Twitter - The P2P Network For Educators | Social Media | Professional Development | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it

For me Twitter is P2P downloading for educators. It’s the napster, limewire, utorrent, whatever for underground lessons and materials. Indie stuff. Good stuff. It’s a place to scrape the surface of some greater underlying learning in 140 characters. It’s sharing from the bottom up. Grassroots. What is happening and what is working in classrooms today.

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I use twitter (and tweetdeck) to follow certain people and certain hashtags. Tweetdeck allows you to create more than one twitter feed timeline in your browser which is ideal during twitter chats.

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I use twitter to share. I use twitter to learn. I use twitter to see a window into other classrooms. I use twitter to generate ideas. I use twitter for feedback. Twitter is on my phone – essentially attached to my hip all day long. I use twitter to capture student learning. I use twitter to share. I use twitter to learn….

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Learn more:


https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/what-you-should-know-about-twitter-chats/


https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/twitter-chat-security-risks-smbs-face/


https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/twitter-chat-the-economic-impact-of-cybercrime/


https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/how-to-use-twitter-with-success-for-education-and-more/