EDT 5373: Assignment for Week 8-Twitter

Week 8: Self-guided learning with Twitter

For this assignment I followed two people and three organizations. The first organization is Edutopia, website for the George Lucas Education Foundation www.twitter.com/edutopia. There is quite a bit of information in regards to education. The main title of the website is What Works in Education The George Lucas Education Foundation www.edutopia.org. The next organization (newspaper) is Education Week: American  education’s newspaper and website of record. Their main website is www.edweekorg and it also addresses issues in education. The third organization is an online community of teachers called We Are Teachers www.twitter.com/WeAreTeachers they have a plethora of ideas on how to use technology in the classroom.

These last two are the people I followed. Will Richardson is the author of Personal Learning Networks: Using the power of connections to transform education, and Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful Web tools for classrooms www.twitter.com/willrich45. One of his links caught my attention right away “Ontario shows us we should support our teachers, not shame them.” The last person I followed is Sue Waters, writer of how to use technology and blogs for learning. www.twitter.com/suewaters . One of her links also caught my interest http://bit.ly/kboleY . 

           The two resources I learned and read about were posted by our classmate Fernie. The first one is U.S. Dept of Ed FBNP ‏ @edpartners http://ow.ly/9Hqp9 . I wish I had known about this program ages ago especially because I teach in a high needs area. The second resource Fernie shared is Reading Rockets ‏ @ReadingRockets  http://ow.ly/9yMdm. This looks like a great writing resource. There is a place for teachers, parents, principals and other professionals. There is endless information to learn from and so little time.