Twitter in the Classroom

Blog 2

When it comes to twitter, I have been on it a total of about a week and a half.  I only knew one person on twitter, which was a problem because when I signed up they had me look up a bunch of people to add just to get through the setup.  Now that I am on here, I haven’t figured out many of the features that twitter features, but I can see it as a classroom tool.  You could use it like a homework hotline; post the classwork and any homework on there daily.  This way parents can have access to it so that they and the district can keep watch on what is said on the social media.  It can also be used as a forum to answer questions after school is out.  With so many people having smartphones they would always have access to help if they needed it. 

Here are a couple of sites on twitter uses:

http://www.emergingedtech.com/2009/06/6-examples-of-using-twitter-in-the-classroom/

http://mashable.com/2010/03/01/twitter-classroom/

Some of these are for college, but I feel that they can be adapted into a school setting. 

My twitter name is @aogo19

Blog Post #1

On page 35 in the book the writer talks about, “Once we start connecting, it’s all about the quality of the connections you make, not the quantity.”  I feel that this is very true, because it is easier to look through a couple of great sites, verses a bunch of sites to find good information.  I think that as a teacher you need to keep the list of sources that you have students access, this way they can’t venture to far off topic, and this way you can make sure that it is school appropriate.  Also, you can make sure that the information that they are accessing is of a high quality and accurate.  Here are some things to help you do this:

http://kathyschrock.net/abceval/5ws.pdf

http://kathyschrock.net/eval/pdfs/evalhigh.pdf