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Following Shannon Smith on Twitter

Emily Harmon
Emily Harmon

Shannon Smith is the principal of Glen Cairn Public School in Ottawa, Canada, where she oversees grades 7 and 8. Her Twitter account focuses on education, sharing links that could help teachers and supporting technology use in classrooms. She questions traditional grading methods and is supportive of new approaches in education. She often retweets posts from her school and other education experts to engage parents and provide a resource for new teachers.

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Following Shannon Smith (@shannoninottowa) on Twitter: ! Shannon Smith describes herself as a principal of Glen Cairn Public School. She is over grade 7 and 8 in Ottawa Canada. In her bio she states that she is playing around with learning, out in the open, every single day). Her twitter seems to be a more professional twitter. Her tweets generally all relate to education in one way or another. Shannon Smith tweets many links that could be useful for teacher, and also supports using technology in the classroom. As the tweet that I screen capped shows, she is interested in question current ways of grading. Her tweet, Dear traditional schools, How can you summarize my learning into a single letter? is a great example of those feelings. She is very supportive of trying new things in education and fixing the parts that we have problems with. Shannon takes advantage of Twitters option to retweet others tweets and does so very often. She retweets her schools twitter very often as well as many educational experts. Her encouragement to parents to take part in twitter, gives her an audience that is perfect for a principle to have. I believe that her twitter is a good resource for a knew teacher, due to all of her rather progressive ideas towards education.

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Following Shannon Smith on Twitter

  • 1. Following Shannon Smith (@shannoninottowa) on Twitter: ! Shannon Smith describes herself as a principal of Glen Cairn Public School. She is over grade 7 and 8 in Ottawa Canada. In her bio she states that she is playing around with learning, out in the open, every single day). Her twitter seems to be a more professional twitter. Her tweets generally all relate to education in one way or another. Shannon Smith tweets many links that could be useful for teacher, and also supports using technology in the classroom. As the tweet that I screen capped shows, she is interested in question current ways of grading. Her tweet, Dear traditional schools, How can you summarize my learning into a single letter? is a great example of those feelings. She is very supportive of trying new things in education and fixing the parts that we have problems with. Shannon takes advantage of Twitters option to retweet others tweets and does so very often. She retweets her schools twitter very often as well as many educational experts. Her encouragement to parents to take part in twitter, gives her an audience that is perfect for a principle to have. I believe that her twitter is a good resource for a knew teacher, due to all of her rather progressive ideas towards education.