Sunday, December 11, 2011
Tweet…Tweet
Ok, let's just say that I was not too excited when I saw that we were going to be required to open a Twitter account for this course. I don't care who broke up with who or what someone thinks about the cold weather. I had absolutely no clue about how great it can be for professional learning. I thought this was going to be a quick, effortless assignment for the week so I decided to cross it off the list late Saturday night (great social life, huh?). A good hour later, I was still there. Was it effortless…absolutely. Was it quick…no way. It was so easy to sign up and create my account, but that was the end of the "quick" part. Follow, unfollow, tweet, retweet…I was hooked, checking out all the great resources that others were sharing. I already have found a great blog to follow because of it! We will see if this new found excitement fades away as the weeks roll on. But even if my interest dies, I can say that this was one assignment that I was happy to have had.
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I would love to hear some of the people you decided to follow. I am having a hard time getting into the whole tweeting thing! I really don't have time to check another thing throughout the day and so far the things I have chosen to follow don't capture my interest enough.
ReplyDeleteDo you think you would ever use this in your classroom? I don't think too many of my kids or parents have accounts so I am not sure how I would use it at school.
Jess,
ReplyDeleteI started following some educational resources, or teachers and on my time line, I have yet to see anything good unless I go to their page. Did I? No not really, because I tweet about what is going on around me and now I have to get use to me doing school work or participating in school activities on twitter. I can say I was excited at first, then after class I was like "oh oh" I cannot tweet what I usually tweet about, but I hope as the class goes on, I can find more interest searching about school resources. I have started following some people from class but I follow over 400 people already and I just decided to do peers. We will see =) I hope you enjoy twitter, welcome.
I'm with you. The first time I looked into Twitter I was less than enthused, this time I am really getting some good info. What an easy way to get quick professional development?!
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