“Join the Flock”
Ferguson, H. (2010). Join the flock!. Learning and Leading
with Technology, 12-15. Retrieved from
“Enhance your twitter experience”
McClintock-Miller, S. (2010). Enhance you twitter
experience. Learning and Leading with Technology, 15-17. Retrieved fromhttp://www.iste.org/Libraries/Leading_and_Learning_Docs/June_July_2010_Join_the_Flock.sflb.ashx
In the articles “Join the Flock”
and “Enhance your twitter experience”, the authors discuss what twitter is and
how it can be used in an educational way and even enhance students learning.
The first part describes how to “set up your (twitter) account” it’s a must to
have a bio and a photo so that people can make a personal connection with you
over the internet. It then explains how to make a “PLN” by using twitter which
will then allow you to “follow” individuals and groups. When looking at
“enhance your twitter experience” it tells you how to “tag your tweet” and even
how you can “use a Twitter Organizer” to separate all of your different groups
and people that you follow. You can even “use the bookmarklet Hootlet, a tool
within HootSuite, and send a tweet.” Which will allow other people to easily
view different websites that you think are important or interesting. Twitter is
a way to share information to others all over the world and if used correctly
you may even end up making new friends and enhancing your students learning by
having guest speakers come to your class that you connected with over twitter.
Question (1):
“How do I like twitter?”
Answer (1): Personally I have been using twitter for a
little over a mouth now and am still having a hard time getting into the swing
of things. I am having a hard time finding people and things that I find
interesting to “follow”. I still see twitter as a social networking that is not
used for educational purposes. I have found many educational people/information
but nothing that has stuck out to me.
Question (2): “How will I use it in the future?”
Answer (2): Truly I do not see myself using twitter in the
future and although I can see that it is a great way to connect to other people
that I never would have interacted with, I see it more of a waste of time than
useful. Although I still have not given up on twitter, so far it seems like
this is one tool that I will not utilize when I become a teacher.
