Developing and Sustaining Your Professional Learning Community with Twitter

Do you or your students currently use Twitter chats, such as @LRNCHAT or @PROFCHAT to develop and sustain your Professional Learning Community (PLC)? Do you participate in or view conference backchannel on Twitter to learn from conferences you are attending or cannot attend and to expand your PLC? Students, staff, and faculty in higher education contexts can find a wealth of support and extend workplace and classroom learning using these methods. Participants in this session will learn how one individual uses Twitter in these ways by seeing models of tweets, replies, and conversations and have a chance to participate in real-time contribution to the 2015 TCC backchannel as well as share about their use of Twitter to expand their PLC.

After a brief demonstration of examples of how @KURIOUSMIND uses Twitter during conferences and for real-time chats, participants will be asked to share their Twitter usage; the facilitator will screen-share and show the activity on Twitter. Participants with Twitter accounts will then be encouraged to create backchannel about the 2015 TCC sessions they have or will attend at this year’s conference.