This document discusses how Twitter can be used for teaching and learning by allowing educators to connect their classrooms to other classes, teachers, authors, and the community through small messages and sharing of information and resources using hashtags. It explains that Twitter is a social networking tool that allows sending and reading short 140-character messages and suggests educators can use it to tweet reminders, current events, discussion questions, and links for students while modeling digital citizenship.
3. A social networking tool
The ability to send and read tweets
(messages) of 140 characters
Small bursts of information about
everything you can imagine
What is Twitter?
5. Connections with Other Classes
Connections with Teachers & Leaders
Connections with Community
Connections with Authors
Modeling Digital Citizenship for Students
Learning Intentions or Summaries
Connecting Classrooms on Twitter
10. Tweet out reminders
Tweet current events relevant to your class
Tweet out links for students to respond to
Classroom discussions
Collaboration
You dont need to follow them. They dont need to
follow you, create a hash tag for your class.
Twitter with Secondary Students