{"id":1424,"date":"2010-02-02T10:01:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T15:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2010-02-02T10:01:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T15:01:03","slug":"why-you-should-try-twitter-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/why-you-should-try-twitter-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Try Twitter in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re even slightly interested in how you might use Twitter in the classroom, take a look at William M. Ferriter&#8217;s essay &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascd.org\/publications\/educational_leadership\/feb10\/vol67\/num05\/Why_Teachers_Should_Try_Twitter.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Why Teachers Should Try Twitter<\/a>&#8221; from <i>Educational Leadership<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>The article explains, &#8220;For educators who use this tool to build a network of people whose Twitter messages connect to their work, Twitter becomes a constant source of new ideas to explore.&#8221; It includes some tips and how-to&#8217;s as well as a personal story on how the experience affected the author&#8217;s understanding of differentiated instruction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re even slightly interested in how you might use Twitter in the classroom, take a look at William M. Ferriter&#8217;s essay &#8220;Why Teachers Should Try Twitter&#8221; from Educational Leadership. The article explains, &#8220;For educators who use this tool to build a network of people whose Twitter messages connect to their work, Twitter becomes a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,16],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classroom-activity","category-teaching-with-digital-tools","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-mY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}