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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.

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

What is GlobalCampus? GlobalCampus connects young people with universities around the world to help them find the best opportunities for their future, wherever located.

How does it work? GlobalCampus is an online community: students and institutions can create a profile and connect. Student profiles work like CVs. Students can indicate the schools they have attended, their personal achievements, their aspirations and their preferred destinations to study. They can also add sample works and videos to present themselves and their interests. University profiles are generated directly by a university’s community - staff, faculty, current students and alumni. They feature both subjective information, like articles and presentation videos, and objective information, like admission requirements and course synopses. On GlobalCampus students can express their talent to receive offers from universities around the world, while universities can communicate their best assets to tudents in any country.

What are the next steps? We are now working on adding scholarship providers, so that once registered a student will know also where there are funds available for her. (Did you know that every year hundreds of millions of dollars worth of scholarships go unclaimed? Thousands of people are eligible to receive financial aid to study somewhere in the world right now, but they simply don’t know about it. We would like to change that).

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