5 Tips (and a Bonus!) to Start Tweeting with Your Students
Have you thought about tweeting with your students but didn't know how to get started? The end of the school year is a great time to pilot something new! Below are 5 tips that the fabulous teachers at Coonley Elementary ( @CoonleyES ) have implemented (along with a bonus tip!). Start on Paper The first week of school I begin with a Twitter Prompt-a-Day to get the school community excited for the upcoming year. While my goal is to someday see all of our teachers with a Twitter account we aren't quite there yet. Photos by @CoonleyLibrary Not wanting to leave anyone out, I ask the teachers to tweet on paper and then I tweet it from the school account. Additionally, you can have students create "tweets" via sentence strips to practice offline. Have little learners? How about creating a graphic organizer that only has 140 boxes (this is the character limit on Twitter) for students to practice tweets on (and sneak in a bit of summarizing). It's an e