Tweetdeck is very easy to organize chats and conveniently shows posts as they appear while I work on other things. I could click on interesting links if I was interested, and immediately have a new resource bookmarked!
Anne M. Beninghof@annebeninghof is one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter. She provides so many practical ideas, accommodations, and best practices for teachers. A couple examples include Ticket out the door activity as a formative or closure to a lesson. A prompt can be displayed for students to respond to such as: If you were to fill a grocery cart with the key concepts from today’s lesson, what would it contain? Write a text message summary of what you learned today. If this concept was a menu, what would be the appetizer? Main dish? Dessert?
Other great information Anne shared on Twitter was 30 Online Multimedia Resources for Project Based Learning and Flipped Classrooms. This blog included information on TedTalk, and a link to Free Tech 4 Teachers for even more ideas such as Thinglink, a tool to create interactive images.
Twitter is an awesome resource that I have become familiar with to help me learn and grow in my instruction to help students be successful! I think I will continue to use Twitter more professionally than personally. I love how Twitter is a place to collaborate with other educators and get some free professional development!
GREAT post, Traci! Thanks for sharing so much great information. Your post took me a bit to finish, as I had to check out @annebeninghof 's Twitter profile. WOW! Lot's of great information on her site. It has been fun to watch your Twitter growth over the course of the school year. I am exited that you now have the Power of Twitter and have future plans to continue to use Twitter professionally!!
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