Davidson Institute for Talent Development
2009
With gifted organizations and advocates across the country communicating through social networking sites, this article provides links to specific pages on those sites to help advocates increase their connections.
Gifted organizations and advocates across the country are communicating through social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter. Deborah Mersino offers a three-part series on her webpage explaining how gifted education advocates can use Twitter to share information effectively. Her articles are very helpful for beginners trying to learn how to communicate on social networking sites.
Here are links to some of the gifted organizations and advocates on social networking sites:
- American Mensa (Twitter)
- Belin-Blank Center, University of Iowa (Twitter)
- Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) (Facebook, Twitter)
- CTGifted – Connecticut Association for the Gifted (Twitter)
- Davidson Institute for Talent Development (Facebook, Twitter)
- Duke TIP (Twitter)
- Gifted and Talented Association of Montgomery County (MD) (Twitter)
- Gifted Eagle Mountain Saginaw Students, Texas (Facebook)
- Gifted Funding – Activism for funding gifted education (Facebook, Twitter)
- Gifted Homeschoolers Forum (Facebook, Twitter)
- Great Potential Press (Facebook)
- Hoagies' Gifted Education (Facebook Group, Facebook, Twitter)
- Illinois Association for Gifted Children (IAGC) (Facebook, Twitter, GoogleGroups, Ning, Wikispaces, Classroom 2.0)
- Kenneth Lang of the New Jersey Parents’ Interactive Network for Gifted Education (NJPING) (Twitter)
- My Gifted Girl (Facebook, Twitter)
- National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) (Facebook, Twitter)
- NECGT Connecticut (Twitter)
- Ohio Association for Gifted Children (OAGC) (Facebook, Twitter)
- Online G3 (Facebook, Twitter)
- Our Gifted Online Conferences (OGTOC) (Facebook, Twitter, Ning)
- Parent Association for Gifted Children, Inc. Super Saturday Program in Ohio (Facebook)
- Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) (Facebook)
- Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented (Facebook, Twitter)
- The Center for Gifted Studies (Facebook, Twitter)
Here are links to gifted advocacy blogs and other online publications:
If you know of any other gifted organizations or advocates participating in social networking, please email us at administrator@davidsongifted.org and we will update this article.
For additional social networking resources, visit Hoagies' Online Support web page.
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