Twitter

Happy Friday to my "tweeps"!!!!!

It's that time of the week again!  I hope that you all have had a wonderful week!  I have!  It's a Feel Good Football Friday and your tip of the week this week is…..drum roll please…….TWITTER!!!!!  Did you know that Twitter is the #1 community of networking and collaboration place for educators???  There have been times when I've had a question, I tweeted it out, and was immediately inundated with a TON of responses!  If you do decide to create a Twitter account, follow me: @apsitnatasha

For my administrators: Twitter is a great tool to have an account for your school in which you could tweet out information for your parents, teachers and students.  You could tweet out upcoming PTA meetings, info about Christmas programs, etc.  

For my teachers: You could tweet out information for you parents and students.  I have know teachers to have all of their students set up a Twitter account and then they had a "live tweet" conversation during the Presidential debates!  Imaging how powerful that could be!  To actually have your students engaged in meaningful conversation about what's going on in the world, live, while it's actually happening!  

Remember that your tweets can only hold a maximum of 140 characters!  That means you have to say what you have to say in a quick, clear, and concise manner!  It's like a game to see if you can say what you are trying to say in only 140 characters!!!!  I hope you give this tool a try and I will "see" you on Twitter!!!!!  

Here's a quick 4 minute video on how to use Twitter:  http://youtu.be/J0xbjIE8cPM

Please click on the links below to gain some information on why you should join Twitter and to see what you can get out of it!

Kathy Schrock's Twitter Guide  http://www.schrockguide.net/twitter-for-teachers.html

Why Educators Should Use Twitter  http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb10/vol67/num05/Why-Teachers-Should-Try-Twitter.aspx