This Tuesday, the Jewish Day School Social Media Academy cohort participated in a Twitter tutorial, digging into the tool and exploring ways of maturing your practice on Twitter. Among other things, we talked about ways schools can develop new content to share on this fast-paced, link-driven network. Here are our top twenty. What are your suggestions?
20 fun ideas for Twitter content:
- Post your school's sports scores, plays and results.
- Tweet photos and bios of your new teachers.
- Post your daily lunch or snack menu if you have one.
- Tweet school cancelations or delays due to weather.
- Tweet articles from local newspapers that discuss your school or issues you care about.
- Share a classroom highlight or insight with a photo or Vine video.
- Tweet a unique school picture of the day for a caption contest.
- Take photos of rehearsals for a school play or concert and/or post a short Vine video to encourage people to attend.
- Tweet quotes from school meetings that are informational or memorable.
- Tweet job openings at your school.
- Tweet upcoming admission, alumni, and other events as reminders.
- Gather "Questions of the Day" from teachers to post (for students as an assignment, or just to model curiosity and learning for your community!).
- Develop a personal learning network by following colleagues and experts in your area (education, Jewish education, specific ages or subjects).
- Conduct research using Twitter Search. Ask questions to tap your network.
- Create a Twitter List of Alumni, and share it!
- Curate and retweet items from related sources (parenting, development, local, Jewish, etc.).
- Do #FF (Follow Friday), #SS (Shabbat Shalom) and other weekly traditions.
- Share news about alumni and their accomplishments.
- Welcome new families to your school community.
- Follow other teachers, schools, alumni, and people in your community and listen to how they use Twitter.