Twitter and Me!

Twitter and Me
The activity we did with Twitter in Tuesday's class was a learning experience. I never have taken a test or done anything education related on Twitter before. As the class typed their tweets and everyone responded at same time, I feel like I did not have much of a chance to read the tweets, since I was typing my own response and trying to put a word document together at the same time. I think that social networks could be used for educational purposes and could be very effective considering a lot of kids are familiar with them.

I created my Twitter about a year ago and didn't really start "tweeting" til about halfway through the summer. Twitter did not catch my attention as much as Facebook did, but my parents both had Facebooks and monitored mine. They would constantly rag on me about my status's and different posts I commented on. I was not allowed to sware and I was only allowed to put up certain photos. I got so sick of them telling me, "Take this down" and "delete this". So, I switched to Twitter. My parents are both not very familiar with technology, Facebook is as far as their social networking goes, so my Twitter was anything I wanted to post without the nagging of my parents.

If social networking such as Twitter and Facebook were to be used in the classroom, I think that students and teachers should have their own personal account and a professional account. Teachers and students could learn a lot from each other if they used social networking in the classroom. One thing I did not know about Twitter was the Tweetdeck. Having everything in columns makes the "tweeting" experience a lot easier. Teachers could posts assignments on Twitter and students could turn them in, they could have class discussions, answer any questions about classwork or homework, or they could simply take a quiz like we did in class. A principal from a New Jersey high school replaced the schools website with a Facebook page, and it is accessed more than the old website. This is just one way how social networking is a positive force for students, teachers, and staff.

Overall I do not think Twitter would be a bad idea for the classroom, or any social networking site for that matter. In this article, you can see the 60 different ways Twitter can be used in the classroom.

The Final Frontier

The Final Frontier:

A couple take aways I took from the article.

• Beliefs vary in strength and kind: You can try to convince a teacher to vary or change their belief but some will not budge if it has been been what they have been taught or experienced their whole life. Some teachers may be willing but may fail in an attempt.

• Incooperating technology in the classroom: If you want to incooperate technology in the classrom to enhance student learning, you have to take into consideration the teacher's beliefs and how everything has been rooted into their classroom.

My whole life I have been trained to use Keynote and other sorts of Apple tools. I have never had any experience with Google Drive before this, but I find it much easier and much simpler. Another part that made the whole proccess of group work simplier was the fact you could share the presentation with your other group members and you could work on it at different locations at the same time. Having the chat right next to the presentation made it really easy to ask questions to my other group members. Also if you saw a grammer error or something that needed fixed on one of your partner's slide you could easily change it. For further presentations I will use Google Drive before Keynote and I recommend that anyone who has not experimented with Google Drive attempt to and see the differences between Google Drive and other tools used for presentations.


I created my presentation with Brittany and Meghan titled, Teachers and Technology. Each of us took a section to focus on, How does technology help teachers in the classroom, How does technology help students, and Technology Hindering teachers. After focusing on each section, our presentation came together very nicely and was not a hassle at all.