Twitter is a powerful tool that enables administrators, students, and teachers to develop and strengthen relationships with others who share their passions and interests around the world. Despite the common criticism, Twitter is not about meaningless 140 character sound bytes. The reality is that it’s all about the conversation. Just as in real life there can be meaningless or meaningful conversations. It’s all a matter of who you choose to connect with. The beauty of the 140 character limit is that is helps prevent folks from dominating the conversation and promotes a give and take dialogue. It also provides concise chunks of information about topics of interest when users know how to follow hashtags. A hashtag is simply the Twitter way to search for items of interest by placing a “#” before a term. For example administrators may use the tag #cpchat (connected principals), teachers may use #edchat (education chat) and students may use #APEnglish (advanced placement English). For a list of commonly used hashtags visit the compilation Jerry Blumengarten (@cybraryman1) has created at http://www.cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html.
So how might administrators, teachers, and students use Twitter to enrich leading, teaching, and learning? Here are some ideas.
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