Blogging Fusion - Blog Directory - Web Blog Directory - RSS Directory Blogspot Blog Search » Blog Traffic Exchange Seth's Blog Blog Promotion | BlogUpp! 4 Ways to Use Twitter for Schools to Increase Engagement Have you been reluctant to using Twitter for your school? Maybe you’ve tried it in the past and just haven’t gotten the hang of it? Now may be a good time to revisit the idea. It’s increasingly likely that your students, parents, faculty, and even interested community members are on Twitter, which makes it an effective way to increase engagement and expedite communication. Twitter continues to be one of the fastest-growing social media platforms. More importantly, these folks will be depending on their Twitter feeds to get the info they want. Some of the hurdles that many educators face on Twitter is deciding who should be tweeting and what exactly to tweet about. These are legitimate questions, but don’t worry: the content will come. There are four distinct areas in which schools are using Twitter and seeing results. 1. Many people assume that Twitter is only for sharing news or making announcements. Stephanie Norman of eLearning has some great ideas for using Twitter in schools. 2.
Icerocket blog search Let’s Chat #Twitter! – Rashelle Parcher The first time that I joined Twitter was in my grade 10 year in my communications class. Our teacher wanted us to begin exploring this social media platform as a learning tool to communicate and gain knowledge from people from all over the world. And now that I think of it with a teacher brain, likely for assessment reasons as well. I did not really enjoy using Twitter at this stage in my life and deleted that account a year later with it only having one tweet. Fast forward to 2016, my first year in the education program. However, even knowing how great Twitter is at supporting learning, I am still very much on the fence about using it in the classroom. The #twitterchat! I was terrified. Like this: Like Loading...