Last year I was really trying to communicate more with my students' parents. I decided to give a classroom twitter a try! It sounded like such a great idea! Unfortunately, I found it extremely hard to keep up with. Perhaps as I gain more teaching experience, I will be able to keep up with a daily update like this.
For the classroom twitter, I sent out a letter to parents to get their permission for photos and to inform them about the purpose of our classroom twitter. I made sure to keep the account private, so I had to approve each follower. I ended up having a good bit of parents begin to follow our account. We introduced it to the students and told them we would have a "tweeter of the day". It was a great lesson for the students to practice thinking about main idea or even just something interesting that they learned. The hardest part about having the students tweet was explaining what a hashtag is! As tech savvy as our third graders are, the idea of hashtags went right over their heads. For most of their tweets, we would help them come up with a few hashtags to go with their tweet.
I really hope that maybe next year I will be able to give our account new life. We really enjoyed posting pictures and having the students share their learning with their parents!
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