G LO B A L M AT H T E A C H E R LO U N G E#MTBOS : MATH TWITTER BLOGOSPHERE

#MTBOS – COMMUNITY OF MATH EDUCATORS ON THE INTERWEBS• Twitter• Blogs:

– Partial “RSS Feed” of blogs https://twitter.com/mtbos_blogbot

• Sharing resources• Education chats• Global Math Department: Weekly newsletter and webinar• Book study• SO much more:

–Cool things #MTBoS has done

WHY I #MTBOS? #CONNECTIONS• Question about CMP3 • Expected teachers to answer• Christopher Danielson responded!

WHY I #MTBOS? #CONNECTIONS• https://twitter.com/KhatriMath/status/7

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HOW I #MTBOS?• Joined twitter and became a lurker for about a year!

• Eventually started blogging

• Joined in on a few Ed chats. Lurked and then became a regular: #msmathchat, #SWDmathchat

– Partially updated list of edchats: https://sites.google.com/site/twittereducationchats/education-chat-official-list

HOW I #MTBOS? GLOBAL MATH DEPT.• Global Math Department Newsletter

– Subscribe: https://Bit.ly/GMDnewsletter

• Webinars

HOW I #MTBOS?• MTBoS Search Engine https://bit.ly/MTBOSS

• Following #mtbos stream through an app.

• Asking a lot of questions and tagging #mtbos on tweets. Someone eventually responds!

HOW I #MTBOS? TMC AND MEET UPS• Twitter Math Camp: PD for teachers, by teachers• Face to face• 4 day conference in July• Morning Session that builds on each other for 3 days• Variety of short afternoon sessions• My favorites! (Shorts)

• Regional “tweet ups” for face to face conversations or just problem solving sessions.

HOW I #MTBOS? MY SUPPORT NET WORK• After my colleagues, my biggest support network.