Friday, February 25, 2011
Twitter can be a powerful tool for educators. Teachers can use it to communicate with students and their parents, but more importantly, they can use it to communicate with each other. They can share resources, have discussions and give feedback to others. They can also support eachother and collaborate to improve education and student achievement. I think it's also valuable because people that have opposing views can make arguements and form new views. Many teachers avoid trying new things in the classroom and use the excuse that they were not trained to use the technology. Twitter is a resource for staff development that resolves this issue. Teachers can search for training on Twitter so they don't have to rely on their school to provide it.
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I do like the searching feature in Twitter to find things that people have labeled with hashtags. I've found many conferences I go to now do that, so you can easily find comments related to the presentations and the conference. Many people are actually tweeting questions and comments during presentations and sometimes those are more interesting than the presentation. I've heard that called backchanneling.
ReplyDeleteMy wife attends many conferences and conventions for her work. During presentations she takes notes in tweet form. She finds this useful because she can instantly share the information with her co-workers who may or may not be at the presentation. Also, she likes that she is limited to short entries so that she can jot the note, send it and be prepared for the next one.
ReplyDeleteThe kind of back channeling that Andrew is talking about is really common in tech conferences. This is a whole other conversation going during presentations. I never really thought about it as a personal notetaking device but it is a great way to share with others.
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