This week we discussed twitter for a social networking site. I am currently an user on twitter, but I was hesitant of putting my username available to the classroom. I am very loquacious and blunt, straight to the point on twitter. Sometimes I tweet things I would not tell people that are not close to me or I do not know. So I hope I do not offend anyone in the class that is following me, IF I do, I am sorry but that is me you will have to unfollow me :) I am excited though, this is something I do every day, tweet about what is going on. Let's see whose the clown in our class. Make me laugh!!!
During our readings, I find them as a guide or helpful hints for teachers. It's giving us ideas on what we should do and how we should. I read the article about the lawsuit against the school that barred the two young ladies from sports. I do not think they took care of it correctly. They have parents and the school can only do so much. They cannot be the parent and the teacher. Only the parents have the right to do that. If the event did not occur on campus I do not think its fair for them to do that to those students. The board maybe doing something and we do not know it, but if we found a picture of a board member doing something, would we barred them from coming to meetings or even suspend them? Probably not. That is their personal life. The article was very good and interesting. I would share it. Click here!
I honestly haven't given Twitter a fair shake yet but I am pretty sure it's not something I will ever latch onto. I already belong to 2 listservs, WeTech and WEMTA. I get anywhere from 5-10 emails a day from education and technology professionals from that. I follow blogs sometimes, too. I get emails with various whitepage reports. The list goes on. I looked at your Twitter posts a little bit and it was pretty typical of what I would expect. While it looked like it's fun for you and you sure do have some interesting things to Tweet about, I can't see myself latching onto it. It is a pain in the arse for me get the kids all loaded into the car to run to the grocery store to get some milk and keep my mental state calm...the last thing I'm thinking about doing is taking out my cell phone and writing to a friend about it, haha. I'm not ripping on you by any means, my life just isn't exciting enough nowadays to justify all of the high maintenance an effectively used Twitter account demands. :-(
ReplyDeleteI think there is no one-size-fits-all social networking site (although Facebook seems to be the closest right now). The nice thing about all of these free sites is that you can try them and keep what you want.....I don't think anyone should have to maintain multiple identities on multiple sites. Too hard to keep track of!
ReplyDeleteI think that if you want to use Twitter in the classroom you need to set up another account as a teacher. I would never use my personal account for school. It is also a good idea to set up separate account as a professional if you want to use Twitter as a networking/PD tool. No disrespect, but I took you off my feed because I wasn't interested in your personal tweets.
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ReplyDeleteI was not a fan of twitter at first. Then my sister was telling me how to use twitter, so I use it the common way. lol, I know you're not ripping on me.
Curtis,
Thanks but I know what you're coming from. I didn't make a "teacher" account for this class because I was only doing it for this class. Ha, that's funny but yes I totally understand.