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  • Pi Day 2015: Pi Day, Twittter, and Math

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    Math Teachers are Great Tutors!
    My Town Tutors loves math teachers. We even helped on math teacher make $5,000 dollars tutoring privately. Our goal is to attract more math teachers to visit our site, that is why we have collected 21 great twitter accounts for math teachers.
    We created our list of top twitter accounts for Pi Day! The 1st number is the number of followers on March 8th. The second number WILL BE the number of followers on March 18th. The last number will be the increase in number of followers. Hopefully our math friends will help spread the word about these great accounts!

    1. @exploratorium (62,100 followers) The Exploratorium is a playful learning laboratory of interactive exhibits and experiences that ignite curiosity and transform the way people learn. San Francisco, CA
    2. @iPracticeMath (2,567 followers) Math practice for kids for future success and empowerment #math#kids New Jersey US. iPracticeMath.com (OFFICIAL SPONSOR of 101 Pi Day Jokes)
    3. @PiDay5K (867 followers) Crispy, tender, flaky mathematical running fun, from the makers of @Gametiime & @MustacheDache. #PiDay5K pi5k.com
    4. @PiDayPrinceton (200 followers) Einstein was born on March 14th … 3.14 … the numeric equivalent of Pi. Princeton, New Jersey celebrates the incredible coincidence with all kinds of fun! Princeton, New Jersey pidayprinceton.com
    5. @pidaychallenge (87 followers) The Pi Day Challenge is a series of puzzles that are logic-based. We had over 15,000 students & educators take the challenge in 2009 and over 100,000 in 2010! Creator @mplum31 Boston, MA · http://www.pidaychallenge.com (The Pi Day Challenge is a Slice of Heaven for Math Teachers)
    6. @mplum31 (76 followers) pidaychallenge.com (The Pi Day Challenge is a Slice of Heaven for Math Teachers)
    7. @pidaymars (61 followers) Rdv le 3.14.15 au #MuCEM pour une inoubliable journée #mathématique, ludique, didactique, romantique, gastronomique, mélodique, magique ! #PiDayMarseille Marseille piday.fr
    8. @PiDayCalgary (30 followers) Epic year for all things Pi: 3.14.15. We can only imagine the awesome Pi Day of 3.14.1592. Calgary, Alberta
  • Top 10 Twitter Tips for Teachers

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    As a teacher, it is your job to find creative ways to connect with your students. By learning how to relate to them, you can adjust your teaching methods to make a bigger impact. Many teachers have now started using Twitter as a way to get involved outside of the classroom. This could be a perfect opportunity for you. Here are 10 Twitter tips for teachers to help you socialize with your students.

    1. Make your posts interesting. Don't just make posts about facts from your lectures. Look for legitimately fun games online that relate to your subject, or post funny quotes that show your lighthearted side.
    2. Let your students follow you. If you try to follow your students instead, they might feel obligated to follow you back. Just let them come to you so they aren't put in an awkward position.
    3. Tweet secret test tips. This could be a hint about something your students should study, or it could even be answers to a bonus question. By offering freebies like this, you will encourage your students to interact with you online.
    4. Remind students about important dates. Tweet a friendly reminder about an upcoming test or due date so students can get everything finished on time.
    5. Use hash tags. If you want to talk about #economics, #forensicscience, #accounting, or something else along those lines, use a hash tag. This connects you with other people discussing the same subject at the time.
    6. Include your Twitter account on your syllabus. This will give your students a secondary place to contact you, should they need to reach you after office hours.
    7. Sync Twitter to your phone. Take your Tweeting mobile so you can write posts on the fly. This will keep you in on the action, just like your students are.
    8. Keep your personal account separate. You might want to be @katrinawalton and @katrinawaltonMSU, or something along those lines. Mixing your students with your friends and family is bound to lead to disaster.
    9. Tweet fairly frequently. You don't have to be on there every single day, but try to get at least a couple Tweets up a week.
    10. Have fun! This is a social network after all. Might as well use it for all it's worth.
    Follow these ten tips after creating your Twitter account, and you are sure to give your students something to talk about. Author Bio: Tyson Stevens is a freelance writer. He writes for PublicSchoolReview.com and loves writing about education and technology in the classroom. Tyson believes that technology can be used to help the younger generation learn better and more efficiently. My Town Tutors is a website that connects parents with teachers who tutor. If you are a teacher who tutors, for a limited time, you can register for using promo code: usteachers. Teachers set the hourly and keep 100% of the fees! One of our teachers made $5,000 last year tutoring. It is FREE for parents to search for a teacher in their area.

  • Support iTaalk with Elijah's Goal: 500 iPads for 500 kids!

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    Author Bio: My name is Elijah.  I am 14 years old and in the 8th grade.  I was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome at 8 years old.  Recently, I was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD), and it was found that my working memory, the part of my brain that holds little bits of information while a task is being done, is very low functioning.

    When my mother and the school were writing my IEP, she found out that the school did not have any technology like a tablet, and was not required to buy one for me to use.  The insurance company would not pay for one because I am too high functioning.  I was using a netbook, a camera, a watch, and to PDA, to do all the functions that I needed to even begin to get organized.  Sometimes I forgot to set an alarm or forgot where I had put my camera.  It was hard to keep track of so many different items.
    My mother got together with iTaalk Autism Foundation and their Vice President, Tammy, to set up a way for Mom to raise money to buy an iPad for me.  Working through Facebook, she was able to raise the money in less than a week! Mom bought a Clamcase so that I have a keyboard attached all the time and it is more protected.
    With my iPad, I keep everything in one device that I have with me all the time.  I have organizational apps that keep me on track; my calendar, my schedule, my assignments, my  chores, all in one app.  I use Pages for writing any assignments and all word processing.  I use the alarms to remind me to start or stop a task.  I use the camera to photograph the board where my assignments are written, which used to take me as much as 10 minutes to write down. I also photograph powerpoint notes.
    I can use Siri or Dragon to dictate writing.  I can type at 11 words per minute now and I am using typing programs to help me practice to increase my speed.  I am told there are even apps that I have yet to discover to help me learn and even exercise my working memory in the future.
    I began to think that other Autistic kids must have this problem too.  I talked to Mom and she said that Tammy at iTaalk told her that there was.  Many kids fall in between what the insurance company will pay for, what the schools are required to provide and what the parents can afford.  I decided that I would help Mom and we would keep raising money for other Autistic kids to get iPads.  We spend too much of our time trying to keep up in class that it is hard to really learn.
    We have set a dream goal of 500 iPads for 500 kids!!
    Right now we are working to get one for Kyle, who is a Senior at our high school.  Kyle has apps that work for speech therapy.  You can read more about him at www.itaalk.org/kyle.html. We are more that half way to raising enough for his iPad.  Some kids are even non-verbal and will use their iPads to communicate.
    Read more about all of us……
    iTaalk Autism Foundation: www.itaalk.org
    Elijah: Twitter:  @itaalkelijah
    Facebook: iTaalk with Elijah
    Blog: itaalkwithelijah.wordpress.com
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  • “EdCamps” – A PD Opportunity unlike any other!

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    Quick:  When I say “Professional Development”, what comes to mind?  Are you conjuring up images of a big meeting room, with a lot of blank stares and a presenter that is droning on, actually reading every line of their slides…?!  All the while, you’re thinking “I could have used this time so much better..!”

    Now, imagine if that same “PD” experience was with a group of energized, passionate educators, and the presenter was showing you something relevant to your teaching – something you could actually *use* in your classroom tomorrow?!

    If the latter vision sounds too good to be true – it isn’t – it can be found at an EdCamp!

    An EdCamp is a relatively new style of professional development where the presenters are often ordinary classroom teachers.  There isn’t one presenter explaining one topic, there are several sessions going on in different conference rooms at the same time, each session on a topic chosen by the presenter.  Thus, no agenda, or conference schedule, is defined ahead of time.   In fact, an EdCamp is often referred to as an “unconference”..!

    An EdCamp venue provides meeting spaces with lots of break out rooms, and a blank wall where participants post what topics they want to present (or discuss) at a given time and in a given break out room.  You, the eager educator, look at this on-the-fly agenda on the morning of the EdCamp, decide what you want to learn, then go to that break out room and become part of the discussion – if you wish.

    The best part of it all is that you judge how worthwhile the presentation/discussion is when you get there.  If it turns out to be something you didn’t expect – or if the presentation isn’t providing you with the information you need – you get up and leave!  The EdCamp folks call this “voting with your feet.”  It’s not rude and it’s not frowned upon – it’s a way to say “Hey, my time is valuable and I can do better elsewhere.”

    I attended my first EdCamp in May – it was called EdCampBoston.  I have to admit, I was extremely hesitant.  After all, I was giving up an entire Saturday to go someplace where I had no idea what was going to be discussed..!  It all sounded too crazy and unstructured for me.  However, so many people I conversed with in the Twitter universe talked this up and had positive things to say, that I felt I had to give it a try.

    So, I registered online for one of the 250 available (free!) slots and got my confirmation.  As it turns out, that was a smart thing to do, as all the slots ‘sold out’ in a matter of hours.  At 8am on a Saturday in May, I dutifully arrived, with my laptop in hand and a wary smile on my face.  I immediately struck up a conversation with Rik, a High School Math Facilitator from Wilmington.  I was quickly impressed with his energy and excitement.  He had great things to say about previous EdCamps he attended, so he put me at ease.

    Over the next 30 minutes, while participants signed in (and got coffee – thank you, sponsors!), I had more conversations with other passionate educators.  By 8:45, I was actually pumped up and looking forward to watching the schedule take shape.

    Everyone gathered around the ‘big wall’, as available times and room names were arranged in a giant grid.  Anyone who wanted to lead a discussion/presentation grabbed a piece of paper, wrote a brief blurb about their topic and taped it to the wall, thus claiming one of the rooms for their own!

    This is what it looked like in progress:

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    When the board was filled and all the topics were finalized, the organizers of EdCampBoston copied the agenda board into a GoogleDoc that we could access throughout the day from our devices.  This is a link to the complete agenda: http://goo.gl/yQtrb .

    For me, the hardest part of EdCamp was deciding what sessions to attend, as there were SO many I wanted to be a part of.  In the end, I had time for four:

    • Blogging in the HS classroom

    • Using Socrative to check for Understanding

    • Using SCHOOLOGY to collaboratively create a US History course.

    • Edcamp in the Classroom

    I’ll cover these sessions in depth in future posts, but I hope I’ve said enough to have you consider attending a future EdCamp – you won’t regret it

    John Padula has been teaching Middle School Social Studies for seven years – all in the Boston Public Schools.  He is an avid reader of Young Adult fiction and works hard to maintain a solid classroom library for his students.  Last year, I was honored to be a Fund For Teachers Fellow and traveled to South Africa in the summer to learn more about education and Apartheid.

    Prior to teaching,  he spent over 20 years in a variety of positions in the software engineering industry.  Despite my high-tech background, I was *still* blown away by a PD course called Teaching History With Technology (from EdTechTeacher) and have been working ever since to infuse more technology in my classes.

  • Twitter: The Golden Ticket

    I once had an administrator tell me, as I was, and still am working my way up the ranks in college and my career that it is lonely at the top. I had great respect for her and smiled while thinking, how can you be lonely? You are amazing!
    I am far from the top, but feel the stagnancy of loneliness as I try to grow and learn.  I have searched, begged, and tried to recruit mentors over the last seven years. I have found that people are comfortable with where they are in their busy lives and often my interest and passion for extension does not align with their direction of growth. I tend to be an innovator who likes to rearrange the way the box looks. This may be good, bad, or indifferent, but it is who I am.
    In the beginning, I filled this void by reading everything I could get my hands on in regards to leadership, writing, and education. Books became my mentor. It was a one way conversation, but I felt guided and nurtured by the experiences within the pages.  I recently listened to the book Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk.
    He introduced me to the idea of taking my passion, which is educational technology, and creating a blog.  He suggested joining twitter and other social networking sites to promote my passion. I started my blog which is slowly taking shape, but I have been entranced by the opportunity that twitter has opened for me.
    What a wealth of information and people to learn from and with. In some ways twitter is like my books, one sided, but in other ways it is dimensional  and I can communicate with others on twitter, but better yet, I am introduced to blogs that speak to my area of interest and I can communicate with others that share my passion.
    I was a little put off by twitter in the beginning. I followed great minds in my area of interest and they did not follow me back. I so wanted input on what I was doing with my blog and professional growth. I now know that I should have built my twitter with a few tweets and a profile before I started following others.
    The truth is I am ok with basking in the glow of their experience. It is the one sided part of twitter. What is amazing is that through them, I have been introduced to other tweeters and their blogs. This is the 3-demensional side of twitter.
    I would still like a physical person as a mentor, but I think I have found the perfect compromise. I like having my blog because it gives me an opportunity to mentor others, but I find satisfaction and gratitude for others within the twitter community. I have found my mentor(s).
    Twitter has filled a void that has been vacant for a long time. What I am learning is that as I blog, I need to not only share technical information, but I need to make my voice a part of my sharing. I am following some great teachers who lead by example! Professionals need tutors too…. I believe that I have received the adventure of a lifetime; my golden ticket, in the most unlikely of places.
    Shannon Gray has been a teacher for 18 years. As a military wife, circumstances have influenced her career; this has made her well rounded and she sees education from many perspectives. Shannon is a Nationally Board Certified Teacher who currently holds a masters in Special Education and Administration and is working on her doctorate in Educational Technology from Walden University. You can visit her blog on integrating technology into the classroom at www.edugrationtech.com, or follow her on Twitter @edugrationtech.
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  • Middle School Teachers: Join Twitter and #MSchat

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    Author Bio: Todd Bloch (@blocht574), 7th Grade science teacher at Warren Woods Middle School in Warren, MI where he has been teaching for 12 years. He has a Master’s in Middle Level Education  Todd’s Blog can be found at www.sweattoinspire.com

    his past August, after encouragement from friends, I started a twitter chat for middle school teachers found at the hashtag #mschat. Many of my colleagues asked why? They felt twitter was a place for athletes, actors and companies to promote themselves. While these behaviors do exist on twitter, there is so much more going on the social network.

    Due to my activity on twitter I have connected with 100’s of other educators. I have engaged top education authors such as: Alfie KohnChris Lehman and Seth Godin in direct conversations. I have discussed technology uses directly with the manufacturers like: TenMarks and TechSmith. Recently, I even had a question answered by Arne Duncan. These interactions have been priceless, and they have helped me grow and reflect as an educator, but enough about me.

    Why should you get involved in twitter chats in general or #mschat in specific?

    You need to get off the island that is teaching unconnected. You need to hook up with other teachers, who are experiencing the same issues you are to collaborate for a solution. You need to join the massive collective knowledge bank that exists for teachers in twitter chats.

    Some of my friends have been hesitant of get on twitter, because they fear the unknown or the technology. What I have found, interacting with teachers, that everyone models the citizenship we desire in our classrooms. When you don’t understand something, ask questions, someone will respond to aide you (usually more than one someone in my experience).

    My Middle School chat offers middle school teachers a chance to have a collaborative discussion about a different topic each week. Our topics change from week to week, ranging from Common Core State Standards to Character Education. During the chat participants exchanges ideas and resources. The chat group ranges in size each week from 10 to 50+ participants. Discussion can be general talking about instructional style or process to specific. Recently members of the chat group help each other create lessons.

    I hope you drop by #mschat soon. You can find us on twitter Every Thursday Night at 8 pm ET.  I am @blocht574 on Twitter.

  • 4 Useful Tools for Twitter!

    Welcome to Twitter. I have been using twitter for about 6 months and have found the following tools to be invaluable. I hope some can help you navigate through the world of twitter.
    1. Tweetgrader – This is a service that ranks your tweet power. It is provided by HubSpot, the best website to get inbound marketing ideas. Simply type in your twitter name and in a few seconds you will receive a report of your twitter account based on many factors.
    Do not be discouraged, it is merely a starting point or measuring point. You can visit this link every so often (2-3 times a month) to check on your progress. I have found it very helpful. I hope you do too.
    2. Twuffer – This tool has been the most beneficial (see tool #4). Twuffer allows you to schedule tweets. The content of My Town Tutors is geared to educators and parents. I love jokes, the worse the better. Twuffer has allowed me to schedule a school joke of the day (6:00 AM daily). Twuffer always us to share information daily whether we are on vacation, in a meeting, or sleeping. We like to provide useful information to our followers all the time. Twuffer easily allows us to provide regular, consistent content.
    3. Just Unfollow – This is a helpful website to show the people who you follow that are not following back. At My Town Tutors we follow connected educators, teachers, educational interest groups, moms, parents, and guidance counselors. Some groups such as a state teacher union probably will not follow back immediately, or ever, however we value these groups and will follow them no matter what. However, if we follow an individual teacher, and after several days do not receive a follow back, we will use just unfollow to remove them from our list of followers.
    It is our philosophy to have a 1:1 following ratio, that is why we find this sight so useful. We will follow about 100 – 200 teachers per week and at the end of the week, we will use justunfollow to maintain our 1:1 ratio.
    4. A Clock – Old school, but CRITICAL. Set a time limit and stick to it. Twitter is part of your business or personal life. It is not your life. Remember to spend time the people you love. Read books, exercise, or write a guest blog.
    Twitter can be very helpful to many people and businesses, just don’t get lost in it.
    I hope this is helpful information. I would love feedback and suggestions.

  • Expanding Twitter Influence: Why Use Twitter? 5 Important Questions!

    My Town Tutors is using twitter to connect with parents and teachers to share our goal of being a great tutoring resource for parents and teachers.
    For this case study, we will offer blog posts on how My Town Tutors is using twitter to expand our influence. We are building a New England account from the ground up. We are going to share our journey with you.
    We created @mytowntutorsne on July 17, 2012. We had NO FOLLOWERS. Check out our current influence and followers.
    Twitter is an incredible resource for connecting with people and sharing information, however, before you sign-up, it is important to answer the following 5 questions.
    1. What is your purpose? The first thing you need to identify is what is your purpose or goal with twitter. Some people use twitter for personal or social reasons. Some use it for professional development and to share ideas with others in their field. In our case, the purpose is to reach out to parents, educators, and schools to promote our service. My Town Tutors connects parents with local teachers who tutors.
    We also want to share our blog and guest blogs with our followers. We have had some great posts over the last few months and are looking to attract readers and writers. We hope to provide insights that will make the job of being a parent and / or teacher a little easier.
    2. Who is your audience? Our target audiences are teachers, schools, and parents. Our focus is on creating content that will be helpful to these groups.
    With our regional accounts @mytowntutorsma, @mytowntutorsne, @mytowntutorsNJ4, we hope to create closer, more personal connections with individuals in these areas. We offer special blogs and information that we hope will be particularly useful to local interests.
    3. What will you tweet? My Town Tutors wants to provide content that is useful to to teachers and parents. We often provide quotes relating to parents and teaching. We also have a school joke of the day that we tweet each day at 6:00 AM. Both parents and educators can benefit from these clean jokes or riddles. Many are a little corny, however they often can bring a smile or chuckle. Why not start the day of with a good laugh?
    4. What is your follow policy? Who will you follow? Will you follow back anyone who follows you? Do their interests really matter? Our policy is to follow educators, educational groups, such as teachers unions, parents, parent interest groups and educational interest groups.  Our goal is to connect with parents and teachers. Please do not be offended if we do not follow everyone back.
    5. What is your time commitment? How much time will you devote to twitter. Some people and companies can spend every waking hour on twitter. We try to interact as often as possible, however we do not want to be entirely consumed. Hopefully, we provide teachers and parents with some useful information.
    We would love feedback!
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    We are completing a 50 States in 50 Days Teacher Challenge to recruit teachers who tutor. If you are a teacher who tutors, we are always looking for qualified teachers from all 50 states who tutor to join our national directory of teachers who tutor.
     

  • Expanding Twitter Influence: A Case Study

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    The goal of the challenge is to register teachers who tutor in all 50 states. We believe teachers are great tutors. To build up our directory, we will be offering at least one day of FREE registration for teachers who tutor in each state. Check out our schedule of upcoming FREE days and promotion codes.
    My Town Tutors is using twitter to connect with parents and teachers to share our goal of being a great tutoring resource for parents and teachers.
    For this case study, we will offer blog posts on how My Town Tutors is using twitter to expand our influence. Our 1st post will be “Creating a Twitter Account.” We created @mytowntutorsne on August 17, 2012. We had NO FOLLOWERS. Check out our current influence and followers.
    We love teachers, parents, and education. We always follow back accounts with similar interests. We look forward to connecting!
    We hope you find this series interesting and useful.
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  • 5 Important Questions for Twitter Users

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    1. What is your purpose? The first thing you need to identify is what is your purpose or goal with twitter. Some people use twitter for personal or social reasons. Some use it for professional development and to share ideas with others in their field. In our case, the purpose is to reach out to parents, educators, and schools to promote our service. My Town Tutors connects parents with local teachers who tutors. We also want to share our blog and guest blogs with our followers. We have had some great posts over the last few months and are looking to attract readers and writers. We hope to provide insights that will make the job of being a parent and / or teacher a little easier. 2. Who is your audience? Our target audiences are teachers, schools, and parents. Our focus is on creating content that will be helpful to these groups. 3. What will you tweet? My Town Tutors wants to provide content that is useful to to teachers and parents. We often provide quotes relating to parents and teaching. In addition we have have a school joke of the day that we tweet each day at 6:00 AM. Both parents and educators can benefit from these clean jokes or riddles. Many are a little corny, however they often can bring a smile or chuckle. Why not start the day of with a good laugh? 4. What is your follow policy? Who will you follow? Will you follow back anyone who follows you? Do their interests really matter? Our policy is to follow educators, educational groups, such as teachers unions, parents, parent interest groups and educational interest groups.  Our goal is to connect with parents and teachers. Please do not be offended if we do not follow everyone back. 5. What is your time commitment? How much time will you devote to twitter. Some people and companies can spend every waking hour on twitter. We try to interact as often as possible, however we do not want to be entirely consumed. Hopefully, we provide teachers and parents with some useful information. We would love feedback!