Social Media for Educators
Editor’s Note: Steven Anderson is best known as @web20classroom on Twitter. He is a technology integration specialist for Stokes County, North Carolina Schools. He has presented at numerous notable education and social media conferences including ISTE and 140 Characters conferences.
For a short video introduction to Social Media watch Social Media in Plain
English (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIOClX1jPE) I began using social media over 2 years ago as a way to communicate more
quickly and effectively with my teachers. At the time, I was an Instructional Technologist for a very, small and rural district. To travel from one school to another might take me an hour. And since I was over 19 schools I had to get creative with the ways that I shared resources with my teachers. I was finding all sorts of great websites, lesson plan ideas, and more for teachers but had not found a great way to share. I had done email, newsletters, even a website of links, and it seemed that none of it was working.
I had heard about this site called Twitter. I had actually used it for a few months and quit because I hadn’t seen a purpose for it. I was following mostly random people and thought what most people think when they hear the word Twitter. That it is a place where people ramble on about what they are eating or to be just really narcissistic. And I had quit. But then it dawned on me. I could use Twitter to share the resources with my teachers. If it was something they were interested in they could click the link to learn more and if it was not something for them they could skip it. We had also learned all about RSS so they could subscribe to my feed without joining Twitter but still keep up with all the posts.
I would share a few resources a day. I knew there were good people out there who were doing the same thing as me but I had to find them. I did a quick Google search and came across a great wiki called Twitter4Teachers. On this site there are over 40 categories of educators, each with a list of people, their location and their Twitter name. So I picked a few from each category, some close by, others in different parts of the world, added my name and almost instantly my Personal Learning Network began to grow. (http:/
twitter4teachers.pbworks.com)
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