PD Credit for #OklaEd Twitter Chat Participation?

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While surfing Twitter today, I stumbled across this conversation on the #edtechchat hastag and was intrigued. Can teachers earn credit for the hours we spend engaging with other teachers across our state via Twitter?

If we earned just one credit per hour, that would account for 50+ hours of professional development in a year.

Read the storified chat below to see what some school districts have done to credit their teachers with the personal time their spending on Twitter to further their professional development.

Source: PD Credit for Twitter Chat Participation (with tweets) · watersenglish · Storify

Related topics: Professional Development

About the author 

Michelle Boyd Waters, M.Ed.

Michelle taught secondary ELA in public schools for 10 years. She served as an award-winning journalist before transitioning into education and is now Assistant Director of the OU Writing Center and a teacher consultant for the Oklahoma Writing Project. Michelle co-edited the Oklahoma English Journal for five years. She is a PhD candidate in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum at the University of Oklahoma. She started reThink ELA LLC as a teacher blog in 2012.

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