My Take
Overall it has proved useful but I would like to see it move more towards the classroom teachers using it to promote student work, research and homework help. We are still in the infant stages of using tagboard but the usability seems easy enough and useful eventually for the students!
How I Use It
I am the Technology Coach at PS 16 and started using tagboard at the suggestion of a colleague in Brooklyn who was using it with Twitter at their school. I am currently using it mostly for Parent Engagement through twitter hashtags. We are trying to engage our community more and find that this is a great way to pull them in through technology!
More community reviews for Tagboard
Susan M.
Blended Learning Coach
Liberty Public School District 53
Liberty, MO
September 3, 2015
Crowdsourced Social Media, Using Hashtags to Teach
We love this tool. It's easy to use and works a little like magic. You type in your hashtag and seconds later, the board is filled with content you may need or want. It is important to note that it doesn't work like a scholarly research tool, but rather a curation platform for social media, collecting things such as discussions, creative projects, trends, and current events.
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Crystal E.
Utica, NE
April 13, 2015
Excellent option to visualize social media posts
When used with appropriate social media, Tagboard is a very valuable tool to search for a variety of topics. As a stand alone tool for independent student use, there is little educational value. I could see a lot of additional uses in a Current Events class, or a 21st century literacy course. However, it is important to search carefully, as the results are pulled for everything posted on social media.
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Chris C.
Purveyor of Geekery
Heathcote School
Scarsdale, NY
April 10, 2015
A living bulletin board creating a truly transparent environment
I think Tagboard is invaluable. It is a free service (there is a paid upgrade but I've never found it necessary) that allows you to share the successes of your classroom with the world. More importatnly it is a concrete example for stdunets about how things posted on social media can be cureate and shared. In teaching lessons on topicx such as digital citizenship Tagboard is a great resource to put multiple posts from multiple users side-by-side, connected only be a hasthag. It is a great way to compare content, purpose, and perception. It is also a great way to discuss what happens when a hashtag is used inappropriatly nad how that might impact the intended purpose of the hashtag.
To be able to see, in real-time, all the social media posts around a single hashtag is an amazing way to see the true nature of a conversation online. It is not just tweets, but the Instagrams, Vines, Google+ and Facebook posts as well as Flickr pictures. Tagboard goes beyond the service that visual tweets since Tagboard visualizes hashtags across multiple popular platforms.
I am a huge fan of Tagboard and the way it can bring a concrete visual to the sometimes abstract notion of simultaneous, yet parallel online conversations.
I have written a few pieces about how I've used Tagboard at two of the school I've taught in:
http://heathcotetech.blogspot.com/2014/10/twitter-heathcoteschool-our-hashtag.html
http://thecasalos.blogspot.com/2013/05/twitter-ps10brooklyn-our-hashtags.html
http://thecasalos.blogspot.com/2014/02/we-tweet-ps10brooklyn-lot.html
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