More on Twitter: Educators Discuss its Value
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More on Twitter: Educators Discuss its Value


Jerry Bluemengarten and Sean Junkins, a technologist in the Myrtle Beach, SC schools discuss the value of Twitter in the slideshow below. (I collected the tweets into a program called Storify and saved it as a slide show.)




- Saving Twitter & Other Sites To Storify
So I am sitting in a library trying to finish the third editing of my book and dealing with a peer review comment that asked how we can save Twitter.  So to show that I too can learn new tricks, Frank Franz mentioned Storify to me and instantly...

- To Flip Or Not To Flip
[View the story "To Flip or Not to Flip" on Storify]The Social Studies twitter chat (#sschat) discussed flipping the classroom tonight. Keith Hughes (Hip Hughes History) moderated. I storified, some, though  not all of the tweets from the chat. The...

- Using Qr Codes In Class
Here's a great tutorial on how to get started using QR codes in the classroom. There is also an Itunes course you can take for free all about how to use QR codes in the classroom. Thanks to Sean Junkins, instructional technologist in Myrtle Beach,...

- Storify And Telling A Story Using Social Media
George's post has me searching for Storify items as I have never used it before, but am incredibly intrigued. The idea is that students can research on the web for information that is found on social media and then create a story.  Video, G+,...

- Setting Up Your Twitter Account
Introduction to Twitter for Educators Last week I introduced my "teacher students" to Twitter by asking what it was.  The first answer was that it lets people know what you are doing during the day.  While that is an excellent answer for a...



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