I have used twitter a little bit here and there. I have tweeted out reminders to bring snack to class, which reminds me, I should probably do that for today's class! I have tweeted mostly tweets that have nothing to do with Internet for Educators.
I haven't really explored twitter in terms of how it will be useful for me as a teacher. I have heard some of my peers talk about how they use twitter to get teaching ideas or activity ideas for different subject areas so I will have to give that a try.
I don't mind using twitter but I feel like I haven't explored it enough to use it for a greater purpose than just tweeting random tweets.
It is yet a goal of mine to participate in the mbedchat at some point before the term ends and will blog about that when I get to it.
How have you used twitter for the purpose of teaching and getting ideas??? Let me know in your comments
I have followed some interesting people (Bill Nye, for example) and, especially for science, there's a whole butt-load of great resources (cool science experiments for all ages). There is definitely a lot of great stuff out there. I think that there are so many organizational social media networks out there that it can be overwhelming and, sometimes, you need to pick a few and stick with them. I would rather use a few sites well than many networks superficially. I haven't decided if Twitter will make the cut, but I don't see why not!
ReplyDeleteI followed Chris Hadfield during my spring placement last year. During my grade 6 Solar Systems unit we learned a lot about space and how to complete things in space that we do everyday with no trouble on earth!
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