Heath: Thoughtful Technology Integration

Twitter

Why Twitter?

Twitter Helps You Reflect on Your Teaching to improve your Students' Learning

Each time you share a moment from your classroom through twitter you are reaching out to parents and colleagues. In this PD, we'll explore how to use your Tweets as an opportunity to reflect on the effectiveness of your teaching moves and how they impacted student learning. Most importantly, these mini-reflections will help you to focus on what is really working well and inspire you to calibrate your lessons to improve the quality of your teaching.

Twitter Helps You Obtain New Ideas, Strategies, Resources, and Pedagogy From Your Colleagues

We work in a wonderful school where our teachers and students are engaged in amazing learning! In this PD, we'll explore how you can follow your colleagues on Twitter to

- Be inspired by their tweets! Learn new ideas as you follow your colleague's tweets on our Displays (TVs) or through twitter.
- Like their tweets, re-tweet with a connection to your own teaching, and ask questions to share that you liked their ideas.
- Adapt their ideas to make your teaching even better.
- Respond to their tweet or follow-up in person to let them know how they inspired you and connect what they did to your own teaching. These small check-ins often lead to deeper and more meaningful opportunities to collaborate and continue to learn from one another.

Resources To Explore Why Twitter?

Twitter in 60 Seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYz9M70KVR0
Twitter for Educators: Can it really help? How? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pphYBgMkyhI&feature=youtu.be

More:

The Well-Connected Educator: Building a Personal Learning Network (Graduate Course) https://courses.learnersedge.com/courses/dl/21st-century-learning/The-Well-Connected-Educator-Building-a-Personal-Learning-Network/5024
What Connected Educators Do Differently (Book) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23338868-what-connected-educators-do-differently

Getting Started With Twitter

Sign Up For A Twitter Account

Use Your Real Name. Your goal is not to hide who you are; instead you are promoting who you are.

Resources to Explore Signing Up For A Twitter Account:

How to create a Twitter account on the web https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/create-twitter-account#targetText=How%20to%20create%20a%20Twitter,your%20name%20and%20email%20address.
How To Sign Up For Twitter (Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xora1TsK7p8

More:

How to Join Twitter With a New Account https://www.lifewire.com/join-twitter-by-setting-up-account-3486230
How to Sign Up for a Twitter Account https://www.dummies.com/social-media/twitter/how-to-sign-up-for-a-twitter-account/

Join our Heath School Twitter List

Share your Tweets with our Heath School Audience

- Join our Twitter List
- Your tweets will show up on our TV Displays around the school
- and on our Heath School Homepage
Email your twitter username to Matt_Durant

Set Up Your Profile

Communicate Who You Are and What You Are Interested in Professionally

Name: Use your real name. Your goal is not to hide who you are; instead you are promoting who you are.
Bio: Use the bio to tell your story: who you are, where you are from, and what you believe in.
Profile Picture: Don't be an "Egghead" (Not showing a profile image). Instead, show the world who you are and that you are a confident professional. This will help you to build trust when connecting with other educators who are equally willing to share with the world who they are.
Background Image: Use this image to portray what you feel to be professionally important .

Resources to Explore Creating a Powerful Profile:

How to customize your profile https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-customize-your-profile
Establish your Twitter presence https://business.twitter.com/en/basics/create-a-twitter-business-profile.html

More:

How to create a Twitter Account https://metricool.com/create-a-twitter-account/
7 Steps To Setting Up Your Twitter Account https://www.aliciaorre.com/social-media-and-digital-marketing/twitter/set-up-twitter-account

Share Your Teaching and Student Learning (Colleagues, Parents, and the World)

Tweet To Share Your Teaching, Student Learning, and Influential Resources

The Activity: What were your students doing?
Why It is Important? - So what? What are your kids learning...?
Hashtags - Use #heathschool so teachers and parents can follow your ideas. Use other hashtags to share your ideas, strategies, and pedagogy with lager groups of you colleagues from around the country and around the world.
Powerful Photos - Add image(s) to show the great work you are doing and the learning that is taking place.

Share learning that is taking place in your classroom with one another. We can learn from you as you share your professional work with us. This makes you feel safe and supported.
Reply to leave feedback for your peers and let them know that you learned something from them or if you will try something they shared with your students. This makes you feel safe and supported.
Share pedagogy, teaching strategies, approaches to content,... We can learn along with you, add ideas, share approaches... This will lead to improved collaboration and risk taking with peers.
Act as a disrupter. A Tweet is a moment for a mini-reflection that can cause us to stop and rethink our teaching approach to a unit... This will lead to improved collaboration and risk taking with peers.

Resources to Explore Improving Your Tweets:

7 Ways To Write Better Tweets That Increase Click-Throughs https://convertwithcontent.com/7-ways-write-tweets-increase-clickthroughs/
Hashtags in 60 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0dT81ChIU&disable_polymer=true
Popular Education Hashtags on Twitter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rzv0_q0jPsa5LIzgQ7OQBQ8DNyEEzbZWF3MvHP7yahI/edit
Heath 6-8 Team Meeting on Twitter (Meeting Notes) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Sd4_5AlOQjgL7xP95n1Ws4ut5EK_7C3NDwcRGYt1LM0/edit?usp=sharing

More:

A Simple Guide on The Use of Hashtag for Teachers https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/05/a-simple-guide-on-use-of-hashtag-for.html
The 20 Most Useful #hashtags In Education https://www.teachthought.com/technology/the-20-most-useful-hashtags-in-education/

Grow Your Professional Learning Network (PLN) with Twitter

Grow Your PLN

There are many great teachers from around our country and the world sharing their best teaching, practices, and pedagogy on Twitter. Explore the best ways to:

Find new and innovative colleagues to follow and be followed by.
Selectively evaluate who you are following to narrow down your list to those who are most influential.
Adapt their shared ideas, strategies, and pedagogy to make your teaching even better, ask questions of them, and share your own ideas
Share back with them how you adapted their idea to work improve your own teaching.

Resources to Explore How To Grow Your PLN:

Twitter as a PLN (Meeting Notes) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NAO_R3wS8J6S3-slLiRgEn7fxSlAl75fowB-mQg-XiY/edit?usp=sharing
How to Use Twitter to Grow Your PLN http://www.edutopia.org/blog/twitter-expanding-pln
Using Twitter To Build Your PLN https://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/pln-twitter/
How Twitter Can Be Used as a Powerful Educational Tool http://novemberlearning.com/educational-resources-for-educators/teaching-and-learning-articles/how-twitter-can-be-used-as-a-powerful-educational-tool/n/
Tweetdeck: How to Use It and Why (basics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaFF-uy3XqE

More:

Using Twitter to build your PLN http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/pln-challenge-3-using-twitter-to-build-your-pl
Annotated Personal Learning Network Resources https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Skoesc5EnJyM47uy04yDWErrfcFQAvKB_7qsAeBodlc/edit?usp=sharing

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