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Top 100 Tools for the Twittering Teacher

Friday Five - Tools for Teachers

Cori Belle, USA, Primary, Literacy, Reading, WritingI love to read and write and am passionate about teaching kids. I taught first grade for four years. Though I am currently taking a break from teaching to raise my family, my desire is to help teachers make sense of current trends in reading and writing and to provide some thoughts on how to merge these ideas with existing teaching practices.Growing Readers and WritersIncreasing the capacity of teachers to provide high quality literacy instruction.

Xinyu Li, China, SecondaryTeacher of Information Technology.mingxiao's blogFocusing on media and educational technology.Theme: web2.0 tools, media and software applications, social learning

Twitter Tips: for Teachers & Educators

Enhance the classroom experience. Yes, that even means letting your students online with laptops and other devices when they’re in your classroom. Use a hashtag and ask your students to use it on each tweet; this means you can easily collate tweets together at the end of the alloted task/activity/time. Read this: Twitterati in the academy Read this: Professors experiment with Twitter as teaching tool Read this: Twitter Conference Ideas : eLearning Technology Bring student ideas, reading, emotions, etc into your world. Whether Twitter is used in the classroom or just around each timetabled seminar/lecture time, Twitter and it’s use can add value to the contents or your teaching, and you’ll end up learning from your learners.

How One Teacher Uses Twitter in the Classroom

A video about Rankin's classroom experiment follows.

PHP Webquest is a Webquest Generator that allows teachers to create webquests without the need of writing any HTML code or using web page editors. The program supports images uploading, and resizes images is neccesary. A HTML editor is provided in order to format the texts for the pages.