The Twitter Teaching Community is Stepping Up with Support If you are not on Twitter now is a great time to start LURKING! Educators and EdTech companies are out in force with resources specifically focusing on how to make shifts in distance learning. You do not need a Twitter account to take advantage. How to Lurk The key to Twitter… Read More »Find Support… With Twitter
Follow These Hashtags on Twitter How do you keep up? You can’t. There is no way we can know everything about teaching, about learning, and about mathematics. This is the beauty of Twitter. It is bite sized, 280 character or less, of learning. Follow a Hashtag A hashtag is a topic. When you tweet something it goes to the stream… Read More »Math Twitter Hashtags
Google Sheets Spreadsheet Template for Twitter Chats Twitter chats are a great way for educators to interact with other educators. Interacting with teachers not just at our school widens our access to ideas, resources, and teaching techniques. I have created a spreadsheet to help you moderate or participate in a Twitter chat. Template alicekeeler.com/twitterchat Moderating a Twitter Chat A… Read More »Twitter Chat Template
Teaching Students to Use Social Media A Guest Post by Jennifer Casa-Todd We have a challenge. Student use of social media outside of school is increasing, and yet, because of age restrictions, we are limited in our ability to mentor students under the age of thirteen. So, we have two options. We can just not include social media in our… Read More »Get Your Kids Tweeting: #OnEdSschat by @JCasaTodd
3 Tips for Interacting on Twitter 1. Do Not Start a Tweet with @ When you start a tweet with @ it is semi-private. Rumor was they were going to eliminate the need to start a tweet with a period, but really they just made it harder to start your tweet with a period. Let me explain. When you start… Read More »3 Twitter Tips for Interacting
Tweet on the Hashtag #ISTE18 Twitter is an excellent way to connect with educators you do not know! There are 18,000 educators at ISTE here in Chicago this year, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that you do not know most of them. Here are some Twitter tips to help you get the most of being… Read More »Some Tips for Using Twitter at a Conference
Press N to Compose a Tweet I love keyboard shortcuts. They make me much more efficient when using the computer. Twitter has a few keyboard shortcuts that can be very helpful. N – New Tweet When using twitter.com or even tweetdeck.com you can press N to start a new tweet. Control Enter – Send After pressing N to start a new… Read More »Press N for a New Tweet
Add an Image to Your Tweet How do you find new ideas; not just for using tech but that too? Twitter is full of innovative awesome educators who share! Create a Twitter account just for teaching and only follow educators who share, give free lesson plans, and free moral support. Follow @burgessdave @jmattmiller @shakeuplearning @ericcurts @jenroberts1 @lisahighfill @catlin_tucker @jcorippo @burgess_shelley @thomascmurray @marvelousmcc @shfarnsworth… Read More »Add an Image to Your Tweet
Embed in New Google Sites Finally! You can embed in Google Sites. The “Embed URL” has been changed to just “Embed.” When you double click on the page, the insert wheel now allows you the option to “Embed.” Embed When selecting “Embed” a pop up gives you the option to embed “By URL” or “Embed Code.” Click on the “Embed… Read More »Google Sites: Embed a Twitter Feed
Twitter: Keep It Short I have always said the genius of Twitter is you have to be clever. I can scroll quickly through my Twitter stream to find those golden nuggets that make me a better teacher. Now Twitter has ruined it! 280 characters makes it seem more like I’m trudging through my email rather than having quick little learning… Read More »Twitter: 140 Characters or 280
Some Twitter Tips The number one users of Twitter are educators! I don’t use Twitter like Facebook and I don’t follow people who do. One of the best things you can do for yourself as an educator is to create a Twitter handle just for teaching and tweet about teaching. Tweetdeck I use Tweetdeck.com to manage my Twitter. It has… Read More »Twitter Tip: Exclude Tweets in Your Search
Multiple Hashtags in Tweetdeck The official hashtag of the ISTE conference this year is #ISTE17. I am thrilled to have my 2 characters back, I needed them. A few people are inadvertently using the incorrect hashtag of #ISTE2017. If you use Tweetdeck you can follow both! Tweetdeck Start by going to tweetdeck.com and doing a search for #ISTE17 Column Box A… Read More »Follow #ISTE17 OR #ISTE2017 Hashtag
Quote Tweet: Mention The Tweeter When you retweet a tweet on Twitter you have the option to add some commentary to the tweet you are retweeting. This is a “Quote tweet.” The problem is that when you quote tweet someone the quoted tweet does not count as a retweet for the tweeter’s statistics and the quote tweet does not show… Read More »Quote Tweet: Mention The Tweeter
Mock Twitter Chat with Your Students I love Twitter chats. They are exactly one hour Allow for everyone’s voice to be heard It is okay to have a side conversation about one part of the topic to go deeper while the rest of the conversation continues Guaranteed to get through 5-10 questions in an hour Provides individual attention to many… Read More »Mock Twitter Chat with Your Students
Participate in a Twitter Chat Starting Tuesday, Google Apps for Littles (#GAfE4Littles) will be having a weekly chat at 5pm PST. For those participants who are new to Twitter chats I created a template to help. If you have never participated in a Twitter chat here is how it works. At the specified time log onto Twitter. I recommend using Tweetdeck and… Read More »Participate in a Twitter Chat Template