Twitter time for Instructional Coaches

 So how would coaches use Twitter?  To start, coaches could sign up for Twitter and then do a search for instructional coaches, or just search for Jim Knight since I'm following a growing number of coaches each day.  Then click on those coaches to follow them.  Try to follow as many coaches as possible.  Then, wait for them to follow you, and sign up when they want to follow you. Be on the look out for Twitter spam as marketers will try to get you to follow them as well.  Finally, to keep the community going, make it a point to make a post once or twice a day so that others have something to read.  If you find a cool article, do something creative at school, get a new idea, write a little tweet to let us all know what you are doing. Or, if you're facing a challenge, put out a little tweet asking for advice or suggestions. The more people contribute, the more valuable our twittering coaches community might be.  Also, consider using tinyurl as a simple way to share websites.  Finally, encourage your friends to get on, link up, and share.  How cool it is going to be when we have 1000 coaches sharing ideas and asking for suggestions all through our community.  And you can be one of the pioneers. I should mention that technology coach Cathy Baker from DuPage County, Illinois gets all credit for starting me thinking about twitter, and the use of tinyurl. And, you can follow her tweets by linking from my page, of course.

Update on Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 02:46PM by Jim Knight

Aaron Sumner pointed out this nice article about Twitter that offers a nice overview of what it is what its potential is. And, he pointed me to it on Twitter :)

Comments

[Sue Woodruff]

OK - I am twittering. Who else is???

[Jim Knight]

Great to see you on here Sue. We'll see what happens next. Stephanie Cohen signed up yesterday