Call me childish, or dorky, but I still giggle on the inside a bit when I hear that people are Tweeting things. It's just a silly sounding phrase. I do have to say that I am becoming slowly more addicted to this new PLN idea as the days pass. I have the Twitter app on my phone, so it's easy to just take a few minutes to scroll through and look at a few articles here and there that people have shared. I have decided to use my account for professional use only. I have Facebook for the personal side of my life. I am following lots of other educators, educational blogs and magazines, and technology related sites. Mostly I think that in this beginning phase, I will be more of a retweeter than a tweeter. I am looking mostly for ideas of how to incorporate technology into my lessons.
One of the 4th grade teachers in my building is using Twitter as a communication tool between his class and the parents of his students. He Tweets reminders to them and updates on assignments. He also has his account set up to post his Tweets to his classroom Facebook page. I decided this is an ultimate goal I have for my own class. By the end of the quarter I am going to try very hard to have this all set up. He did tell me that there are more parents checking their Facebook page than there are following him on Twitter though. Still, I want to get this going SOON! You can find me on Twitter @MrsAMolitor.
Lastly, here are some people I follow on Twitter that I LOVED as presenters at the past few METC conferences. They are all GENIUSES! Kevin is the keynote this year at METC! I can't wait to see him again.
Rushton Hurley
Tammy Worcester
Kevin Honeycutt
Adam Bellow
Peter Buffett
You mentioned that a teacher in your school uses Twitter to communicate with parents. The superintendent of my school district uses this as a communicate tool to relay to students that school is cancelled due to the weather. Recently, the students were hashtagging #callitoffdiane in support of her calling it off due to snow. This was actually a nationally trending hashtag. So now the first place most of the students and parents look is on her Twitter page. She went from 100 followers to 2,500 within days. It is crazy how powerful social media can be. Thank you for the names of the keynote speakers! I will add them also!
ReplyDeleteYes....you are becoming a Tweeter in the Twitterverse. Ha! Kathy Schrock was a presenter at the METC before too and I really like following her. I always learn something from her. Here is her Twitter account - https://twitter.com/kathyschrock
ReplyDeleteAmy my husband laughs at me every time I tell him I need to Tweet or Blogg! He goes it's a waste of time... I tell him to quit checking Facebook so much and I will stop blogging and tweeting! But I'm like you the first time I learned about Twitter which I think was about 3 years ago now I would laugh too when people would say they were tweeting. I do like how you stated above that all these status updates on account can be linked!
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