Yesterday, I attended a retreat at my new school!
It was a wonderfully planned event, lasting from 10 am to 4 pm, where various speakers informed us all about different educational hot topics! I am incredibly excited for my first year of school to begin now that I have that retreat under my belt.
The most interesting session for me was the Twitter session. I have had a personal Twitter page for probably close to 3 years now, but it has contained nothing more than daily or weekly snippets of my everyday comings and goings... It was never too deep. I learned yesterday how Twitter can be an incredible tool for professional and educational use!
I have since created the Noble Crossing Music Twitter feed to utilize in my classroom, specifically for my older, more tech-savvy students. I will keep people up to date on what is happening in class, when important events or programs are coming up, reminders for my choir, and quite possibly even utilize it as a way to assess my students!
I was thinking of using different hashtags to assess various topics. I have the idea of creating a small Twitter section of my outdoor bulletin board and changing the hashtag to something like #takadimi or possibly use the names of various folk dances behind the hashtag (#caimarusa , etc...)
We shall see what becomes of the feed throughout this year, but I am posting a link in this post, so feel free to check it out and see what ideas I and my students come up with!
https://twitter.com/NCEMusic
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