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Making a lesson plan is easy. Creating an effective lesson plan is the key to effective teaching and a critical factor in achieving positive student outcomes.

I am floored to find 617 lesson plans using Twitter on the TES site. Some talk about social networks and society, advertising, etc. and others are recommendations for teachers, however, Twitter is increasingly becoming PART Of lessons and what we do. I think that eventually we'll have to make friends with social media in education just as we did with email.

8 Lessons Learned from Being a Publisher on Twitter

By any measure, the growth and popularity of Twitter has been phenomenal. To say that Twitter has hit mainstream isn't really the right metric to use. It's more powerful to note that for a large group of Twitter enthusiasts, to...

Ivy Bean

If you don't know about Ivy Bean, take a look. This is a great simple blog posting about the "lessons" we can all learn from the way she's tweeting.

Twitter in its native form assumes we're ok with not keeping up with the abundance. / Social asymmetry addresses the scaling problem. / Twitter is an app that scales as as platform. / We'll complicate simple things as much as we have to.

Learn to Use Media in Your Classroom! Our lesson plan and video clips can help you integrate media into your classroom.

February 2010 | Volume 67 | Number 5 Meeting Students Where They Are Pages 73-74 Why Teachers Should Try Twitter William M. Ferriter I've got an embarrassing confession to make: Until recently, I wasn't convinced that differentiating learning opportunities for students really mattered. Like many teachers, I would deliver one lesson each day, keeping my fingers crossed that I met everyone's needs. And even though I've always had a sense for the strengths and weaknesses of my individual students, I rarely drew on that knowledge to make specific changes in instruction or assignments.