#teacher centered

your nannying approach is very child centered but your charge goes to a teacher centered preschool 3 days a week.

Sohaib Athar is the tweeter's actual name, ReallyVirtual is the handle. Have fun citing!

That's deep, yo. But really, this list of skills is great to have on hand to combat those cohorts or higher-ups who think that the inclusion of Twitter is a waste of time. A few of my favorites: network literacy, digital citizenship, summarizing skills, reading skills. How about that last one, am I right? Throw that one in the face of somebody who isn't on board with your little Twitter project and watch them squirm! Anything that I can do to boost my students' reading skills is a huge plus, and I get to add things like critical thinking, connecting skills, and information literacy on top. While this is a great tool, it is lacking some crucial information... HOW? I would hope, however, that if you'd be using this info-graphic to get more people on board with Twitter, it wouldn't be the only piece of information you had found. 

So, this one is a bit far-fetched, but let me explain. As a future music educator, I know that I will be all over the school. I will, in some instances, have upwards of 500 students to keep tabs on, and yet I will still be the one called in to work sound for events, provide muscle for moving heavy (some not so heavy) equipment around the school. Another aspect of being a music educator is that you see students for the entire time they are at the school. You become more than a teacher - you transition into a mentor role occasionally. Students stop by looking for you, and sometimes, you just simply can't be found. Enter, the Office Door Twitter Feed! Now, I personally wouldn't want a monitor attached to my door, but having a quick and easy way to update your location and or an ETA could be helpful. Having a separate twitter account for such a need would help cut down on some of the less useful mentions likely to find their way onto your feed if you were to hand out your handle to students. Although it would need some serious tweaking, the idea is by no means a bad one!

Be nimble.  Notice how students are interacting with your course material, and put resources where they feel most comfortable.

Marc Laland created a humorous but informative video on using Twitter as a professional educator. He provides 5 people to follow right of the bat (four not including himself, but hey, #teamfollowback doesn't have to be a bad thing), including @tomwhitby, @innovativeedue, @sirkenrobinson, @edutopia, and @malaland. He makes a great case for the professional use of Twitter as an educator, but he doesn't seem to have that hopeful of an outlook on Twitter use in teaching. I wonder if his point of view has changed now that technology use in the classroom is becoming more and more expected and encouraged?

The Twitter scavenger hunt that Nancy Messieh, the author, talks about later in the article is an awesome idea! How have I not heard about this before. Basically, the teacher would send students clues via Twitter that would lead them from one user to the next. If you've already been busy using Twitter as PD to connect to educators all over the globe, why not reach out and actually USE those resources you've been collecting? Mrs. Messieh gives the example of using your connections and Google Maps to create an engaging way to teach young students about geography, but really, I see that as just the beginning.

FollowerWonk seems similar to The Archiver (mentioned in a previous post).