🎶🎶Were all about that tweet, bout that tweet, the twitter!! 🎶🎶
As I mentioned in my post before, I have been tweeting since college. I've actually started a couple relationships through twitter messages. I never realized the power Twitter held in my life until I saw how it helped my life on the go.
Now for my educational Twitter.
(@missashburton) It has taken my life to a different level! I signed up a couple weeks ago (because frankly I was just too excited to wait for this week). I started out by finding my teacher for EDET543, then used the "suggested" button. I found my school district leaders and technology department/programs. I even followed the twitter handlers in my book I am reading for class. I guess you could called me HOOKED!
Within one week, I was already receiving follow backs from different classroom teachers and other educational stakeholders . A couple of them direct messaged me nice things!
I am just blown away with how easy building my PLN via Twitter, really is. I am finding myself on Twitter more, reading articles and looking at tweets. My guilty pleasure is reading them on the bike during my workouts.
I started using tweet deck a few days ago. I have to say, it's AWESOME! The way the columns are laid out, to the fact that I can customize both my twitter accounts in one spot, is great. I used to have the problem of having a tweet that's too long, but now my problems are solved!
One thing I kept searching was for the mobile app! I was sadly disappointed that I didn't see it. Did anyone else see it?
I'm hoping I just overlooked it!
On the other hand, I tried it another twitter account friendly app called TWEETCaster! It's a great alternative for friends on go. It's very user friendly. I like the way the app moves smoothly.
I suggest this App for my friends on the go! It isn't as awesome as TweetDeck but it gets the job done!
Another App I downloaded on my phone was HootSuite. It was extremely easy to set up and I enjoyed the fact I can message multiple people at the same time! It was nice to see how many messages I missed. You can slide to see your other tabs lime mentions and inbox! You can translate easily too! I give it two thumbs up! 👍👍 I will for sure be using this app a lot!!
I am familiar with hashtags. I use them quite often. I am ready to dive into educational conversations with other educators. It will be nice to have a say and to be heard.
To wrap up my thoughts. I can't wait to dive more into Twitter. I found a wonderful resource on ways to use Twitter in the Classroom. I hope you find this as resourceful as I did!
I will catch you on the tweet side!
I also use Hootsuite on my phone and I love it. I use it mainly to schedule tweets for our classroom Twitter account. I dedicate one night a month to schedule all of our tweets with reminders for the month, after being in the classroom for a year and a half I have learned that you can never send out enough reminders!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the google slides on how to use Twitter in the classroom. I'm trying to find the right balance for it in my 2nd grade classroom. It's challenging because my kiddos obviously don't have their own accounts (for very good reasons) but we are going to begin using our classroom account to host "Tweeter of the Day". I'm anxious to see what they do with it!
I hope the Tweeter for a day works out! That sounds like a great opportunity for the kids!
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ReplyDeleteI love your enthusiasm for using Twitter. Thanks for sharing your experience with TweetDeck, Hootsuite, and Tweetbot. I went with Hootsuite because it would work on my phone and because a friend had spoken of it favorably. (And I dig owls.) I read through Melanie's response; the ability to set aside one chunk of time to schedule when the month's tweets to your class will be sent out is fantastic! That may work well for my department, too. We use Twitter and Facebook for marketing purposes and have all of our posts prepared months in advance. If the department is not already using Hootsuite, you can bet I'll be selling them on it soon.
I, too, am impressed with how connected even one week of getting more involved on Twitter has made me feel. It will be a major part of enhancing our PLNs.
Camille
It is crazy to see my blog views in the past month as well!
DeleteAshley,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the ways that Twitter can be used in the classroom. It really is a great tool to collaborate with other educators. However, the big question I am having is, “How can I use this in the classroom?” I need to do more polling and ranking activities in my classroom. I never thought Twitter could be used that way.
That would a quicker way for polling! I hope that works out well!
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