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Twitter. As teachers we are always “searching” for new idea to help us meet the needs of our students and learning teams. The internet is universally important in our searching, but often brings forth numerous hours of fruitless or half-baked results.
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Twitter • As teachers we are always “searching” for new idea to help us meet the needs of our students and learning teams. • The internet is universally important in our searching, but often brings forth numerous hours of fruitless or half-baked results. • Twitter can be a tool that will help you stay on top of the current best practices and possibly create new and never imagined projects.
Twitter Example • Trolling #sschat lead me to this Tweet… @HPTeachExchange: Nice web 2.0 site Build a virtual historical journey. budurl.com/rh7n #sschat • That lead me to think of our Kiva Club and this Tweet… @plugusin this could rock for kiva club @HPTeachExchange: Nice web 2.0 site Build a virtual historical journey. budurl.com/rh7n
Tripline • That lead Bill to say “Shoot, Hutch…now I have to figure this out.” • He later sent me this Tripline example.
Tweetdeck and Hootsuite • Tweetdeck allows you to split your Twitter feed into separate columns for ease of viewing. • Hootsuite allows you to create tabbed pages of Twitter users and easily Tweet out websites.
Time to Explore • Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom • Bring up Twitter (remember you do not need to register to search the feeds.) • Search the Hashtag that interests you most. • Some ideas include… #sschat, #historyteacher, #engchat, #mathchat, # scichat, #mglitchat, #titletalk, #edchat
“What we’re dealing with now isn’t information overload…it’s filter failure.” - Clay Shirky http://bit.ly/sd774o