#commentsforkids or #comment4kids has a large community of teachers looking for other teachers and students to comment on their students' work or blogs. You can use these hashtags to get a global audience for class blogs or any student work.
Take the conversation outside the classroom. Get a global perspective. During the past week, PYP exhibition students have been conducting surveys. You may have students conducting research for a science fair or for any particular project. A lot of requests have gone out for homeroom teachers to post surveys on their Edmodo (LMS) classes in order to reach the Middle School community. While that's one way of doing it, to reach the local community, it may limit the audience. I recommend using social media tools to reach a wider audience, a global community to get a broader perspective. One great tool is twitter. Teachers are encouraged to create a PLN (Personal Learning Network) using Twitter, Google+, Facebook among other tools. If a student shares a link to their survey (Google Form) make sure it allows people from outside the school to access it, then send a tweet and add a hashtag, for example, #pypexhibition. Teachers who follow this hashtag will be able to let their students participate in your survey wherever they are. Posting it on a facebook group or Google+ community will also help. It would also help for you to engage in conversations online and complete other's surveys.
#commentsforkids or #comment4kids has a large community of teachers looking for other teachers and students to comment on their students' work or blogs. You can use these hashtags to get a global audience for class blogs or any student work.
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Here is a list of Educational Hashtags compiled by Edudemic. You will find common hashtags and hashtags by subject area. There will be lots more out there besides this list.
Here was my strategy to develop a Personal Learning Network (PLN) and make sure i am always connected to conversations and what others are doing, what's new, trending and so on;
When you tweet, you may want to add a hashtag within your tweet to ensure that it reaches anyone who searches for that hashtag. So, people do not need to follow you to read your tweets. Create a new hashtag too! From today on, you are on your own. Spend 10 minutes a day, or every other day;
Have fun! During today's 10 minutes, we will look at the Twitter jargon and tools. I have selected a few articles that will explain everything;
Tomorrow, we will look at the various twitter hashtags out there and show you some that may be relevant to you. I know some of you can't wait, i shared one when i wrote the first post #edchatsa, a chat for teachers in South Africa. Here is one more #edchat, a chat for a wide range of educators worldwide. We will look at some specific or subject specific hashtags tomorrow. We are starting a twitter 10 minutes a day challenge. A few people have expressed interest. We will use the following blog posts to learn together. Please join in and learn with us. We will use twitter as one of the tools to develop a PLN (Personal Learning Network) to help us connect with other educators around the world. This will open up opportunities to share ideas, classroom experiences, tools and possibly connect classrooms to experts and other learners. Let's begin with 'What is twitter?' Watch the video below. Twitter in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo. You can use twitter without creating an account. Today, type www.twitter.com/search in a web browser. This allows you to search for anything on twitter without signing in. Type in #edchatsa in the search box and press search to browse through and see what educators in South Africa are saying/doing?
Tomorrow, we will look at all the jargon and descriptions of twitter tools. |
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