Developing and Deepening your PLN with Twitter - Hashtags For Educators

As you already know, I am a huge fan of Twitter for growing your Personal Learning Network (PLN). One of the underused features of Twitter is the hashtag (#).  Hashtags are essential for searching the Twitterverse for a subject and are also handy when appended to your own tweets to extend their influence.


Great List of Hashtags For Educators

Recently read a post on Karlana's World regarding #hashtags for education. Here, you can learn how to use #hashtags and how to monitor the most useful #hashtags for education and learning.


Cybrary Man offers an even more extensive list of Hashtags building upon Karlana's list.


Librarian Phil Bradley suggests: Twapperkeeper as a handy resource for keeping track of tweets that use a particular hashtag. Twapperkeeper does not do this automatically -- you have to go to the site and set up an archive, so that Twapperkeeper knows that it needs to look for tweets mentioning a specified hashtag. After setting this up, you can also get these tweets as an RSS feed, or download the file. It can also archive tweets based on a keyword search or user name.

I would add this set of  hashtags for librarians:

#libraries, #librarians, #streetlit, #Goodreads, #Awards,  #readers,  #YA, #lib_resources, #school #library , #infoliteracy, #medialiteracy, #onlinesafety, #cyberbullying, #digitalcitizenship, #transliteracy, #YALSA 2011, #yalsa, #ALA, #Books, #literature, #bannedbooks, #reading, #amreading, #Kindle, #ipad,  #ebook,  #ereader, #mashable, #SocialMedia


Do you have any to add?

#edchat

#edchat is searchable on Twitter and I am bringing it to your attention because it's a worthwhile stream of education-related tweets.

It all started with retired high school English teacher Tom Whitby who became an adjunct education professor at St. Joseph's College in Brooklyn, NY and began tweeting to exchange best practices, ideas and resources, with other tweeting educators. With two other colleagues last August, he created the hash tag #edchat for educators to attach to their tweets. Then he came up with the idea of conducting weekly, hour-long discussion which would take place every Tuesday (one at 12 noon for European users and one at 7 pm EST for those in North America and Australia.

I usually don't follow the chat in real time but I do search for #edchat on Twitter to follow the most recent stream of tweets. In December, 2009 Whitby, Shelly Terrell and Steve Anderson won a prestigious EDUBLOG Award for the most influential Educational Twitter series.

Meanwhile, Whitby created The Educator's PLN(edupln.ning.com), a ning network, and tirelessly promoted it through Twitter. He finally nagged enough so that I jumped on and joined to see what the buzz was all about. Many educators agree that they learn more on Twitter than from any other type of workshop or seminar. I highly encourage you to visit the ning and find many helpful forums, discussions, videos, and other educational sites and nings which are linked. Thank you Tom for creating the ning and for tirelessly promoting it.

Profile Information for Tom Whitby

Twitter ID http://www.Twitter.com/@tomwhitby

Linkedin Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaswhitby

Delicious name http://www.delicious.com/tomwhitby

Skype Account Name thomas_whitby

Blog http://tomwhitby.wordpress.com/

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