Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Twitter - a new way to teach!

    There are many different kinds of free technologies you can use in your teaching. Today, I want to introduce a excellent tools for you -- Twitter!
    Here's an article which can teach you 28 Creative Ways Teachers Are Using Twitter. It contains many functions you can use in blogs, for example, communicating with each other, making comments for others, and following others' posts.
    However, the most important thing is that Twitter also provides you with specific technologies teachers can use in education. One of them is 
2 Really Simple Ways To Send Audio Tweets To Twitter. With this, you can record a short instruction for the assignment or project and send it to Twitter for your students. In addition, you can also use Educational Twitter Chats Calendar as a syllabus. You can schedule each task of specific days for your students to discuss some topics or submit their assignments. Furthermore, teachers yourselves can also search the helpful information of teaching through Twitter. Here's an introduction which can tell you How To Use Twitter's Advanced Search Options to help you search things more effectively.




2 comments:

Maryanne said...

This is a very informative post!

Hua Fang said...

Thank you! It's difficult to choose two of those useful articles, so I just post them all^^