Twitter for Educators
Building your professional learning network through #edchats
What is a Twitter Chat?
Participating in Edchats
1. Log into your twitter account
2. Search for the edchat by typing the chat # in the Twitter search bar.
3. Make sure you are looking at all of the tweets, not just the top ones.
4. Usually, the twitter chat will have a moderator for the evening. They will post the question.
5. Typically, the chat begins with a short introduction of participants. People usually tweet first name, where they are tweeting from and what they teach.
6. The moderator will post the question. The question tweet will begin with Q1 and include the chat hashtag.
7. Participants reply to question, beginning their tweet with A1 and include the chat hashtag.
8. The moderator usually closes the chat by thanking participants and sometimes tweeting the topic for the next week.
A Few of My Favorite EdChats
KYEDCHAT
Edchat
Edtechchat
A Chat Just for Preservice Teachers
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The Calendar of Chats!
You can view chats happening today as well as a list of all known educator chats and the days they meet!