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Sharing of ideas and thoughts Teacher thoughts
on Education
Motivational/Inspirational Inspiring poetry, famous quotes
quotes

Findings It is also important to understand the
range of average number of tweets per
Given below are the findings of the
study in respect of Mentor Teachers’ week tweeted by MTs in the context of
networks and engagement on Twitter, Education. The range varied from 01 to
their reported experiences in this regard 20, average 5.2, standard deviation 3.3.
and their appropriation of Twitter in the Further, responding to their participation
educational settings. in Twitter chat, 64 percent respondents
reported that they had taken part in
Twitter chat. Further in response to use
Mentor Teachers' Networks and
Engagement on Twitter of subject-specific hashtags in tweets,
48 percent respondents reported that
The survey shared data about MTs they used subject-specific hashtags.
networks on Twitter. Their networks
were diverse. Leaving aside the Mentor Reported Experiences of Mentor
Teacher with the highest number of Teachers
followers (4000 followers), the range
of number of followers (teachers/ In response to sharing their experiences
educational professional/ educational as a Mentor Teacher on Twitter, in an
organisation) of MTs on Twitter was open ended question; all 184 MTs shared
from 01 to 1116, average 163.2, standard their experiences in different ways. MTs
deviation 187.9. Range of the people used different adjectives to share their
(educational professionals only) whom experiences. Some of the reported
Mentor Teachers follow on Twitter was experiences were ‘good’, ‘very good’,
00 to 1684, average 197.1 and a Standard ‘wonderful’, ‘great’, ‘amazing’,‘nice’,
deviation of 233.8. This implies that ‘excellent’, ‘unique’, ‘brilliant’, ‘useful’,
Mentor Teachers had developed strong ‘modern’, ‘awesome’, ‘happy’ etc. Some
networks with educational professionals other reported experiences were
on Twitter. MTs’ engagement on ‘normal’, ‘mix’, ‘not much fond of’, ‘not
Twitter in terms of their duration on much happy’ and ‘no comments’ etc.
Twitter was also diverse. Whereas 19.1 Few of the MTs shared their twitter
percent of Mentor Teachers have been experience using a single adjective while
using Twitter for less than one year, the majority reported specific details of
46.7 percent have been using Twitter their tweets along with the adjectives.
between 1 and 2 years and 34.2 percent MTs gave their own perspectives on
have been using Twitter for more than usage and role of twitter in professional
2 years. Further, in the context of the development of twitter.
time frame of checking twitter, it was Fifteen percent of the surveyed
revealed that 58.7 percent MTs checked respondents had reported some issue/
Twitter everyday. issues regarding use of twitter. These

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