Twitter for Teaching and LearningBraunwyn Thompson

and Lisa Schwartz

@beebeetea (Braunwyn)

@lisaschwartz05 (Lisa)

District Convention Hashtag: #sd38learn

Twitter Handles & Hashtags

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?

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

Connecting Educators on Twitter

Tweet out reminders Tweet current events relevant to your class Tweet out links for students to respond to Classroom discussions Collaboration

You don’t need to follow them. They don’t need to follow you, create a hash tag for your class.

Twitter with Secondary Students