After having a twitter account for the last couple weeks, I still find myself avoiding tweets. Although I find it interesting to follow others online it is difficult for me to come up with great beneficial tweets. I have started following some educators and some children literature authors so I am hoping to learn a great deal from them. When they started following me, my automatic reaction was that I better start tweeting more but the question is what to tweet?
Although at this stage in my life I feel as if my tweets would be less than substantial and would boar others I think that the classroom would be much easier to incorporate twitter into. With older grades, if they are consistently checking their twitter, it might be nice to use as a home work update. I could see this being very helpful for students. It could also open discussion within the classroom and promote community online outside of school.
I am still trying to incorporate twitter into my life but I think with a little more practice and effort I will get there!
I am in the same position as you with Twitter. Although I am following many different educators, authors and the like, I feel like I am not really gaining the knowledge and information that I was hoping for. Maybe I am still lacking in following the "right people" on Twitter. I would like Twitter to be a helpful educational tool for me in my future classroom and for my own benefit of teaching. However, I feel like I still have not achieved this. I am hoping that as I become more experienced with Twitter and as an educator I will be able to give helpful Tweets.
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