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How to use twitter specifically for professional development

Twitter may have started off as a fun social media site for keeping up with friends and sharing updates about daily life, but it's become much more than that for many users over the past few years as the site has evolved and grown. This is a great website on how a teacher can use it in their classroom.

This is a very popular and engaging network for teachers. Eye-catching graphics, hashtags, and pictures share what it means to be a teacher working towards developing a better world. Teachers in this community enthusiastically share their experiences, concerns, and visions, and seem to want to connect to realize their full potential as educators.

Gives insight to personal learning networks and why a teacher should be using social media. "By developing professional relationships electronically, teachers can immediately post their latest articles, research, experiences, or discoveries. You, the connected teacher, are the recipient of all of these communications."

This article shows examples of how students have used twitter in the classroom and how it has motivated and bettered their discussion.

This resource is a twitter page where Oklahoma teachers can connect to share their ideas, classrooms, and issues important to them (such as those regarding the state of the education system). Although it contains a lot of discussion about the education system, the twitter page describes itself to be "non-political" and a place that "brings OK educators together" through constructive dialogue.

This article gives insight to why teachers should be using twitter in the classroom and the benefits this social networking website brings to your students and the content they are learning.

Twitter has proven itself to be an indispensable tool for educators around the globe. Whatever skill level you may be, Twitter is downright fun and worth your time. So here's a useful guide that we curated from Edudemic's archives in an effort to put something together that was a bit easier to read than random blog posts.