As part of Guildway’s weekly series, we roundup the top tweets for this week in the following post. Guildway blog posts that are featured in this week’s list include our recommended tools to easily connect with parents, steps on how to manage parent notifications on Google Classroom, using Edpuzzle to take your video lectures to another level, and ways to add games elements in your course. If you are interested in other topics, please check out the rest of the blog posts below.
Here are this week’s top Twitter posts:
- What Do Teachers Need To Know About PokeMon Go?
- Why Ditching Google Classroom For NEO Will Make You Happy
- How To Easily Automate Parent Notifications With Google Classroom
- End of the Week Roundup of Top Tweets
- How To Show Videos Your Students Will Actually Watch: With Edpuzzle
- 3 Teacher Tools to Easily Connect With Parents
- Google Sites: An Easy Way To Build Your Own Website, No Coding Required
- 3 Ways Gamification Will Make Your Students Happy
- Create A Blog: WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
- Interactive Videos Will Boost Your Student Engagement
The second part of this series is we are featuring five education influencers and five of our followers. We have also selected one tweet from each profile. If you are looking for people in the education field who are worth following on Twitter, kindly check the featured influencers this week in the list below. Furthermore, we are acknowledging another five of our followers for following us.
Influencers
Deborah Kenny (@DeborahKennyHVA)
“Schools need teachers who teach “by love” – love for their subject, love for their students, love for the sacred work of shaping minds and nurturing souls. But such teachers can flourish only in schools that respect teachers and take teaching seriously.”
Matt Miller (@jmattmiller)
“A framework for creating wildly engaging lessons ditchthattextbook.com/2016/01/11/a-f…”
Tom Sherrington (@teacherhead)
“10 Techniques for Retrieval Practice teacherhead.com/2019/03/03/10-…”
Quincy Larson (@ossia)
“India has some of the best public universities in the world.
And now those universities are making hundreds of their courses available online for free.
Here are 300 free courses from the IITs that are starting soon. https://t.co/DuTorPDjGT”
David Geurin (@DavidGeurin)
“Whoever is doing the talking is doing the learning.
Be intentional about those learning conversations.
Be curious about what your students know.
Be curious about their perspective.
A quiet, compliant classroom is not a badge of honor.”
Followers
Robert Schuetz (@robert_schuetz)
“If You Want to Build an Audience, Focus on Mastery Instead of Metrics by @UnmistakableCEO link.medium.com/4X0HJN09OU”
Claire Pontbriand (@scoutlierEd)
“Please try our free tool for student activities with data capture at buff.ly/2WOxsMK . What do you think?
We’re a startup looking for feedback. We want to help students learn with their own data!
Fully integrated with Google Classroom”
David Saunders (@DesignSaunders)
“Some great ideas on how to use @Google Keep in math class via EDU in 90- youtu.be/MtE1zZSccA0 via @YouTube”
Beth Hughes (@MsBethHughes)
“While you’re in the business of making resolutions, why not resolve to read more? @goodreads Tenth Annual Reading Challenge is up! How many books will you resolve to read in 2019? Complete your challenge here → bit.ly/2GMMP4k .”
Dan Ambrosio (@DanEdTech)
“The Secret History of Women in #Coding https://t.co/JFieDEkx5f”