Friday, July 4, 2014

Educational Leaders on Twitter

Twitter is such a fast paced bit of social media. But the information being posted is wonderful! There are so many great educators and so many of them are worth the follow. They post relevant and insightful nuggets. 

Linda Braun (@lbraun2000) is a Youth Services Manager for the Seattle Public Library, an Ed Tech Consultant, educator, teen advocate, librarian, and YALSA Past Pres. Many of her tweets have focused on Connected Learning. Connected Learning is a type of learning that integrates personal interest, peer relationships, and achievement in academic, civic, or career-relevant areas. She recently attended the Presidents Program with YALSA and she had wonderful snipets, especially about fan fiction. Reading fan fiction can be super fun, and allows those characters that you love to move and evolve. 



Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent) is a huge proponent of using the iPad in the classroom and really giving students freedom to play, explore, and learn on their own with technology.  He's even designed his own app! Stick Around is a creative app that students and teachers can use to label, design, and sort puzzles. Check out this awesome iPad infographic.


Buffy Hamilton (@buffyjhamilton) is a librarian and teacher who loves Atlanta. Her tweets are often personal and localized, focusing on Atlanta. When she does have education tweets, they are usually links to articles like this Huffenglish blog post about professional development. It's quite funny, not really, how students don't ask for professional development before using a new piece of technology, but educators refuse to even open something new unless they've been through rigorous training. 



The Darling Librarian (@gwynethjones) is fun and all things ed tech. Reading through her tweets, the one that I found most useful, had a link to her scoop.it website. http://www.scoop.it/t/daring-library-dispays



Jim Lerman (@jimlerman) is an educator who is focused on new schools with new learning. Jim, like @gwynethjones, has a scoop.it website. http://www.scoop.it/t/into-the-driver-s-seat
He focuses on higher education, secondary education, and educating educators. I found his tweet about social media and improving classroom writing quite interesting. It certainly got the wheels spinning about how I can twist this into the elementary classroom. 



Kathy Schrock (@kathyschrock) is an educational technologist and all around ed tech guru. She tweets about new apps, new gadgets, and how to implement all things new and fun tech into the classroom. Her blog is worth checking out too. http://www.schrockguide.net/online-tools.html. I love that she has tweets that let me know when certain apps go free, or work great with another app that I already use. 


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