Today’s Goals:
Simple tips for enhancing your Twitter experience and to grow you PLC
Tip 1 - Follow everyone that works with you. Find them by:
Tip 2 - Review the ‘LISTS’ that people created to find more like minded people
How to:
Tip 3 - Who to follow to build your PLC?
Tip 4 - Use and follow #hashtags and/or join a chat
Tip 5 - Privacy
Tip 6 - Use an app like Twitterific or Tweetdeck to view #hashtag tweets and or a CHAT in one timeline
SOME # TO FOLLOW:
General education: #teaching, #teachers, #learning, #k12, #PLN, #edreform, #commoncore, #ccss, #teacherproblems, #edcamp, #globaled
#mexedchat - Monday nights @ 8pm
Educational technology: #edtech, #elearning, #edapp (or #edapps), #byod, #blendinglearning, #ipaded, #1to1
Content or grade-level specific:
Literacy: #kidlit, #literacy, #readaloud
Math: #math, #mathed
Science: #scied, #STEM, #NGSS, #scienceteacher
Social studies: #socialstudies, #historyteacher
Arts: #artsed, #musiced
Early childhood: #earlyed, #preschool, #ece
ESL: #esl, #ell (or #ells)
Special education: #sped, #specialneeds, #autism, #dyslexia
Physical education: #PEgeeks
Library: #TLchat
Other hashtags to note:
#comments4kids: Denotes when teachers want others to comment on students’ blog posts.
#flipclass: The latest and greatest ideas about flipped learning
WHO TO FOLLOW:
Companies and Organizations:
@ScholasticTeach: Scholastic’s official account for teachers
@IRAToday: Literacy ideas for all educators
@NCTE: Teaching tips for English teachers
@NCTM: All things math education
@NSTA: Ideas and opportunities in science education
@ASCD: Professional development and educational leadership resources
@NAEYC: News and tweets about early childhood education
@educationweek and @EdWeekTeacher: The latest education news
@edutopia: Inspiration for K–12 educators
@TeachingChannel: Online community of K–12 teachers
@Edudemic: Education and technology
@MindShiftKQED: Trends in education
Educators:
@cybraryman1: Jerry Blumengarten, co-moderator of #edchat
@MrSchuReads: John Schumacher, teacher-librarian and cohost of #SharpSchu monthly book club with Colby Sharp (@colbysharp)
@donalynbooks: Donalyn Miller, a.k.a. The Book Whisperer, and a facilitator of #nerdybookclub
@pernilleripp: Pernille Ripp, middle school teacher and creator of Global Read Aloud
@coolcatteacher: Vicki Davis, blogger, teacher, and IT director
@web20classroom: Steven W. Anderson, instructional technology expert and #edchat cocreator
@pamallyn: Pam Allyn, literacy expert and founding director of LitWorld and LitLife
Additional Resources:
10 Tips for tweeting teachers
How to search Twitter for educational content
Why Your Teachers Should Use Twitter
Ideas for Twitter Lists
Simple tips for enhancing your Twitter experience and to grow you PLC
Tip 1 - Follow everyone that works with you. Find them by:
- From YOUR home/profile page, click on #discover
- Click on ‘Who to Follow’ (based on others that you follow, geographic area, etc..)
- Click on ‘Find Friends’ (links to your contacts)
Tip 2 - Review the ‘LISTS’ that people created to find more like minded people
- Two of my lists are ‘librarians’ and ‘international educators’
- You can follow other people’s lists and/or create your own
How to:
- Click on the photo of a tweeter - view their PROFILE page
- At the top, you will see - Tweets, Following, Followers, Favorites, LISTS
- Click on Lists, click on one, subscribe to what you want (list must be public)
- To create your own: on profile page, click LISTS, click on ‘CREATE LIST’
Tip 3 - Who to follow to build your PLC?
- Review a few #hashtags that interest you
- Select some interesting folk to FOLLOW
- See who those you admire are following
- To BUILD YOUR VOICE - Send a reply, Follow and/or mention someone in a tweet
Tip 4 - Use and follow #hashtags and/or join a chat
- #asfg - look who has tweeted the most....
- See list below of # of interest...
Tip 5 - Privacy
- Tweets are public anyone following you or who you mention, can view your tweets
- To ‘direct message’ (private) someone - they must be following you
- When you directly Tweet someone (by putting their @handle as the beginning of your Tweet), that Tweet turns up in the feeds of users who follow both you and the person you are directly Tweeting. If you put a period first - .@vrobins1 then it goes to all of your followers
Tip 6 - Use an app like Twitterific or Tweetdeck to view #hashtag tweets and or a CHAT in one timeline
SOME # TO FOLLOW:
General education: #teaching, #teachers, #learning, #k12, #PLN, #edreform, #commoncore, #ccss, #teacherproblems, #edcamp, #globaled
#mexedchat - Monday nights @ 8pm
Educational technology: #edtech, #elearning, #edapp (or #edapps), #byod, #blendinglearning, #ipaded, #1to1
Content or grade-level specific:
Literacy: #kidlit, #literacy, #readaloud
Math: #math, #mathed
Science: #scied, #STEM, #NGSS, #scienceteacher
Social studies: #socialstudies, #historyteacher
Arts: #artsed, #musiced
Early childhood: #earlyed, #preschool, #ece
ESL: #esl, #ell (or #ells)
Special education: #sped, #specialneeds, #autism, #dyslexia
Physical education: #PEgeeks
Library: #TLchat
Other hashtags to note:
#comments4kids: Denotes when teachers want others to comment on students’ blog posts.
#flipclass: The latest and greatest ideas about flipped learning
WHO TO FOLLOW:
Companies and Organizations:
@ScholasticTeach: Scholastic’s official account for teachers
@IRAToday: Literacy ideas for all educators
@NCTE: Teaching tips for English teachers
@NCTM: All things math education
@NSTA: Ideas and opportunities in science education
@ASCD: Professional development and educational leadership resources
@NAEYC: News and tweets about early childhood education
@educationweek and @EdWeekTeacher: The latest education news
@edutopia: Inspiration for K–12 educators
@TeachingChannel: Online community of K–12 teachers
@Edudemic: Education and technology
@MindShiftKQED: Trends in education
Educators:
@cybraryman1: Jerry Blumengarten, co-moderator of #edchat
@MrSchuReads: John Schumacher, teacher-librarian and cohost of #SharpSchu monthly book club with Colby Sharp (@colbysharp)
@donalynbooks: Donalyn Miller, a.k.a. The Book Whisperer, and a facilitator of #nerdybookclub
@pernilleripp: Pernille Ripp, middle school teacher and creator of Global Read Aloud
@coolcatteacher: Vicki Davis, blogger, teacher, and IT director
@web20classroom: Steven W. Anderson, instructional technology expert and #edchat cocreator
@pamallyn: Pam Allyn, literacy expert and founding director of LitWorld and LitLife
Additional Resources:
10 Tips for tweeting teachers
How to search Twitter for educational content
Why Your Teachers Should Use Twitter
Ideas for Twitter Lists