- Let assignments be thoroughly 21st century. Instead of requiring a paper for a course, why not an interactive digital project? Or one that makes use of Twitter?
- Students. If your students follow you, follow them back. You may inspire them to pursue career goals or build a strong mentor-mentee relationship
- Professional organizations. Many professional organizations, even those for academics, have Twitter feeds that are well worth following.
- Share what you’re reading. Taking on the latest academic journal? Found an amazing article in pop-science about your research field? Share it! If it’s interesting, it’ll probably get retweeted and passed around, and you might just interest a student or two to boot.
- Tweet regularly. Twitter isn’t going to do you much good if you don’t ever use it. Develop a regular tweeting schedule both for yourself and for your courses that use Twitter.
- Have a Twitter account for each class. In order to keep things from getting confusing, your best bet is to create a unique Twitter account for each of the courses you teach.
- Ask questions relevant to course material. A daily question on your Twitter feed that’s pertinent to current course material can help to get students thinking.
- Cross-classroom collaboration. Why work alone when you can connect with other college classrooms? That’s just what many college classes are doing these days
- Professional organizations. Many professional organizations, even those for academics, have Twitter feeds that are well worth following.
- Find support. We all need support in our jobs, even if we’re really good at them. Twitter is a great place to look if you’re having “one of those days.”
I chose to follow edmodo because it is a social learning platform for both students and teachers.
I also followed studentteacherprobs because they post on problems and how to overcome them.
Lastly, I followed Ed Week Teacher because they have the latest post on recent developments in education.
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