Well, I have to be honest! I really had no interest in getting a Twitter account until I did this course. I had no desire to follow Lady Ga Ga or any other celebrity, and I didn’t have any friends that were using this tool in education. However, now that I have joined up, I do see the appeal, but I am still trying to find the use in the classroom.
Earlier in March I signed up for an account. This of course, was the easy step. The next part was a little more difficult for me. I got an email conformation and that gave me a link of suggestions on what to follow. I really had no idea which people or interests to follow so I just chose Rick Mercer, Bill Gates, David Spade, Kathy Griffin, Danny Devito, Jim Cary, The Telegram- local newspaper, the Library of Congress, The NY Public library and CBC NL. I discovered that some of the celebrities don’t tweet very often and others write meaningless stuff. I did get some updates on the news and the weather with CBC and the Telegram. Then I didn’t know what else to do or look at, so I just left Twitter for a while.
During the week, I sat down and read the chapter in Richardson’s book on Twitter. I learned that it is simply a great way to share, ask questions and get answers to just about anything. I don’t know why I have been afraid of Twitter! Reading more about it and how it works gave me a little more confidence so last night I tackled it again!
This time there were new suggestions for me! I found Joyce Valenza! I followed her and then found the #tlchat and #edchat! Wow, there was a lot more interesting conversations going there! I also got sites that had useful topics for my courses:
YouTube video about librarians and fashion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMYRRWT3JSU&feature=youtu.be
Let kids rule the school article:
Why social media can and is changing education:
Later, I decided to do my first tweet. The instructions were right there on the Twitter page for me to follow! It was quite easy! I had not idea what so say so I said “I'm just following some tweets and saving some excellent websites for teacher-librarians!” I don’t know who will see my tweet??? Success, never the less!
My next goal is to tweet someone in particular! What will I say?? After that, I want to find ways to use Twitter in the classroom!
p.s. my Twitter name is newvalhelen!
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