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Grade Range: 8 - 11
Looking for an easy way to follow hashtags or conversations on Twitter? Use this tool for more useful hashtags that pull tweets, videos, images, and more in a convenient place in real time. Hashtags are not just for fun, but also for finding and curating content from professional learning networks (PLN’s). Use this tool to follow and participate in a chat easily and efficiently with no other tweets clogging up the stream. Enter the hashtag to view the active (or already completed) chat. Choose the speed of the chat flow. Use the Pause feature to stop the chat temporarily while checking a specific tweet or replying. View the hashtags with or without signing into Twitter. Note: New to Twitter and hashtags and unsure how to use it in the classroom? Looking for more ways to use Twitter in the classroom? Read more about Twitter at the TeachersFirst’s <a href="/spectopics/twitterforteachers.cfm">Twitter for Teachers</a> page. Be sure to check with your district’s policies before using Twitter and Twubs with students.
In the Classroom
Create a hashtag for use by students when quoting and reacting to comments from presenters. Follow the hashtag for various events occurring elsewhere in the world to obtain perspectives from people of different nationalities. Use a segment of a prior chat (screenshot an image of the Twubs) to share with students. Use to identify different perspectives from those around the world. Find shared commonalities among people and differences that allow students to understand world happenings using a different lens. Follow Tweets from scientists (such as #MarsRover) or for content (#STEM). Use results from a Twitter chat to create essays, stories, or artwork depicting content from the chat. Find chats for all kinds of teacher interests to build not only your PLN, but your knowledge base in the document Twitter Chat Schedule, <a href="/single.cfm?id=13782">reviewed here.</a>
At Home
Find the hashtag for your student’s special interest such as skateboarding, drawing, the maker movement (Maker Faire, Furcon, etc.), sports and many others. Follow the hashtag using your account and Twubs so you can monitor it.
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English, Language Arts, Math, Professional, Reading, Science, Social Studies, Social Studies, Writing,