Keeping students and families informed with our new Twitter feed.
What we are doing: We created a Twitter account for the MacArthur Library (@MacALibrary) and embedded it on our school homepage on May 8, our official launch date. Every school day I post a tweet and picture about something that has happened in the library that day. I do not identify students, nor do I include those on our do-not-photograph list. I retweet posts from our science room, which has its own Twitter account (@MacAScience), and hope to add tweets from other teachers and from the office. The goal is to provide information from different sources in one feed, avoiding a cluttered homepage. Families can follow us on Twitter if they have their own account or check the feed.
Why we are doing it: The idea is to keep our students’ families in the loop in a timely and efficient way. The library has had its own website for a while, but it is cumbersome to update (I do not find Google sites very user-friendly), takes more time to keep current than I have, and requires families to navigate from the school homepage to a separate, albeit linked site. This way we have one-stop information shopping, and I can easily manage to write one or two sentences each day. I take pictures with my phone and post directly to Twitter from there.
Why we are doing it: The idea is to keep our students’ families in the loop in a timely and efficient way. The library has had its own website for a while, but it is cumbersome to update (I do not find Google sites very user-friendly), takes more time to keep current than I have, and requires families to navigate from the school homepage to a separate, albeit linked site. This way we have one-stop information shopping, and I can easily manage to write one or two sentences each day. I take pictures with my phone and post directly to Twitter from there.
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