Tuesday, January 21, 2014

EDET 543 - Blog #2

I have been using Twitter in my personal life for a few years now and I absolutely love it. Twitter has definitely taken over as the main social media site I use. I mostly follow my friends, but I have also followed accounts that have to do with my interests (NFL football, running, nutrition, etc.). I had not thought about using Twitter professionally until I began the MET program last year. I started a new account that would be used for that purpose, but I honestly have not done much with it.

This week I have really started looking around at all the people out there I can connect with through Twitter. I think this is going to be my favorite tool to use for a PLN. I am already familiar with using Twitter and check my personal account constantly so I think it will be fairly easy to transition to using it professionally as well. I had never used or even heard of TweetDeck before, so I am still learning that tool but it seems it will be helpful.

I am really excited about all the ways I can use Twitter. Until I actually have a classroom, I feel a little limited but I can definitely make note of all the good ideas I see to use when I do have a class. I think once I have a classroom I would also like to use Twitter for parent communication. It seems like a great, easy way to send out quick reminders as well as links to student work. Depending on the age of my students, I think I might like to have a student run account where they can share what we are doing in our classroom. I like this because as opposed to a blog, they can share just quick, short updates with parents or other classrooms.

My Twitter is @MsJaegers

I also found this site that listed some good people to follow on Twitter
33 education twitter accounts you should be following

1 comment:

  1. Stephanie - Since you're going to have a personal and professional account on Twitter it will be very helpful that you are using a Twitter client (TweetDeck or HootSuite). You can send tweets from either account without logging in and out of your accounts.

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