As part of Guildway’s weekly series, we roundup the most popular tweets for this week. These are posts that have gained a high engagement rate on Twitter through retweets and likes. Technology tools such as Schoology, Evernote, Google Forms, and Edpuzzle, are featured in this week’s list. Furthermore, there are also other Guildway blog posts that you might want to check such as our recommended tools for teachers to mind map, word cloud makers that are best for the classroom, and a tip on how to solve the problem involving student presentations. Please check out the rest of the blog post below.
Here are this week’s top Twitter posts:
- I Tested 5 Mind Mapping Tools And Failed Miserably
- Productivity Recipe: Combine Schoology and Evernote [Video]
- End of the Week Roundup of Top Tweets
- 5 Word Cloud Makers For Classrooms
- How To: Students Create Word Cloud Arguments
- How To: Google Forms To Choose Your Adventure
- The New Google Forms [Video]
- How To Make Your Projector Wireless for $15
- How To Easily Automate Parent Notifications With Google Classroom
- How To Show Videos Your Students Will Actually Watch: With Edpuzzle
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, we would like to acknowledge another five of our followers this week for following along.
Influencers
Wanda Terral (@wterral)
“Excellent resource for those looking to form or further develop a student tech team at their school. Via @verizon verizon.digitalpromise.org/toolkit/studen…”
Tony Wagner (@DrTonyWagner)
“Some sound advice for parents. Now, let’s figure out how to make school about intrinsic motivation, not rewards and punishments. Let’s talk about earning merit badges for demonstration of real competencies, instead of letter grades, for example. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/well/family/which-is-better-rewards-or-punishments-neither.html”
Mark Anderson (@ICTEvangelist)
“NEW!! The Periodic Table Of Educational Books To Read Today is here >> netsupportdna.com/education/blog… including an interactive @ThingLink with links to each of the books on Amazon.”
Shaelynn Farnsworth (@shfarnsworth)
“Current list of my favorite formative assessment tech tools. docs.google.com/document/d/1YB… enjoy!”
Jennifer LaGarde (@jenniferlagarde)
“If your school or district level admin believe that school libraries can be replaced by _____, the problem is NOT with whatever fills that blank. The problem is the belief that libraries and librarians are replaceable or unnecessary. The only solution is to prove them wrong.”
Followers
Dr.Igors (@Dr_Igors)
“I use @Trello to plan my activities and keep the inspiration flowing. bit.ly/inspirewithtrello …”
Drew Russell (@VHFARussell)
Article Shared: 13 Powerful SEL Activities
Thomas Martellone (@TomMartellone)
“I shared this video with my staff today to impress upon them the importance of relationships and the lasting impact they have on children! That is when you truly become a teacher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFzepCMwuO8”
Mike McEachern (@MikeMcEachern)
Article Shared: New Google Classroom update makes it harder to cheat on quizzes
Tracy McGarry (@MrsMcGarryNMS)
“Reminder friends – we never know what our kids are dealing with behind the scenes. Show kindness. Pick your battles.”