Tuesday, 15 November 2011 17:13
A recent article on EmergingEdTech.com discusses various ways teachers can incorporate the use of Twitter in the classroom. According to K. Walsh and Chuck Sipe, “Teachers are finding new ways to use Twitter to engage their students, build stronger academic and professional relationships, and to share information in a richer learning environment.” The four Twitter tools identified below can be used to enhance the communication and collaboration between students and teachers:
Twitpic
“Teachers and educators can use Twitpic to post visual content related to classes or coursework, keep classroom pen pals connected, develop class projects that call for students to assemble photos with specific subjects or themes, and so on.”
Twtpoll
Teachers can use this tool to “poll students about their thoughts on class materials and subjects, use a poll as a quiz, allow the poll itself to be an educational tool about voting and democracy, or reach out to colleagues and put new ideas through a peer-reviewed test phase before investing time and energy into implementing them in the classroom.”
GroupTweet
Once a classroom Twitter group is created, “a GroupTweet classroom account can be focused specifically on students, or it could be used to help to keep the conversation and the lines of communication open between educators, students and parents.”
FollowerWonk
“FollowerWonk is the ultimate Twitter Follower data tool, allowing for analysis of Twitter users and follower trends…Educators can collect all sorts of useful data from the Twitter analytics tool about what’s trending among their peers in specific locations, across age or student groups”
For more information: 4 Great Twitter Applications for Teachers Using Twitter In The Classroom
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