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sha towers

History in 140 Characters: Asking Educators to Use Twitter - Naomi Coquillon - Technolo... - 51 views

www.theatlantic.com/...237767

twitter teaching class creative uses

shared by sha towers on 28 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • When I discuss Twitter in workshops, responses range from "I just don't have time for that -- it's enough to keep up with email and Facebook" to "you just can't have a conversation on Twitter." And I understand. I wasn't always so fond of Twitter. I wondered how I would ever say anything useful in 140 characters
  • What I've come to love as I use Twitter, and the value I share with these teachers, is being exposed to more thought-provoking articles than I ever had before, and learning of new resources just as soon as they become available.
  • to provide our followers with the latest news about our resources or great material from other institutions, as well as being a way to get in touch with us.
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  • Verizon Thinkfinity, "Why Use Twitter? Tell Us Your Tips"
  • Thirty Interesting Ways to Use Twitter"
  • "Help a Fellow Teacher Get on Twitter,"
  • sha towers on 28 Apr 11
     
    ideas and links to other resources for creatively using twitter in the classroom
Steve Ransom

txtb.in - write a little more. - 0 views

txtb.in

twitter shorten conversation short discuss share >140

shared by Steve Ransom on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 20 May 09
     
    A great quick and easy service when you have/want to share something that is longer than 140 characters.
anonymous

WW_SpaceThinkMath.pdf - 37 views

DIIGO_FILE_HOME/53odg/gk4w?k=eef39de6aa6316825968450eb2448041

math

shared by anonymous on 03 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Asking good questions and encouraging students to build on one another’s thinking gives students voice and enables them to become more critical thinkers in mathematics.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 Mar 15
       
      Good strategy for use in any content area classroom!
  • students move into pairs to write their ideas, solutions, and strategies. A variety of materials, such as linking cubes and two-colour counters, are available for students to choose from when constructing mathematical models, making conjectures, and connecting their ideas.
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    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 Mar 15
       
      Wouldn't it be great to use mobile devices to document their manipulatives and narrate their thinking out loud using an app such as Educreations? 
  • Scaffolding students’ exploration of a rich task too early can take away students’ opportunities to explore and build confidence with solving problems in their own way.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 Mar 15
       
      May need some opportunities to fail to make the learning richer and more personal.
  • Following each presentation, students are invited to paraphrase what the presenters have shared, to ask questions for clarification, to elab-orate on the presentation, and perhaps to challenge the presenters with a possible correction or alternative approach.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 03 Mar 15
       
      Reflective learning!
Glenda Baker

earcoss « TodaysMeet - 37 views

todaysmeet.com/earcoss

TodaysMeet notice-board posting

shared by Glenda Baker on 24 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Glenda Baker on 24 Sep 11
     
    140 characters (teach them how to tweet) instant back channel option without sign in
Susan Payne

Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Teachers Take to Twitter - 51 views

www.teachersourcebook.org/...01twitter.h03.html

twitter article

shared by Susan Payne on 23 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Susan Payne on 23 Oct 09
     
    Some educators are finding that helpful ideas and advice can come in 140 characters or fewer.
Craig Campbell

The Siege of Academe - www.washingtonmonthly.com - Readability - 1 views

www.readability.com/...jye2vzid

shared by Craig Campbell on 25 Apr 13 - No Cached
    • Craig Campbell
      Craig Campbell on 25 Apr 13
       
      Fear is a powerful motivator. Running scared.
  • Thiel fellowship.”
  • PR move
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  • the whole thing is a corrupt enterprise doomed to collapse in a spectacular, real-estate-market-circa-2008 fashion. The media lapped it up, and soon enough Thiel was featured in long New York and New Yorker profiles.
  • What Happened to the Future? We Wanted Flying Cars, Instead We Got 140 Characters.”
  • Investors have chased after clever short-term innovations and looked for quick profit, which is not only bad for the world but bad for most investors—since 1999, according to the manifesto, venture capital has lost money on average. Only the top 20 percent are any good.
  • There is a great deal of money and power at stake now. We may not know who and we may not know when, but someone is going to write the software that eats higher education.
  • most of the first adopters won’t be American students forgoing the opportunity to drink beer on weekends at State U. Instead, they’ll be students like Bali, among the hundreds of millions of people around the world with the talent and desire to learn but no State U to attend.
  • Political pressure will continue to grow for credits earned in low-cost MOOCs to be transferable to traditional colleges, cutting into the profit margins that colleges have traditionally enjoyed in providing large, lecture-based college courses.
Peter Beens

12 Expert Twitter Tips for the Classroom: Social Networking Classroom Activities That E... - 5 views

suite101.com/...tips-for-the-classroom-a139534

twitter socialmedia activities

shared by Peter Beens on 05 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Peter Beens on 05 Jun 12
     
    A dozen activities are presented for using an online education technology tool to engage students in classroom activities to develop a better understanding of concepts.
Sharin Tebo

JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching - 62 views

jolt.merlot.org/...alderton_0911.htm

eAchieve Twitter

shared by Sharin Tebo on 26 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • All of them responded that Twitter allows them to build connections with educators beyond those in their immediate vicinity. These connections are purposefully made as a way to find and share resources and to provide and receive support. For example, Participant 8 stated, “My primary purpose is to connect with other teachers, so that I can learn from them and share resources that I find.” Similarly, Participant 9 wrote, “I am the only biology teacher at my school. I use it [Twitter] as a means of obtaining advice, resources and collaboration…I also use it to find out about new tech tools.”
  • Twitter has helped me to build a strong professional reputation
  • they follow educators. They also follow content experts and others who share professional interests.
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  • Participants explained that they choose to follow people who are open, positive, and constructive.
  • “If their tweets seem to be of interest - providing ideas or resources, as opposed to just opinion - I will network with them.” Similarly, Participant 6 stated, “I look for people who interact and don't just post links.”
  • those they trust
  • Survey results show that nine out of ten of the respondents were able to give concrete examples of collaboration that occurred with fellow Twitter users.
  • Since Twitter is considered to be a social networking website, one aspect of this study looked at dialogue that transpired between followers to show evidence of collaborative conversations rather than unidirectional sharing of information.
  • These examples included ideas such as creating units, sharing of resources, students collaborating on projects between classrooms, exchanging professional materials and readings, writing book chapters, and even co-presenting at conferences.
  • beyond 140-character messages. That teachers moved discussions to forums that allow for deeper discussion and expansion of ideas is encouraging; Twitter does not seem to be a place to collaborate in depth, but rather to make those initial connections - a "jumping off" point.
  • how using Twitter has benefited them professionally. Four unique themes emerged from their responses: Access to resources Supportive relationships Increased leadership capacity Development of a professional vision
  • practical resources and ideas as a benefit.
  • opportunities for them to take leadership roles in developing professional development, organizing conferences, publishing, and grant writing.
  • This research study provides new insight into how teachers use social networking sites such as Twitter for professional purposes.
  • Sharin Tebo on 26 Apr 16
     
    Impacts of Twitter on professional lives
Eric Arbetter

Sharing Success in 140 Characters: This is #EduWin | EdReach - 48 views

edreach.us/...eduwin-is-born

sharing success

shared by Eric Arbetter on 18 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Eric Arbetter on 18 Dec 11
     
    Twitter conversation to share great things happening in your school.
Kate Pok

Guidelines for Note-Taking - 15 views

Guidelines for Note-Taking 1. Concentrate on the lecture or on the reading material.  2. Take notes consistently.  3. Take notes selectively. Do NOT try to write down every word. Remember that the ...

teaching

started by Kate Pok on 07 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
Megan Reif

Elections and Events 1811-1849 - The Library - 11 views

libraries.ucsd.edu/...ions-and-events-1811-1849.html

shared by Megan Reif on 03 Apr 14 - No Cached
    • Megan Reif
      Megan Reif on 03 Apr 14
       
      NOTE: 1849 has information primarily from 1839 except first highlighted yellow section
  • Indirect elections are “in use between 1840 and 1872.  Indirect elections enhanced the political power of the hacendados, because voting districts often coincided directly with the boundaries of haciendas.  The first stage of an indirect election, when voters gathered to choose electors, occurred in the cantones, the administrative sub-units of a municipality.  Cantones often were made up of nothing more than one or two haciendas, giving landowners a clear advantage to control the selection of electores.  Above and beyond all other aspects of the electoral system, the oral vote [in use until 1950] insured the predominance of patron-client relations” (pages 65-66).  Describes process for recording oral votes.  “Throughout the nineteenth century, national politics followed to a great extent the rise and fall of alliances between departmental networks.  For instance, in the mid 1840s San Vicente and San Miguel were allied against Sonsonate and San Salvador” (page 163).
  • o Vasconcelos “al término de su gestión promovió su reelección, para lo cual reformó la Constitución el 9 de marzo de 1849.  Deseaba otro mandato constitucional de dos años para reconstruir Centroamérica.  Francisco Dueñas y el Coronel Nicolás Angulo se opusieron a esta reforma, alegando que se quebrantaba el ordenamiento constitucional” (page 140). Figeac 1938:  “Don Doroteo Vasconcelos se portó a la altura del deber patriótico en el primer período de su Administración, pero cometió un grave e imperdonable error:  permitió que lo reeligieran para un segundo período presidencial.  La Constitución Política entonces vigente, prohibía en su artículo 44 la reelección del presidente de la República, y para dar el paso apuntado se dispuso la reforma [de 9 de marzo de 1849 de la Cámara de Senadores]” (page 171). Leistenschneider 1980:  “En marzo de 1849 la Asamblea Legislativa reforma el Art. 44 de la Constitución Nacional, el cual fijaba el período presidencial para dos años, prohibiendo la reelección; la reforma permite la reelección de Presidente por una sola vez” (page 88). Monterey 1978:  Marzo 17, 1849—“La Asamblea Legislativa…convoca a los pueblos a elecciones de Presidente del Estado, Diputados y Senadores” (page 85). December Monterey 1978:  Diciembre 1849—“Se efectúan en el Estado de El Salvador las elecciones de Autoridades Superiores; fué reelecto el Presidente don Doroteo Vasconcelos” (page 93).  “Se presentaron como principales candidatos a la Presidencia de la República, los señores Doroteo Vasconcelos y Lic. Francisco Dueñas” (page 94). El SalvadorAcronyms1811-18491850-18991900-19341935-19691970-19791980-19891990-19992000-2009More than one electionSources UC San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla,
Mary Beth Messner

The Elements of Style: Twitter Edition - 39 views

blog.journalistics.com/...ments-of-style-twitter-edition

Grammar Twitter Elements of Style

shared by Mary Beth Messner on 05 Aug 10 - Cached
  • William Strunk, Jr., or E.B. White for that matter, couldn’t have predicted so much communication would take place via 140 character short messages. While The Elements of Style has stood the test of time, there is a new set of rules (which I’ve completely made up) you should keep in mind for Twitter.
  • This advice only helps you if you actually want your tweets to be represented as good writing.
Donna Roper

Twittering, Not Frittering: Professional Development in 140 Characters | Edutopia - 15 views

www.edutopia.org/pment-technology-microblogging

shared by Donna Roper on 27 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Although some people argue that Twitter is one more distraction in a tech-saturated world, David Cosand says it's been a time-saver for him. He was writing a grant proposal recently to buy more technology for his school and realized he needed to learn more about document cameras. "I put a tweet out asking people which cameras they have found useful. In half an hour, I got great feedback from all over the country," he says, and he wound up narrowing down the list to an AVerVision CP300 model.
Scott Walters

On Campus, Vampires Are Besting the Beats - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2009030501541.html

shared by Scott Walters on 09 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Here we have a generation of young adults away from home for the first time, free to enjoy the most experimental period of their lives, yet they're choosing books like 13-year-old girls -- or their parents. The only specter haunting the groves of American academe seems to be suburban contentment.
  • two-thirds of freshmen identify themselves as "middle of the road" or "conservative." Such people aren't likely to stay up late at night arguing about Mary Daly's "Gyn/Ecology" or even Robert Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."
  • "I have stood before classes," he tells me, "and seen the students snicker when I said that Melville died poor because he couldn't sell books. 'Then why are we reading him if he wasn't popular?' "
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  • a notable uptick in superficiality and a notable uptick in the anesthetizing of that native curiosity that was once a prominent feature of the adolescent mind."
  • maybe young people's reading choices reflect our desire to keep them young
  • "People don't necessarily read their politics nowadays. They get it through YouTube and blogs and social networks. I don't know that there is a fiction writer out there right now who speaks to this generation's political ambitions. We're still waiting for our Kerouac."
  • "Don't trust anyone over 140 characters."
Tony Baldasaro

Killing Email: How and Why I Ditched My Inbox - 0 views

zenhabits.net/...how-and-why-i-ditched-my-inbox

email

shared by Tony Baldasaro on 29 Jul 09 - Cached
  • phasing out email instead of ditching the inbox immediately
  • Twitter will be my main form of communication. I know, not everyone uses Twitter, but the people I communicate with the most are (mostly) on Twitter. What I love about Twitter is that it’s very limited (140 characters), so you have to keep things brief, and also there isn’t the expectation that you’ll respond to every message, as there is in email. Friends can DM me on Twitter for personal communication.
  • IM or Skype chats
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  • collaboration, I’ll use Google Docs and/or wikis.
  • Friends and family can call me.
  • I’m always willing to experiment
  • Tony Baldasaro on 29 Jul 09
     
    I've declared independence from email. After more than 15 years of dealing with email, of checking email multiple times a day, of responding over and over throughout the day, of deleting spam and unsubscribing from newsletters and unwanted notices, of filtering out messages and notifications, of deleting those dumb forwarded jokes and chain mails …
Lucinda Keller

12 Expert Twitter Tips for the Classroom: Social Networking Classroom Activities That E... - 51 views

teachingtechnology.suite101.com/...twitter_tips_for_the_classroom

shared by Lucinda Keller on 03 Jan 10 - Cached
Steve Ransom

Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter - NYTimes.com - 30 views

www.nytimes.com/...21blog.html

blogs blogging youth popularity twitter time

shared by Steve Ransom on 22 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • too busy to write lengthy posts
  • uninspired by a lack of readers
  • social networking did a good enough job keeping them in touch with friends and family
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  • Blogs went largely unchallenged until Facebook reshaped consumer behavior with its all-purpose hub for posting everything social. Twitter, which allows messages of no longer than 140 characters, also contributed to the upheaval.
  • quick updates
  • If you’re looking for substantive conversation, you turn to blogs
  • With blogging you have to write
  • Some people write some phrases or some quotes, but that’s it
  • bloggers often use Facebook and Twitter to promote their blog posts to a wider audience. Rather than being competitors, he said, they are complementary.
  • While the younger generation is losing interest in blogging, people approaching middle age and older are sticking with it.
  • Steve Ransom on 22 Feb 11
     
    The gist of this is that blogging takes 2 much time & thought... with the younger more interested in quick soundbytes and informal social interaction
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