1. A link from ReadWriteThink.org (@RWTnow) about Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, detailing and providing lesson plan ideas from the ReadWriteThink website that cover different aspects of the novel and ways of teaching the book. This link was featured in a tweet to celebrate the anniversary of the book's publishing and give teachers ideas of ways to celebrate the anniversary in their classroom through literary lessons.
2. A link, posted by Eric Sheninger (@E_Sheninger), to an article ("Social Media in Physical Education") that gives ideas for physical education teachers to grow their PLNs. This article gives very basic instructions for PE teachers on how to find information about PE ideas on Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook, while also listing more options at the end of the article. While many of the instructions on this website are very basic, I found this very interesting because PE is not a subject I normally would have imagined would be able to use much technology.
3. An article titled "Updating an Age-Old Class Activity" tweeted by Edutopia (@edutopia) that gives teachers ideas of ways to incorporate "artifact sharing," or show and tell, into classrooms of older students. In this teaching method, middle and high school students are encouraged to bring in objects or pictures of objects that showcase something about their family or who they are as a person, not just a show and tell item like a drawing or a pet. Then, teachers allow classmates to ask questions and are able to use these questions to formulate future unit and lesson plans based of student curiosity.
4. A link in Kelly Walsh's (@EmergingEdTech) tweet for teachers to "Put a Planetarium in Your Web Browser." In this link, teacher's find a blog post that details how to find the Planetarium app for computers and a brief explanation of ways to use the app in the classroom, mentioning the idea of using to to teach students about astronomy and where constellations are in the sky they see versus in other parts of the world. This seems like a way to teach this aspect of science and space that students would be very interested in and would enjoy using to learn.
5. A link from Alan November (@globalearner) to an article titled "Inviting Global Perspectives into the Classroom." This article is from November's website and details the importance of teachers using global learning in the classroom and teaching students not only the subject matter, but also the importance of being well-rounded global citizens and being able to understand and empathize with people of other cultures. At the end of the article, November mentions simple steps teachers can take not only to incorporate teaching "global empathy" in the classroom, but also ways they can use social media to find ideas for lessons that incorporate this topic.
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