Before this assignment, I have
tried to use twitter. I mostly just
looked at what others were posting. I really didn’t post anything myself. I really liked the group that all of the
EDIM510 people were put in! It made it easy to read the posts that were from
the people in this class. I follow a ton
of people had have been a member of twitter for years, so the list prevented
the posts from this class from being lost.
I have to say; I loved being on twitter with my classmates. I enjoyed
sharing ideas and seeing other educator’s perspectives.
One
of the benefits that I see using twitter for is teacher collaboration. So far this week, my classmates and I have
discussed iOS applications in the classroom, google+ and edmodo. Twitter is a great way to gather and discuss
resources for the classroom. All of the
major educational software companies and blogs have and use twitter
regularly. One of these companies even
tweeted me back regarding software for the classroom! I also love following
edutopia. This week they posted Project
Based Learning ideas for history! They always post some great ideas and
resources for educators.
In
the classroom, I can see twitter being used in higher-level classes as a way to
communicate with the teacher. It can be
used to share resources, project updates and other academic communications. I
don’t know if I would use it as a Middle School teacher seeing as I can use
edmodo for similar purposes and edmodo is more secure. If I did use it, I would probably create an
account separate from my personal account and I would not follow my
students. I could create projects around
twitter. I would have the students
create a twitter page pretending to be a famous person and to spend a week
posting as that person. Twitter allows
for collaboration, resource sharing and has a ton of information at your
fingertips! I hope that I continue to use twitter like I have this past week!
www.twitter.com
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