My Twitter story started with, "This is not for me. Only 'look at me' teachers post there." My previous district was one that was extremely pro-social media presence. I was told, "Twitter is your gametape. It shows people who you are." They wanted teachers Tweeting with district specialized hashtags (and I really didn't understand how those worked at first). But that still didn't do much to change my point of view--and to be honest, seeing only certain people or subject areas celebrated online kinda bothered me too. I wrestled with the dilemma of were the things I and my peers were sharing were really the best educational practice or were they just SHOWY? Ok, then Covid-19 happened. Schools went remote and I couldn't just walk down the hall to get ideas from peers. And after a spring of remote learning, I took on the challenge of collaborating with a team of teachers to build and run a fully virtual school-within-a-school for the 2020-21 school year. Add to that living 2 hours away from the rest of the staff and Twitter became a lifeline to other teachers in the same boat. Even if you just dabble with "stalking" some of the teachers listed in the spreadsheet to the right, see what you find! You might be surprised! I put certain people on notification and use Twitter like a search engine searching a teacher's handle and a topic to find what they have tried, shared, or asked.

"It's like Mad Libs Meets Google Forms! Save TONS of time by hacking narrative feedback."

This comes from EDrenaline Rush, a Blog and book by John Meehan. This is under the Teach Like a Pirate Umbrella. Here is John's blog post. I screencasted my explanation of what he is doing to the left. This can allow you to "write" beautiful and descriptive narrative feedback for students and get through AN ENTIRE CLASS OF STUDENTS in 15 minutes. Watch OR Read the Blog AND LEAVE WITH AN EDITABLE GOOGLE FORM YOU CAN USE IN MINUTES!