The Promise of Twitter

If you had told me I would be going to a PD seminar that highly promotes using Twitter as a classroom tool, I would have been very skeptical of the relevance and use that it would have to my classroom. However, I was surprised that I have been converted. It was during the PD seminar that I first registered for Twitter.

That evening I was telling my fiancée, who is a teacher in the LRSD, about the PD. In his division Twitter is highly encouraged for teachers to use. His school’s Twitter page is amazing! I highly encourage all of you to check out @wyattLRSD. Teachers frequently post projects and events that are happening in their classrooms as well as reminders for days such as school closures.  I am not a parent, but I can only imagine how much parents would value this page. I am told the most common response to “what did you do today at school?” is “nothing” or “I don’t remember”.

I would love for Gladstone School to have a Twitter page like Victor Wyatt School’s but I do see some obstacles. Firstly, I can’t see many of my coworkers buying into Twitter. Secondly, can Twitter be added to WSD’s Media Consent form? Having the students’ faces makes most of the posts much more meaningful.

Erin Rogalsky
Grade 2/3 Teacher
Gladstone School
Cluster 1971

2 thoughts on “The Promise of Twitter

  1. First off, I think it’s fascinating that your fiancée works at the first school I taught at as I started my career (it was a wonderful place to work in Primary )! What do you suppose allowed the staff at that school to “buy” into the Twitter their page/experience so well? Or have they? It appears so. How could you leverage the lessons from Wyatt at your school? What kinds of scaffolding did their Admin/staff provide? It might be worth grilling your fiancée some more to determine how they accomplished this so that you can apply this back at Gladstone.

  2. Twitter can be an excellent place to launch. It is like the first step and great to have it attached to an edublog.

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