Twitter

Twitter is a brand new social network to me, and as I started exploring and following people it opened a whole new world to me. Twitter is a great place to get up to date news and learn about the latest and greatest in educational technology along with many other topics. Here are a few of the biggest names in educational technology and what they are talking about.

Kathy Schrock @kathyschrock

 Kathy is an Educational Technologist and speaker along with many other things. She is a great person to follow to learn about the newest terminology and things you can do to incorporate into the classroom. One of the posts that I found interesting was one about app-smashing. I had never heard of such a thing but it looks so cool! As I learned after watching the video and reading other posts, an app smash is when you use multiple apps for one project. The book that was used in the youtube video that she shared was great for explaining how to use it and why. I suggest everyone check it out. Follow the link below to take you to the site.

https://twitter.com/kathyschrock/status/637225073074683904


Linda Braun @lbraun2000

Linda Braun is Learning Consultant, educator, teen advocate, and librarian. Her tweets cover a wide range of topics and I found it to be very informative. I do have to mention that I found it had to read some of her tweets due to the twitter short hand. I guess I am just not use to that yet. There were several post that I saw very interesting and I caught myself clicking on several links and reading about all kinds of things. I really enjoyed her young adult post of the week tweets. It seems that the young adult is her age group that she posts about. I found one post to be very interesting. It was a link to an article about "How Having a Smartphone (or not) Shapes the Way Teens Communicate". It was a great read. If you are interested here is the link to her tweet.

https://twitter.com/lbraun2000/status/638416192013627392


Tony Vincent @tonyvincent

After looking at the tweets that Tony Vincent posts about I can tell he is the go to person if you have an educational technology question. His tip Tuesday tweets are awesome! He tweets about some really cool things and about how to add technology into your classroom. He is also a presenter about the latest and greatest gadgets and apps available. He also tweets when apps go on sale so teachers can afford to download them. He is so knowledgeable about so much! I loved his tweet about how to make Apple TV more classroom friendly.

https://twitter.com/tonyvincent/status/635608738229940224


Buffy Hamilton  @buffyjhamilton

Buffy is a librarian and a teacher. I discovered from her tweets that she is a fan of art. I also noticed that she is an advocate and feels strongly for funding technology for the library. You can read one of her tweets here by clicking on this link.

https://twitter.com/buffyjhamilton/status/638722959050469377


The Daring Librarian @GwynethJones

The Daring librarian  uses her twitter to connect with many people. She is a fan of comic books as well. Through her tweets I was able to find some great technology tips. One of her tweets was about makerspace. I have heard a lot about makerspace recently and when I saw that she was talking about it I became very interested in what she had to say. Come to find out she even has a makerspace starter kit! I spent a lot of time digging into this and was taken down the rabbit hole in a way because it kept leading me to more and more information about it and the more I discovered the more excited I became! I think everyone should check this out.

https://twitter.com/GwynethJones/status/635585867478925312


Jim Lerman   @jimlerman

According to his twitter profile Jim is many things, parent, learner, teacher, leader, author, speaker, collaborator, and networker. After exploring his page I found that he is a fan of google and how a teachers/librarians can incorporate google into the classroom. He also tweets a lot about free technology for teachers and new things in the technology world. Here is a link to one his super cool google tweets. I had no idea we could do so much with google!

https://twitter.com/jimlerman/status/639293320951431168