Collaborative Professional Development - Twitter

Twitter is an online site that you can join, and you can follow specific themes. So if, for example, you type in hashtag #teachEnglish or hashtag #ELT, you can then follow lots of different posts that talk about this theme. And various people who have interests in these themes will share articles. They will share opinions. They will share webinars, conferences, et cetera. And you can follow them. And also you can publish your own ideas using these hashtags. Another really interesting hashtag to follow is #edtech, E-D-T-E-C-H. And again, this will give you ideas about what is happening in technology and education. And you can follow this. And you can contribute.

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