UPDATE 3/31/2022: As of March, 2022, Poetweet appears to no longer be working. Sorry! Happy Phun Phriday! It’s time for another completely frivolous blog post that might inadvertently inspire you to waste huge chunks of time on an activity that is not productive in any way. I actually had Poetweet slated to be a Phun … Read more
A few weeks ago, a few of the teachers in our district participated in a Twitter Chat. The topic was to S.C.A.M.P.E.R. Education. You can read more about the S.C.A.M.P.E.R. chat here. After the chat, a few of the GT teachers suggested that it might be fun to try doing the same chat with our students. … Read more
I’ve been playing around with a couple of different ways to organize my firehose of a Twitter stream, and these are some of my recent favorites. I wouldn’t necessarily use all of these “live” with my students, as there is always a chance of having something inappropriate suddenly appear. However, you might want to save some … Read more
Just to clarify, I knew all of the people involved in last night’s chat would be great. I was just worried that I would mess up as host – spell something wrong, forget the hashtag, lose my wi-fi connection. I almost didn’t have a wi-fi connection. But that’s a long, boring story. Suffice it to … Read more
I’m not sure how I get myself into these things. After all, it’s been little more than a year since I participated in my first Twitter chat. But somehow I ended up agreeing to host this week’s #neisdpln chat. Not only have I never done this before, but I’m not even sure where I’ll be at … Read more
You may remember a post I did last week on using Twitter with younger students, based on a presentation by Matt Gomez about his Kindergarten class’ experience with “Twitter Friends.” I couldn’t wait to try connect my 1st graders with a class on Twitter, and was thrilled to receive a reply to my request for … Read more