As part of Guildway’s weekly series, we roundup the top tweets for this week in this post. Educational technology tools such as Edpuzzle, Periscope, and Backup and Sync, are featured in this week’s list. In addition, there are also other Guildway blog posts that you might want to check such as our toolkit of apps and websites for teachers to enhance productivity and teaching techniques, common Google Docs sharing mistakes that you can easily avoid, and how to enable parent notification on Google Classroom for parents to receive email summaries. Please check out the rest of the blog post below.
Here are this week’s top Twitter posts:
- End of the Week Roundup of Top Tweets
- How Learning Objectives Can Actually Make Your Class Fun
- Teacher Essential Toolkit
- Backup And Sync: Google Drive’s Desktop Client To Backup Your Computer Files
- You Should Avoid These 3 Google Docs Sharing Mistakes
- Why Periscope Is Not Perfect For Schools
- How To: Google Forms To Choose Your Adventure
- Why Ditching Google Classroom For NEO Will Make You Happy
- 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 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 and for their engagement in our tweets.
Influencers
Brian Sztabnik (@TalksWTeachers)
“Giving all students time to read each day in school is essential to the future of a democracy. How can we cultivate a well-informed citizenry if we don’t cultivate a love of reading?”
Steve Wyborney (@SteveWyborney)
Blog Post: Esti-Mysteries: Estimation Meets Math Mysteries
Alex Corbitt (@Alex_Corbitt)
Link to the Tweet: https://twitter.com/Alex_Corbitt/status/1051981737549582337
“3 Forms of Scaffolding (by @TanELLclassroom)”
Chris Bell (@cbell619)
“Teach students to collaborate and communicate—while they build real-world skills that will prepare them for the jobs of today and tomorrow. Explore Google’s free Applied Digital Skills curriculum: https://edtech.team/applieddigitalskills”
Elizabeth Corcoran (@betsy_)
“What Students Gain When They See Parents Struggle Super important point about learning determination! https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-10-01-what-students-gain-when-they-see-parents-struggle”
Followers
Fran_g (@orrhsmath)
Link to the Tweet: https://twitter.com/orrhsmath/status/989984168900734981
“So proud of these former ORRHS students”
Dave Black (@dawblack)
Article Shared: The Secret to Student Success? Teach Them How to Learn.
Sean Scanlon (@polonerd)
“My favorite tech tools are the ones that are most flexible and offer the most opportunities for Ss to demonstrate their understanding.”
David T. Peck (@peckdkva334)
“Climate and culture is so important to any school. School and teacher leaders must ensure everyone is rowing in the same direction. No one should come to a job where gossip and toxicity are the status quo.”
Becoming the Difference (@EduDifference)
“I love using picture books with my students. Even in the 6th grade, they love them! We use The Empty Pot to teach about being principled
http://brainwavesinstruction.blogspot.com/2018/07/picture-books-for-teaching-theme.html”