3.7 Communication & Collaboration
Candidates utilize digital communication and collaboration tools to communicate locally and globally with students, parents, peers, and the larger community. (PSC 3.7/ISTE 3g)
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Reflection:
The Twitter account I created for my professional role was completed to connect my classroom and teaching philosophy to my students, parents, colleagues, and people from across the globe together. By using Twitter, I have been able to create my own personal learning network (PLN) and be part of groups within this network to share ideas, assignments, and collaborations. I participate in monthly/weekly Twitter chats where a whole gamut of people come together to discuss certain topics and questions. This is where I gain a lot of knowledge from other educators and professionals in the field. I made connections with companies, teachers, historians from across the globe that challenge me to do more for my classroom and try new ideas. I also hosted a Twitter chat for one of my classes, which provided me with excellent experience of how to appropriately run a chat session.
Standard 3.7, Communication and Collaboration provided me the opportunity to utilize digital communication and collaboration tools to communicate locally and globally with students, parents, peers, and the larger community. With my professional Twitter account, I connected with fellow educators across the globe and their classrooms. Through a Twitter chat, I was able to connect with an educator in another state and we communicated and collaborated on a project where our students would use Flipgrid to learn about each other’s topics. The students were able to connect with other students their age over the same content that we were learning. This gave the learning experience an authentic audience, which made my student perform extremely well on. Through the use of Twitter, my class was able to connect with the global classroom. I made the connections with the teacher using Twitter and from there we used Skype to play Mystery Skype with our students. At the beginning of the school year, I email all of the parents and students to let them know that my classes are connected on Twitter so they can see what their students are doing in class. I also provide a specific hashtag for the course to enable them to look us up even if they do not have Twitter. By doing this, I have been able to connect locally with parents and students. My Twitter account allows me to share ideas and resources to my peers and the larger community. I use this platform as an opportunity to reach out to each other and share what we are doing at our school by creating a Creekview High School Social Studies Twitter account to highlight all the activities we have going on in the social studies department that gets shared out at the district level for our stakeholders to see. Now, other departments at our school also have Twitter accounts to share what is going on in their classrooms as well. Twitter is a continuous loop of communication and collaboration at the local and global level. Without the Twitter community, I would not be the teacher I am today.
Completing the professional Twitter account provided me the opportunity to continue practicing growth mindset and being a life-long learner. I learned how to network with other educators and companies on Twitter to grow my PLN. Through this experience, I learned the power of communication and collaboration when you have a large group of people on Twitter who share the same drive and passion as myself. According to Grosseck and Holotescu (2008), Twitter can be used in education for a variety of ways such as microblogging, share teacher resources, community building, and much more. It was determined in their research that using Twitter has excellent payoffs as to how it helps people communicate and collaborate in the educational setting (Grosseck & Holotescu, 2008). To further improve collaboration and communication, I would like to add another social media avenue by creating a professional Instagram account. Between Instagram and Twitter, my PLN would expand greatly. I would also encourage my colleagues to also connect on here as well. Instagram provides different opportunities that lend itself to being more visual, whereas Twitter is more text-based and allows for chats to be hosted on it as well.
This artifact impacts faculty development. Prior to bringing up the impact that Twitter has had on my classroom, many teachers did not connect past the four walls of their classroom. I recommended increasing the use of Twitter in our school to the technology committee and showed them how I have been able to utilize it as a tool. From there the Twitter accounts started to grow. The impact can be assessed in the department Twitter accounts that are active through the school to show what is happening inside the teachers’ classrooms to connect to others and to reach our stakeholders in a more engaging way. I believe that this has created more community at our school and district levels.
Reference
Grosseck, G., & Holotescu, C. (2008, April). Can we use Twitter for educational activities. In 4th international scientific conference, eLearning and software for education, Bucharest, Romania.
The Twitter account I created for my professional role was completed to connect my classroom and teaching philosophy to my students, parents, colleagues, and people from across the globe together. By using Twitter, I have been able to create my own personal learning network (PLN) and be part of groups within this network to share ideas, assignments, and collaborations. I participate in monthly/weekly Twitter chats where a whole gamut of people come together to discuss certain topics and questions. This is where I gain a lot of knowledge from other educators and professionals in the field. I made connections with companies, teachers, historians from across the globe that challenge me to do more for my classroom and try new ideas. I also hosted a Twitter chat for one of my classes, which provided me with excellent experience of how to appropriately run a chat session.
Standard 3.7, Communication and Collaboration provided me the opportunity to utilize digital communication and collaboration tools to communicate locally and globally with students, parents, peers, and the larger community. With my professional Twitter account, I connected with fellow educators across the globe and their classrooms. Through a Twitter chat, I was able to connect with an educator in another state and we communicated and collaborated on a project where our students would use Flipgrid to learn about each other’s topics. The students were able to connect with other students their age over the same content that we were learning. This gave the learning experience an authentic audience, which made my student perform extremely well on. Through the use of Twitter, my class was able to connect with the global classroom. I made the connections with the teacher using Twitter and from there we used Skype to play Mystery Skype with our students. At the beginning of the school year, I email all of the parents and students to let them know that my classes are connected on Twitter so they can see what their students are doing in class. I also provide a specific hashtag for the course to enable them to look us up even if they do not have Twitter. By doing this, I have been able to connect locally with parents and students. My Twitter account allows me to share ideas and resources to my peers and the larger community. I use this platform as an opportunity to reach out to each other and share what we are doing at our school by creating a Creekview High School Social Studies Twitter account to highlight all the activities we have going on in the social studies department that gets shared out at the district level for our stakeholders to see. Now, other departments at our school also have Twitter accounts to share what is going on in their classrooms as well. Twitter is a continuous loop of communication and collaboration at the local and global level. Without the Twitter community, I would not be the teacher I am today.
Completing the professional Twitter account provided me the opportunity to continue practicing growth mindset and being a life-long learner. I learned how to network with other educators and companies on Twitter to grow my PLN. Through this experience, I learned the power of communication and collaboration when you have a large group of people on Twitter who share the same drive and passion as myself. According to Grosseck and Holotescu (2008), Twitter can be used in education for a variety of ways such as microblogging, share teacher resources, community building, and much more. It was determined in their research that using Twitter has excellent payoffs as to how it helps people communicate and collaborate in the educational setting (Grosseck & Holotescu, 2008). To further improve collaboration and communication, I would like to add another social media avenue by creating a professional Instagram account. Between Instagram and Twitter, my PLN would expand greatly. I would also encourage my colleagues to also connect on here as well. Instagram provides different opportunities that lend itself to being more visual, whereas Twitter is more text-based and allows for chats to be hosted on it as well.
This artifact impacts faculty development. Prior to bringing up the impact that Twitter has had on my classroom, many teachers did not connect past the four walls of their classroom. I recommended increasing the use of Twitter in our school to the technology committee and showed them how I have been able to utilize it as a tool. From there the Twitter accounts started to grow. The impact can be assessed in the department Twitter accounts that are active through the school to show what is happening inside the teachers’ classrooms to connect to others and to reach our stakeholders in a more engaging way. I believe that this has created more community at our school and district levels.
Reference
Grosseck, G., & Holotescu, C. (2008, April). Can we use Twitter for educational activities. In 4th international scientific conference, eLearning and software for education, Bucharest, Romania.