“Parent Teacher Chat” On Twitter — Guest Post
For people who are not familiar with Twitter, there are many organized opportunities for discussion called “chats.” These are scheduled times when people with interest in a particular topic can communicate and share at the same time. One of these is called Parent Teacher Chat.
I’ve invited Joe Mazza, one of the chat’s organizers, to write a short guest post describing it. Joe Mazza is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, and Principal at Knapp Elementary School in suburban Philadelphia. He is currently completing his dissertation working alongside international family engagement scholar Dr. Joyce Epstein studying social media’s impact on home-school partnerships. He writes a blog calledeFACE Today where he shares electronic Family and Community Engagement strategies. Follow him on Twitter @joe_mazza
You can read a longer post about this topic at his own blog.
On Wednesday night, 12/7 at 9EST, #ptchat (Parent-Teacher) returned to the schedule of much anticipated
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