Twitter

Twitter is a very useful tool for teachers because it allows for both educational and assistive technology. Communication is a huge benefit of using twitter in the classroom. Not only can you communicate through the students in your classroom, but also with surrounding classrooms. Twitter allows for 150 character tweets. This limits students to what they can tweet about, making them really think about the meaning of their message. Twitter in the classroom can be used to tweet homework and assignments, find important educational resources, enhance student collaboration, network through hashtags, and surveying students. Twitter can really help to build a strong classroom community.

Here are some examples of tweets that can be informational on twitter and used with a classroom hashtag: