Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar! Many people ask me how I keep up with the latest technology trends and find so many free resources to share on Twitter (@ShellTerrell) and on this blog. Hashtags, text starting with a # sign (#word), are the key to discovering amazing education tools and apps […]
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Top Hashtags to Get The Skinny on What's Happening in Edtech
“The hashtag, that ubiquitous pound sign followed by a keyword, are part of the language of social media.”- Neil Patel, Forbes Technology is vastly changing the way we communicate and learn. I find it fascinating and love seeing how educators use technology in innovative ways to transform their instructional practice and provide students with access to […]
40+ Hashtags to Follow to Learn About the Latest Teaching Trends
“The hashtag, that ubiquitous pound sign followed by a keyword, are part of the language of social media.”- Neil Patel, Forbes This summer learn more about teaching trends by exploring hashtags. Hashtags (text with a # sign front) are found all over social media on sites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Vine, and GooglePlus. Hashtags are the key for […]
How Hashtags Can Empower You in 2016
“The hashtag, that ubiquitous pound sign followed by a keyword, are part of the language of social media.”- Neil Patel, Forbes In August 2007, Chris Messina introduced hashtags (#) into Twitter’s code, which meant anyone using the platform could add a # sign front of any word(s) without spaces to make it a clickable link leading to […]
The 7 C's of Meaningful Learning Begin with Citizenship
“Literacy has always been defined by the technology. Before the printing press, your ability to orally recite something meant [you were] literate.” – Nichole Pinkard Thousands of years ago we communicated with images, drawings, and symbols. Before we had an alphabet we drew on walls to communicate with others in our community. Some of the oldest […]
Goal: Test the Power of Hashtags
Welcome to Cycle 6 of The 30 Goals Challenge: Inspire Forward! “[The hashtag] it served as a way to carry on a conversation with a diverse audience.”- The Huffington Post Goal: Initiate or support a hashtag movement. Accomplish this goal by creating your own hashtag on social media, getting your students to create their own hashtag movements, or working […]
Edhashtag Clouds: Click, Explore, Connect
Love these resources? Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers or Learning to Go. In July 2009, I co-founded the Bammy winning education chat, #Edchat, which has inspired over 400 education hashtags! The hashtag (# in front of a word without spaces, which transforms the word into a url on social media sites, like […]
Participate in a New Community
Goal 22: Participate in a New Community! of The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators “Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.” ~ Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus This year’s 30 Goals Challenge theme is, “This is MY […]
What Does Your Hashtag Use Say About You? 16 Resources
Part of the Cool Sites series #Edchat, #Edtech, #Elearning, #Edreform, #TEFL, #30Goals, #NewEdblog, and #Nightshift are the hashtags you’ll see me mostly use on Twitter. I have a bit of a romance with hashtags. When you use hashtags on Twitter you are doing more than just categorizing your tweets. Using a hashtag sends a message […]
17 Resources & Tips to Backup Online Content
Part of the Cool Sites series With so many wonderful online tools I tend to create a lot of online content. I bet you do, too! Let’s see…there are tweets, forum posts, blogs, pictures, videos, glogsters, wallwishers, wikis and more. The problem is that with all this wonderful content we often do not have backups […]