Q & A Ask the Experts
Question: I use Twitter in my personal life but haven’t thought of a way to use it in my classroom. Do you have any suggestions on how to use Twitter for educational purposes?
Answer: Twitter has all kinds of uses in the classroom. And with the development of GroupTweet it has become even more useful. GroupTweet allows you to create a group that you can send private tweets to. As GroupTweet website states,
GroupTweet turns a standard Twitter account into a group communication hub where members can post updates to everyone in the group using direct messages. When the group account receives a direct message from a group member, GroupTweet converts it into a tweet that all followers can see.
Want to keep your updates private so that only your group members can see them? Simply protect your group account on Twitter.
So you can set up your classroom as a group, have your students follow the group or exchange information through the group, and only your group could see the tweets.
To learn more about ways of using Twitter in your classroom you could do a quick Google search using the keywords “Using Twitter in the classroom” and you will come across all kinds of great ideas. Some pages that came up when I did search include:
- 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom
- How One Teacher Uses Twitter in the Classroom
- Tweet and Twitter in the Classroom
- Twitter in the Classroom? YouTube video
- Find Other Teachers on Twitter
Let me know if you find any of this helpful and begin to use Twitter with your students. We would love to hear about how you find it useful in the classroom.