Twitter for Professional Development
In my last post, I focused on giving Twitter a chance.
Before saying No, try a resounding YES! And if I haven´t convinced you last time, how about considering Twitter as your daily professional development hub? For most ELT conferences, there are great tweets coming from the backchannel. Educators who share the resources of the presentations they are attending, ideas, thoughts, quotes.
If nothing appeals to you, PD in microdoses might convince you.
Here´s a list of the conference hashtags I´ve been following lately and also sharing. If you couldn´t be in the TESOL Conference, I was there with thousands of other educators, and some of us shared resources that you might find useful. How about IATEFL last week? Right now, there´s one in São Paulo that I´ve been following with interest.
Choose what you want to follow and simply save your search on Twitter.
Tweets about "tesol2014" and "#tesol14"
Have you asked yourself these questions lately, teachers? #tesol2014 great stories by ex-technophobe Thomas Healy pic.twitter.com/7jp4czIi3e
— Carla Arena (@carlaarena) March 29, 2014
Proofreading video for students. Concise and practical: https://t.co/4Mm2RFsjSI. Thanks #TESOL14 #evillage2014 Great conference!
— Dawn Bikowski (@DawnBikowski) March 31, 2014
Practicing sketchnoting as notetaking during making thinking visible workshop (using paper app) #spedconf2014 https://t.co/o2Iy2WiHDe
— Silvia Tolisano (@langwitches) April 12, 2014
What We’re Reading #iatefl Special feat @Wiktor_K @jo_sayers @ebefl @TheSecretDoS https://t.co/6ZVyTbcIIv #elt #esl #iatefl2014
— ELTjam (@eltjam) April 11, 2014
Stay tuned and follow the tweets from the ISTE Conference in June
Myths of Technology Series: “Technology Will Replace Face-to-Face Interaction” https://t.co/gK8FTJANpX #iste2014 #edchat #cpchat
— George Couros (@gcouros) April 12, 2014
So, try Twitter before you ignore it for micro doses of learning every single day.
