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google forms. One hundred and eighty detail their tweeting experience, the
four MTs responded to the survey various themes and their description
request. Of these, 51.6 percent of the on which they have been tweeting and
Mentor Teachers were female and 48.4 how they appropriated twitter for their
percent were male. Further, 81percent professional development.
MTs were TGTs and 19 percent were The analysis of this interview content
PGTs. Almost all MTs (97.8 percent) was done on Braun and Clarke
were post graduates. TGTs and PGTs (2006) approach in which patterns
were of different subjects. Twenty Five of conceptually related content were
percent of the TGT MTs were teachers identified. Content of the tweets
teaching English, 20.1 percent teaching shared by teachers in their survey
Mathematics, 18.5 percent teaching were classified into various themes
Science, 13.6 percent teaching Hindi, as identified in the interviews. The
10.3 percent teaching Social Science, researcher could understand from
1 percent teaching other subjects and Mentor Teachers' shared experiences
the rest were PGTs. Average teaching how they appropriated Twitter in their
experience of these 184 MTs was 18.7 educational settings. In this study
years. It had a wide range from 3 years researcher herself being one of the
to 36 years. Standard deviation of Mentor Teachers was a participant
teaching experience was 7.2 years.
observer. She trained the Mentor
On being asked to share their Teachers in tweeting skill, observed
experience of appropriating Twitter their tweets and participated in tweeting
in the educational settings through an for more than a year. (May 2019 to
open ended question in the survey, the September 2020). Thus, this analysis is
respondents shared their experiences based on grounded theory. However,
in about 50 to 100 words each. this analysis does not build grounded
theory as no theoretical explanations
Interviews are developed on the content tweeted
by the Mentor Teachers. This thematic
Twelve participants were selected for a
telephonic interview based on stratified analysis along with the survey details
random sampling technique- 2 of respondents provided researchers
participants (Mentor Teachers) teaching a starting point of content analysis of
each subject at the secondary school tweets.
level (English, Hindi, Mathematics,
Science, Social Science). These Content Analysis
respondents were at least for 1 year on A dataset of 500 tweets related to
Twitter and on average had tweeted at educational context tweeted by the
least 4 times a week. Mentor Teachers (respondents) was
collected. These 500 tweets were
Each telephonic interview lasted from 15
minutes to 25 minutes. These interviews searched by using certain hashtags
were recorded and transcribed. The used commonly by the respondents.
interviewees were asked to share in These hashtags are #DelhiGovtSchool,
# Prou d D el h i Go v Te ach er,

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