Mark your calendars now!
Our ongoing Twitter chat just keeps getting better and better!
This week we will have one of the brilliant edu-minds of our time share with all participants on the topic of Guided Reading. You're going to want to be certain to have the logistics worked out ahead of time, so I'd suggest that if you're new to Twitter that you plan to join us for the official PRACTICE chat portion of the evening that kicks off at 8:30 EST.
This week we welcome Dr. Jan Richardson into the spotlight!
She has a throng of followers and the chat is likely to move quickly.
You need to know that you won't be able to keep up with the pace of reading EVERY tweet.
That's the nature of a healthy, active, participatory chat:
it goes flying by!
To help you get the most out of the chat,
I have created a slide to guide our conversation.
Think of it like an open-book test!
Yes. If you're on Tweetdeck, you can go ahead and schedule your answers ahead of time! Go ahead and dig through your blog and find some good articles and examples. Add your link via bitly and be sure to include some photos as well.
Just remember to schedule so that your tweets go live in Eastern Standard Time a minute after the tweeted question will go live. Otherwise you'll look strangely clairvoyant. (You can make the conversion for the time zone where you are.)
Here's a head's up for our guests for the coming several weeks.
Here's an overview of how to get yourself acclimated and ready for our chat:
1. Open a Twitter account.
2. In a perfect world you would add your profile picture and a nifty description.
Lovely, but not technically critical for participation.
3. Follow me @Kweezlequeen and I will follow you back!
4. At 8:30 PM EST on Tuesday, several of us moderator-hostess types will be available to answer your questions, support your tweeting and offer encouragement. This is the time to tip-toe quietly and slowly into the water. If you're new, by all means plan to arrive closer to 8:30!
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| Type #TeacherFriends into the Search Bar on Twitter to Find the Conversation |
5. All you really have to 'do' is type #TeacherFriends into the Twitter search bar and our 'conversation' will suddenly appear! All tweets (conversation contributions) will be sorted out and visible in chronological order. To use this method of chatting, you periodically will need to refresh the page. When you refresh the page, you may notice that you suddenly have 19 new tweets to read. Just about the time you read through all of those and hit refresh, you'll find that there are 23 new tweets on the hashtag..... and on and on it goes until 10 PM.
6. Of course we would be delighted for you to arrive at 9 and stay the whole hour, but that is not quite how real-life works. Think of a chat like an open house. You drop in as you are able. You are most welcome for any length of visiting.
Dr. JAN IS GIVING AWAY A TON OF PRIZES!
PLUS there are TWO gift certificates of $25 each for participants from:
7. Because we have prizes to give out every week, you're going to want to make sure that you get your name entered into our weekly Google Doc. Enter one time any time between 8:30 and 10. Winners will be announced just before we conclude. The link to the Google doc will be tweeted periodically through the evening. Watch our hostess @fuzzlady66 Kristen Poindexter for tweets leading to the doc.
Here's what I'm using now. Tweetdeck.
I am now using a free site called TweetDeck.
All of the tweets in one hashtag appear vertically.
You can arrange/rearrange the columns as you wish.
That's 'us' #TeacherFriends in the first column.
I have #Kinderchat in the second column.
And #tlap Teach Like a Pirate in number three.
8. Our hostess @MaggiesKinder will tweet out clever certificates for participants. You deserve to have a tangible reminder of your new found progress in joining the world wide education movement.
9. At the conclusion of the chat (about half an hour later)
our hostess @educatorsspin will create an archived version of the entire evening's chat. This is the PERFECT way to digest all that happened at the speed of lightning.
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