The power of twitter!

Today I tried three different ideas in my class that I had learned from my #pln on twitter. By participating in some chats regularly over the last school year my repertoire of lessons has grown more than in my previous 8 years of teaching. If you aren't on twitter and haven't been convinced by your colleagues let me add my plea to theirs join. Don't be overwhelmed. Start slow or fast. Pick your pace. Don't be scared.

Today on American history I did my first edcafe thanks to Michael and Katrina (@42ThinkDeep and @katrinakennett). It went good. I would almost give it a great but there were a few groups that may have needed more prep time. It's ok, I'll remember it for next time. I had them at the end record what they learned and what the still had questions about on a post it note that they stuck to the door on the way out.

In my economics class we are just barely into our supply and demand unit. I had them create memes thanks to an idea from Heather (@irishteach) who said she was doing this for WWI propaganda posters. I had them create those on the non price determinants of demand. They loved it. They turned out really well too.
Once again I'm so excited that I have had opportunities to get such great ideas from such a wonderful source and group of educators who are so willing to share their great ideas.