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#LetsTalkEducation, #HappinessClass, different codes that had been decided
#DelhiEducationRevolution, #EMC, after thematic analysis of the interview.
Both the researchers compared
#DelhiEducationOnline. The 500 tweets
have been identified in such a manner and discussed the codes that finally
that they cover tweets tweeted in the emerged after the interviews. These
entire period of the study (May 2019 to codes were achievements, classroom
September 2020). These tweets give a activities, resource sharing, events,
fair representation of different periods online teaching learning and other
of school activities and pandemic period activities performed by teachers
activities. during pandemic, sharing of thoughts
and ideas on education, motivational
This dataset of 500 tweets along with and inspirational quotes. This was
findings from the survey and interviews followed by 2 iterations. Finally, both
were triangulated to infer the meaning the researchers reached agreement
and essence of tweets tweeted by the on 93 percent of their observations.
Mentor Teachers. This meaning and This process helped develop the final
essence paved a path for developing an code book and meaning of various
understanding of how MTs appropriated tweets to be included in this. Tweet
Twitter in their educational settings. Codes developed remained the same as

These tweets were hand-coded to decided post interviews. Each tweet was
identify the emerging themes. For assigned just one code.
this, two researchers independently Tweet Codes along with their description
analysed 50 tweets in a set. The have been given in the table below.
researchers categorised the tweets in
Table-1: Tweet Codes and Description

Code Description
Achievements Students’ achievements,
Teachers’ achievements,
Schools’ achievement,
Achievements of self
Classroom activities Teaching Learning activities
Resource Sharing Blogs,
YouTube links,
Links to tools related to education
Events Parent Teacher Meeting, Annual Day,
Sports Meet, School Management Committee
Meeting etc
Online Teaching Learning and Online worksheets,
other activities of teachers during Teacher professional development sessions,
pandemic teachers' duties in hunger relief centres
and other field duties.

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