August 19, 2017
WHY #Hashtag180: To archive, share, and tell your school’s learning journey through curriculum standards and objectives hashtags.
We can all learn more when we share resources. But are we really doing this? And if so, are we sharing efficiently and effectively? I’d argue that–with today’s advanced technologies at our fingertips–there’s always a few keystrokes’ room for improvement. Helping each other connect and #becomebetter matters, because how good and effective educators are in their craft directly and ultimately impacts our students and their learning. The good news is that we finally have the potential and power to connect and share–like never before!
Flipgrid: How Do You Share Resources Efficiently? Respond Here!
The only reason I (originally) got in to twitter was just to build a library. To me, twitter was where I would archive resources to enhance student learning. But how would those resources be organized in a way for easy access and sharing tomorrow; in a week; at the end of the year for review; or even three years later? In 2013, I began hashtagging tweeted resources with curriculum objectives, specifically the North Carolina Science Essential Standards for fifth grade. Below, see all grades K-5 learning in action, hashtagged by science curriculum objectives:
#Hashtag180: How To Hashtag North Carolina Science Essential Standards https://t.co/zLglkcjM5s pic.twitter.com/XsoWebaUsf
— Kyle Hamstra (@KyleHamstra) May 1, 2017
Hashtags serve a variety of purposes. They can be used to pool collections of tweets from a conference, twitter chat, or an event. They can be used to boost a brand and launch free marketing research these days. More importantly, hashtags can be used to help you, your classroom, or your school #TellYourStory.
Out of many @DDEDolphins, we are one pod. We learn, grow, and #SwimFwd together. #MakeYourMark #DotDay #dotday2016 pic.twitter.com/EC24Cj18uc
— Kyle Hamstra (@KyleHamstra) September 15, 2016
Many on social media (especially facebook and instagram) only use hashtags to be funny, to finish a story, or to provoke, for example. No–There’s nothing wrong with having a little fun and cultivating meaningful or meaningless dialogue to learn and grow together, or share a few laughs. But the truth is that these posts are nearly lost forever! Social media users won’t be able to remember their own long, silly, meaningless hashtags, and 400 posts later, the potential to access and share that one post from a while ago diminishes greatly, directly correlating to its value as a learning resource.
What if educators actually used tools like twitter in a more meaningful manner? What if we all hashtagged with purpose? For example, if I see an example of a challenging weather topic to learn and teach, I’m tweeting it with #sci5E11. After all, no purpose is greater than constant, ongoing learning, growing, and improving to better serve our learners.
We Wonder:
- How can we encourage educators to share more, efficiently, and effectively?
- How can we consistently leverage the power of the hashtag to become better for our learners?
- How can we be intentional about archiving learning and teaching resources to better access and share with our immediate professional learning teams, as well as our extended professional learning communities?
- How can we grow even more literate in our own learning standards and curriculum objectives, so that we could hashtag them daily–and from memory?
- How can become increasingly mindful to look out for learning opportunities in our everyday lives?
Look! All around you! What do you see? #Hashtag180 encourages you to see learning opps. #HamstraHighlights reflects: https://t.co/FZbbptx8Gp pic.twitter.com/MGiLG0zDYU
— Kyle Hamstra (@KyleHamstra) May 17, 2017
- Where do you begin?
#Hashtag180 has teamed up with @KyleHamstra‘s #HamstraHighlights to help us move From the Dewey Decimal System to YOUR [learning objective] hashtags. Please contact @KyleHamstra of kylehamstra.com if you want to join our ongoing endeavors to improve learning experiences. Or, just get started! And please share your journey and ideas for hashtagging, archiving, accessing, and sharing learning resources with @KyleHamstra, with your fellow professional learning network, and at #Hashtag180. Through sharing resources efficiently and effectively, together, we can all become better for our learners. Enjoy!
Hashtag your Curriculum. @KyleHamstra shared his #Hashtag180 movement at #iSTE17 in his 3-1 presentation. Well done friend! pic.twitter.com/pu9aI0WsBa
— Melanie Farrell (@MelanieCFarrell) June 27, 2017
Howdy @KyleHamstra!@clarkeskinders & I are reppin the #hashtag180 shirts @GTWizards1 while we dialogue about UbD & standards. #wzrdsFLY pic.twitter.com/J8NOWDFPJY
— Daniel Gridley (@GridleyDaniel) August 2, 2017
You should be following @aplusedtech @ChrisTuttell @plugusin @jenniferbell725 @MelanieCFarrell Great friends are priceless! TY! #FF #iste17 pic.twitter.com/vITeBSYzMG
— Kyle Hamstra (@KyleHamstra) June 30, 2017
My #connectededucator journey began by using twitter to archive 5th gr science, hashtagged by curr objs. #hashtag180 https://t.co/ThuagCSRHq
— Kyle Hamstra (@KyleHamstra) August 4, 2017
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
#Hashtag180 Presentation at the NCTIES Conference
Bill Ferriter creates meaningful #Hashtag180 Videos
#Hashtag180 Presentation at WCPSSITLMS Convergence Symposium
Google Slides Presentation from DOING Professional Learning
Start with WHY: Reasons why curriculum hashtags make educators better.
Index of all North Carolina public school hashtags–and more!
Learning opportunities are all around us every day. Capture, archive, and share!
Walk thru hashtagged examples of NC K-8 science learning experiences.
What do the ISTE Student Standards look like? What if we shared thru hashtags?
How to navigate your meaningful, hashtagged, catalogued, timeless archive.
#Hashtag180’s Early Efforts: 4 Steps to Sharing Learning Resources Efficiently
#Hashtag180 is born! Birthed in pedagogy. Analog tweets WAY before digital twitter.
Share’s Bill’s reflection about the value of Hashtag 180 work after spending a few weeks hashtagging his curriculum.
Explains the technical steps that Bill has taken to automatically add each Hashtag 180 post to a growing digital portfolio.
Bill’s attempt to articulate three simple reasons that teachers should embrace #hashtag180 work.
