of school staff about Twitter. They found that the most popular use of the social media website was for CPD, with many praising Twitter's advantages over more traditional methods. Twitter, many teachers told researchers, allowed them to create a virtual staffroom, filled entirely with their own choice of colleagues. Indeed, a middle school English teacher explained: "I have learned so much from other teachers. It has transformed my teaching. And this is my 18th year [in the profession].""
"Twitter can be quite addictive but you have to do it the right way to get the most out of it. That's why I wrote The Complete Guide To Twitter some time back and I highly recommend that you read it (no bias there of course!). Twiends has also produced a fantastic infographic showing how to quickly get started with Twitter, from choosing the right username to understanding hashtags and lists."
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