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Twitter for teachers

This is an Interesting and compelling article on PDF for teachers using twitter It is published by Pearson Schools in the UK.

I have been using twitter specifically to follow education for several years. It is a stunning place for teachers to find unlimited resources and educational opportunities. I am surprised that more teachers don't use it both for PD and to look at ways of using with students.

Tweeting for Teachers: how can social media support teacher professional development?

Relections on the use of TWITTER from SchoolnetSA11 conference

These school holidays, 1000 educators from around South Africa attended the annual School net conference. (The conference is so "hot", that it was fully booked within 4 days of opening the bookings!)  I could not attend this years conference physically, but decided to "check in" using twitter as Maggie Verster was running the back channel. So while the conference was taking place in Johannesburg, I was able to "follow" from my laptop in East London using my twitter account "eduboard". For those who have not used twitter or can not see the point of twitter - I mean what can you really say in 140 characters, are people who twitter just twits? I have to admit I felt the same way 3 years ago. Maggie convinced me that TWITTER had enormous value for teachers and for students and the only way to understand why, was to try. I was not convinced, but I am a life long learner and have a lot of respect for Maggie, so I gave it a bash.

Twitter is an unbelievable tool for education, and it has enormous potential for technology integration, access to free resources and networks of brilliant technology mentors. Below I have embedded the Twitter summaries all three days that the conference took place - In the summaries, you will find a steam of twitter conversations - these conversations include links to the Keynote speakers presentations, workshop presentations and video links - You will be able to access a very high standard of profound and thought provoking information of educational technology if you just take some time to go through the information below. Thank you Maggie Verster Schoolnet SA and all those involved in putting this information into an easy to share format.

Schoolnetsa11 day1 tweet summary

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Schoolnetsa11 Day 2 tweet summaries

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Schoolnetsa11 day 3 tweet summaries

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TED Talks - Sir Ken Robinson

Thought provoking and interesting.

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

This is an excellent presentation - so creative. I would love to see students doing this kind of collaborative presentations. Thank you Sir Ken Robinson

Leading educational technology experts share thier ideas and information

• Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Facebook Friending 101 for Schools
  Award winning blogging Teacher Vicki - Coolcatteacher blog. Very good information for schools, teachers, parents and students on using Facebook. She highlights the risks, uses some examples and gives advise on damage control.
  tags: social media saftey facebook
• Digiteen Project: Global Digital Citizenship Collaboration and Education - Home
  Global Citizenship for teenagers
  tags: Blog social media digital citizenship
• Langwitches - Blogging with your Students
   
  Excellent resource for all teachers. Silvia Tolisan (Educational technology expert) has a fantatsic slide share on how to and why to set up blogs for education with your students.On this link Sue Walters - (Technology in Education expert.)And links to award winning educational bolgs.
  tags: claasroom blogs technology education

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