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Jenny Leudo

Guide to Using Twitter in Your Teaching Practice : KQED Education | KQED Public Media f... - 12 views

  • Our students’ needs have shifted and they require digital citizenship skills.
  • Teachers and students use Twitter for communication and conversation
  • great way to add context to content
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  • Help teens evaluate whether or not something is okay to be shared online
  • think before they tweet.
  • kindness
  • empathy
  • Promote critical thinking and encourage discussion by asking students questions like “Do you know the people who look at your profile?” and “What are some different ways your Tweet
  • 20 Ways to use Twitter (infographic) – specific ideas tied to Bloom’s Taxonomy levels for how to use Twitter in the classroom 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom – Very broad list of ways Twitter can be used in the classroom across disciplines. [blog post/article from teachhub.com] 5 Great Ways Students Can Use Twitter For Research – Five unique and interactive ways that Twitter can function as a research tool. [Laura Bates, Fractus Learning, Inc.]
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    Includes safety for students using Twitter as well as ways to incorporate it into lesson plans! Awesome!
Shaeley Santiago

Kids Who Use Facebook Do Worse in School - TIME Healthland - 9 views

  • « Previous Post FDA Approves First Scorpion Anti-Venom Next Post » Study: Preschoolers' Sack Lunches Reach Unsafe Temperatures Getty Images Comment Print var artId= "1996921"; var chn = "us"; var contType = "article"; Email Digg Facebook Twitter MORE Add to my: del.icio.us Technorati reddit Google Bookmarks Mixx StumbleUpon Blog this on: TypePad LiveJournal Blogger MySpace var ad = adFactory.getAd(88, 31); ad.setPosition(8) ad.write(); Related Topics: anxiety, children, Depression, Facebook, Love & Family, media, Parenting, Parenting, Psychology, http://healthland.ti
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    I really liked the last comment by the writer. His kids are the same age as mine and I am thankful that mine were older before they had access to Facebook. But just the same we as educators need to know the good and the bad so we can help our students and their parents become better cyber citizens
Amy Keller

Top 100 Tools for the Twittering Teacher | Best Colleges Online - 4 views

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    Twitter has become a powerful tool for community organizers, marketers, and others who want to share and receive information in a fast, friendly environment. It's no wonder, then, that teachers have also found success on Twitter, using the tool to connect with students, share information with parents, and find useful resources. Here, we'll take a look at 100 tools that can help twittering teachers make the most out of this helpful microblogging tool.
Shaeley Santiago

How to use twitter in the classroom Part 1 | Expert teacher training in student motivat... - 5 views

  • The following tips will help you efficiently use twitter in your classroom to enhance your professional learning
  • If you have a bit more time and you would like to see a targeted list of educators put together in a Google doc go HERE.
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    Blog post with tips for using Twitter to expand your professional learning network.
Shaeley Santiago

Twitter - are they worth the follow? 6 things to watch out for before you fol... - 3 views

  • What Twitter “avatar” or profile picture do they have?
  • do them a favour and say “don’t be an egg”
mverbrugge50315

50 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom - 10 views

  • to keep their classes engaged and up-to-date on the latest technologies.
  • 50 ways to Twitter in the classroom to create important and lasting lessons.
  • due dates or assignments
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  • how ideas and fads spread throughout different media sources.
  • career goals
  • to compare and contrast how different perspectives interpret current events and issues.
  • to collaborate on different projects
  • Track a hash tag.
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    50 ways to use Twitter in our classrooms - the title says it all :)
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    Various ways to connect to your class and parents
Sam Oppel

Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Twitter Series-My Super, Top Secret Tip... - 4 views

  • 1) Where do you find all those links you post? 2) How do you make sure you don't miss everything without staying on Twitter 24/7? 3) How do you organize everything you find from Twitter?
Anita Roche

Twitter - 10 views

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    Turns Twitter into an online paper!
Amy Keller

28 Creative Ways Teachers Are Using Twitter | Best Colleges Online - 7 views

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    Between the cat images and celebrity porn, the Internet actually manages to boast educational potential. Considerable educational potential, in fact. Even that Twitter thing the kids are into these days, with its 140-characters and its perpetual haze of pound signs, has its uses. More than 28, of course, but here's a nice little starting point
anonymous

Teaching With Twitter? - 1 views

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    A crash course in Twitter. Terminology, classroom uses, examples from teachers and professors currently using Twitter in the classroom.
Shaeley Santiago

Topify | Power Twitter Email Notifications - 1 views

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    tool for enhancing Twitter notifications
Shaeley Santiago

How Teachers Can Use Twitter to Maximise Their Professional Learning | Expert teacher t... - 5 views

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    More on using Twitter for expanding your PLN, this time with a focus on hashtags related to education
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    Explored hashtags more and gave some good advice regarding PLN.
Virginia Lake

Using Twitter in the Primary Classroom | Changing Horizons - 2 views

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    This article shows how one primary teacher (year 2) used twitter to give his students a voice. He felt it was successful especially with those students who did not feel confident about their writing or perhaps did not like to write.
Carl Spilles

Twitter as a Powerful Educational Tool | Using Twitter Hashtags - 1 views

  • What Mubarak might not have known is that while he was trying to maintain his iron grip on power, thousands of Egyptians were tweeting about their frustration with the dictator. Eventually, the people on the street, armed with nothing more than a cell phone and a free social media site, changed the course of history. If you are a middle or high school social studies teacher, and you wanted to provide your students with a close-up view of the events unfolding in Egypt, you could turn to a traditional news service. Or, you could follow the hashtag #Egypt on Twitter and tap into the real-time pulse of unfolding events by people on the streets of Cairo.
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