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It is the mission of this website to assist in the development of learning environments that promote Career and Technical Education as well as academic excellence. To provide examples of effective 21st century teaching and learning strategies in order to assist in the development of more engaged and motivated classrooms. To provide multimedia Podcasts and articles to facilitate an understanding of how to implement technology and multimedia in classrooms regardless of content area. To encourage independent and personalized learning by teaching students to enjoy the process of learning. To assist teachers in becoming facilitators of learning.
Education Hashtags to Follow
Until a few years ago, I didn’t see the value of being on Twitter. It wasn’t until this year that I truly understood how powerful it is as a professional development tool. In my opinion, Twitter is like having a global teacher’s lounge where you can share information and ideas, as well as question the most innovative teachers in the world.
For those who do not use Twitter, I recommend visiting the site howtwitterworks.com. For those of you who understand it, but are not sure who to follow, visit tweettrail.com and search any of the hashtags below. Tweettrail.com will provide you with the most active users for that hashtag. In addition, you can add a search query to Hootsuite or any other social management tool and follow those who you believe are relevant to your professional development needs.
The following list was created by Steve Williams as the “Top 12 Teacher Hashtags” to follow:
Six General Education Tags:
- #Education - 1000 tweets generated 1,426,978 impressions, reaching an audience of 902,919 followers.
- #Edu - 1,000 tweets generated 619,765 impressions, reaching an audience of 545,283 followers.
- #edtech - 883 tweets generated 1,036,553 impressions, reaching an audience of 490,960 followers.
- #highered - 215 tweets generated 205,271 impressions, reaching an audience of 107,332 followers.
- #Teaching - 195 tweets generated 210,690 impressions, reaching an audience of 146,659 followers.
- #mlearning - 175 tweets generated 228,243 impressions, reaching an audience of 95,640 followers.
Six Popular Communities:
- #edchat - 1,000 tweets generated 1,517,313 impressions, reaching an audience of 669,929 followers.
- #ecosys - 344 tweets generated 827,823 impressions, reaching an audience of 41,913 followers.
- #edreform - 189 tweets generated 229,239 impressions, reaching an audience of 165,640 followers.
- #lrnchat - 115 tweets generated 131,922 impressions, reaching an audience of 66,940 followers.
- #sschat - 108 tweets generated 58,354 impressions, reaching an audience of 31,661 followers.
- #ukedchat - 107 tweets generated 106,360 impressions, reaching an audience of 60,663 followers.
Source: #Top 12 Teacher Hashtags#
