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We tweet! The following message went out to parents from Ms. Stile on 10/4/18 We are a very active community on Twitter. It is a fantastic tool used by our school community to celebrate all the amazing things happening at Heathcote School. Check out our classes at https://twitter.com/HeathcoteSchool To tie it all together and celebrate…
We’ve been tweeting! The following message went out to parents from Ms. Stile on 10/20/16: We are a very active community on Twitter, we have even paved the way for a district-wide Twitter initiative! It is an amazing tool for our school community, to celebrate all the great things happening at Heathcote School. To see…
Once again Mr. Casal will be talking Twitter during a Parent Coffee session. Last year was his first year at Heathcote and the first annual “Twitter @HeathcoteSchool Parent Coffee” was held. As a school community Heathcote has made amazing strides in using social media, Twitter in particular, to create a vibrant, transparent learning community that puts…
I am often asked about social media’s role in education, Twitter in particular. These questions are often brought about by parent concerns, which often mirror the initial concerns of teachers. When addressing parent concerns I approach it just as I do with teachers: concerns are normal I’m happy we are discussing concerns as…
I think it is important to promote, and celebrate colleagues. Especially when they step out of their comfort zone and embrace new challenges. When I joined the staff at Heathcote Elementary School last year only a handful of teachers had Twitter accounts. And those that had accounts used them mostly for tweeting a picture of the…
I’ve written a few posts over the last week about how we will be using Twitter here at Heathcote. A primer Our hashtag I also wanted to put up a post addressing the two most obvious sides of the same coin, the benefits and concerns. I recently co-authored an article with Lisa Nielsen, the Director…
In the previous post, Twitter @HeathcoteSchool, I wrote about Twitter as a platform and offered a solution for following Twitter users without actually have a Twitter account, or even a smartphone.The previous post also listed all the teaches with Twitter accounts at Heathcote.This post is more geared toward people with a Twitter account looking to get…
Twitter is a great resource. It is no longer just Ashton Kutcher talking about what he ate for breakfast (although, I’m sure there is probably still a lot of that going on). These days teachers are using Twitter as another method of communicating with parents. There is a Heathcote School Twitter account that posts school announcements, shares…
Yesterday at the faculty meeting I mentioned my love of social media in education. I have written a few blog posts about how we used social media in my previous school. I will be writing new posts here, on HeathcoteTech, about best practices and the great successes of our social media use. In the meantime…