I was already on twitter before entering this class however I find myself using twitter in a much different way coming out of this course. I joined twitter in 2010 as a pure form of entertainment. I used it to connect with my friends and follow sports/humor type accounts. I enjoyed twitter for a number of years, but of late I found myself quite bored with it. I never tweeted anymore and I rarely even went on and scrolled through twitter. When I learned we were to use twitter for this class I decided to make a new account. With this new account I decided to aim it more towards being a professional teacher, not that my old account was inappropriate it just didn't have much value. When you first start a new twitter account they recommend 20 accounts for you to follow. I followed these accounts and what I learned from these accounts is that twitter is a great source for getting news. I think it is important as an educator to stay up to date with the news. Students will always want to discuss what is going on in the world, I think you owe it to the students to be able to share and discuss these current events. Which is why I have chose to follow various local and national news sources on twitter. Much less time consuming to use twitter than flip through a news paper or watch an hour long news program on TV. I also find twitter to be a great professional development resource for teachers to use. Twitter is full of fellow educators and they use this venue to share their ideas. I have been able to find many educators who are active on twitter. What I find is that not only is it good for what they share themselves but many re-tweet other resources, whether it be teachers or organizations, and then I can follow these accounts too and really grow my network. Another thing that allows me to grow my network is a twitters list feature. I was able to use the lists to find many different Phys Ed resources. I followed a popular Phys Ed teacher on twitter and then went to his lists. From there I could see all the groups that he was apart of. I found one called "The #PhysEd Dream Team", which was a list of 22 of the best physical education contributors on twitter. I then subscribed to this list and I am now able to go into that list and it will give me a feed of all of the members tweets. This is a great feature to be able to organize your content on twitter. Also it makes it easier to find valuable resources as there is so much on twitter good and bad. I look forward to continuing to use twitter as a tool to gain knowledge and grow as an educator.
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Tech Task #3 Twitter
Using Twitter as an Educator
I was already on twitter before entering this class however I find myself using twitter in a much different way coming out of this course. I joined twitter in 2010 as a pure form of entertainment. I used it to connect with my friends and follow sports/humor type accounts. I enjoyed twitter for a number of years, but of late I found myself quite bored with it. I never tweeted anymore and I rarely even went on and scrolled through twitter. When I learned we were to use twitter for this class I decided to make a new account. With this new account I decided to aim it more towards being a professional teacher, not that my old account was inappropriate it just didn't have much value. When you first start a new twitter account they recommend 20 accounts for you to follow. I followed these accounts and what I learned from these accounts is that twitter is a great source for getting news. I think it is important as an educator to stay up to date with the news. Students will always want to discuss what is going on in the world, I think you owe it to the students to be able to share and discuss these current events. Which is why I have chose to follow various local and national news sources on twitter. Much less time consuming to use twitter than flip through a news paper or watch an hour long news program on TV. I also find twitter to be a great professional development resource for teachers to use. Twitter is full of fellow educators and they use this venue to share their ideas. I have been able to find many educators who are active on twitter. What I find is that not only is it good for what they share themselves but many re-tweet other resources, whether it be teachers or organizations, and then I can follow these accounts too and really grow my network. Another thing that allows me to grow my network is a twitters list feature. I was able to use the lists to find many different Phys Ed resources. I followed a popular Phys Ed teacher on twitter and then went to his lists. From there I could see all the groups that he was apart of. I found one called "The #PhysEd Dream Team", which was a list of 22 of the best physical education contributors on twitter. I then subscribed to this list and I am now able to go into that list and it will give me a feed of all of the members tweets. This is a great feature to be able to organize your content on twitter. Also it makes it easier to find valuable resources as there is so much on twitter good and bad. I look forward to continuing to use twitter as a tool to gain knowledge and grow as an educator.
I was already on twitter before entering this class however I find myself using twitter in a much different way coming out of this course. I joined twitter in 2010 as a pure form of entertainment. I used it to connect with my friends and follow sports/humor type accounts. I enjoyed twitter for a number of years, but of late I found myself quite bored with it. I never tweeted anymore and I rarely even went on and scrolled through twitter. When I learned we were to use twitter for this class I decided to make a new account. With this new account I decided to aim it more towards being a professional teacher, not that my old account was inappropriate it just didn't have much value. When you first start a new twitter account they recommend 20 accounts for you to follow. I followed these accounts and what I learned from these accounts is that twitter is a great source for getting news. I think it is important as an educator to stay up to date with the news. Students will always want to discuss what is going on in the world, I think you owe it to the students to be able to share and discuss these current events. Which is why I have chose to follow various local and national news sources on twitter. Much less time consuming to use twitter than flip through a news paper or watch an hour long news program on TV. I also find twitter to be a great professional development resource for teachers to use. Twitter is full of fellow educators and they use this venue to share their ideas. I have been able to find many educators who are active on twitter. What I find is that not only is it good for what they share themselves but many re-tweet other resources, whether it be teachers or organizations, and then I can follow these accounts too and really grow my network. Another thing that allows me to grow my network is a twitters list feature. I was able to use the lists to find many different Phys Ed resources. I followed a popular Phys Ed teacher on twitter and then went to his lists. From there I could see all the groups that he was apart of. I found one called "The #PhysEd Dream Team", which was a list of 22 of the best physical education contributors on twitter. I then subscribed to this list and I am now able to go into that list and it will give me a feed of all of the members tweets. This is a great feature to be able to organize your content on twitter. Also it makes it easier to find valuable resources as there is so much on twitter good and bad. I look forward to continuing to use twitter as a tool to gain knowledge and grow as an educator.
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