Surprisingly there are many ways to use twitter as an educator.
Twitter makes staying in touch and sharing announcements easy and fun. These ideas offer a great way to put the website to use.
- Keep students updated: Using hashtags on Twitter, students who were not able to make it to class can follow along and stay on top of the conversation.
- Assignment coordination: Instead of emailing each other or waiting to meet in class, students can collaborate on projects and keep track of changes by using a Twitter hashtag.
- Silencing students that blurts answers out: For students who have trouble with disruptive blurting, allow them to instantly tweet their blurts silently instead of out loud.
- Student engagement in big classes: In large lecture classes where student participation can be intimidating and logistically problematic, Twitter can make it easy for students to engage and discuss during class time.
- Parent communication: Parents can sign up to receive tweets from teachers, learning about activities, tests, projects, and more.
- Instant feedback: Twitter makes it easy to get instant approval and disapproval of discussions, issues, and more right in the classroom.
- Attendance reminders: For students who have trouble making it to class on time, send reminders before school to get them in the door earlier.
Tweet about upcoming due dates or assignments: One of the simplest ways that teachers can use Twitter in the classroom involves setting up a feed dedicated exclusively to due dates, tests or quizzes.
Here's a video about twitter being used in the classroom.
