The following post was originally written as a post for my school's weekly newsletter (Bear Essentials) in which I have a weekly column. It was written the week of March 22, 2013.
Twitter has gotten a bad reputation. But, like most things, twitter is as valuable as the user makes it. And it can have as many uses as people who use it. Here are some ways people at ODSS are using it.
Share information with students
There are classes, clubs and teachers who are using twitter to communicate information with students. Some examples:
@ODSSBakeshop @ODSS_News @ODSSlibrary
@ODSS_Bears @NGWEDWE @ODSSUnger
I try to use the hashtag #ngwedwe for school wide activities/information
Professional Learning Network (PLN)
For some people, twitter is a great place to share what you are doing, and see what other professionals are doing. There is a large community of educators on twitter who regularly share what they are doing and what they’ve found (articles, ideas) that is of use to them professionally.
Uses in class:
There are a lot of students using twitter. It doesn’t hurt to engage students in places they are already using.
You could follow someone/organization related to your subject.
OR follow a hashtag about an issue or current event
OR you could use classroom hashtag as an exit ticket to check for understanding
Sarah Le (@sarle83) is having her grade 11 English class tweet Macbeth. Each character has a twitter handle that Sarah set up, students will take on a character and tweet about events from that perspective as well as respond to others’ tweets.
If being out there and public makes you nervous, you could have students create fake tweets to show understanding of an issue, time period, character, important figure. Use classtools.net and choose TWISTER. Here is a slideshow example
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