Davidson Institute for Talent Development
Last updated: 2011
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 (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube)
- Bavarian Centre for Gifted and Talented Children in Germany (Facebook, Twitter)
- Belin-Blank Center, University of Iowa (Twitter)
- Boulder Gifted Parent Support (BoulderGPS) in Colorado (Facebook)
- Boulder Valley Gifted and Talented (BVGT) in Colorado (Facebook, Twitter)
- California Association for the GIfted (CAG) (Twitter)
- Center for Excellence in Education (Facebook)
- Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University (Twitter)
- Colorado Association of Gifted (CAGT) (Twitter)
- Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) (Facebook, Twitter)
- CTGifted – Connecticut Association for the Gifted (Twitter)
- Davidson Institute for Talent Development (Facebook, Twitter)
- Des Moines Tag (DMTAG) (Twitter)
- Duke TIP (Twitter)
- Exquisite Minds: Gifted and Talented Children (Facebook)
- Florida Gifted Network (Facebook, Twitter)
- Gifted and Talented Association of Montgomery County (MD) (Twitter)
- Gifted Canada (Twitter)
- Gifted Eagle Mountain Saginaw Students, Texas (Facebook)
- Gifted Education Press (Twitter)
- Gifted Funding – Activism for funding gifted education (Facebook, Twitter)
- Gifted Homeschoolers Forum (Facebook, Twitter)
- Gifted in Michigan (Facebook)
- Gifted in Wisconsin (Facebook)
- Gifted Resources founder, based in Australia (Twitter)
- Great Potential Press (Facebook, Twitter)
- GT Parent Connection in Reno, Nevada (Facebook)
- GT Society in New Hampshire (Twitter)
- HEROES Gifted in New Jersey (Facebook, Twitter)
- Hoagies' Gifted Education (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)
- Maryland Coalition for Gifted and Talented Education (Facebook)
- Mathcamp - Canada and USA (Twitter)
- Mensa Education & Research Foundation (Facebook)
- Michigan State University (MSU) Gifted (Twitter)
- My Gifted Girl (Facebook, Twitter)
- National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) (Facebook, Twitter)
- NECGT Connecticut (Twitter)
- Northwest Gifted Child Association for Parents (NWGCA) (Facebook)
- Ohio Association for Gifted Children (OAGC) (Facebook, Twitter)
- Online G3 (Facebook, Twitter)
- Our Gifted Online Community (OGTOC) (Facebook, Ning)
- Parent Association for Gifted Children, Inc. Super Saturday Program in Ohio (Facebook)
- Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education (PAGE) (Facebook, Twitter, Blogspot)
- Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education affiliate - Upper Dublin PAGE (Facebook, Twitter)
- Prodigy Northwest (Facebook)
- Prufrock Press (Facebook, Twitter)
- Purdue Gifted Education Resource Institute (GERI) (Twitter) and GERI Summer Residential Camp (Twitter)
- Rhode Island Advocates for Gifted Education (Facebook)
- Richardson Gifted in Texas (Twitter)
- Rochester SAGE (Supporting Advanced & Gifted Education), a grassroots organization of parents, students, and teachers in Michigan’s Rochester Community Schools (WordPress, Facebook)
- SC Gifted Consortium (Twitter)
- Summer Institute for the Gifted (SIG) (Twitter)
- Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) (Facebook, Twitter)
- Sycamore GEAR in Cinncinnati, Ohio (Twitter)
- Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented (Facebook, Twitter)
- The Center for Gifted Studies in Bowling Green, Ky. (Facebook, Twitter)
- Utah SENG (Twitter)
- Vegas Gifted (Twitter)
- Washington Coalition for Gifted Education for legislative advocacy (Facebook)
- WG Gifted in Missouri (Twitter)
Here are links to gifted advocacy blogs and other online publications:
- 2e: Twice-Exceptional Newsletter Blog (Facebook)
- A Gifted Journey by Kathee Jones
- About.com's Gifted Children Blog by Carol Bainbridge
- Bella Online Gifted Education Page with editor Lorel Shea (Twitter)
- Coppell Gifted Association's Blog (Facebook)
- Creativity 2.0 with David Sebek (Twitter)
- Educating the Gifted and Talented
- From the Deep with Lisa Lauffer, life coach to gifted grownups and parents of gifted children (Twitter)
- Gifted Children Information with Carol Fertig, Prufrock Press (Twitter)
- Gifted Exchange with Laura Vanderkam
- Gifted Parenting Support with L.J. Conrad (Facebook, Twitter)
- Gifted Phoenix's Blog - Gifted Phoenix is a UK-based consultant in – and commentator on – gifted and talented education
- Gifted – unwrapping the present… - GT Teacher
- High Ability with Jeanne Bernish (Twitter)
- Hormone-colored Days with Kim Moldofsky - Musings on parenting gifted children and more. (Twitter)
- Innreach Blog - LesLinks Ireland - Gifted, Talented & Creative Support by Leslie Graves (Twitter)
- Irish Gifted Education Blog (Twitter - Catherine Riordan, Twitter - Karen McCarthy, Facebook)
- Ingeniosus with Deborah Mersino (Twitter)
- Laughing at Chaos with Jen, parent of a twice-exceptional son (Twitter)
- Loving Your Gifted Child with Miss E, about the joys and challenges of parenting gifted kids
- Prufrock's Gifted Education Blog with Joel McIntosh, Prufrock Press
- Suite 101 Magazine ~ Parenting Gifted Children with Therese Haberman (Twitter)
- Teach A Gifted Kid - GT Specialist (Twitter)
- Technology and the Gifted Program with Michelle (Twitter, Facebook, Google+ parent group for gifted education)
- The "More" Child: Extreme giftedness, re-forming education, homeschooling, parenting and more from the Washington, D.C. suburbs
- Washington Coalition for Gifted Education: A blog for legislative advocacy
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.
Gifted Chats on Twitter Parents, educators and gifted education advocates worldwide are meeting on Twitter to share resources, ideas and innovative new ways of thinking about gifted issues through online chats every Friday. Organized by gifted advocate Deborah Mersino, these chats offer an opportunity to discuss specific topics every Friday - one topic at noon and one at 7 p.m. (EST) - using the hashtag #gtchat. Participants can vote for the #gtchat topics each week via a "Twtpoll." Click here for more information, follow Deborah on Twitter or search for #gtchat on Twitter.
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