On my twitter mission, I followed many new people while participating and exploring educational chats.
The first person I followed was "Preschool Learning", which can be found @preschoolonline on twitter. This twitter page contained many actives for preschool, educational and learning game ideas, healthy snack options and parenting and teaching tips. One of the tweets I favorited on this account was a tweet that contained a link and related to "Nursery Rhymes" and poems which is something we are learning about in one of my educational classes right now and how it enhances speech, phonemic awareness and metalinguistic language. This will be useful for me to gain better ideas and knowledge as it provides many links to further information and offers great websites to visit as well.
The second person I followed on twitter was Tracey Kracht, found @traceykracht who is a K12 Instructional Technology Coordinator. I followed her because she not only adds great tweets and links about how to incorporate technology in classrooms, but provides examples. As seen in my #Edchat blog, she is the one who showed the third grader using google hangouts. Her tweets inspire me to not give up hope on using technology in my classroom someday, and provides great examples of how to do so!
The third account i followed was @teach_preschool which is an account that promotes early childhood education (my field of education). Similarly to the first preschool account, this one offers more academic lesson plans, activities, crafts, and ideas for an early childhood classroom! I enjoyed looking at the activities she did with her kids everyday, and the articles she would tweet, such as an article explaining sensory ideas to stimulate the senses for children.
The fourth account I followed was Steven Anderson, who can be found @web20classroom
This twitter page ran by Steven Anderson, was a part of #Edchat and he also was an active blogger and educator who incorporated technology into lesson plans. I gained a lot from following his page and interacted with him by favoriting and retweeting helpful and insightful tweets. One tweet i really enjoyed and retweeted was "7 Real Ways Blogging Can Make You a Better Teacher and Learner" in which he added a website to follow, and really convinced me blogging is beneficial!
Finally, the fifth account i followed was @robynholsman who also is an Educational Technology Specialist. Some things i learned from following her was how to use Technology in my classroom. One thing that I found interesting and simple was an online socratic seminar...to me this wasn't complicated but a great way to kick it off with technology! Another really cool project she talked about was using vines for assignments. In which I think Kids would really enjoy! I favorited these tweets and then googled "vine projects in classrooms" as she made me very interested!
All of these accounts were very informative and contained tons of great ideas! I did not personally interact by tweeting at them or responding to tweets but by favoriting and retweeting so I will still always have access to my favorite tweets.
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