Everything You Need to Get Started With Twitter

In this post, I will give you everything you need to get up and running with Twitter, as well as my top reasons for using Twitter in 9 minutes of video or less. Work your way from top to bottom of this post, empower yourself to take advantage of Twitter's amazing resources!

Why would I Sign Up for Twitter in Education?

Many reasons, but here are my big three:

PLNs: Professional Learning Networks; Twitter is the biggest place educators seem to gather to trade tips and secrets for the classroom.
Curating Resources for my Classroom: Resources from my library in one place, as well as those shared from others.
Telling the Story of My Classroom, School, and District

Signing Up for Twitter

Head to Twitter.com and sign up for an account with a few easy steps! Check out the 1 minute video to see how!

Writing Your First Tweet

Your first tweet will introduce you to the Twitter World and make you viewable to the rest of the Twitter world! Watch the video and start sharing today!

Using Hashtags to Organize and Share on Twitter

Hashtags are important, but mystifying to many. They are simply a way that Twitter can be organized. Hashtags are essentially the folders or Twitter. Every tweet with the same hashtag can be searched through hashtag, which will give you tons of information on a topic with just a short search. Watch the video to find out how!

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Classroom Benefits to Screencasting

Screencasting is the effort of recording your device's screen while narrating the actions taking place on the screen, similar to a think aloud while reading a book. Screencasting is a great way for you to transform your learning environment regardless of subject! Benefits of Screencast: Frees you as the facilitator to guide learners that may need additional support or enhance content for those that need pushed! Could be used to flip the learning environment . Screencast the lesson ahead of time, post the video to the LMS, and have learners watch it the night before to come to class prepared for a project or class discussion. It can be used as a formative/summative assessment tool! It supports to the Rotational Model, mentioned in this post, as a portion of the Independent stations. You could have your learners create screencasts demonstrating their learning of a process, making their learning visible to you and the other learners within the class! We can also reach tha

The Magic is in the teacher's implementation, not the tool.

A point that I keep coming back to often right now is technology doesn't make learning happen. Technology doesn't make learning better; inherently anyway. Technology doesn't in and of itself motivate kids. It's what the facilitator in the room does with the technology that makes learning happen. It's what the facilitator in the room does with the technology that makes learning better: more authentic and engaging. It's what the facilitator in the room does with the technology that makes activities more motivating. Images like the one below are meant to depict that there is a relationship between your implementation of a technology gauged by SAMR and the learning taking place as gauged by Bloom's Taxonomy. What people in the #edtech field know is that images like this one are often taken as: If I use X app, I'll be in the Modification stage of SAMR and my principal said I should be above the transformation line, so I'll use X app and be good! Nop

Student Engagement

There are so many ways and tools out there right now that aim to increase student engagement during a lesson, of course the topic and content have to be high quality for any of them to even stand a chance of working! Below I'll outline a few different tools that can assist with student engagement, once you've got the relationships with kids and content in place. Google Slides Q & A: When you start your next slide presentation, consider using Google Slides with the new(ish) Q & A feature. Google has baked a back channel directly in to your Google Slides, which can be used as collaborative notes, a parking lot, or just a space for learners to put their questions while you are presenting. Once the Q & A has be used you can choose to keep the back channel when doing your next presentation or begin a new one! It's a great way to produce conversations around the topic you are presenting! EdPuzzle : If you don't like the traditional slides approach to pres

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