Twitter for Teachers
How Twitter Can Be Used In The Classroom
What is Twitter?
Twitter is an online social media application. You are able to access it through your computer, smart phone, or tablet/ipad. It is similar to a blog, where you can jot down your thoughts in 140 characters of less. The messages that you send out are called "Tweets".
Benefits of "Tweeting"
Using Twitter is beneficial because you are able to share your ideas for lesson plans, activities, and more. Using Twitter, you are able to create a bigger network. You are to see what teachers from other schools, islands, states, etc. are doing in their classrooms.
Twitter can also update you on what is going on in the "teaching world".
A tweet sent from "WeAreTeachers"
A Tweet from "21 Century Teaching"
A Tweet from "Edutopia"