I stumbled upon a thought provoking blog titled Teaching Paperless. The title alone took me by surprise. There's a wealth of knowledge hanging around on there, but alas - that's not my focus for today.
A read through an article detailing the impact of her use of Twitter for the week, i.e. twimpact. So I was inspired to figure out what impact twitter had for me this week. There was a tweet I read a while back that put it plainly...I get more professional development out of twitter in day than I could get traditionally in a month. I couldn't agree more.
My previous week's Twimpact:
I sent 24 tweets
I read approx 400+ tweets
I follow 171 professionals - some teachers, some administrators, some education organizations
I currently have 120 followers - only 35 are my staff members
I stumbled upon two powerful tweetchats (#D5chat - Fri p.m. and #educhat - Tues p.m.)
Found an excellent Math TEKS Toolkit to share with my staff
Followed live updates of the SBOE meeting this week pertaining to TEKS realignment
Received udpated TEA and STAAR assessment information 2-3 days before my current district disseminated the information
Found an excellent activity I "favorited" to do with my staff at the next staff development day
Quite honestly, this was a slow week for me on twitter. I'm hoping to garner more information and professional development ideas the week ahead.
Hi, I am an Australian Assistant Principal and I am fairly new to twitter too. I am curious who you would recommend as good to follow. I must also admit I read the above post wanting to know what was the Maths TEKs Toolkit and I am always wanting to learn new ideas to use at staff pd days. I was a bit sad not to see what the "favourited" activity was. Kate
ReplyDeleteGreetings! I love that you're reading this all the way in Australia! Here are some good people to follow on twitter. @principalj @web2.0classroom @toddwhitaker @globalearner. If you search on Google for the TEKS math toolkit, you'll find it.
DeleteBest of luck!