The Unofficial Index to Educational Hashtags

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INDEX

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* UPDATES*

29/6 update: I’ve removed “Twitter” from the heading as use of hashtags has extended beyond Twitter and can now be seen in Facebook and G+, for example :)

Q:        I’m new to Twitter. Where should I start?

A:        I’d suggest you start here. It’s a “scoop” containing links to introductory articles.

Q:     What is a hashtag?

A:        It’s a word beginning with the  #(hash) symbol. Only the Roman alphabet and numbers are allowed. No spaces or special characters are permitted. It can be placed anywhere within a tweet. Cases are irrelevant, i.e. upper and lower cases are treated alike.

Q:        What purpose does it serve?

A:        It is used to mark keywords or topics. It’s useful for categorizing messages and is searchable by search engines.

Q:        How does it work?

A:        If you click on the hashtag, you’ll get all the latest tweets with that tag. You can do a search on it and if you’re using a Twitter client such as Tweetdeck, you can set columns for hashtags of your choice.

Q:        Who controls them?

A:        This is both its strength and its weakness. There is no control or ownership of hashtags whatsoever. Anyone can create a hashtag
         and anyone can tweet with any hashtags. Only Twitter
Terms of Service apply

Q:        How can it work then?

A:        It works because it relies on tweeps being respectful people. There are always party poopers everywhere, but, by and large, people
         obey the unwritten etiquette.

Q:        So, there are no rules?

A:        The unwritten rules are:

  1. Don’t spam with hashtags. Use hashtags on tweets relevant to the topic.
  2. Don’t over-hashtag. Two or three should be enough.
  3. Avoid using established hashtags for a different topic. It’s rather irritating to have your column of #ELT bombarded by some silly MOR pop song propaganda.

        This is one of the reasons why I started this document. I’m hoping it will be used by all educators using hashtags so that duplication
         can be avoided. Doing a general index is not within my scope at the moment.

Q:        Can I add a hashtag?

A:        Yes, you can, and please do. It used to be that you can do it directly onto this document but persistent abuse means that I had to remove that right. On the plus side for the majority, it’s far simpler now. Just fill in the form here: http://goo.gl/UHFq2d

1,2,3,4,5,6

#1stchat

First grade teachers chat on Sundays at 8pm ET. See here Also, 1st Chat blog

#1to1courage

International 1:1 Computing Conference, Dec 2-3, 2013, Atlanta, GA

#1to1techat

Discussion about 1:1 devices in the classroom. http://1to1techat.wordpress.com/

Note: some issue with Google Docs which prevents me from inserting links.

#21CL

21st century learner

#21stedchat

21st century educators

#2ndchat

Second grade teachers chat every Wednesday at 7pm CST

#3rdchat

Third grade teachers chat on Wednesdays at

#3dholoedu

3D Holographic Technology for Educators

#3dholomooc

3D Holographic MOOCs

#4ITS

A twitter chat for Instructional Technology Staff. Takes place on Fridays. See here

#4thchat

Fourth grade teachers chat on Mondays at 8 pm ET 7 pm CT. See here.

#5thchat

Fifth grade teachers chat on Tuesdays at 8pm ET

A

#abed

Alberta Educators and Alberta Department of Education

#addcym

Addysg Cymru. Platform for Welsh educators. See here.

#AfricaEd

Slow chat for Tweple who are interested in education in Africa

afterschoolworks#

afterschool programs and afterschool program resources

#AGHS2014

Talk for Alabama  Governor's honors students in the class of 2014

#AHTC

The American History Teacher’s Collaborative (a TAH project) @AHTC_Urbana116

#aimlang

AIM (Accelerative Integrated Method) language teachers here

#ALevel

GCE Advanced Level (A-level) discussions

#AltAc

Alternative careers for academics http://www.alt-academix.com/

#andragogy

Andragogy (man-leading) - Adult & Vocational Education See here. See also #VocEd.

#APITS

Anibal Pacheco :: Instructional Technology Solutions - Helping Educators build Learning Networks with like-minded professionals who are passionate about sharing knowledge. See here.

#arted

art education

#artsed

arts education chat

#Asiaelt

fortnightly chat hosted by British Council. See here.

#AsiaLiteracy

discussion on Asia literacy topics (language, culture, history, geography)

#atpeeps

for anyone interested in assistive technology tools, strategies, and practices

#AusELT

platform for ELT in Australia. See here.

#austl

Australian Teacher Librarian chat

#autism

for anyone interested in things related to autism

#AVIDchat

Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID) topics

B

#badassteachers

Ga     A group of teachers dedicated to fight against corporate educational reform

#bastt

Bring A School to Twitter - Building a collection of schools who tweet, to give those writing and reading these a wider audience.

#battt

Bring a Teacher to Twitter. Encouraged for use with tweets and posts for teachers new to twitter, to help them get the most out of Twitter professionally. Also used to encourage new followers. See here.

There are also country-specific derivatives, including #batttuk, #batttie et al.

#BCed

platform for British Columbia educators. See here.

#BCedchat

Weekly discussion about a variety of education topics for teachers in BC. Sunday's at 7pm PST.

#bclearns

General education information for British Columbia educators (or anyone else who wants to contribute)

#BESIG

Business English Special Interest Group of IATEFL. See here.

#BFC630NZ

BreakFast Chat New Zealand @kerriattamatea

#blogmust

highly-recommended blog postings

#BReltChat

chat platform for the Brazilians. See here.

#bullying

join the fight against bullying

#buzzword

new popular words

#BYOD4L, #BYOD4Lchat

Bring your own device for learning

C

#CAE

Cambridge English: Advanced

#caedchat

California educator chat; Sunday 8:00 pm PST

#ccss

Common Core State Standards

#cdnedchat

Canadian Ed Chat for Educators

#CELTA

Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, formerly 'Certificate in English Language

Teaching to Adults', hence the acronym.

#CGSUSA

discussions and quotations related to Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, a Montessori based religious ed program used in numerous parochial school worldwide

#clil

Content and Language Integrated Learning

#Comments4Kids

comments on students’ posts. See here.

#cpchat

Connected Principals. See here.

#cpd

continuous/continuing professional/personal development. See also #profdev.

#CPE

Cambridge English: Proficiency

#cr8edu

creative education ideas/stories/resources

#cybergogy

Cybergogy - Cybernetics & Education See here

D

#DELTA

Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

#DENchat

Discovery Educator Network chat.

#dhelt

demand-high ELT. See here.

#diffimooc

MOOC on ed-tech to differentiate instruction.  Twitter chats Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 6-7pm AKST

#digcit

digital citizenship

#Digitalbadges

Educational content related to digital and online badges @wavesbryant

#digitalstudies

Discussion of IT in education, largely UK based.

#digped

digital pedagogy. See here.

#DLChat

Discussion on using student Digital Leaders. Every Thursday at 9pm UK Time

#dogme

discussion on dogme or teaching unplugged

#dramaclassnow

Questions and answers about best practices in the secondary drama classroom @dramaclassnow

#dtk12chat

Design Thinking in grades K-12; Every Wednesday at 9pm US-EST/6pm US-PST; Post-chat show GHO

E

#eal

English as an additional language. See here.

#eap

English for academic purposes

#eapchat

English for Academic Purposes discussions. See here.

#earlyed

early education. See #kinderchat

#ebshare

Edublogs retweets of teacher blog posts. See also #blogmust

#ece

early childhood education. See also: #earlyed...

#econ1

AS level Economics Module 1, mostly news clippings & resources relevant to Economics

#econ2

AS level Economics Module 2, mostly news clippings & resources relevant to Economics

#econ3

A2 level Economics Module 3, mostly news clippings & resources relevant to Economics

#econ4

A2 level Economics Module 4, mostly news clippings & resources relevant to Economics

#edapp

educational apps

#edbkchat

discussions on educational books, #edbkchat is a good resource for continuing education, Wednesdays at 4pm EST.

#edcamp

Conference Model Built on Collaboration. See here.

#edchat

global education discussions. See here.

#edchatIE

specially for Irish educators. See here.

#EdChatMA

Massachusetts USA education news, issues and ideas. See here.

#edchatSA

chat for the South African education community. See here.

#edchatnz

Chat for New Zealand Educators

#edteach

pre-service teachers - chat every other Tuesday 8 pm EST

#edtech

technology for educational purposes

#edtechbc

Technology and education stream for British Columbia educators (but anyone is welcome to contribute)

#edtools

Why another? Obsolete. Use #edtech

#education

better to use #edu, but it’s really too general.

#educoach

Educational Coach (such as a learning coach)

#eduoutcome

Outcome Based Education OBE

#edupunk

resources for DIY approach to technology in education

#edutech

obsolete. Why use an extra character? Use #edtech

#efl

English as a foreign language

#EI

Early Intervention

#EIL

English as an International Language (aka Global English)

#elearn

I’d suggest using this rather than the longer #elearning

#elemchat

platform for elementary/primary school educators. See here.

#elf

English as a lingua franca, but I’m afraid you’ll get lots of other non-related stuff

#ell

English language learning

#ellchat

English language learning chat platform. See here.

#elt

English language teachers/teaching

#eltchat

English language teaching discussions. See here.

#elttchat

English language teacher training chat.

#eltpics

Images by teachers for teachers. Licensed under Creative Commons. See here.

#EMchat

All things higher ed enrolment management related! Thurs 9PM ET

#engchat

for English teachers. See here.

#engpls

Tweets for English learners. Consider using only #twinglish.

#engtwit

Obsolete. Use #twinglish.

#EnviroEd

Conversation about environmental education. May also include experiential and outdoor education. #EnviroEdchat meets Wednesday nights at 9 p.m. EST. See archived #EnviroEd chats..

#esl

English as a second language

#esol

English for Speakers of Other Languages

#esp

English for specific purposes

#ETAS

English teachers association of Switzerland. See here.

F

#FCE

Cambridge English: First

#fcslead

Forsyth County Schools (GA) shares ways that it is leading the nation with Instructional Technology

#FF

Follow Friday. Used for recommending teachers worth following. Used on Fridays. See #TT

#finnedchat

all about Finnish education. See here.

#flatclass

Flat classroom teachers See here

#FLE

Français comme langue étrangère

#FLedChat

Weekly Chat that helps FL teachers connect to the world

#flipchat

chat platform for flipped classroom educators. See here.

#flipclass

platform for those interested in the flipped classroom.

#flippedclassroom

Obsolete. Use the shorter #flipclass. All about the flipped classroom

#fliplearning

content related to flip learning

#flippedtip

daily tweet with practical tips on a variety of flipped teaching and learning methods/ideas/concepts by @julieschell See here.

G

#gafe

Google Apps for Education

#gamemooc

game-based learning

#gbl

game-based learning

#gcmPLN

A small Personal Learning Network for local teachers in developing countries who are being trained by Global Citizen Media to own and teach an ICT/ Media education curriculum in underserved areas.

#GCSE

General Certificate of Secondary Education discussions

#GeniusHour

Follow the hashtag and chat once a month, first Wednesday of the month at 8pm CST, about “genius” learning. Students are given a time period where they can choose what they want to learn--being productive and creative as they learn what they love. See here.

#GeographyTeacher

#gifted

see #gtchat

#globalclassroom

Good for finding global collaboration / connections, sharing #globaled practice. Official chats run monthly over 3 days. Click here for schedule

#GlobalEd

see #education

#GlobalEd12

Global education conference 12-16 Nov 2012. See here.

#globalkids

Globalkids

#GlobalOE

Global Old English (c. 700 - 1220)

#grammar

all to do with English grammar. Although it says ‘grammar’, you’ll see tweets regarding spelling, punctuation, etc.

#gtchat

gifted and talented education chat on 19:00 EST. See also #gifted.

H

#hacatch

Harry Ainlay High School Catchment in Edmonton, Alberta

#hacklearningseries

Brief videos and articles about Hack Learning from the Hack Learning Series, edited by @markbarnes19

#HistoryTeacher

I

#iacomped

Iowa competency based education movement

#iacopi

Iowa Communities of Practice on Blended Learning

#iaedfuture

Iowans (and others) weigh in on the Ed Reform movement in Iowa

#iaedldr

Iowa Administrators and other school leaders

#iasku

video interviews with teachers. See here.

#IATEFL

International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language. See here.

#ibmyp

International Baccalaureate® (IB) Middle Years Programme. See here.

#ibpyp

International Baccalaureate® (IB) Primary Years Programme. See #

pypchat

#ICT4E

Obsolete. Use #edtech

#ICT4Edu

Why waste the characters? Obsolete. Use #edtech

#ICTCurric

Discussion on ICT Curriculum, largely UK based.

#IELTS

International English Language Testing System

#ILedAdmin

Information shared among Illinois Educational Administrators

#ILedchat

Ed chat specifically for Illinois issues (everyone welcome!)

#intledchat

Information related to International Schools, education, and internationalism

#IOLchat

Join Inside Online Learning for a weekly chat featuring issues related to online education. See here.

#iowa1to1

Iowa 1 to 1 movement

#ipadchat

name speaks for itself. See here.

#isedchat

platform for independent school educators. See here.

#istconf

IATEFL teacher development and learning technologies SIG joint conference in Turkey 2012. See here.

#iste

International Society for Technology in Education. See here.

#iste12

used for ISTE 2012 conference

#iTDi

International Teacher Development Institute. See here.

J

#JALT

The Japan Association for Language Teaching. See here.

#jed21

Jewish Education

#jedchat

Jewish education chat

#JLNttip

Joyful Learning Network Teacher Tip of the Day - tips for teachers, most often rooted in the concept of bringing joy to teaching and learning. See here.

K

#k12

for educators in grades K-12

#kedu

Obsolete.Doesn’t work very well as some Indonesians are using this for other purposes. I’d suggest using either #kinderchat or #yle.

#KELTchat

platform for ELT in Korea. See here.

#kidlit

literacy for children. See here.

#kidschatnz

NZ children discuss on twitter under supervision of teachers

#kinderchat

platform for early childhood educators. See here.

#ksed

education in Kansas

L

#langchat

weekly discussion on topics of interest to language educators (Thursdays 8 p.m. EST). See here.

#LookingClosely

Educators of young children using Twitter in the classroom to take photos of outdoor flora and fauna, then tweeting a question about their findings. Many outdoor educators reply including @RangerRidley. The network now has a blog dedicated to LookingClosely.

#LTHEchat

Learning and Teaching in Higher Education tweetchat

#LTSIG

IATEFL learning technologies special interest group. See here.

M

#mathchat

chat platform for mathematics teachers. See here.

#MedEd

medical education (i.e. teaching medical students etc)

#mediachat

media specialists

#mfl

modern foreign languages.

also: Music for Life.

#midleved

the middle grades (6-8). Also #middleschool

#MLE

discussion on Modern Learning Environments

#mlearn

discussions on mobile learning. I’d suggest using this rather than the longer #mlearning.

#montessori

discussions related to Montessori education

#mooc

massive open online course. See here.

#mschat

middle school teachers chat

#msftpil

Microsoft Partners in Learning. See here.

#musedchat

for music educators. See here.

#myp

middle years programme. See also #ibmyp

N

#NATECLA

National Association for Teaching English and other Community Languages to Adults. (UK) See here

#ncte

National Council of Teachers of English

#niedchat

chat for those with an interest in Northern Ireland Education.

#NJED

Chat for NJ educators, all topics

#ntchat

chat for new teachers, pre-service teachers and those teachers new to the profession See here

O

#ocw

open courseware

#openedu

open education

#ozedchat

chat for educators primarily in Oz or Nz. See here.

#ozprimschchat

Every Thursday evening at 2045 AEST / AEDT during school terms. Discussion around curriculum and pedagogy for primary school teachers. Chat hosted by @johnqgoh or guests.

#ozscichat

fortnightly chat for educators involved in science education in Australia

#ozscied

science education in Australia, and events associated with the Australian Science Teachers Association

#ozseries

alerts for primarily Australian educators See Australia eSeries

P

#PATUE

Pedagogy and Technology Chat Tuesday 5 PST/ 8EST hosted by @sampatue info at PATUE.org

#pblchat

Project Based Learning. Although there is no set time for the discussion (like #edchat), #pblchat allows educators to share and discuss project based learning resources.

#pblworld

worldwide group of educators who are focused on empowering 21st century learners through Project Based Learning. See here.

#pbs

Positive Behavior Supports. School Behavior and how to manage it successfully and positively.

#pd

professional development. See also #profdev, #cpd, #td

#pedagoofriday

resources and links related to education, I suppose on pedagogy

#Peel21st

#edtech conversation with educators of the Peel District School Board in Ontario, Canada.

#peerinstruction

tweets about the teaching method, Peer Instruction, developed by Eric Mazur - Wikipedia entry or 2 min explanatory video here

#pegeeks

for those in physical education

#PGCE

Postgraduate Certificate in Education

#phdchat

#phdchat is a Twitter chat channel created by Nasima Riazat, better known as @NSRiazat, who runs a live #phdchat session for UK and European (though open to all!) students at 7.30pm-8.30pm GMT on Wednesday nights.

#PhysicsEd

#pln

personal/professional/passionate learning network

#prek

pre-school. Not sure how much this is used. See #kinderchat, #yle

#profdev

professional development. See also #cpd, #td, #pd

#Project366

related to Project366. An image a day for the whole year (2012). See here.

#PTchat

Parents-teachers chat. See here.  Every Wednesday at 9pm EST.

#pypchat

chat platform for the primary years programme. See here. See also #ibpyp.

Q

#qldelt

platform for ELT in Queensland, Australia

#qrcodes

how educators are using QR codes

R

#Redeschat

networked learning about a hashtag. See here.

#RPsig

reflective practice special interest group in Korea (hopefully someday around the world). See here.

#RSCON

Reform Symposium

#RuralEdChat

Weekly Chat that discusses issues related to being a rural educator.

#rwworkshop

Reading/Writing Workshop chat http://rwworkshop.wikispaces.com First Wednesday of each month at 9PM ET

S

#sadcal

related to strategies appearing in any “Strategy-A-Day” Calendar

#saskedchat

chat for K - 12 teachers with a Saskatchewan focus. Moderator: @kwhobbes

#Satchat

7:30am EST/PST  Chat for Current and aspiring leaders in education

#SatChatOC

Saturday Chat Oceania

#SCCrowd

This is an International School Counsellor Chat for School Counsellors Worldwide. It is a chat with a difference.

#scichat

for science teachers. See here.

#SEN

Special Educational Needs, Unfortunately, this is used for other meanings, too. Also goes by the longer tag of #specialneeds

#SEXed

resources, ideas, opinions about comprehensive sex education. See here. 

#sigml

Information for SIGML, which is the special interest group for mobile learning associated with ISTE

#SigTC

information for SigTC, which is the special interest group for Tech Coordinators associated w/ ISTE

#skolechat

Chat on education for Danish educators (mostly in Danish)

#Slide2Learn

platform for tweets about iPad, iPhone and iPod in education. See here. See also #mlearn & #edtech.

#SLPeeps

for speech language pathologists.

#sm

social media.art

#smartee

Tuesday @ 8:00 CST is #SMARTee chat time! connect with your #PLN to discuss student-centered learning topics with a technology connection

#smchat

social media chat. See here.

#smedu

Why not just use #smchat?

this is not a hashtag that anyone uses, see http://tagwalk.com/smedu

#SOLOtaxonomy

SOLO taxonomy structure of the Observed LearningOutcome, is a means of classifying learning outcomes in terms of their complexity - Biggs and Collis

#speced

special education. See also #spedchat.

#specialneeds

see #SEN

#spedchat

special education chat. See here.

#spnchat

all about successful practices in education and education reform, every Tuesday.

#sschat

social studies chat. See here.

#STEM

Science Technology Engineering and Math

#stm12

StudentsMeet - webinars run by students for students

#stuvoice

Mondays at 8:30 PM EDT -- www.stuvoice.org 

T

#TalkTech

participants share articles and ideas on learning technology Thursdays from 3 to 3:30 pm EST.

#tcea13

used for the 2013 Texas Computer Education Association Convention in Austin

#TD

Teacher development. See also: #profdev, #cpd, #pd.

#TDSIG

IATEFL Teacher Development Special Interest Group (TDSIG). See here.

#teachchat

learn about the latest in classrooms from other teachers, Wednesday evenings at 9 pm EST.

#TeachingEnglish

resources via the British Council. See here.

#TeachMeet

Teach Meet International. See here.

#TeachMeetNZ

Teachmeet Virtual for New Zealand Teachers TeachMeetNZ

#TEFL

Teaching English as a foreign language

#TESOL

Teachers of English to speakers of other languages

Teachers of English as a Second Language Association

#tesolgeek

hashtag for those that want to “confess” geeky things they’ve done related to TESOL

#txed

for Texas Educators

#Thewonderofwonder

discover the wonders of education

#TIAEBrasil

learning technologies in Brazil (English/Portuguese)

#tichat

On Thursdays at 8pm EST, tech-savvy educators discuss the latest in educational technology.

#TitleTalk

Home to great conversations about how to best promote reading to our students and the titles we can share with them (and each other).

#tlchat

By teacher-librarians: resources for curriculum, content, literacy and tech. Monthly Twitter chat and Google Hangout

#tmwa

TeachMeet Western Australia

#TOEFL

Test of English as a Foreign Language

#TOEIC

Test of English for International Communication

#TT

Teacher Tuesday. Used for recommending teachers worth following. Used on Tuesdays. See #FF

#TTOC

Teachers Teaching On Call (casual, supplementary, substitute teachers in B.C.)

#TTOG

Teachers Throwing Out Grades, discussing formative assessment Monday 7PM ET

#ttot

not exactly an educational hashtag, but one which is related ;-) Travel talk on Twitter. See here.

#twinglish

for learners of English

U

#ukedchat

as the tag implies, educational chat centred more on UK. See here.

#UKGovChat

chat forum for UK school governors (Sunday nights 8:45-9:15 pm)

#UnfollowBullying

a student-led initiative to fight bullying.

#urbaned

all about making urban education work, hosted every first and third Sunday of the month at 9pm EST.

#USD116pd

PD resources and chats for Urbana School District #116, Illinois

#UTedChat

Used by Utah educators and also correlates to a weekly chat held on Wed. from 9-10pm MST.

V

#VAASL

Virginia Association of School Librarians. Follow @fhslibrary

#vicpln

Resources shared by educators in Victoria, Australia

#vlang

Virtual Language Learning

#VocEd

vocational education

#vrt

Virtual Round Table.  See here.

#vrtwebcon

Virtual round table conference. See above.

W

#WAedu

Relevant for Western Australian education/educators - all sectors

#washk12

Used by teachers in the Washington County School District in Southwestern Utah.

#webheads

Webheads - Community of Practice

#wltf

Wales Learning Technology Forum - the leading Ed Tech community in Wales, UK

X

Y

#yle

young learners

#yltsig

IATEFL young learners and teenagers SIG. See here.

Z

Comments

Comment from @healthcareWen: Thanks for putting together a list.

However many of the hashtags listed are NOT commonly used hashtags (i.e. no one else is using it nor are they searching for it), so it is misleading to list it here. Search http://tagwalk.com and you’ll see how often it’s been used in recent weeks plus suggestions of other hashtags to consider.

 Hashtags are most meaningful for people who are interested in similar topic to search for others with similar interests, but people generally only search for the commonly used hashtags. (Now if you have an uncommon hashtag, you can make it common by widely publicizing and encouraging its use, but that takes a lot of effort and often doesn’t get far.)  It’s best to stick with the “popular” hashtags , especially for people new to Social Media (& remove the “unused” or obsolete hashtags to avoid confusion). (More advanced users have better understanding of how to curate very niche topics)

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