This is our third consecutive post on Twitter. Now that you have
a roadmap on how to use Twitter in your classroom and after you
have identified with the different educational hashtags you need
to follow as a teacher, let us share with you some ideas on how
to leverage the power of this social platform for professional
development purposes. Talking about using social networking to
grow professionally brings to mind LinkedIn. This is an
undeniably powerful network that is more professionally focused
( you can read more about the educational uses of LinkedIn HERE
) but Twitter has also its own attraction that we can not
ignore. It a huge base of users and is probably much known among
teachers and educators than LinkedIn. I personally use both of
them with a slight preference of Twitter over LinkedIn. Anyway,
let us now share with you some thoughts on how to use Twitter
for professional development purposes : 1- Create a strong
profile page The first thing to do is to let people know about
you and your interests