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Twitter chats for education

Twitter chats for education

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Twitter chats for education

- In this video, we'll take a look at one of the most powerful forms of professional development for educators: Education chats on Twitter. First, let's take at look at how most Twitter chats are structured. In the previous video, we talked about hashtags and how they allow tweets to be organized together. For instance, if I were to use the hashtag #edchat, anyone who's searching for this hashtag would be able to see my tweet. Twitter chats use the power of the hashtag to stay organized. An example of a Twitter chat related to education is #satchat. On Saturday mornings at 7:30 eastern time, educators from around the world join in to discuss the topics of this week's #satchat. Most Twitter chats on education will have a moderator who pose questions around the weekly theme. Then other educators submit their answers to these questions. Each tweet in the chat remains organized and filtered because participants add the hashtag #satchat to their post. A question during one of these chats…

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