teacher community #twee-chers

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teacher community #twee-chers

Oct 5, 2011

#TWEE-CHERS: Teachers are taking their cases to the pound sign (ok, "hashtags" sound more savvy). With #edchat, #SSchat, and #Engchat among the many communities that crowdsource the teacher experience, teachers have been taking part in scheduled Twitter chats around a particular subject area or type of student, writes Katherine Schulten in the NYTimes blog. Check out her Q&A with Thomas D. Whitby and Shelly Sanchez Terrell, founders of #Edchat (aka the "grandfather" of the education Twitter chats) and others.

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