Great way to get out information to families and students
Submitted 11 years ago
Community Review for Twitter
My Take
Twitter is a great quick way to get out updates, due dates and interesting articles about the college process.
How I Use It
I invite parents and students to "follow" our page and then post upcoming events, deadline dates and interesting articles.
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Hollie B.
Assistant Superintendent, Instructional Services
December 31, 2015
Engage students inside and outside of the classroom. They are already social, why shouldn't YOU be??
Twitter has strong potential for classroom use. How you set it up depends on your goals. It can be used to enage students outside of the classroom and connect them with content that enriches, supports, and even contradicts what you study and discuss in class, so that discussion can be taken to a whole other level!
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Leah K.
Technology Training/Integration Specialist
Cobb County School District
Marietta, GA
September 4, 2015
Use for AP vocabulary and collaboration!
Overall, I loved using Twitter for collaboration among my students. I also tweeted out reminders and important AP information that I might otherwise have forgotten. The only downside I really had was that Twitter was blocked from our school computers, so keeping up with the tweets on my own was a little more difficult than I had anticipated. I would think that in the future, if Twitter can be more regulated within school districts, it will become even more useful within the classroom.
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Kristen Z.
Teacher
Wexford, PA
April 17, 2015
Best PD for teachers since Pinterest!
I feel like Twitter for my students (elementary) is best used by me as a PD app. I find many great idea via Twitter and can apply them immediately into the classroom setting. This has 100% made me a better more innovative teacher this year after using Twitter more often and connecting with other educators in the area, as well as in the world.
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