In the following post, we roundup the most popular tweets for the past week as part of Guildway’s weekly series. These are posts that have gained a high engagement rate on Twitter through retweets and likes. There are plenty of educational technology tools that are featured in this week’s list, such as Google Forms, Google Keep, Pear Deck, and Orange Slice, just to name a few. Aside from these tools, there are also other Guildway blog posts that you might be interested in such as why Periscope is not ideal for schools despite its potential. The Teacher Essential toolkit has been included again this week, it’s a list of tools you could refer to if you wanted to know the most essential tool for a specific task. Furthermore, if you want to know the trick on how to increase your productivity, it’s quite simple – by combining tools. Check out the post below.
Here are this week’s top Twitter posts:
- New Grading Features of Google Forms
- How To Use Google Keep Notes To Finally Ditch Paper Post-it®
- 4 Common Teaching Problems of Direct Instruction & Pear Deck
- Increase Your Efficiency In Grading Students’ Assignments Using Orange Slice
- Teacher Essential Toolkit
- End of the Week Roundup of Top Tweets
- Why Every Teacher Needs To Be Excited About Periscope
- Why Periscope Is Not Perfect For Schools
- How To: Google Forms To Choose Your Adventure
- Productivity Recipe: Combine Schoology and Evernote [Video]
The second part of this series is to feature 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 for this week in the list below. And, as our way of saying thank you to our followers for their engagement in our tweets, we would like to acknowledge another five of them this week.
Influencers
The Teacher’s Wife (@TheTeachersWife)
“It’s #BacktoSchool time! – Laughter, excited students, the smell of new school supplies, and GERMS!
———> 6 Easy Tips: How to Keep More Germs Out of Your Classroom #teachers #school (sponsored) survivingateacherssalary.com/how-to-keep-ge…”
Salome Thomas-EL (@Principal_EL)
“Some children view their experiences with trauma as a direct result of adults (parents and teachers) not protecting or keeping them safe! Let’s build powerful relationships with kids so they know we care and love them!”
Jennifer Hogan (@Jennifer_Hogan)
“Four words you can say to a child today: I believe in you!”
Steve Woods (@TheSteveWoods)
“Stuck on blog post ideas? 50 blog post ideas for educators via @jennifer_hogan thecompellededucator.com/2018/01/50-blo…”
Tiffany Whitehead (@librarian_tiff)
“Great strategies to help students to learn how to avoid plagiarism by @cultofpedagogy – cultofpedagogy.com/preventing-pla…”
Followers
Joli Boucher (@joliboucher)
“NEW INFOGRAPHIC!
10 Smart and Simple G-Suite Ideas to Kick Off the School Year tinyurl.com/GSuite2018”
Julia Zangl Colby (@jzcolby)
“Using Google Slides to create Instagram Stories in class wp.me/p3bT67-227 via @jmattmiller”
Ian Bashaw (@ItsBashaw)
“How do we teach our students to be good consumers of #news? Avoiding #bias by looking at the issues from all sides. Avoiding my own bias is my #professional learning goal this coming school year.”
Sandra Coniglio (@ms_coniglio)
Article Shared: We Teach Who We Are: Unpacking our Identities
Tracey Canisalez (@TCanisalez)
“Check out these printable signs “Essential Phrases for Spanish Classroom”
Essential Phrases for Spanish Classroom| TpT #LangChat #SpanChat #SpanishTeachers teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Essent…”