Twitter is not just about following what Kim Kardashian ate last night for dinner.

If you think of Twitter as something that you primarily use professionally, it helps to streamline topics/people that you want to follow and ideas that you'd like to share.

Did you read a great article about literature circles or classroom managementthat impacted your teaching practice? Tweet it! Did your class do a great provocation into your new unit? Tweet it!


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Tweeting is like sampling foods at Cosco, you can walk around, trying things that look good and then if you like something a lot, you can dive in and buy it in bulk.

Hashtags are a way to organize twitter into topics. Imagine a hashtag is like a magnet that attracts all messages related to a particular topic.

#edchat
#pypchat
#inquiryed
#projectzero

For a complete list of educational hashtags, check out: http://www.teachthought.com/twitter-hashtags-for-teacher/

http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/twitter-edu/


Great tweeters to follow:

Pernille Rip
COETAIL
Alice Keller
Alec Couros
Erin Klien
Tosca Killoran
George Courous
Eric Sheninger
Andy Vasily
Ron Richart
Vicky Davis
Sylvia Duckworth
Katherine Williams
Alison Francis
Robert Appino
Jordan Shapiro
Jeff Utecht
Alfie Kohn
Jonathan Twigg
Sonya TerBorg
Kim Cofino
K Epps
Kath Murdoch

I like Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach’s analogy of Twitter being like a river. The river keeps flowing but sometimes you might just walk past and have a quick look, sometimes you might hang around and dip your toes in, other times you might spend hours swimming around. The tricky thing about twitter is there is no easy entering point, you just need to dive in.

Reading interesting links others have posted, maybe even retweeting a few old but relevant articles you find interesting. If you are tweeting at this stage, you often forget the # and @.

Actively search for new people and follow back anyone who follows you. Join a few #edchats or #pypchats. Tweet a few links to articles that interest you, adding relevant hashtags.

Polling your PLN for advice, sharing/producing relevant new info/articles/ideas.

Following twitter on your phone/computer gives you the highlights of the people you are following, but there is another way. Using Tweetdeck allows you to not only follow your Home Feed, tweetdeck allows you to keep on top of your favorite #’s at the same time. It’s like a spreadsheet for twitter.

See something cool around school that needs to be shared with the big wide world? Take a photo and use the hashtag #tkspyp. Make sure not to include photos of kids' faces or full names.