Celebrating Success: #NYCSchoolsTechChat Insights

During our latest #NYCSchoolsTechChat we discussed celebrating success where participants shared great ideas to ensure your year ends with a bang.  @Eileen Lennon led another successful discussion of 92 Tweeps who left more than 1.6 million impressions on those who were following the conversation. We also trended on Twitter in the United States. You can check out stat details at the end of this post and read this tip to the success that makes these Twitter chats so wildly popular. 

An #NYCSchoolsTechChat Tweet I will follow up on is this one:

A5: Heard of this new cool tool. Recap App for students #NYCSchoolsTechChat https://t.co/UbWtgsDRIv

— Darlynn Alfalla (@DarlynnAlfalla) June 1, 2016

An #NYCSchoolsTechChat Tweet that was packed with good ideas is this one which asked us to select one celebration idea that we would do immediately based on Pernille Ripp's article on topic:

Your exit ticket is here. Which of these are you going to do tomorrow? #NYCSchoolsTechChat pic.twitter.com/5kCUP9WFtI

— Eileen Lennon (@eileen_lennon) June 1, 2016

A big thanks to the Tweeps that joined us:















We had nearly 400 Tweets and RTs in that hour, but if you missed the chat, don't despair. You can read the recap below where I neatly captured them all. Check em out and discover what teachers had to say about how they celebrate success and cultivate a community of celebration. Even though the chat is over, you can still jump in and reply to a Tweet or answer a question to share your ideas using #NYCSchoolsTechChat.

Reading: It's Not Always Fun-damental

Parents and teachers work hard to instill a love of reading in young people. In fact, most consider that the love of reading is absolutely essential to a happy, successful, and fulfilling life. They are on an endless pursuit to find ways to cultivate readers or ignite a love of reading.  But what about individuals who prefer not to get their information that way?

There is little tolerance for those who choose not to read. Some are labeled as "struggling" or “reluctant” by well-meaning adults who try to come up with ways to provide help and support to fix the problem. Others may be what some define as aliterate: able to read but uninterested in doing so. There are also young people that are just not interested in reading “yet” or they may not be developmentally ready. In fact there is research and experts such as Alfie Kohn who suggest that all this coercion to try to get young people to read may be backfiring and contributing to both our illiteracy problem as well as creating non-readers.  

This young rubber band jewelry maker shared with me how she
learns and refines her craft by watching  YouTube videos. 

The Hottest Posts Everyone's Reading

I love writing posts that help other innovative educators. This week, I did just that.  First up is one where we see what happens when we stop telling students what is right for them and instead, start asking them.  Check out the post on how to stop fighting social media and start working with students to learn more.  Next up is an amazing new tool that used to cost $10 per user and is now free.  If your students or teachers don’t know how to use spreadsheets, word processing, or presentation software, that’s okay.  They can use Synergyse which is now free, courtesy of Google. After that is a tool to make presentations more interactive for your students or audience.  Finally, a post on how you can do your job better by eliciting helpful feedback.  If any of these posts look of interest, check em out below and share with others.

Entry	Pageviews
Stop Fighting Social Media. Start Working with Stu... May 22, 2016,	5128
Free Google Apps Training for All with @Synergyse May 15, 2016,	3946
Make Presentations Interactive with Google Slides ... May 11, 2016,	3601
7 Time Savers for Innovative Educators May 21, 2016,	2971
4 Ideas For Gathering Feedback To Help You Do Your... May 18, 2016,	2262

Celebrating Success - The #NYCSchoolsTechChat You Won't Want to Miss

The school year is winding down and what better way to end the year than to celebrate success?

Agree? 

Then, you won't want to miss tonight's popular #NYCSchoolsTechChat where we'll give you ideas to ensure your year ends with a bang.  This chat has become so popular, even trending on Twitter, due to the talents of host @Eileen Lennon, the expertise of our partner @Common Sense Ed, and their digital citizenship guru @TaliCSM, and the amazing insights from #NYCSchoolsTech teachers and all the globally connected members of their personal learning network. 

Wondering how they do it? You can find out how to host your own killer chat here.  

I hope you'll join us for today's #NYCSchoolsTechChat at 4 pm EST where we'll discuss the best ways to celebrate student and teacher success and share ways to bring parents into this conversation. We'll look at the best tools for celebrating success.  We'll also look at the sensitive topic of how to celebrate your success in ways so that others don't get jealous. Read @pernilleripp's insights on that topic here.

Here is the question lineup: