Dorie Glynn’s Blog

posted by Dorie on Aug 4

What? Twitter for Professional Development?  Now, you’ve heard everything right?  I am not kidding.  This last March I signed up for twitter.  Four days later, I found my Personal Learning Network Karl Fisch’s description of a PLN. Through, Mr.Tweet, I found my PLN.  I found lots of people interested in Technology and Education.  I was in heaven!!  Through Twitter you can follow a person and see what they post about and they can choose to follow you.  Educators that love technology were tweeting (talking) about their favorite websites, tools, blogs, upcoming professional development and happenings in education or their classroom.  Soon after learning about how to use twitter, I attended a conference virtually in Virginia, went on a safari in Africa, and attended a meeting of educators through Elluminate on Edtechtalk.  I was definitely hooked on twitter.  I have learned a lot through other educator’s posting their thoughts.  I invite you to try it out.  Make sure that you follow people that share your interests.

Not only is twitter for professional development, but also for your students.  This year my students will be tweeting with other second grade classrooms about their studies.  Here is a slide share I found, Twenty-Five Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom.  I hope you get some ideas from it.