Twitter

So I am now following a Twitter page @RenLearnUS which has K - 12 assessments, as well as effective ways to teach classes, and for students to learn from.  The latest post I found was actually about Technology! What a great link to stumble upon in a technology course.  For those of you who seem to think your students are better with technology than you yourself are, think again!  The link provided takes you right to The Journal and provides you with an educational article about how educated teachers actually are when it comes to technology.  "Teachers also tended to depend 'much more on using technology to solve daily problems, to improve productivity, and as learning aids.'"  There are a number of articles and educational tools supplied by just this twitter account alone - imagine how many others there are that utilize fantastic lessons and just the click of a link.  Think about how many tools are floating around waiting to be clicked on.  @RenLearnUS even has live webinars that their followers can join, the one that was done on October 24th was actually a math webinar, all you had to do was follow @AcceleratedMath and if you wanted to tweet any information on the webinar they were using #mathchat.  Through this twitter account alone, as well as the math chat hash tag, I realized how useful twitter can really be for planning your lessons in the classroom.  It's just another way for teachers to help teachers.